Inside Out Library · Explore

Select historical costumes (1868)

Hinton, Henry L · New York : Wynkoop & Sherwood · leaf 28

An illustration from Select historical costumes, 1868, leaf 28
H LADY OF RANK. HIS costume is ta-ken from a minia-ture of the manuscriptentitled ^Echecs Ainoureuxwhich is found in the RoyalLibrary of Paris. The wearer,a noble French lady, is deckedwith the sugar-loaf head-dress socommonly adopted during all of thefifteenth century. A band of black… … HISTORICAL COSTUMES. vet, bordered with gold, and is lined andtrimmed with crimson velvet; the ends ofthe sleeves are also of crimson velvet; theveil is of a white, transparent tissue; thegirdle is green, with golden ornaments;the portion of the under-skirt which is seenbelow is violet; the…

Costume

Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Select historical costumes

More like this