Photo Source: Australian National Maritime Museum Blog https://anmm.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/muslin-dress/ This is one of the one of the oldest provenanced costumes in Australia.  An evening gown, it belonged to Elizabeth Macarthur's friend Anna Josepha King (wife of Philip Gidley King, the third governor of New South Wales, from 1800 to 1806). The dress is made of fine cream muslin, decorated with silver plate embroidery in a sprig and spot pattern. The running border around the bottom of the skirt is decorated in a vine pattern with a scalloped edge also [...]