Costume of an executioner and knight in suit of plate armour, 15th century. The executioner in scarlet doublet and hose, the blindfolded knight in plate armour with decorative elbow pieces, genouillieres, and a helmet on the ground. From the tapestry in Bern after the painting The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald by Rogier van der Weyden, 1450. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Thomas Anthony Day and J.H. Dines' Illustrations of Mediaeval Costume in England collected from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Bosworth, London, 1853.