Costumes of a crossbowman, woman with lyre, and prostitute, 1510-1550


Costumes of a crossbowman A, woman with lyre B, and prostitute C, 1510-1550. Archer in helmet, doublet, trousers and spurs, from an original drawing. Woman in bonnet, cape, long dress, from a figure in a carpet. Swiss prostitute in colourful, quilted and slashed clothes, carrying the badge of her profession, a dagger, from Todtentanz by Nikolaus Manuel Deutsch. 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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