A painitng by Alfred Stevens with a glimpse of the life of fashionable Parisian women. Meticulous attention to contemporary shawl and decor elicited analogies to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art.

Shawls often found themselves in trousseau of wealthy European women. They were treasured gifts exchanged between royalties.

Recovered from Thebes, Deir el-Bahri complex during excavations between 1923–24, This Shawl was found buried in a priests' House, near a Roman burial labelled XXIV.

Medium:Linen

This piece of linen was cut from a fringed shawl, one of the many layers of material used to wrap the mummy of Nany. The inscription, which would probably have identified either the linen's owner, its origin, or its quality, was added to the corner in black ink. The ink has eaten through the fabric and the inscription is no longer legible.