thegentlemanscloset:The black silk damask robe used by Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Kept
thegentlemanscloset:The black silk damask robe used by Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Kept in in the Bartolozzi Room at Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, which was Disraeli’s home between 1848 and 1881. Disraeli was Chancellor in 1852, between 1858-9 and again in 1866-68. The robe was believed to have been made for William Pitt in the eighteenth century. In the collection of the National Trust. -- source link
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