Lady Gallery

Medieval rose garden

Garden with roses enclosed by a wattle fence, from Boccacio's "Cento Norelle, " 1490.
Hand-colored woodcut reproductioin of a 15th century illustration

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Garden irrigation in the 1500s

Garden water pumped through beds via intersecting channels, formal bed design of 1571.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Women in 16th-century England

Lady of the court and a country woman during the reign of Elizabeth I, 1572.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

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