The Madeleine by May Ashe Robertson

11/25/14
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The Madeleine. Costume design by May Ashe Robertson

“The Madeleine.” By May Ashe Robertson.

From the Tapestry “The Apparition of Christ to the Madeleine” at the the Louvre, Paris. Drawn by May Ashe Robertson.  

Costume: Elizabethan era, Tudor era.

Source: International studio. No number issued for Feb. 1922

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