Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-27 Thread Danielle Nunn-Weinberg
Greetings, I'm pretty sure you speaking of: Hearn, Karen. Marcus Gheeraerts II: Elizabethan Artist in Focus. London: Tate Publishing, 2002. It's a small book but the exhibition itself was only one room, IIRC. Worth picking up if you can find it. cheers, Danielle At 02:01 PM 1/26/2006,

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Ailith Mackintosh
: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays Quoting Ailith Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. The tinyurl is the link to the same page . Well, it's definately Eleanora (I found this one on the web somewhere

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Suzi Clarke
At 20:01 26/01/2006, you wrote: Thanks so much. I haven't seen that one before, and, yes, it surely does look like Eleanora. In 1999 I went to London with some friends. While there we attended a Study Day at the VA. It was originally intended to be lead by Janet Arnold, but she had passed

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Ailith Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *snippage Anyway, one of the curators from the Tate said that she was working gathering images of pregnant ladies for (I believe) a book. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't an exhibition. Has anyone heard or seen anything about this? No, I

[h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Kathy Page
Gah! I think that's the one that that came to mind for me as well, she is literally covered in pearls, right? I did a quick search on Lady Burghley and couldn't find the painting. I'll have to do a little more digging. She however is an example of nobility, rather than middle class, which is where

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Rebecca Schmitt
Well, I didn't do a whole lot of research into it, but I was in the last trimester of my pregnancy last year during Faire, and simply wore a very good supporting bra under my loose kirtle and surcoat. My character is solidly middle-class. With the kirtle/surcoat outfit, you really don't need

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Kathy Page [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gah! I think that's the one that that came to mind for me as well, she is literally covered in pearls, right? I did a quick search on Lady Burghley and couldn't find the painting. I'll have to do a little more digging. She however is an example of nobility,

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Ailith Mackintosh
Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. Thanks. kate - Original Message - From: Susan B. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays Quoting Kathy Page

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2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that there's a portrait of Lady Burghley in a very pregnant state wearing a kirtle and surcoat. I have a picture of Mildred Coke, Lady Burghley, 1562-3, oil on panel. She is wearing a surcoat, what look to be black/red worked sleeves and partlet

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread monica spence
Hi -- The Eleonora painting was auctioned off at Sotheby's this past year. Monica -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susan B. Farmer Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:54 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi -- The Eleonora painting was auctioned off at Sotheby's this past year. That's right! Thanks. Jerusha (busily making a note ...) - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread monica spence
] Re: Gestational Stays Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. Thanks. kate - Original Message - From: Susan B. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The painting of Lady Burley can be found in Roy Strong's The English Icon-- however it is in BW. *chuckle* We have 30 books by Roy Strong at my university library. The English Icon is *not* one of them! Jerusha - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Kathy Page
Rebecca, Please do. The more references we have, the happier we will be. :-) Kathy I have photos, but nowhere to put them up online. I can send them to you directly if you would like - let me know. Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed,

[h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Kathy Page
Susan, That would be great! I am asking as a part of a team for a costuming competition, so having a link with several useful things on it would be grand. :-) We are planning a middle class English/Flemish loose gown. The model is planning a pregancy, so we wanted to make sure we had all the

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Shane Sheridan
Sorry if this has already been posted, I have only briefly been skimming these emails. :-) This should be one of the paintings everyone has been discussing: http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue4/pearlyqueen_image1.htm Here's another one by the same artist: (you may have to cut and paste)