German female haberdasher in a shop selling thread, 1492

German female haberdasher in a shop selling colorful ropes of thread and buttons, 1492. She wears a tall hennin with veil, popular in France and Holland at the time. A monkey sits on the counter chained to the storefront. From an embrodered carpet in Nuremberg Museum. 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

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