Medieval archers with crossbow and long bow from the early 16th century. Behind them; their seated officer loads an arrow into a crossbow. From an oil painting on an altar piece door at St. Elisabeth's church; Marburg. 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.