Costumes of Landsknechte or German mercenaries, first half of 16th century. They wear colourful, elaborately slashed and quilted clothes, codpiece, hat, ribbons and stockings. From an old coloured illustration in Mainz. 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.