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Finch.” The piólure from which our engraving is taken offers a con-
firmation, if any were needed, of that fadt. He must have been in Eng-
land at a very early period of his career, as he was only 20 years of age
when it was painted.
In this Portrait, Mary is more richly attired than in any other repre-
sentation of her we recolledt to have met with ; but as it was taken dur-
ing the year of her marriage, that circumstance may account for a display
of jewellery, embroidery, velvets, and furs, more calculated to remind us
of the gorgeoussy fantastic representations ofher sister Elizabeth, than the
usually sober style of that gloomy looking Queen.
On her head ihe wears a French hood of black and white velvet, sur-
mounted by a band composed of a double row of pearls divided at inter-
vals by rich chasings inlaid with black enamel and reaching down to the
ears. Her necklace is of a similar pattern, having attached to it a large
square jewel, in the produdtion of which the Goldsmith seems to have
exercised his greatest ikill on his most costly materials. It exhibits a
graceful combination of figures and scrolls formed of precious stones, and
the various coloured enamels, terminating in a large pendant pearl. The
Gown is made of cloth of gold richly embroidered, having the long waist,
tight sseeves down to the elbows, and large stuffed appendages from
thence to the wrists, common to that period. This last feature is highly
elaborate, being one mass of enrichment of the most costly kind. It is
diapred with a very elegant design, formed of silk braiding, pearls, and
other jewels, and pusfings of white velvet embroidered with gold. To
give effeit and variety to this glittering mass, over-sseeves of fur are sus-
pended from above the elbows, and reach nearly to the bottom of the
piiture ; thus giving the advantage of a dark back-ground to these spark-
ling materials, besides relieving the eye by the simplicity of its texture.
The Gown dividing at the waist (round which is a jewelled girdle, sup-
porting, by a silken cord, a large circular ornament with a cross in its cen-
tre), displays the Petticoat from which our plate is taken. The materials
are yesiow braidings on a rich brown ground, apparently of Silk. All
the circles represent pearls.
Our Letter is taken from a drawing in the posseision of Mr. Pickering,
probably by Le Petit Bernard, who designed articles of Jewellery and
ornament for Diana of Poidiers, and a well known set of Scripture Cuts,
' printed at Lyons 1577.
firmation, if any were needed, of that fadt. He must have been in Eng-
land at a very early period of his career, as he was only 20 years of age
when it was painted.
In this Portrait, Mary is more richly attired than in any other repre-
sentation of her we recolledt to have met with ; but as it was taken dur-
ing the year of her marriage, that circumstance may account for a display
of jewellery, embroidery, velvets, and furs, more calculated to remind us
of the gorgeoussy fantastic representations ofher sister Elizabeth, than the
usually sober style of that gloomy looking Queen.
On her head ihe wears a French hood of black and white velvet, sur-
mounted by a band composed of a double row of pearls divided at inter-
vals by rich chasings inlaid with black enamel and reaching down to the
ears. Her necklace is of a similar pattern, having attached to it a large
square jewel, in the produdtion of which the Goldsmith seems to have
exercised his greatest ikill on his most costly materials. It exhibits a
graceful combination of figures and scrolls formed of precious stones, and
the various coloured enamels, terminating in a large pendant pearl. The
Gown is made of cloth of gold richly embroidered, having the long waist,
tight sseeves down to the elbows, and large stuffed appendages from
thence to the wrists, common to that period. This last feature is highly
elaborate, being one mass of enrichment of the most costly kind. It is
diapred with a very elegant design, formed of silk braiding, pearls, and
other jewels, and pusfings of white velvet embroidered with gold. To
give effeit and variety to this glittering mass, over-sseeves of fur are sus-
pended from above the elbows, and reach nearly to the bottom of the
piiture ; thus giving the advantage of a dark back-ground to these spark-
ling materials, besides relieving the eye by the simplicity of its texture.
The Gown dividing at the waist (round which is a jewelled girdle, sup-
porting, by a silken cord, a large circular ornament with a cross in its cen-
tre), displays the Petticoat from which our plate is taken. The materials
are yesiow braidings on a rich brown ground, apparently of Silk. All
the circles represent pearls.
Our Letter is taken from a drawing in the posseision of Mr. Pickering,
probably by Le Petit Bernard, who designed articles of Jewellery and
ornament for Diana of Poidiers, and a well known set of Scripture Cuts,
' printed at Lyons 1577.