German women in dresses with big shoulder pads, 1572. Young woman in gold hairnet and plumed cap, and doctor's wife in unusual hat and veil that hides the hair, mouth and chin. From miniature enamels in Darmstadt Grand-Ducal Library. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich 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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