German women’s costumes of the late 15th century, 1889 (chromolithograph)

German women’s costumes of the late 15th century. The woman holding a Wachsstock (wax taper candle) wears the clothes of a maiden, while the other married women wear headdresses and carry birds and a cage. From a door painting in Aachen Cathedral in the school of Johann van Eyck. 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.