La grande chronique ancienne et moderne de Hollande, Zelande, VVest-Frise, Vtrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'an 1600
A 1601 Dordrecht chronicle of the Low Countries, written by Jean François Le Petit and illustrated by the Van Sichem engravers, produced for French-reading readers of Holland, Zeeland and neighbouring provinces. Its engraved plates show standing male figures in full late-sixteenth-century dress and armour, drawn full length against a plain ground with a floor of ruled tiles. A designer could take from them the period costume of ruffs, plate armour, cloaks and shields, and the stiff frontal poses of Renaissance portrait prints.
