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The Great Exhibition of 1851: the British Nave dated 1851 by Joseph Nash
Great Exhibition of 1851

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Queen Victoria's Dress 1851

RCIN 74851

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Queen Victoria's Dress for the opening of the Great Exhibition

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Queen Victoria's Dress for the opening of the Great Exhibition 1851

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This dress is the one worn by Queen Victoria to the opening of the Great Exhibition on 1 May 1851. It is made of pink Spitafields silk with vertical bands of interlocking silver circles. 

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