Wired French Caps - Source Images
These are the caps sometimes referred to as "Attifets." I've got a lot of opinions about how these were made, and will someday finish the article I'm writing about them.
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!
Mary, Queen of Scots
after Nicholas Hilliard
oil on panel, late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century (1578)
Mary, Queen of Scots
after Jacopo Primavera
electrotype of medal, (1580s)
Link to the image at the National portrait Gallery
Mary, Queen of Scots
by Elkington & Co, cast by Domenico Brucciani, after Cornelius and William Cure
electrotype, 1870 (circa 1606-1616)
link to national Portrait Gallery image.
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Ok - who is she. I've got nuthin.
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This info from the National Portrait Gallery:
Sculptor of the Mary Stuart effigy: Cornelius and William Cure (active 1606-1616)
Cornelius Cure was an English born sculptor of Dutch parentage who lived and worked in Southwark. He held the office of Master Mason to both Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, originally jointly with his father. Cure was a popular sculptor of church monuments. He is, however, best known for his production of the great monument to Mary, Queen of Scots in Westminster Abbey, which remained incomplete at his death, but was finished by his son, William Cure II, upon his succession as Royal Master Mason.
Sculptor of the Mary Stuart effigy: Cornelius and William Cure (active 1606-1616)
Cornelius Cure was an English born sculptor of Dutch parentage who lived and worked in Southwark. He held the office of Master Mason to both Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, originally jointly with his father. Cure was a popular sculptor of church monuments. He is, however, best known for his production of the great monument to Mary, Queen of Scots in Westminster Abbey, which remained incomplete at his death, but was finished by his son, William Cure II, upon his succession as Royal Master Mason.