Recueil de la diversité des habits (A Collection of the Various Styles of Clothing) 1562
francoisdesprez
comic strip sketch
pen sketch
old engraving style
personal sketchbook
sketchwork
pen-ink sketch
pen work
sketchbook drawing
storyboard and sketchbook work
sketchbook art
"La bresilienne" from François Desprez's *Recueil de la diversité des habits (A Collection of the Various Styles of Clothing)* (1562) is a woodcut depicting a woman from Brazil, identifiable by her distinctive clothing. The woman wears a long skirt, a tunic, and a head covering, and carries a baby on her back. Her attire reflects the diverse clothing styles of different cultures as documented by Desprez. The detailed depiction of her clothing, along with the text beneath the image, provides a glimpse into the fashion of the time and offers an example of the 16th-century fascination with the exploration of foreign cultures.
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This is the very first costume book, with more than a hundred images of clothing from around the world. Below each figure are four lines of verse describing the country’s outfits or related customs. This was an age of unprecedented overseas exploration. Europeans were especially fascinated to see and read about inhabitants of the so-called New World, such as the Brazilian woman with her child 1.
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