Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 137
aratively late in the historyof defensive armour, when chain-mail, the huge haume, or helm, the extravagantly, pointedsolerets, or foot-pieces, were things of the past.These examples are ceremonial ones, elaboratelyinlaid and damascened—much more suited forfestivals than for the battlefield, and… … HALF-SUIT OF THE EARL OF ESSEX (1596). which is said to have belonged to the Duke ofBrunswick, and dates about 1530—that is to say,about eighty years after the period of the highest THE QUEENS TREASURES OF ART. 471 development of complete plate-armour, coincidentwith the reign of Charles VII of…
