EditorialMarie Touchet, mistress to King Charles IX of France. Handcoloured lithograph by Dumand after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' gallery portfolio IX 46 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes...
EditorialMarie Touchet, mistress of King Charles IX of France, 1549-1638. Daughter of an apothecary. She wears a bonnet on top of a chaperon, a ruff collar, velvet brocade dress with shoulderpads over embroidered petticoat. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by...
EditorialPortrait of Mervyn Tuchet (Mervin Touchet), 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593 – 14 May 1631). An English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently executed. The case remains of interest to some as an early trial concerning male homos...
EditorialMarie Touchet, mistress of King Charles IX of France, 1549-1638. Daughter of an apothecary. She wears a bonnet on top of a chaperon, a ruff collar, velvet brocade dress with shoulderpads over embroidered petticoat. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by...
EditorialMervin Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, English nobleman convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently beheaded 1631. Copperplate engraving from William Richardson's Portraits illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792?1812. Jame...