Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852-1898 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 166
rtraits,and invariably of reddish yellow, sometimes concealing the hair entirely,at others betraying that the hair beneath is of a different colour, seem tome to point to a fashion referable to some great lady, perhaps the Queen.We know how Queen Elizabeths hair was copied in colour by the court… … Fig. 71.—From a drawing by Holbein. may still have been called a veil—stiff, weighty, andsurely hard to balance! Fig. J2, the shrewd and and other ladies, and her reddish-yellow locks may have descended fromher mother Anne Boleyn ; in which case these singular and far from elegantbraids are easily…
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