Ruff Collection (page 11)

Cervantes / Brown / Morenus
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Spanish novelist

Tudor Costume Early C16
Two French noblemen. Note the low cut doublets which reveal the shirts which are drawn tight at the neck - a fore-runner of the ruff, also the duck-bill shoes

Costume / Men / German 18C
A German messenger of the royal court in red tunic

Costume / Men / Bourgeo 1580
A middle-class man, probably French, in a wide green cloak and red breeches and shoes

Costume / Women / 1570
An affluent lady in her town dress and hat; another lady just behind her is dressed for a masqued ball

Costume / Women / 1556
An aristocratic lady of the Royal Court, in a green dress with large white ruff, and carrying a book

Ferdinand II of Germany
KING FERDINAND II OF GERMANY Emperor of Germany as a young man

F De Remond / Larmessin
FLORIMOND DE REMOND French historian

Gb Porta / Larmessin
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PORTA Italian medical

Pocahontas / C Holland
POCAHONTAS alias MATOAKA American Indian princess at the age of 21

Pierre Pithou / Larmessin
PIERRE PITHOU French jurist and historian

Baldassare Peruzzi / Larme
BALDASSARE TOMMASO PERUZZI Italian architect and painter Date: 1481 - 1536

Ambroise Pare / Jacquand
AMBROISE PARE French surgeon, author of books on medicine and monsters

Ambroise Pare / Larmessin
AMBROISE PARE French surgeon, author of books on medicine and monsters

Arnold Mytens / Boulonois
ARNOLD MYTENS Flemish painter

Mierevelt / Boulonois
Michiel Janszoon Van Mierevelt or Miereveld Dutch Painter

Meteren / Boulonois
EMANUEL VAN METEREN Flemish historian

Masson / Jean / Larmessin
JEAN PAPIRIUS MASSON French historian

Joannes Sambucus / Larmess
JOANNES SAMBUCUS Hungarian scholar

Sainte-Marthe / Larmessin
SCAEVOLA DE SAINTE-MARTHE French writer at the age of 38

Malherbe / Francois / Academ
Francois De Malherbe French Poet

Justus Lipsius / Boulonois
JUSTUS LIPSIUS Flemish humanist and philosopher

Philip Iii / Spain / Goya
Philip Iii, King of Spain

John Harington / Thurston
SIR JOHN HARINGTON English courtier and writer; inventor of the flush toilet

Hendrik Goltzius / Boulono
HENDRIK GOLTZIUS Dutch engraver, etcher and painter

Rembert Dodoens / Boulonoi
JUNIUS REMBERT DODOENS alias DODONAEUS Dutch botanist

Johan Van Der Does / Larme
JOHAN VAN DER DOES alias JANUS DOUSA Dutch political leader and writer

Michel Coxcie / Larmessin
MICHEL COXCIE or COXCYEN Flemish painter

Paul Bril / Boulonois
PAUL BRIL Flemish artist

William I / Silent / Dutch
WILLIAM I THE SILENT of ORANGE Dutch Stadholder (1579-84)

Rudolf Ii / Hre / Anon Oval
EMPEROR RUDOLF II Holy Roman Emperor (1576- 1612), also crowned King of Hungary (1572) and Bohemia (1575) Date: 1552 - 1612

Maria Theresia / Miniature
MARIA THERESIA Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, daughter of Emperor Carl VI, wife of Emperor Franz I, mother of Emperor Joseph II

Maria Louise / Austrian / Mi
MARIA LOUISE Wife of Leopold II, Emperor of Austria (1790-2)

Archduke Charles of Austria
CARL Archduke of Austria

Carl / Archduke Austria / Ov
CARL Archduke of Austria

Friedrich V / Winterkonig
FRIEDRICH V von der PFALZ Winterkonig of Bohemia

Carl V / Hre / Umberger Ptg
CARL V / KARL V Holy Roman Emperor, also King of Spain as Charles I, seen here at the age of 32

M Van Wesenbeke / Boulonoi
Matthaeus Van Wesenbeke Dutch Jurist

Jan Wamesius / Larmessin
JAN WAMESIUS Flemish jurist

Maerten De Vos / Boulonois
MAERTEN DE VOS Flemish painter of portraits and religious subjects

Otto Van Veen / Larmessin
OTTO VAN VEEN or OCTAVIUS VAENIUS Dutch painter, teacher of Rubens

Elizabeth I / Celliez
QUEEN ELIZABETH I Daughter of Henry VIII & his second wife Anne Boleyn

Anne of Denmark / With Hat
QUEEN OF JAMES I Half-length portrait bust, finished in a truncated manner

Edmund Spenser / Miniature
EDMUND SPENSER English poet

Luigi Settala / Larmessin
LUIGI SETTALA Italian medical

Man and Woman, 1606
An elegant couple of Henri IVs time - she in a high lace ruff and extraordinary farthingale, he in equally remarkable breeches of unsurpassed bagginess !

Fashions of 1814
Three women in walking dress from 1814. One lady holds a pair of scissors - perhaps her outfit is all her own work?

Costume for 1814
A young woman in a blue, fur- trimmed pelisse shows a leg. She wears a lace ruff, large bonnet, lace trimmed slippers and carries a pink shell shaped reticule

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