clothing

Two pairs of stockings and a pair of shoe liners worn by Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon. The inner pair of stockings are white knitted wool and fleece with heavy darning. The outer pair are white knitted silk with a back seam. The outer stockings have a double band of red silk stripes across the top hem and the letter B embroidered in brown silk on the inside upper legs. Both pairs have handwritten laundry labels in black ink on striped tape.

before 1832

silk, wool

Bentham, Jeremy, Southwood Smith, Thomas

Jeremy Bentham Auto-Icon Collection

LDUJB-01.06

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