I was searching for images of doublets online. I came across Lady Jane Grey ones. Then I looked at them and found this one. It's online, that's all I know. It struck me as different with the white fabric. Not nobility looking at all. But it peaked my interests. Sincerely, Rebecca Rautine
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:14:50 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Question about a portrait > > > What a strange portrait. It looks like an amalgamation, or artist's > > re-imagining of something like these two gowns, with a bit of Flanders flair > > in the color and in the hat: > > > > > > As others have already said, I'd guess a much later date, more like early > > 20th century than Victorian, though. > > > The face is what I based my mid-20th-century guess on. This example doesn't > look like a 1920s face. And, as it happens, I own a c.1922-goes-Renaissance > doll (as in, probably made c.1922). It has much more of the c.1922 line to > the dress - that dropped waist-and-panniers look - along with a plausible > ruff, skirt, neckline, and sleeves. So I'm guessing mis-20th-Century rather > than early-20th-Century. > > Where did this portrait come from? Do we know anything else about it? > > -- > Carolyn Kayta Barrows > -- > “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William > Gibson > -- > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
