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Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcastle,_by_Peter_Lely
Home 17th century THE PHILOSOPHER Margaret Cavendish Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcastle,_by_Peter_Lely

Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcastle,_by_Peter_Lely

Full size 918 × 1550 pixels THE PHILOSOPHER Margaret Cavendish
Oil portrait of Margaret Cavendish. She wears an elaborate blue gown, tight at the waist with large hooped skirt, a fur and burgundy velvet cape cascading from the gown's wide shoulders. Her hair is in brown ringlets and she wears an unusual white circular cap that is possibly made of feathers.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

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