Surviving Examples
Extant examples of the 17th century mantua are extremely scarce. Perhaps the only known extant adult-size example is an embroidered wool mantua and petticoat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. A pattern taken from this mantua has been published by Norah Waugh. The Victoria and Albert Museum owns an extremely rare late 17th century fashion doll dressed in a pink silk mantua and petticoat.
Also in the Costume Institute is a mantua and petticoat in salmon pink bizarre silk dated to 1708. Another early mantua, the silk dated to c. 1708–9 belongs to the Clive House Museum, Shrewsbury; a pattern for this mantua has been taken by Janet Arnold.
Most mantuas preserved in museum collections are formal versions from the mid-18th century, intended for court dress.
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