Figure 6. — Portrait of an English lady. From 

 Recued de la diver site des habits, 1567 cd. (Courtesy 

 of Victoria & Albert .Museum, London.) 



Figure 7. — Dress of a French woman (front view) 

 with a tight-sleeved bodice through the cuts of which 

 the lining is drawn out in puffs. From Omnium 

 gentium habitus . . . , 1563 ed. {Courtesy of Victoria 

 & .Albert -Museum, London.) 



English lady (fig. 6). Although she is said to be 

 distinguishable by her square bonnet, it is hard to 

 find the style paralleled in any other picture. The 

 huge slashes on the bodice of her gown surely are 

 exaggerated, as is the smallness of the muff which 

 hangs by a cord from her waist. On the other hand, 

 Joris Hoefnagel copied and used the portrait as one 

 of a group of citizens standing in the foreground of 

 Hogenberg's 1574 plan of London,'" so the figure must 



have been regarded as approximately accurate. 



Much more convincing as evidence of fashions are 

 the etchings by Aeneas Vico that appear in Bcrtelli's 

 book on the costumes of the peoples, published in 

 V'enice in 1 563.'* The French woman shown in figure 

 7 clearly illustrates a fashion which is familiar 

 enough in portraits. Of particular interest is the back 

 view (fig. 8) showing her petticoat. This type of 

 petticoat was popular in Spain in the late 1 5th 



i; A. M. liiND, Engraving in England in Ike 16lh and 17lh centuries is p. Bertelli, Omrnum fere gentium nostrae aetatis habitus 



(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952), vol. 1, pi. 34. (Venice, 1563). 



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