A ‘poursuivant d’armes’ (apprentice herald) from the society of the donkey (Societe de l’Ane). He wears a yellow plumed cap, an elaborate cloak over red hose. The breast of his tunic shows a leaping donkey. Copied from Samuel Wilhelm Oetters’ Wappenbelustigungen, 1761. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1802.

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