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Select historical costumes (1868)

Hinton, Henry L · New York : Wynkoop & Sherwood · leaf 134

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-Ir A YOUNG LADY, ICOSTUMEOF FRANCE a H O LLAN D,14 a ISn CENTURY. A YOUNG LADY. COSTUME OF FRANCE AND HOLLAND IN THE FOUETEENTHAND FIFTEENTH CENTDRIES. … HE young womanwho figures in theaccompanying platef^:i^holds in her hand a feathery of the peacock. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,Hhe peacock, the pheasant and theheron were to the chevaliers ofthe time what the Styx was to the gods offable. Whenever an important enterprise…

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