Somerset House Conference: Detail
- Published/Created:
- 1604
- Physical Description:
- 205.7 x 268 cm
- Date Depicted:
- 1975
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Materials:
- oil on canvas
- Notes:
- The older men at the top of the table are in the large, square-cut beards and black coifs of the Reformation. The younger men are in the fashionable style of the day.
- Abstract:
- Normally hair is short. It is brushed straight back without a part and trained to form a roll. As with women, a widow's peak is a mark of good looks. Almost everyone is in a mustache and beard. Usually the beard is small and trimmed to a point. A less fashionable large beard is pointed or square. The flat beret, either knitted or made of felt, is stylish until 1565. It is replaced by a Reformation hat which is narrow, stiff-brimmed and has a gathered crown. Most often made of black beaver, velvet, or felt, it sits at a jaunty angle and is trimmed with a jeweled band, sometimes feathers. Neck ruffs are the same for men as women.
- Topics:
- Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Painting -- Britain -- 17th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Elizabethan
- Culture:
- English
- Accession Number:
- 4390-150
- Genre:
- costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
paintings (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Clothing & Accessories
Paintings & Drawings - Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Source Creator:
- Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen
- Source Title:
- History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 3
- Source Created:
- New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975 - Call Number:
- GT513 +B87 3 (LC)
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Original Repository:
- London, England: National Portrait Gallery
- OID:
- 10600496
- PID:
- digcoll:1861487