Checkered Gallery

Knight of the mid 15th century in battle armor with weapons

Knight of the mid 15th century in battle armor with weapons. . He wears a checkered tunic over stocking, with two angels above holding his coat of arms. The weapons include a war hammer A and sword E. From the Dresden Print Museum, Wurzburg Historical Society, and Munich Museum. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 18th Century, Frankfurt, 1883. IIlustration drawn by Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German archeologist, art historian and illustrator. He was director of the Bavarian National Museum from 1868 until 1886

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Two Suriname snakes: Green snake and checkered

Two Suriname snakes: Green snake (Malayan green whipsnake, Ahaetulla mycterizans?) and checkered garter snake, Thamnophis marcianus. Le serpent verd de Surinam, Coluber mycterizans, serpent blanc elegamment tachete de noir en echiquier. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Friedrich Schmidt after an illustration from nature by Johann Christoph Keller from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. Date:

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Luc Vangindertael (laGrange)

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