Round Topped Tall Hats - Source Images
Round-topped felt hats appear to be far more common than their flat-topped counterparts. Historical depictions are numerous, varied, and easy to come by.
While some of the round-topped hats were of a reasonable height to our modern eyes, many of them were remarkably tall. The slideshow of images below are from engravings by Theodore de Bry, made for the elaborate funerary procession of Sir Philip Sidney. There are round topped felt hats on almost all of the hundreds of men processing, be they young or old, rich or poor. If I had not already thought that really tall, round-topped hats were THE thing in 1587, these images certainly would convince me. The button below leads to a web page that shows the entire thing, with clear transcriptions of each section. It is absolutely worth your time - a marvelous resource for men's attire for 1587 London, and clearly a labor of love by those who created it.
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Jost Amman, 1568.
Click for large image.
The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605
by Crispijn de Passe the Elder
engraving, circa 1605
Link to large image at the National Portrait Gallery site
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Sir William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards and Liveries by an Unknown Artist, c.1560-80.
Look at the hats all in the middle of the table! Link to full image
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Details of round topped hats, c 1625 from the Folger Shakes Library series of watercolors called Royal, military and court costumes 1625
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Royal, military and court costumes of the time of James I probably by an Italian artist around 1625
Click image to view the whole series of 37 images in this collection.
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Alchemist in his laboratory
Miniature from Janus Lacinius manuscript, 1583
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Ladies in Round-Topped Hats
Ladies of all stations wore round-topped felt hats too - over a coif, caul, wired cap, or some combination of those.
from Recueil de costumes étrangers, by J.J Boissard, 1581
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From Recueil de costumes étrangers by J.J Boissard, 1581. Link below goes to entire book!!
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Unknown lady, C 1590, Kent (If you click the image - you can go check out this wonderful flickr person's VAST collection of church monument images.)
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from Das Turnier Buch, Einladung zur Tanz, Jost Amman, c 1568
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Detail from "Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany" by Giovanni Bizzelli 1578.
To be fair, this could be a pleated hat, but it looks like a round topped felt to me at this time. Click for link to full image.
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Round-topped hat worn over wired cap. Detail from party in the open air, by Isaac Oliver 1590. Click for link to an incredible uber-zoomable full version of this image, which is hat research GOLD!
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Susan Selwyn,
from Walton-on Thames church. 1587
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wife of Timothy Stamp 1552-d1615, Shipton Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire
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Photo by jmc4 - Church Explorer
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Anne of Denmark
by Lambert Cornelis
line engraving, 1595
Kussend jong paar, een man in de kracht van zijn leven, een grijsaard en een stokoude man, Anonymous, c. 1580 - before 1596
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Slideshow: Details of round topped hats, c 1625 from the Folger Shakespeare Library's series of watercolors called Royal, Military and Court Costumes from the Time of James 1
Lucas De Heere. pre 1584
Detail from Fete at Bermondsey, Joris Hoefnagel 1569.
Her yellow hat looks very like the De Heere drawing above.
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