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Victorian Jewelry

The Great Exhibition


Victorian jewelry design was
The Great Exhibition in 1851 influenced by historical and cultural

was the first international events as well as the technological

innovations arising from the


exhibition of manufactured
Industrial Revolution.
products. It was organized by Victorian jewelry is a reflection of the
Wrote about theirchanges
cultural own emotions
that took and
place
Henry Cole and Prince
in mostduring
thought and feelings
the Victorian Period. Jewelry
Albert, and held in a purpose
from the period is especially known
Spiritual geography of hopes, fears
built crystal palace in Hyde as a form of expressing sensibility
and loves from a womans point of
Park. and love, or darker sentiments.

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Feminism
Theme
She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
gave all her hope and joy and pleasant

Victorian Dress
ways; she covered up her eyes lest they
should gaze on vanity, and chose the
bitter truth.
-Christina Rossetti

Victorias Crown

Queen Victorias miniature crown Throughout the period, the image of a

measures just 3.5 in across by 4in high woman was one of fragile beauty and

but contains an astonishing 1,200 domestic enterprise.

diamonds. Clothing for women was utterly feminine,

and was designed to emphasize the much-


Queen Victorias crown relates to the
admired small waist. Ladies wore as many
Victorian period because the beautiful
as seven petticoats under their voluminous
crown itself represents royalty, power,
skirts, and bodices were high necked, long
victory, and glory.
sleeved, and tightly fitted to the body.

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