<<The drawing is from Cunningtons' "Handbook of English Costume in the Sixteenth Century". When I checked her source for the drawing, it was not an original painting as I had hoped, but another book (Kelly's "Shakespearean Costume"). I know I have seen these gloves in a painting just recently but I can't for the life of me recall the painting itself. I had found a close-ish Spanish one, but it's hard to tell. Does it ring a bell for anyone?>>
> http://ca.geocities.com/absynthe30/avatars/hand.jpg My first instinct was Spanish as well, due to how the hand is displayed (the hand is vertical and holding either a glove or a handkerchief) and those bows (Germans weren't quite as fond of bows as the Spanish were... I found a lovely child's portrait on bildindex where she is wearing jewellery bows even! Mind you the English are also fond of them....) but I have a feeling in the redrawings some features may have changed. It's very easy to show the glove style in German dress, very easy indeed. I'm not sure I have any files large enough for Spanish dress to show slashes: Aha! Isabel de Valois, painted by Coello but clearly in French dress: http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/fmlac10526_08a.jpg http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/juana.htm A couple of portraits here show slashed gloves as well. True non have that strange cuff thing, but as it's a redrawing of a redrawing it may be a bit difficult to determine if it was well drawn in the first place. There are slashes at the wrists of several of them, and they are worn with wrist ruffs so I wonder if maybe the original sketch mixed the two together. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/glittersweet/saya/untitled5.jpg This is an example of a glove on a hand, it might be Ana de Austria. http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/anadeaustria.htm Or at least a copy of one the portraits here. Her gloves though are not slashed. http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/mariadeaustria.htm Ditto here it looks like. michaela de bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.3/281 - Release Date: 14/03/2006 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
