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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Elston

Queen Victoria’s lost Japanese screen paintings rediscovered in Royal Collection

A pair of lost Japanese folding screen paintings sent to Queen Victoria in 1860 as part of a lavish diplomatic gift have been rediscovered in the Royal Collection.

The screens, which were thought not to have survived, will go on public display next month for the first time since they arrived more than a century and a half ago.

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