IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 197581 accession number: T.1-1986 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 9 January 2014 updated: Thursday 12 October 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: burse NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought from Miss C. M. C. Haines, using the J.R.V. Smyth and Rushworth Funds STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/197581 TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: textiles DATING ------ creation date: 1841 - 1841 creation date earliest: 1841 creation date latest: 1841 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 42 dimension: Width units: cm value: 42.6