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Chats on costume (1906)

Rhead, G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft), 1854-1920 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 170

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William Rogers, of which a reproduction isgiven, she is figured in the great ruff with which sheis most identified, the interminable stomacher, andthe enormous wheel farthingale, with, as Walpoleobserves, a bushel of pearls bestrewed over theentire figure ; she also wears a long light mantleedged… … QUIilCN EI.IZAHKTII. From an engraving by William Rogers. 164 CHATS ON COSTUME The admired Empresse through the vvorldeapplaudedFor supreme virtues rarest imitation,Whose Scepters rule fames loud-voycd trumpet lavvdethInto the eares of every forraigne nation.Cannopeyd under powerfull angells…

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