Since the person asked for a "depiction" does she mean a book or a picture?
I have wondered about that myself... I think "sightings" of lacemaking in literature (mostly fiction, and mostly along the same lines of misunderstanding that the worst of your press-persons showed at the Hasbrouck Heights convention <g>) are somewhere on Lori-the-Lacefairy' webpage. As are many visual "sightings" which had been reported here over the years.
At the Met last summer they had an engraving of a 17 century lacemaker by an artist whose name I always get wrong. It is something like Golthius, or Goltzius. Tamara wrote it down!
The engraving was on loan from the Rijksmuseum.
The *exhibition* was of (Hendrik?) Goltzius (now you have me wondering about the spelling of the name <g>) and most of the work was his, but the engraving in question was by a student of his, Jan Saenredam, one of the series called "4 seasons"; there was nothing on the caption to say which of the seasons was depicted, but I'm guessing "summer".
I'm not sure how accurate it is for the 17th century, either. The dates given for Saenredam were: "ca 1565-1607", and I don't remember any date given for the picture itself; it could have been done before 1600 (and, in any case, he didn't "see" *much* of the 17th c -- less than a decade...)
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