See what you think of this one: Frances Brandon Lady Dacre & son, Hans Eworth, 1559 It looks like she has only 3 fingers & 1 thumb showing on her right hand. That's a big band on her middle finger. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com
From: Maggie <maggi...@gmail.com> I know of one full length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, and I believe I've seen a couple other examples (possibly German), but they're way out-numbered. According the author of the book I mentioned, the middle finger "is for fools", but he doesn't really say much else about it. Although he does say a similar habit prevailed among the ancient Greeks and Romans and contemporary (1917) Hindus. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume