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Victoria & Albert: Art & Love: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    EMILE JEANNEST (1813-57)

    Lady Godiva

    1857-58

    RCIN 1571

    The story of Lady Godiva’s ride through the streets of Coventry in order to save her people from taxation was popular with mid-nineteenth century artists and writers, reflecting contemporary taste for the medieval and chivalric.

    Commissioned by Queen Victoria and presented to Prince Albert on his birthday, 26 August 1857

    No. 193
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