oldbookillustrations: Provençal gentleman with his favorite falcon on his fist, and a chicken leg in his right hand, to give to the bird, should this latter get restless. From Das Mittelalter (The middle ages), by Rudolf Kleinpaul, Leipzig, 1895. (Source: archive.org)the mi

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1863, [albumen portrait of a gentleman in a chainmail tunic, posing as a dying soldier], Adrien Constant de Rebecque via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photographs Collection