Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany, 1498. In a suit of fluted armour, helmet with visored beavor, culettes, puckered velvet lamboys and long tassets. Horse in barding, chanfron with cheek pieces, manefaire, fringed croupiere and leg armour. After a print by Hans Burgmair. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.

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