French women’s costumes of the 15th century. Poetess Christine de Pizan writing in her room A, women in hennin headdresses B,D, and woman in tall headdress hawking on horseback C. From miniature paintings. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Elise 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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