Quoting michaela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
<<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.
OOOh, cool! Do you have a URL or an accession number for that child's
portrait?
susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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