Swordfight by fencers with two-handed swords, 16th century.

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Swordfight by fencers with two-handed swords, 16th century. They wear slashed doublets over slashed culottes and stockings and codpieces. From Joachim Meyer's Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing, 1561. 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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