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Engravings reveal Pepys' lifelong love of fashion
Samuel Pepys' diary (1660 to 1669) and later collections of fashion plates show that fashion trends were as important to men as women in the 17th Century A series of French fashion engravings ...
Moles, birthmarks, red hair: The anatomical features used to accuse women of witchcraft in the 17th century
Throughout accounts of 17th-century witch trials in Europe and North ... historical witch hunts overwhelmingly targeted women ...
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Group of (4) 17th century architectural engravings from 'Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna (Ancient and Modern Sweden)'
9.75 x 14.75 in. (24.8 x 37.5 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...
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Marking the 400th Anniversary of Pocahontas’s Death
The broad strokes of Pocahontas’s biography are well known—unusually so for a 17th-century ... during the 17th-century. Cécile R. Ganteaume The famous engraving of Pocahontas made by Simon ...
Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
Most of the women Rhodes encountered in the petitions would have been entitled to poor relief in their own right. In the 17th ...
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Group of (4) 17th century architectural engravings from 'Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna (Ancient and Modern Sweden)
9.75 x 14.75 in. (24.8 x 37.5 cm.) ...