Swordfight by fencers with two-handed swords; 16th century. They wear slashed doublets over slashed culottes and stockings and codpieces. From Joachim Meyer's Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing; 1561. 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.