Costumes of pages and valets, reign of King Edward IV, 1475. Foppish noble youths in plumed cap, doublet, hose, holding water ewers. Figures in front from British Museum MS 15 D i, and figure in portico from Royal MS 15 D i. Blazon of Rivers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by John Hill, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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