Costume Historian

Vizards, also known as masks, were worn by gentlewomen in the sixteenth through the seventeenth and possibly into the eighteenth centuries...

Figure 1 - Pennington 609 Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) published a large number of costume prints in the middle of the seventeenth cent...

For those who haven’t already seen it an Elizabethan Vizard mask was found in 2010 and recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme on their...