Commissioned in 1851 from designer Eugène Louis Lami by Queen - TopicsExpress



          

Commissioned in 1851 from designer Eugène Louis Lami by Queen Victoria for the Stuart Ball. 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. (SB-Admin)
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:46:47 +0000

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