LEGEND TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE PRINT BELOW
Print Specifics:
- Type
of print: Lithograph - Original French
antique print.
- Year
of printing: not indicated in the print -
actual 1888
- Publisher: Albert Racinet, Imp. Firmin Didot
- Condition:
1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good -
4. Fair).
- Dimensions: 7 x 8.5 inches (18 x 21 cm) including blank margins around the image.
- Paper
weight: 2
(1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4.
Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse
side: Blank
- Notes:
(1) Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting
background on which the print was photographed. (2) The print detail is
sharper than the photo of the print.
Legend:
THE ILLUSTRATIONS BELOW ARE OF historical figures and
women of distinction from 16th-century France, England and Italy. They
show not only how beauty was perceived in different ways in these countries,
but also how the fashions of North-Western Europe drew heavily on those
of Italy. The materials for dressmaking, such as damask, satin and
velvet, all came from Italy.
(1.x refers to top row, 2.x
to bottom row):
1.1 A noblewoman from Ravenna. 1.2 A noble
matron from Naples. 1.3 A married Neapolitan princess. 1.4
A woman from Padua.
2.1 Elizabeth de Valois, Queen of Spain, and the
daughter of Henry II and Catherine de Medici. 2.2 Anne Boleyn, born
in 1500, Queen of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. 2.3 Mary
of England, born in 1497, the younger sister of Henry VIII. She married
Louis XII, King of France, in 1514 when she was only just 16
and considered one of the most beautiful women of her age.
Her sleeves are a rebras - that is, wide and pushed back a little up the
arm, just allowing the decorative cuffs of the dress underneath to peep
out. 2.4 Jane Seymour, Queen of England, after Holbein. She is wearing
the same style of headdress as
Anne Boleyn and Mary of England.
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