EditorialThe Four Bears, Mah-to-toh-pa, second chief of the Mandan or Numakiki nation. In undress, being in mourning, with a few locks of hair cut off. His hair put up in plaits or slabs, with glue and red paint, a custom of the tribe. Handcoloured lithograph b...
EditorialGerman women's headdresses, 1510-1550. A tight embroidered cap with veil A, an original headdress with earholes for hair plaits B, and a conical hat (hellin) with veil introduced by Margeret of Burgundy C. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costu...
EditorialBand, Medium: Technique: complementary warps, Narrow woolen tape with simplified 'S' repeats, sometimes turning into scrolls, sometimes with single curve; replaced 1/3 way through with strip of five diamonds with dot in center of each. Red on blue, one...
EditorialThrone Brettidol, clay, hand-modeled, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), clay, total: Height: 14.4 cm; Width: 9.8 cm; Depth: 5.5 cm, ceramic, deities of the earth and fertility, Middle Archaic, Greek antiquity, The female idol sits on a chair without ...
EditorialMusicians and acrobat. Smithfield Decretals [Decretals of Gregory IX]. France?; 1300-1340 [text]. England [London?]; circ. [Detail] Lower margin. A female musician playing a fife and drum. In centre, a female acrobat with her hair in plaits, balancing ...
EditorialPortrait of Frances Diana, daughter of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury. Seated on a cushion, she wears her hair in plaits and curls, and wears a dress decorated with lace, ribbons and flowers. Steel engraving by H. Robinson after an ill...
EditorialNorman fashions 11th century: Norman soldiers with chainmail hauberks covered in square plates or tegulated armour1, woman with her hair in long plaits encased in ribbons 2, and man with Saxon-style long hair and beard 3. Handcoloured copperplate engra...
EditorialAnne, Dauphine of Auvergne, 1358-1416. She wears a crown, her hair in plaits, and armorial robe with blazons of Bourbon at left (azure, gold fleurs de lys, red band) and of her family at right (azure dolphin on gold field, argent dolphin on red field)....
EditorialAleut woman of the Aleutian islands, northern Pacific Ocean. She wears a cross on a necklace, earrings, and her hair in plaits. Taken from Louis Choris' "Voyage Pittoresque." Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural Histo...
EditorialPortrait of Frances Diana, daughter of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury. Seated on a cushion, she wears her hair in plaits and curls, and wears a dress decorated with lace, ribbons and flowers. Steel engraving by H. Robinson after an ill...
EditorialMiss Power, woman with her hair in plaits, wearing a dress with lace collar and tight waist. Steel stipple engraving by W.H. Eagleton after an illustration by William Drummond from Charles Heaths English Pearls, or Portraits for the Boudoir, Tilt and B...
EditorialNorman fashions 11th century: Norman soldiers with chainmail hauberks covered in square plates or tegulated armour1, woman with her hair in long plaits encased in ribbons 2, and man with Saxon-style long hair and beard 3. Handcoloured copperplate engra...
EditorialSwiss girl of Berne, regional costume, 19th century. She wears a straw hat, hair in long plaits, blouse, laced bodice, apron, and striped skirt. Handcoloured lithograph from Thomas Hailes Lacy's "Female Costumes Historical, National and Dramatic in 200...
EditorialAnne of Auvergne, Dauphine d'Auvergne, wife of Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, 1358-1417. In a crown of jewels, hair in plaits, and armorial dress with coats of arms of Bourbon (fleurs de lys) and Auvergne (dolphin), crakows or poulaines. Handcoloured coppe...
EditorialBas-de-page scene a veiled and wimpled woman kneeling at a prie-dieu with a closed book, a maid with plaits holds her veil, while a young man in fashionable dress walks away. Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours'). England, S. E.? (London?)...
EditorialMusicians and acrobat. Smithfield Decretals [Decretals of Gregory IX]. France?; 1300-1340 [text]. England [London?]; circ. [Detail] Lower margin. A female musician playing a fife and drum. In centre, a female acrobat with her hair in plaits, balancing ...
EditorialGerman women's headdresses, 1510-1550. A tight embroidered cap with veil A, an original headdress with earholes for hair plaits B, and a conical hat (hellin) with veil introduced by Margeret of Burgundy C. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costu...
EditorialWoman with broad brimmed hat, 1642, Etching: only state, Sheet: 3 7/8 ? 3 5/8 in. (9.8 ? 9.2 cm) trimmed 1-2 mm within platemark, Prints, Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607?1677 London), Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly turned to ...
EditorialAnne of Auvergne, Dauphine d'Auvergne, wife of Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, 1358-1417. In a crown of jewels, hair in plaits, and armorial dress with coats of arms of Bourbon (fleurs de lys) and Auvergne (dolphin), crakows or poulaines. Handcoloured coppe...
EditorialSwiss girl of Berne, regional costume, 19th century. She wears a straw hat, hair in long plaits, blouse, laced bodice, apron, and striped skirt. Handcoloured lithograph from Thomas Hailes Lacy's "Female Costumes Historical, National and Dramatic in 200...
EditorialGerman women's headdresses, 1510-1550. A tight embroidered cap with veil A, an original headdress with earholes for hair plaits B, and a conical hat (hellin) with veil introduced by Margeret of Burgundy C. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costu...
EditorialRadegund, Frankish princess, c.520-586. She wears a fine chainmail dress, a veil that falls to the knee, tunic, belt, green skirt and blue cape. Her long hair is tied in two plaits, and hidden under a crown and veil. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and ...
EditorialAleut woman of the Aleutian islands, northern Pacific Ocean. She wears a cross on a necklace, earrings, and her hair in plaits. Taken from Louis Choris' "Voyage Pittoresque." Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural Histo...
EditorialAnne, Dauphine of Auvergne, 1358-1416. She wears a crown, her hair in plaits, and armorial robe with blazons of Bourbon at left (azure, gold fleurs de lys, red band) and of her family at right (azure dolphin on gold field, argent dolphin on red field)....
EditorialThe Four Bears, Mah-to-toh-pa, second chief of the Mandan or Numakiki nation. In undress, being in mourning, with a few locks of hair cut off. His hair put up in plaits or slabs, with glue and red paint, a custom of the tribe. Handcoloured lithograph b...