At 13:33 28/04/2008, you wrote: >Hanna Zickermann wrote: > > You´re welcome. The picture is taken from the > > British Museum MS. No. D. IX. (late fifteenth > > century). > >That's what Houston says, but that's not a recognizable MS shelfmark for the >British Museum. As far as I know, all >manuscripts there have a collection name >as part of the shelfmark (Harley, Royal, Cotton and its many subsets, etc.). >Plus Houston doesn't give a folio number, so you >might as well whistle as find >that thing. I've never seen it ... and I've looked, having been interested in >her supposed "archway armhole" for many years. (Frankly, I don't think that >straight sleeve cap will work in most fabrics, maybe none at all, without >pinching deeply in front and back of the shoulder joint.) > >I do know it's not London, British Library Royal 1 D. ix, which is >Anglo-Saxon. So is MS Cotton Junius D. ix, I believe. Could be MS >Royal 18 D. ix, which is an illuminated Bible of >Edward IV, from 1479 Bruges,, >but I've only seen a page or two from it, not enough to guess if the style >matches up with Houston's drawing. There's also >MS Nero D. ix., the Romance of >Sir Jehan de Santre, 15th c., which looks promising though I've seen only one >image from it. > >You can find Houston's text here: >http://books.google.com/books?id=Z430bgXpeUgC > >Go to "Preview this Book" and look at p. 140 for the quotation, 141 for the >pattern diagram, and 142 for her redrawing of the picture. > > > There´s also "The Depositon from the > > Cross" by Gerard David (1460-1523) in the > > National Gallery, London, which has similar cut > > armholes but no seam at the waist. > >That's also what Houston says. Oddly, out of a huge pile of books on Flemish >art and loads of images of David's, I have only one image of this one, and >it's not clear enough to show the seams. Ditton >the several online versions. I >presume the seams in question are on the lady in the light blue dress at the >lower left. > >I surely must have seen the picture in person, >but I don't have a slide of it, >and I frankly don't remember the seams ... and you'd think I would have. > >--Robin
I will be going to an exhibition at the National Gallery in a couple of weeks, so I'll see what I can find in the appropriate gallery. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
