Stocking
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk
Measurements
39 in (Length)
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1441999
Summary
[Saved] Metal embroidered red silk stocking. A State stocking worn by the Rt Honourable Arthur Onslow when he was Speaker of the House of Commons. Associated historic label reads 'State Stocking of Rt Hon Arthur Onslow, Speaker in seven successive Parliaments in the reigns of George II & III'
Provenance
Marked in Lady Iveagh’s 1966 Inventory, p15 Purchased in 1986 with the aid of a grant from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund and the Monument Trust