[h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Kathy Page
Gah! I think that's the one that that came to mind for me as well, she is literally covered in pearls, right? I did a quick search on Lady Burghley and couldn't find the painting. I'll have to do a little more digging. She however is an example of nobility, rather than middle class, which is where

[h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Kathy Page
Rebecca, Please do. The more references we have, the happier we will be. :-) Kathy > I have photos, but nowhere to put them up online. I > can send them to you > directly if you would like - let me know. Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seed

[h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Kathy Page
Susan, That would be great! I am asking as a part of a team for a costuming competition, so having a link with several useful things on it would be grand. :-) We are planning a middle class English/Flemish loose gown. The model is planning a pregancy, so we wanted to make sure we had all the accom

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Rebecca Schmitt
Well, I didn't do a whole lot of research into it, but I was in the last trimester of my pregnancy last year during Faire, and simply wore a very good supporting bra under my loose kirtle and surcoat. My character is solidly middle-class. With the kirtle/surcoat outfit, you really don't need stays

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Kathy Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gah! I think that's the one that that came to mind for me as well, she is literally covered in pearls, right? I did a quick search on Lady Burghley and couldn't find the painting. I'll have to do a little more digging. She however is an example of nobility

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Ailith Mackintosh
Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. Thanks. kate - Original Message - From: "Susan B. Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] R

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Ailith Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. The tinyurl is the link to the same page . Well, it's definately Eleanora (I found this one on the web somewhere, and seem to have misplaced the information. If it's yours, please let

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread michaela
> > I know that there's a portrait of Lady Burghley in a > > very pregnant state > > wearing a kirtle and surcoat. I have a picture of "Mildred Coke, Lady Burghley, 1562-3, oil on panel." She is wearing a surcoat, what look to be black/red worked sleeves and partlet (it's a black and white image b

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting michaela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know that there's a portrait of Lady Burghley in a > very pregnant state > wearing a kirtle and surcoat. I have a picture of "Mildred Coke, Lady Burghley, 1562-3, oil on panel." She is wearing a surcoat, what look to be black/red worked sleeves and par

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread monica spence
Hi -- The Eleonora painting was auctioned off at Sotheby's this past year. Monica -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susan B. Farmer Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:54 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting monica spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi -- The Eleonora painting was auctioned off at Sotheby's this past year. That's right! Thanks. Jerusha (busily making a note ...) - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://w

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread monica spence
ubject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. Thanks. kate - Original Message - From: "Susan B. Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Januar

RE: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting monica spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The painting of Lady Burley can be found in Roy Strong's "The English Icon"-- however it is in B&W. *chuckle* We have 30 books by Roy Strong at my university library. "The English Icon" is *not* one of them! Jerusha - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-25 Thread Shane & Sheridan
Sorry if this has already been posted, I have only briefly been skimming these emails. :-) This should be one of the paintings everyone has been discussing: http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue4/pearlyqueen_image1.htm Here's another one by the same artist: (you may have to cut and paste) http:

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Ailith Mackintosh
;Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays Quoting Ailith Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Yes, please! I'd love to see possible Eleanor of Toledo. The tinyurl is the link to the same page

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Suzi Clarke
At 20:01 26/01/2006, you wrote: Thanks so much. I haven't seen that one before, and, yes, it surely does look like Eleanora. In 1999 I went to London with some friends. While there we attended a Study Day at the V&A. It was originally intended to be lead by Janet Arnold, but she had passed aw

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Ailith Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: *snippage Anyway, one of the curators from the Tate said that she was working gathering images of pregnant ladies for (I believe) a book. I'm pretty sure that it wasn't an exhibition. Has anyone heard or seen anything about this? No, I hadn

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-26 Thread Melanie Schuessler
michaela wrote: "1597 I shall have a petitcoat of silk,...; it shall have a French bodys not of whalebone for that is not stiff enough, but of horn for that will hold it out; it shall come in low before to in my belly. I will have a busk of whale bone, it shall be tied with two silk points,

Re: [h-cost] Re: Gestational Stays

2006-01-27 Thread Danielle Nunn-Weinberg
Greetings, I'm pretty sure you speaking of: Hearn, Karen. Marcus Gheeraerts II: Elizabethan Artist in Focus. London: Tate Publishing, 2002. It's a small book but the exhibition itself was only one room, IIRC. Worth picking up if you can find it. cheers, Danielle At 02:01 PM 1/26/2006, y