> From: "Eva Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >However, one of the pieces they reference might be. There's an > >embroidered jacket in the Boston MFA, done in silver and gold thread > >instead of multicolored, believed to have belonged to Elizabeth I. I
> From: Melanie Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There's a black and white picture of this in George Wingfield Digby's > _Elizabethan Embroidery_. It's plate 22B. "The jacket or doublet > illustrated on Pl. 22B was given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by > Elizabeth Day McCormick. > > If the picture shown in this book was taken after it was restored to > its original form, I'm very dubious that it's as early as 1578. It > looks very like all the other 1605+ jackets with the little hip > godets, etc. Pleasingly, the MFA agrees with you, Melanie & not Mr Digby's 1963 scholarship. Search the MFA costume collection for provenance="McCormick" or search under "jackets". The MFA says "English, About 1610–15, with later alterations. England, Linen plain weave, embroidered with silk and metallic threads and spangles; metallic bobbin lace." --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
