Senator of Cologne in Gray Gown and Flat Hat, Costume of 1577, Jefferys 1757

This is an original antique copper engraving with hand coloring, lettered "Habit of a Senator of Cologne, in 1577." It is plate 162 from Thomas Jefferys' A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, published in London in 1757. The white-bearded senator wears a flat gray hat and a ruff, and a knee-length gray-blue gown with puffed shoulders and a brown fur collar, open over a long pink-red coat tied at the waist with a sash. He extends his right hand palm up and holds a rolled paper in his left. Yellow hose and red shoes complete the dress, and he steps forward on a plain ground with a long shadow to the viewer's left.

The English title is engraved in script below the figure, with the French caption "Senateur de Cologne." (Senator of Cologne) beneath it and the plate number 162 at lower right. No engraver or designer is named on the plate. The date in the English title is the date of the costume shown; the print itself was published in 1757.

The plate comes from Volume II of Thomas Jefferys' A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern. Particularly Old English Dresses. After the Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and others, published in London in 1757 by Jefferys, Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in the Strand. The work was issued in English and French, with a French title page reading Recueil des Habillements de Différentes Nations, which is why every plate carries a caption in both languages.

The single figure on an open ground suits a simple mat and a narrow frame, alone or hung with other costume plates from the same volume.

This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.