Description
“Sacerdotis Hispanici concubinae vestitus” CLX (Spanish priest’s (concubine) mistress.) “In Spanien eins Priesters weib / Ist also klaidt an irem leib.” (In Spain this is how a priest’s “wife” is dressed.) “Wann sie geht in irer andak und acht sich keiner ande.” (When she goes to her andak, and no one else cares.) 29.5 cm x 19.5 cm Old repair along lower edge with laid paper. Hand-colored.
Taken from Hans Weigel’s Habitus praecipuorum tam virorum quam feminarum singulari arti depicti: Trachtenbuch. Nürnberg: Weigel, 1577. Holzschnitt von Hans Weigel nach Zeichnung von Jost Amman. Woodcut by Hans Weigel after drawings by Jost Amman. Costumes.
