FLO4678436: Sir Thomas Shernborne, English knight and chamberlain to Queen Margaret of Anjou, 1458. He wears a suit of plate armour with a distinctive plate gorget or hauus-col, pauldrons with projecting ridges, and wears the sword in front rather than at the side. He holds his armorial shield in his left hand. From a brassy effigy in Shernborne Church, Norfolk. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686051: Prince, reign of Louis XIV, 1670. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632-1690) from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Historique”” (Historical Fashions and Costumes), 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. / Bridgeman Images