JKP
Perhaps you might try to narrow the range by finding out where women wore headdresses of that sort, and wore them when getting wet. Cross-referencing these factors with specifically iconographic ones (big thighs, incredibly narrow shanks) should help narrow the field. Then of course, you'd be looking for drawings which include all those things and the berry-like motifs, and in addition the little pipe-like segments ornamented by dots or dashes. If you can explain the significance of these patternings, too, you should have the pictures' origin defined quite narrowly.
It is an understandable thing that people tend to define a picture by recognisable objects, but provenancing a picture isn't about what a thing is that is in the picture - more about how and why its appearance is as it is... all of it.
Cheers.
Perhaps you might try to narrow the range by finding out where women wore headdresses of that sort, and wore them when getting wet. Cross-referencing these factors with specifically iconographic ones (big thighs, incredibly narrow shanks) should help narrow the field. Then of course, you'd be looking for drawings which include all those things and the berry-like motifs, and in addition the little pipe-like segments ornamented by dots or dashes. If you can explain the significance of these patternings, too, you should have the pictures' origin defined quite narrowly.
It is an understandable thing that people tend to define a picture by recognisable objects, but provenancing a picture isn't about what a thing is that is in the picture - more about how and why its appearance is as it is... all of it.
Cheers.