Caption:
Full suit of ornate battle armour for man and barding for horse from the early 16th century. He wears a plumed helmet, and carries a battle hammer and sword. Richly engraved in the Kaiser Maximilian style. From the Dresden Museum of History. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.