Headdresses Cohutta Wilderness Watercolour on ivory

Watercolour on ivory

'The living statued patriot

Arrested suffragettes went on hunger strike in protest at the government's refusal to treat them as political prisoners

horse and water pump in street outside

Headdresses Cohutta Wilderness Watercolour on ivoryHeaddresses, early 16th century, (1843). The caul, under which the hair is gathered in the first two of these figures, was popular in the reign of Henry VII. The band on the fourth head ornamented with jewellery, is a templette. The third figure is said to be a portrait of either of Anne of Bretagne, wife of Francis I of France who ruled 1515 1547, or of his first wife, Claude de France. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages