Queen Victoria’s Costume for the Stuart Ball, 1851
Designed by Eugène Louis Lami
The Stuart Ball was themed to the Court of Charles II. This gown is the most glamorous of all Queen Victoria’s surviving clothes. 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.
Also pictured are the original rendering of the gown, and a detail of a depiction of the Ball featuring the Queen and Prince Albert.
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