Young Lady of France in 1581 in a Rose Gown, Jefferys Costume Plate, 1757

An original antique print, a copper engraving colored by hand, lettered "Habit of a Young Lady of France, in 1581". A young woman with fair hair dressed close to her head and a starched ruff looks over her shoulder toward the viewer. She wears a long rose pink gown with a gold banded hem and a bodice striped in gold, with a chain and jewel across it. A long hanging panel in green with yellow stripes falls from her shoulder down her back to the ground at the viewer's left. One hand is stretched out toward the viewer's right, and the other, lowered at her side, holds a pair of gloves.

The English title is engraved in script beneath the image: "Habit of a Young Lady of France, in 1581". Below it is the French caption "Dame de France." (in English, "Lady of France"), and the plate number 128 is engraved at lower right. No engraver or designer is named on the plate.

This is a plate from Volume II of A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, published in London in 1757 by Thomas Jefferys in the Strand. Its title page announces the figures as taken "After the Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and others," and the book was also titled in French, Recueil des Habillements de Différentes Nations. It falls among the French figures of the volume. The year in the English title is the date of the costume shown, not of the print, which was published in 1757.

A cream or ivory mat brings out the hand coloring against the plain paper.

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