# Seated Woman in Spanish Attire

- By: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
- Date: 1545
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 250 mm x width 174 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-1964-218--fe575fd8771521c908cb4372d92f43e2)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/9a7a5c76ebf60620d456798adce3cd97.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The woman depicted here wears a Spanish verdugado, a conical skirt stiffened with horizontal bands. The spectacular effect of light and dark perfectly shows off the raised edges and folds of the fabric. Vermeyen introduced extensive cross-hatching in the right half of the etching, thereby casting the scene almost entirely in shadow. The outlines of a sleeping dog can just be made out in the darkness.