Medieval archers with crossbow and long bow from the early 16th century.
Medieval archers with crossbow and long bow from the early 16th century. Behind them, their seated officer loads an arrow into a crossbow. From an oil painting on an altar piece door at St. Elisabeth's church, Marburg. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.
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