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Handkerchief

Unknown1838

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

Silk handkerchief depicting the coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey. It is plate printed in black with added purple, red, blue, yellow, green and buff.

There is an inscription on white ground with crowns, large at the corners and smaller at the sides, above a spray of rose, thistle and clover or a single bloom, printed in black. Around the outer edges of the crowns there is a deep blue and black border with symbolic flowers, crowns reserved in white, and a repeat inscription.

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  • Title: Handkerchief
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1838
  • Location: England
  • Physical Dimensions: Height: 83.3 cm, Width: 85.3 cm
  • Provenance: Given by Miss B. Hinton
  • Medium: Block printed silk
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