the liuely portraict

[angevin2]

This sort of thing is what happens when you spend a lot of time reading about yellow starch and the Overbury scandal (it's a chapter in the Stallybrass/Jones book that says some diss-useful things even though the main subject matter of the chapter has nothing to do with anything I'm writing about) -- poisoninjest posted a link to the picture on the left and my first thought was of the one on the right.




Left: Betty Boop, in Elizabethan getup. Right: Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset, c. 1615.

I need a vacation.