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EUGÈNE LOUIS LAMI (1800-90)
Queen Victoria's Costume for the Stuart Ball
1851RCIN 74860
The most glamorous of all Queen Victoria’s surviving clothes, this costume was inspired by the court of Charles II. The rich brocade of the underskirt was woven in Benares. The lace of the berthe is a copy of seventeenth-century Venetian raised-point needle lace, probably made in Ireland and perhaps acquired at the Great Exhibition.
Commissioned by Queen Victoria
No. 158
