Picture No | 10141789 |
Date | late 15th century |
Description | STEEPLE HEADDRESS C15TH |
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A long snouted sow plays a harp, walks on stilts and wears the fashionable French steeple-shaped headdress known as a Hennin. A style rare in England.
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Source | Unattributed illustration in "Dress and Habits of the People of England vol.II", by J Strutt, p.258 plate CXXII |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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