I believe I have the (full length, B&W) portrait I'm thinking of in a book at home, but I'll have to check later. If I find it, I'll scan and post it for general perusal.
MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kimiko Small <sstormwa...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > I had heard about the fool's finger elsewhere online, and I remember > smiling in recognition when I read it in your book. It has made me not put > rings on that finger at faires, and I am trying to get my friends to do the > same, but most continue to do so. > > By your comment of Mary QoS, I went and googled for Mary's image, and found > Marilee Cody's site that has almost all of her images and related images. > http://www.marileecody.com/maryqosimages.html > > If there is one of Mary QoS wearing a ring on her middle finger, I could > not find it. I did find one of her posed with a ring about to be placed on > the ring finger of her right hand. > http://www.marileecody.com/maryqos/maryring.jpg > Otherwise, I note that most of her images she is wearing no rings. > > Maybe it is the one or two not on her site at this time? > > btw, that one image above by one artist, the dress she is wearing is > repeated in this next image of Mary QoS, same hair style, too. > http://www.marileecody.com/maryqos/maryqosclouetdark.jpg > Makes me wonder which was the original painting. And years ago I had wanted > to recreate the gown, although I think beading all those tri-clusters of > pearls would drive me batty! > > Kimiko > > > > --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Maggie <maggi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > This tidbit is included in The Compendium, by the way. ;-) > > > > MaggiRos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
