Two knights in plate armour and elaborate helmets fighting with short swords, mounted on horses in heraldic colours.
Tournament joust from 1471 from a pen and ink drawing in the collection of the Stadel'schen Instituts at Frankfurt. Two knights in plate armour and elaborate helmets fighting with short swords, mounted on horses in heraldic colours. In outline, two knights with maces. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 18th Century," Frankfurt, 1883. IIlustration drawn by Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German archeologist, art historian and illustrator. He was director of the Bavarian National Museum from 1868 until 1886.
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