Doublet Collection (page 3)

Officer of the guards, Garde du corps de la prevote 1574-1589 (1882-1884). Artist: Felix Henri Emmanuel Philippoteaux
Officer of the guards, Garde du corps de la prevote 1574-1589 (1882-1884). A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume I, F Roy editor, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884

It was a Lover, 1895. Shakespeares songs; from As You Like It, Act V scene III. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1895

Annibal, 1860, (1938). Artist: Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
Annibal, 1860, (1938). The picture depicts the French actor Francis Joseph Regnier in character as The Signor Annibale in Emile Augiers play, L Aventuriere [The Adventuress]

Charles, Prince of Wales, 1816. Artist: Charles Turner
Charles, Prince of Wales, (1816). Charles Stuart, second son of King James I became Prince of Wales and heir to the throne after his elder brother Henry died of typhoid fever in 1612

Mary Stuart, Queen of France and Scotland, and Henry Lord Darnley, Her Husband, (1816). Artist: Robert Dunkarton
Mary Stuart, Queen of France and Scotland, and Henry Lord Darnley, Her Husband, (1816). Darnley (1545-1567) was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots

The plague: flight to the country, 1630, (1910). A 19th-century depicition of the transition stage of costume: the doublet reaching to mid-thigh, sometimes flared from the hips down

King James I, 1614, (1910). The king (1566-1625) wears a thickly padded doublet and bombasted breeches. These appealed to him as being effective against the point of a dagger of rapier

Velvet breeches and cloth breeches, 1592, (1910). Frontispiece from Greenes Quip for an Upstart Courtier. The feathered hat of the courtier may be compared with that of the labourer

Queen Elizabeth I hawking, 1575, (1910). A 19th-century rendition from the Art of Falconrie by Turberville, (1585). The doublets have innumerable slashing

Male dress, 16th century, (1910). Example of mens dress showing the hanging sleeve. He is armed with sword and buckler (shield). His flat cap hangs upon his shoulder by a cord

Sir Walter Raleigh and his son, 1602, (1896). English writer, poet, courtier and explorer, Raleigh (1554-1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585

Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, (1907). Henry Frederick (1594-1612), who died of typhoid fever at the age of 18, was the eldest son of King James I

Two men with coats of arms, 16th century. Two Germans wearing slashed sleeves and parti-coloured hose, with heraldic crests

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