The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)
Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 237
Figure 151.ancient bronze statuettewith the face and THE COSTUME OF PUPPETS 193 Frenchman on the subject of Punchs bodily characteristics.M. Magnin says that with a sufficient amount of exaggerationand caricature to set aside the suspicion of disloyalty, thePunch figure recalls the appearance of… … Figure 152.—^A fourteenth-century puppet-show (from the MS.of the Roman dAlexandre ). Chamber of St. Germain or in the Louvre. The hump in front,he says, was derived from the protuberance of the heavycuirass. This is much the same explanation as that which wehave already given, though the cuirass…
Costume · Clothing and dress
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