At 09:26 29/03/2006, you wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzi Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:22 AM
Subject: [h-cost] Images of 16th century ladies.
I have just spent heaven knows how long trying to find an image of
an English or French woman on the 1570's, who does not have either
a ruff, or a partlet, or a closed up neckline.
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What about this portrait
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/DevereuxSisters.JPG you can find
a brief biography of the subjects at
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/DEVEREUX.htm it's dated 1581, so it's a
little outside your time period but it's all I could find maybe they
were behind the fashion? Though with Lettice Knollys as their mother
I'd doubt it.
Elizabeth
I think a possible reason for the bare neck is that Dorothy is only
17 at the time of the painting. The Francois Clouet portraits on the
Joconde site seem to have a similar age differential. Younger girls
have nothing in the neck there either, or a long strand of some
jewellery across the collar bones.
Suzi
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