A large commemorative banquetting cloth of cream silk damask, the border woven with medallions of Eugénie, Napoleon III, Pce Napoleon, Cambridge, Victoria and Albert among dense acanthus foliage, the field with the battles of the Crimea and national motifs and symbols, Manufactured by D. Dewar Son & Sons, Dunfe & London Expressly for Messrs Hodge & Lowman, Regent Street, London--110 x 220in. (275 x 550cm), 1854

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A large commemorative banquetting cloth of cream silk damask, the border woven with medallions of Eugénie, Napoleon III, Pce Napoleon, Cambridge, Victoria and Albert among dense acanthus foliage, the field with the battles of the Crimea and national motifs and symbols, Manufactured by D. Dewar Son & Sons, Dunfe & London Expressly for Messrs Hodge & Lowman, Regent Street, London--110 x 220in. (275 x 550cm), 1854

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Other figures depicted are Simpson, Pelissier, Evans, Williams, Abdul Medjid, Omer Pacha, Canrobert, Cambell, Lyons, Raglan, St. Arnaud, F. Nightingale, Bosquet, Vr. Emmanuel II, Brown, La Marmora, Cardigan, Bruat

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