Front of the Lord Chancellor's Burse of Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863). Red velvet decorated with laid and couched silver and silver-gilt raised embroidery; red, white and blue satin and seed pearls. The Royal Arms of Queen Victoria, flanked at the top by the initials "V" "R" and surrounded by winged cherubs' heads, putti, cornucopiae, flowers and two treasure chests bearing oak leaves.
History note: Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863), son of John Singleton Copley, was Lord Chancellor from 1826-1830, 1834-1835 and 1841-1850, and High Steward of Cambridge University 1840, and is presumed to have given it to his purse-bearer Henry Haines, from whom it descended to the Rev. M.H.C. Haines, the father of the vendor.
Bought from Miss C. M. C. Haines, using the J.R.V. Smyth and Rushworth Funds
Height: 42 cm
Width: 42.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1986-03-17) by Haines, C. M. C., Miss
19th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1841
red Velvet
Accession number: T.1-1986
Primary reference Number: 197581
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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