Quoting michaela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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?
Poot, I was wrong, they are actually daisys:
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/fmlac10526_10b.jpg
Neat picture, though.
The discussion about it was that there was a girl with bow shaped jewls but
that was actually Maria Stuart in a white gown with bows down the front made
from red jewels. I got the two mixed up in my memory;)
http://www.tudor-portraits.com/Various_7.htm
The Princess Royal, daughter of James I, VI and Anne, 1603. (National
Maritime Museum)She's all in white with the red bows. I'm sure I've seen
gold ones on someone though... but I can't find it...
Also neat! Those could be bows, or flowers, or butterflies, or .....
Susan (sorry, the biologist is creeping out .....)
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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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