1770 Man's brown satin coat
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1765-1790 Brown silk satin coat.
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The back of the coat
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One of the cuffs
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The four different designs on the buttons which are later replacements
Description
The coat is lined with deep cream silk satin and this also lines the stand collar which is 1¼" high.
There are ten worked buttonholes down the front and a line of stitches resembling a further buttonhole below. The remaining steel buttons are later replacements, all different, and the position of only the top three corresponds with the buttonholes. The buttons are now quite rusty, and the original buttons were probably self covered like those on the cuffs.
Pockets in each side front have flaps, 8¾" long and 4¼" deep, with lower edges curving up and down to a centre point; the points nearest the sides are stitched to the fronts. The flaps are lined with the cream satin which extends down inside the back of the coarse linen pocket bag for 4⅜". Marks indicate that there had been decorative buttons sewn to the coat below the three points of the flaps.
The sleeves have self cuffs, 4¾" deep, with three decorative self covered buttons along the top edge.
The centre back seam of the skirt has an 18" long opening with a 2" overlap at the top. The openings in the side seams are also 18" long but their edges are flared and measure 19½"; there are replacement steel buttons at the top of the openings.
Contemporary illustrations
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George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville by George Romney, 1766
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Portrait of a man called George Basil Woodd by Francis Wheatley, 1780. Yale Center for British Art
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Portrait of Thomas Sandby, R.A., the Artist's Brother, by Paul Sandby, c.1760. Yale Center for British art
