Important piece of Victorian silver made to commemorate largest art exhibition in the UK rediscovered in Macclesfield

With more than 16,000 works on display, 'Art Treasures of Great Britain', held in a temporary iron-and-glass structure built in the Old Trafford area of Manchester in 1857, remains the largest art exhibition to be held in the UK.

Not everyone had been enthusiastic. William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, famously declined t…

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