Plate 83.

India mull dress skirt, 2 yards wide, embroidered, with lace stitches introduced. Worked by Louisa Lewis about 1820, when she married Henry Phelps. They lived on the north side of the square in Litchfield, Connecticut. Owned by the Litchfield Historical Society; given by Mrs. Phelps’s daughter, Miss Mary Phelps. (See also Plates 53 and 84.)