Doublet Collection (#10)

Cat and Elizabethan poet on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man with smiling pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Sir Francis Drake, 16th century, (1910). Portrait of the English sea-captain (1540-1596) at the age of 43, wearing a peascod doublet

Caricature of Ambrose Maynard, theatrical agent, depicted as a parody of Shakespeare. 1883

Italian Costume 1380
Italian costume: garments worn with armour include parti- coloured soled hose, gipon or doublet, tight-fitting garment without sleeves or with short raglan sleeves & buckles. Date: 1380

German Dress C14Th
Woman: goffered veil & wimple, kirtle with buttoned sleeves, loose fitting gown, girdle & pouch. Man: dagged cape, gipon (doublet), girdle, piked shoes & hat with an up-turned brim. Date: 14th century

English Costume 1400
Man: buskins, doublet with sleeve apertures, pouch & dagger, brimless hat. Women: cote-hardie, ermine trimmed sideless surcoat, houppelande Headdresses: horned, padded V Date: 1400

Burgundian Dress 1470
Short jacket or jerkin with hanging sleeves & collar worn over a doublet, hose & piked boots (cracowes), jerkin with a heraldic eagle worn over armour, fur hat with feather. Date: 1470

Florentine Costume C15Th
Fur-lined and edged houppelande or gown with funnel sleeves & a hood; fur- trimmed huke worn over a doublet. Both wear hose, piked shoes (cracowes) & caps. Date: circa 1425

Young Italian man doffing his hat in salute, 15th century.. Handcolored illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th

Walloon soldier, 16th century, in a morion helmet, carrying a sword and halberd.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F

Garnet-topped doublet
A green garnet-topped doublet. Garnets are common in metamorphosed rocks and also in some igneous formations

Moliere / Don Juan
LE FESTIN DE PIERRE Act 2 Scene 5: Don Juan with a girl on each arm

Principe Don Carlos hijo de Felipe II, (Prince Carlos de Austria), 1557-1559, (c1934). Artist: Alonso Sanchez Coello
Principe Don Carlos hijo de Felipe II, (Prince Carlos de Austrias), 1557-1559, (c1934). Don Carlos (1545-1548), son of Philip II and his first wife Maria of Portugal

Retrato del bufon Don Juan De Austria, (The Jester Don John of Austria), 1632, (c1934). Artist: Diego Velasquez
Retrato del bufon Don Juan De Austria, (The Jester Don John of Austria), 1632, (c1934). A jester or bufon at the court of Philip IV of Spain from 1624 to 1654 who appeared in court comedies in front

Edward VI, 1554. Artist: Taylor
Edward VI, 1554. After Samuel Wale (c1721-1786). From New Complete and Authentic History of England, by Edward Barnard. [Alex Hogg, London, 1783]

A Nobleman and Lady, 1926. Artist: Herbert Norris
A Nobleman and Lady, 1926. A Nobleman and Lady in the fashion of Edward IV (1442-1483). From Costume & Fashion, Volume Two, Senlac to Bosworth 1066-1485, by Herbert Norris. [J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd

Philippe Le Bon, Duke of Burgundy and Isabelle of Portugal, 1440-1445, 1926. Artist: Herbert Norris
Philippe Le Bon, Duke of Burgundy and Isabelle of Portugal, 1440-1445, 1926. Philippe Le Bon (1396-1467) and his third wife Isabella of Portugal (1397-1471)

French gentlemens costume, 1572 (1882-1884). Artist: Chevignard
French gentlemens costume, 1572 (1882-1884). A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume III, F Roy editor, A Challamel, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884

The Marshal of Souvre, M de Bellegarde and M de Pluvinel, 17th century (1882-1884). Gilles de Courtenvaux de Souvre (1540-1626)

A lady and two gentlemen in French dress of 1605 (1882-1884). After the collection of the antiquary Francois Roger de Gaignieres

Officer of the guards, Garde du corps de la prevote 1574-1589 (1882-1884). Artist: Felix Henri Emmanuel Philippoteaux
Officer of the guards, Garde du corps de la prevote 1574-1589 (1882-1884). A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume I, F Roy editor, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884

It was a Lover, 1895. Shakespeares songs; from As You Like It, Act V scene III. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1895

Annibal, 1860, (1938). Artist: Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
Annibal, 1860, (1938). The picture depicts the French actor Francis Joseph Regnier in character as The Signor Annibale in Emile Augiers play, L Aventuriere [The Adventuress]

Charles, Prince of Wales, 1816. Artist: Charles Turner
Charles, Prince of Wales, (1816). Charles Stuart, second son of King James I became Prince of Wales and heir to the throne after his elder brother Henry died of typhoid fever in 1612

The plague: flight to the country, 1630, (1910). A 19th-century depicition of the transition stage of costume: the doublet reaching to mid-thigh, sometimes flared from the hips down

King James I, 1614, (1910). The king (1566-1625) wears a thickly padded doublet and bombasted breeches. These appealed to him as being effective against the point of a dagger of rapier

Velvet breeches and cloth breeches, 1592, (1910). Frontispiece from Greenes Quip for an Upstart Courtier. The feathered hat of the courtier may be compared with that of the labourer

Queen Elizabeth I hawking, 1575, (1910). A 19th-century rendition from the Art of Falconrie by Turberville, (1585). The doublets have innumerable slashing

Male dress, 16th century, (1910). Example of mens dress showing the hanging sleeve. He is armed with sword and buckler (shield). His flat cap hangs upon his shoulder by a cord

Sir Walter Raleigh and his son, 1602, (1896). English writer, poet, courtier and explorer, Raleigh (1554-1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585

Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, (1907). Henry Frederick (1594-1612), who died of typhoid fever at the age of 18, was the eldest son of King James I

Two men with coats of arms, 16th century. Two Germans wearing slashed sleeves and parti-coloured hose, with heraldic crests

Oscar Asche as Count Hannibal, by Asche and Norreys Connell
Count Hannibal by F. Norreys Connell (b. 1874) and Oscar Asche (1871 - 1936) from the novel by Stanley John Weyman (1855-1928) written in 1901

Viola, in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night
Viola (disguised as the page Cesario), in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4. 19th century

Young man in historical costume
Young man (Charles Egerton, b.1837) in historical costume, holding up a glass of wine. 1856

Our Boys Clothing Company, Scottish clothing
Our Boys Clothing Company, Scottish themed clothing for boys. Features: - Highland doublet and vest (Figure 11) - Dress Sporran (Figure 12) - Undress Sporran (Figure 13) - Dirk (Figure 14)

Man in historical costume on a Christmas card, with a pull tab on the right to change the picture. Date: circa 1890s

Snap Playing Card - Courtier bowing. circa 1910s

Prince, Noble, Page C14
Prince: gipon (doublet), soled & piked hose, knightly-girdle, dagged mantle. Noble: shoulder cape, hood & cloak. Page: wide short sleeveless tunic with side vents, funnel sleeves. Date: 14th century

French Costumes 1477-80
Woman: mantle, gown with a square neckline, hat with a floppy brim. Men: hat with a round crown & the brim turned up at the back, gown, doublet & jacket with hanging sleeves. Date: 1477 - 1480

Courtiers Dress C15Th
Garments: chaperon, dagged (scalloped) huke, two colour jacket worn over a doublet, riding buskins & spurs, hooded houppelande or gown with dagged, wide funnel sleeves Date: 15th century

Doublet, Hose & Points
The man holding stones wears hose & a doublet attached by means of laces called points (poins). His boots have a slightly pointed toe. Another man wears a full length gown. Date: 15th century

Costume / Early C16Th
Figures taken from tapestries depicting clothing of the early 16th century. Both the front and back views are given. Date: early 16th century

Royal Costume 1566
Man: jewel-encrusted trunk hose with panes & bombast padding, doublet & cloak. Woman: tight bodice, large under-sleeves, deep fur cuffs, ornate petticoat. Date: 1566

Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, cut-fingered pumps. Woman: sleeves with deep fur cuffs, Spanish farthingale. Date: mid 16th century

French Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, ermine lined gown. Woman: bodice & skirt fastens down the front with bows. Date: mid 16th century

Burgundian Dress C. 1450
Hat with burlet, doublet with puffed over-sleeves, jerkins (jackets) with pleats or ermine trimmed & with hanging sleeves, hose & piked shoes (cracowes) or piked buskins. Date: circa 1450

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