German costume of the 15th century. A rich German bourgeois and his wife depicted in prayer. He wears a doublet with open sleeve, a dagger, and an illuminated prayer book. From an oil painting in the collection of Ober-Tribunal-Procurators Abel in Stuttgart. 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 Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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