Habit Collection (page 6)

Officer Switzerland
Habit of a Swiss officer

King of Spain Governor
Habit of the Govenor of the Low Countries for the King of Spain, Philip II

Danish Soldier 11C
Habit of a Dane in 1017

Costume / Men / Bohemia 16C
Habit of a man from Bohemia of 1577

English Nobleman 16C
Habit of an English nobleman

Costume / Man / Spain 17C
Habit of a Spanish gentleman of 1626

French Gentleman 17C
Habit of a French gentleman of 1626

Scottish Highland Dress
Habit of a gentleman of the Highlands of Scotland

St Hilda / Whitby / Anon Eng
SAINT HILDA OF WHITBY A member of the Deiran royal house, she was among its first converts to Christianity. She became a celebrated abbess at Hartlepool and then Whitby

Satire on Religious Art
A satire on the literal nature of religious art, with St Anthony preaching to the fishes lampooned

Summer & Travel Dress
Anglo-Saxon Summer dress of super-tunic or roc & draped mantle & a travelling habit of super-tunic with extra long sleeves with an ornate border. Both wear head-rails or veils

Saxon Military Dress C8
Anglo-Saxon king in martial habit wears a shirt of chainmail over a tunic & hose. His Armour Bearer wears a Phyrigian cap, hose & short tunic with a girdle. Date: 8th century

Margaret Beaufort
COUNTESS OF RICHMOND & DERBY MARGARET BEAUFORT English noblewoman, mother of Henry VII; founded Christs College, Cambridge in 1505

Bishop, Moscow
A Muscovite Bishop in his pontifical habit

Lace Caps Etc C. 1863
Chemisettes, habit-shirts, under-sleeves, a canezou or fichu, lace bonnets with lappets & flowers & a spoon bonnet trimmed with ostrich plumes

Riding Dress 1856
Woman in riding habit: lace jabot, jacket with sleeves en bouffant, trained skirt. Men: strapped pantaloons with floral trim, top hats, one man wears a joinville tie

Muscovite Bishop
A Muscovite Bishop in his Ordinary Habit

FRENCH AMAZON
A young Amazon woman, in full riding habit in the style of George Sand, sitting sidesaddle on a white horse

LA MODE 1853
Lace trimmed black pardessus, pale grey skirt & a cap adorned with ribbons & flowers. Brown outfit: skirt trimmed in the pyramid style, caraco body worn over a habit-shirt

Costume Women 1852
Dresses: white with large floral design printed to fit the 3 flounces - flounces a disposition ; blue edged with black stripes & waistcoat style front in a contrasting fabric

Picnicking at Home
A PIC-NIC IN THE DRAWING ROOM A satire on the growing habit of snacking instead of sitting round the table at formal meals

Raleigh Smoking in Chair
SIR WALTER RALEIGH - Having picked up the smoking habit during his American travels, is thought by his servants to be on fire, and is doused with a basin of water

Agostiniano Monk
AGOSTINIANO - monk of St Augustine, in his indoor habit

Agostiniano Monk (Out)
AGOSTINIANO - monk of St Augustine, in his outdoor habit

Babies / Long Clothes 1863
Long clothes - possibly a christening robe adorned with tucked panels & lace insertions; short clothes with vandyked sleeves & bodice, also habit-shirts & sleeves

Fashions April 1868
Girl: habit shirt, short dress, tunic of overlapping panels that end in tasselled points. Woman: green pelerine, dress with train & gored skirt with white edged seams

Dominican Monk / 14th C
A Dominican monk from Spain

German Monk / 12th C
A German monk in dark red habit and white cloak and hood

Italian Penitent 19C
An Italian Black Penitent in dark brown habit and hood, carrying a chain for self- flagellation and pictures of Christ and His crucifixion

Medieval Archbishop
The official habit of an English archbishop

Napoleon the Kingmaker
Napoleon the Gingerbread Baker creating new kings - a comment on his habit of appointing his relatives to the thrones of defeated or occupied nations

Marin Mersenne / Mag Pitto
MARIN MERSENNE French mathematician and monk

Lyne / Joseph / Vfair 1887
JOSEPH LEYCESTER LYNE Father Ignatius Controversial clergyman

Costume July 1869
Purple polonaise worn over a habit-shirt; white & gold polonaise with triple skirt & open tunic. Girl: triple skirt, over-skirt hitched up at the back with a sash bow

Fashions May 1868
White paletot with peplum points. Girl: habit shirt with a puff at the sleeve top, skirt with pyramid trim, tunic with peplum skirt ends. N.B use of broad ribbon trimmings

Shopping Fashions 1850S
Red mantle with revers, pagoda sleeves & tassels, blue dress with black trim. Black pardessus, white waistcoat, floral print skirt & a habit- shirt with bishop sleeves

Le Follet Fashions 1850S
NB: Bows arranged on the bodice like echelles & fringing; open bodice with a habit shirt; a waistcoat body; white dress with plaid sash crossed over the bodice & floating ends

Riding Habit 1924
Horsewoman in a vivid blue riding habit & top hat & white cravat

Bon Genre No. 76 Costume
Triple vandyke ruff, habit shirt with high frilled neck, hems with rows of tucks or scalloped, coloured aprons or pinafores & a fur trimmed pelisse

Ladys Riding Habit
Amazon corsage buttoning to the throat & with a small white collar & reversed cuffs. Black velvet hat ornamented with a plume & worn with a veil

Habit and Horse Cover
The cover of THE HABIT AND THE HORSE, a treatise on Female Equitation by Mrs J Stirling Clarke

Costume Men & Woman 1879
A fashionable lady in a black lace mantlet or pelerine is surrounded by male admirers in frock coat & top hat, riding dress or checked trousers & helmet hat with scarf

Striped Toilette ?1885
Costume in vertical striped fabric (see real swatch): pointed waist, deep V neck with falling lace collar, tunic hitched up at one side & trimmed with ribbon

Coronation Habit C13Th
King in his Coronation Habit: long, highly ornate tunic with magyar sleeves worn with a buckled girdle, green mantle with decorative lining & soled hose

Social / Squires Door 18C
A charitable Squires wife wears a fashionable riding habit with a masculine cut & double cape-collar. Her top hat has a large ribbon rosette & her hair is worn long

Lady Dismounts
A lady in her riding habit is helped to dismount by a gentleman

Lady Helped Up
A lady in her riding habit is helped to mount by a gentleman while her groom holds her horses head

Luis De Granada / Larmessi
LUIS DE GRANADA Spanish prelate of the Dominican Order

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