FLO4686051: Prince, reign of Louis XIV, 1670. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632-1690) from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Historique”” (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676565: Military costume: a French knight, Aimery by Guillaume Berard (?) , 13th century - Aimery by Guillaume Berard, French knight, condottiere and commander of the Florentine army at the battle of Campaldino, 1289 - He wears a helmet, chainmail suit of armour, tunic with fleurs de lys on blue, cuisses and greaves, shoes and spurs - He is armed with a shield (buckler), sword and dagger called a mist His horse has a blue caparison - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678436: Sir Thomas Shernborne, English knight and chamberlain to Queen Margaret of Anjou, 1458. He wears a suit of plate armour with a distinctive plate gorget or hauus-col, pauldrons with projecting ridges, and wears the sword in front rather than at the side. He holds his armorial shield in his left hand. From a brassy effigy in Shernborne Church, Norfolk. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4706597: Armed Muscovite on horseback, 16th century. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Peoples of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the New Era,”” written by Leopold Ziegelhauser, Vienna, 1837. Illustration from Cesare Vecellio's Habiti antichi e moderni, Venice, 1590. / Bridgeman Images