Fashions from the mid 15th century showing a doctor, musicians playing lutes and spinets, servants, dancers and drinkers


Fashions from the mid 15th century showing a doctor (B), musicians playing lutes (G, O) and spinets (N), carrying jugs (P), cups (H) and mirrors (D), dancing (R, T), and drinking toasts (L, M). From a pen and ink drawing on parchment at the Grand Ducal Library Weimar. 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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