£1,600
The Coronation of King George IV, 1821. The Coronation dress of a peer, that of Henry Nevill 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (1755-1843), including Tudor 'Romanic' style doublet and hose of ivory silk satin and silver gilt braid, hose, crimson silk velvet sword belt with gilt brass fittings and surcoat, fully lined in white silk satin by and / or altered by Ede & Son (post 1868) with further label inscribed Marquis of Abergavenny KG, and another surcoat of purple silk velvet, in later japanned robe trunk with brass plate engraved Marquess of Abergavenny KG
Provenance: By family descent in the Nevill family to the present vendors.
These beautifully preserved robes bring visibly to mind the most extravert, and costly, coronation in English history. It is no surprise that the creator of that marvel of decoration, the pleasure palace that is Brighton Pavilion, would have insisted on a suitably magnificent coronation. At the sight of the glittering costume of the peers en masse in Westminster Abbey Sir Walter Scott was moved to describe the "gay and gorgeous and antique dress which floated before the eye".
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