File:Highlanders by Hieronymus Tielsch, c. 1603–1616.png
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English: A man and woman of the Scottish Highlands. It attempts to show tartan cloth in green and blue with a red over-check; the man in a belted plaid ("great kilt", and one seemingly edged with fur or brown material) and the woman in a draped earasaid plaid over a red dress. The main is wearing a blue bonnet, and has a bow and sword. The woman has a lace collar and headwear. Both wear shoes and the man has diced short hose. German watercolour from a travel journal. The accuracy of the details is in doubt because the tartan is not illustrated in a form that could actually be woven (the blue and green checks should be staggered and overlapping), and the sword shown is a fanciful combination of a German landskneckt blade and quillions with a Scottish claymore hilt. Nevertheless, this is the earliest known work depicting Highlanders wearing what is unambiguously tartan. (An earlier watercolour by Lucas de Heere depicted simple dark lines on a yellow ground). |
| Date | c. 1603–1616 |
| Source | Ultimately from Huntington Library MSS: HM 25863, f. 28r. Intermediary source: https://www.tideproject.uk/2016/10/25/humanism-in-the-desert-transculturality-at-the-huntington-library/ (which credits one Lauren Working with the photo from the manuscript). For more information on the manuscript, see: https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/67/3/358/5872806?redirectedFrom=fulltext and for more information on the image, see: Dunbar, John Telfer, History of Highland Dress, 1962/1979, p. 53 (Dunbar describes the material as "yellow and blue", so the colour accuracy of this photo is not entirely certain.) |
| Author | Heironymus Tielsch (or Tielssch) |
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