Pigtail Gallery

Laure de Noves, muse of Francesco Petrarch, 1308-1348

Laure de Noves or Laure de Sade, wife of Count Hugues de Sade, and muse of Francesco Petrarch, 1308-1348. She wears a long blue surtout with laced bodice and slashed sleeves, crakows or poulaines, and small cap with her long hair tied behind. After a portrait in oils in the editor's collection. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Manchu man, Mongol with pigtail, and Eleuth Mongol man

Manchu (Niuchi) man, Mongol with moustache and pigtail, and Eleuth Mongol man. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species, Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, 1848. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

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British soldiers in China, c.1911

A Chinese man in traditional clothes and with a queue pigtail hairstyle talks to a pipe-smoking westerner, with other men in the background. The moustachioed western men wearing turbans are most probably British soldiers from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers posted to China (Tientsin) around 1911 - 1913, . Date: C.1911

© Mary Evans Picture Library