Noblewoman of northern Germany after Abraham de Bruyn, 1581.

---

Noblewoman of northern Germany after Abraham de Bruyn, 1581. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' "Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes" (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history.

---

Size: 4799px × 6696px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 16th, abraham, ancient, brothers, bruyn, century, costume, costumes, drawing, engraving, fashions, foreign, germany, handcoloured, hippolyte, modern, noblewoman, north, pauquet, polydor, steel