Lot 118
118
A young girl's dress of apple green muslin trimmed with paper vines leaves and printed with dragons, another young girl's dress of blue silk with broderie anglaise coat with frilled collar, with ivory grosgrain hat with blue satin lining, and a lady's bodice of eau de nil printed velvet, 1880s (4)

Details
A young girl's dress of apple green muslin trimmed with paper vines leaves and printed with dragons, another young girl's dress of blue silk with broderie anglaise coat with frilled collar, with ivory grosgrain hat with blue satin lining, and a lady's bodice of eau de nil printed velvet, 1880s (4)
Provenance
Lauretta Hope Nicholson, wife of Jean Hugo, son of Victor Hugo and grand-daughter of Laura Hope

Lot Essay

The dresses are labelled as follows :
Green muslin dress "Drefs of green muslin made by LH for Jaqueline aged 7 as the Fairy Child in The Land of Heart's Desire, More House";
The broderie anglaise coat "Pelisse worn by Jaqueline d. R Hope, at the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (with a frilly muslin hat lined with blue and blue ribbon, at White's Club, St James's St, with her father Adrian C F Hope, June 23"
Green bodice " Tea Jacket (very smart!) worn with pink silk quilted petticoat by Laura Troubridge, afterwards Laura Hope in the eighties".

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