Male and female fashion from the 15th century.


Male and female fashion from the 15th century. The illustration at top is from a coloured pen and ink drawing in Heidelberg Library, and shows two women in very original dress with short capes and long veils. The lower illustration is from Ulrich von Richtental's manuscript in Constance Rathhaus. 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 , 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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