At 02:33 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote:
A colleague needs quickly to locate an image he remembers seeing of
a woman with a distaff stuck in her headdress. I'm sure I've seen
this one too -- I have a vague impression that she was walking or
going about other work, with a very small distaff stuck into
Joan Jurancich wrote:
At 02:33 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote:
A colleague needs quickly to locate an image he remembers seeing of a
woman with a distaff stuck in her headdress. I'm sure I've seen this
one too -- I have a vague impression that she was walking or going
about other work, with a very
Note that that wood cut is actually out of Olaus Magnus' A Description of the
Northern Peoples. I'll pull the full citation with page whenI get home. (I have
a facimilie of the original printing.)
Anne Decker
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:20:58 -0500
From: ro...@netherton.net
To:
The woodcut of the woman spinning with the material to be spun up on her head
under a band is found in Olaus Magnus' Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
as the Illustration for Liber Secvundvs, Cap. XVII. De luminibus, tedis
piceis, which is page 77 in the original version printed in 1555
Thanks, Anne! It seems, though, that the author I'm working with does need a
different image -- he's talking specifically about distaffs and the ways they
may be carried, and in this case the woman herself is actually her own
distaff, with no physical distaff in sight. I feel certain I've seen
Robin
Did you check out the Brueghel paintings? I seem to recall something like you
originally described as occurring in a crowd scene and for some reason, I seem
to remember it as being one of the Brueghel paintings. Could be very wrong on
that, but that is my memory.
Ginni Morgan
Robin
Ginni Morgan wrote:
Robin
Did you check out the Brueghel paintings? I seem to recall something like you
originally described as occurring in a crowd scene and for some reason, I seem
to remember it as being one of the Brueghel paintings. Could be very wrong on
that, but that is my memory.
