EditorialCostumes 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 a...
EditorialSoldiers of "Acostamientos". The Acostamiento was a salary granted by the king to his vassals under which they were obliged to serve him in war. Culveriner (left). Crossbowman (right). Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883.
EditorialFrench crossbowman, 14th century. He wears a helmet, cuirass, skirt of tasses, belt, stockings and knee pieces, and aims his crossbow at a target. From a print in the Gaignieres collection at the Bibliotheque du Roi. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and ...
EditorialInfantry crossbowman, 12th century. He wears a type of jaques (bodysuit) in deerskin issued to French bowmen by Louis XII. The hood and gorgerin (collar) are of one piece. He wears a long blue sleeveless tunic. He holds a crossbow and arrow. Handcolour...
EditorialFrench crossbowman, 14th century. He wears a helmet, cuirass, skirt of tasses, belt, stockings and knee pieces, and aims his crossbow at a target. From a print in the Gaignieres collection at the Bibliotheque du Roi. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and ...
EditorialCostumes 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 a...
EditorialFrench crossbowman, 13th century. He wears a salade or sallet helmet, and a jaque (shirt) made of armoured deer skin (leather reinforced with wire). He carries a sword and crossbow, and wears long pointed shoes (cracows or poulaines). Handcoloured copp...
EditorialArchers and cross-bow-man, 1312. Mounted archer shooting, longbowman stringing his bow and crossbowman firing, all in uniform of hauberk and chausses of gamboised chainmail, surcoats, conical helmet with visor. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustra...
EditorialA crossbowman and his paviser, 1433. Arbalest in jacket and multicoloured clothes from the Chronique d'Engleterre, and his guard with a pavise in monstrous jacque over chainmail sleeves and gorget from a copy of the Roman de la Rose. Handcoloured litho...
EditorialArcher and crossbow man, 1250. English longbowman in skullcap helmet cerebrerium, hauberk, leather breastplate and arrows in a girdle. The crossbowman or arbalister wears a nasal helmet and hauberk and carries a short sword baselard. Handcoloured litho...
EditorialWillem Tell, The crossbowman Willem Tell, points to his eyes, holds a crossbow under his left arm and an arrow in his hand. He is dressed in medieval fantasy clothing and has a hat on. Below image a six-line Dutch verse, William Tell, archer's weapons:...
EditorialSoldiers of "Acostamientos". The Acostamiento was a salary granted by the king to his vassals under which they were obliged to serve him in war. Culveriner (left). Crossbowman (right). Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883.
EditorialThe head of a crossbowman taking aim. Date/Period: From 1514 until 1515. Drawing. Silverpoint on greyish prepared paper, reinforced with the brush, black ink and white bodycolour. The preparation scraped away in the eye to strengthen the impresion of t...
EditorialThe head of a crossbowman taking aim. Date/Period: From 1514 until 1515. Drawing. Silverpoint on greyish prepared paper, reinforced with the brush, black ink and white bodycolour. The preparation scraped away in the eye to strengthen the impresion of t...
EditorialThe head of a crossbowman taking aim. Date/Period: From 1514 until 1515. Drawing. Silverpoint on greyish prepared paper, reinforced with the brush, black ink and white bodycolour. The preparation scraped away in the eye to strengthen the impresion of t...
EditorialThe head of a crossbowman taking aim. Date/Period: From 1514 until 1515. Drawing. Silverpoint on greyish prepared paper, reinforced with the brush, black ink and white bodycolour. The preparation scraped away in the eye to strengthen the impresion of t...
EditorialCostumes 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 a...
EditorialFrench crossbowman, 14th century. He wears a helmet, cuirass, skirt of tasses, belt, stockings and knee pieces, and aims his crossbow at a target. From a print in the Gaignieres collection at the Bibliotheque du Roi. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and ...
EditorialCostumes 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 a...
EditorialFrench crossbowman, 13th century. He wears a salade or sallet helmet, and a jaque (shirt) made of armoured deer skin (leather reinforced with wire). He carries a sword and crossbow, and wears long pointed shoes (cracows or poulaines). Handcoloured copp...
EditorialInfantry crossbowman, 12th century. He wears a type of jaques (bodysuit) in deerskin issued to French bowmen by Louis XII. The hood and gorgerin (collar) are of one piece. He wears a long blue sleeveless tunic. He holds a crossbow and arrow. Handcolour...