Habit of Lady Elizabeth Queen to King Henry VII in 1490

by Thomas Jefferys

This illustration of the year 1757 by Thomas Jefferys gives us an insight about the ideal fashion of the Tudor court, and how Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of King Henry VII, would have looked in her "habit," which is another term for clothes.

Elizabeth of York is depicted here in all her dignified grace, as befitting a woman who "united the Roses." This delicate copperplate engraving shows the shift from medieval forms to Renaissance elegance.