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These illustrations provide examples of the sorts of archery targets that medieval bowmen used for practice or for competition.
They also show how an archery range would have been set up, including shelters over the archers or structures behind the targets.
See also European Medieval and Renaissance Archery Contests and Targets, A Period Archery Target for the SCA, and The History of Archery Targets Used in ''Brave''.
- Archers shoot at a target, the Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 147v), c. 1325-1340
- Amazons teach their daughters, Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (BNF Fr. 168, fol. 107), 14th century
- A man shoots a crossbow at an archery range, book of hours (Douce 93, fol. 101r), middle of the 15th century
- Funeral games in honor of Anchises (BNF Latin 7939 A, fol. 115v), 1458
- Roman military training, De re Militari (PML M.364, fol. 3r), 2nd half of the 15th century
- Kitâb al-Funûn (BNF Arabe 2824), 1470, fols. 26v, 28r, 59v, 67r, and 81r
- Jupiter and His Children, the Wolfegg Housebook, 1475-1485
- Target shooting, Schachzabelbuch (ÖNB 3049, fol. 168r), 1479
- Activities of the social classes; a covered alley where men shoot at butts with crossbows, Imaginacion de vraye noblesse (British Library Royal 19 C VIII, fol. 41), 1496
- An invitation to join an arms competition, 1501 or later
- An archery fair at Konstanz in the Lucerne chronicle (Luzerner Schilling), 1513
- Altarpiece panels by Martin Schaffner (detail showing target), c. 1513-1514
- Archery Festival at St. Gallen, 1527
- A crossbow competition in fols. 11v and 12r of the Hennessy Book of Hours, c. 1530-1540
- Boys shoot at a raised target (popinjay?), the Golf Book (Brit. Lib. Add. 24098, fol. 22v), c. 1540
- The Fair of Hoboken by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559 (drawing, detail showing target)
- Falkenstein, Schwazer Bergbuch (ÖNB 10852, ff. 203v-204r), 1561
- Kitâb al-Makhzûn (BNF Arabe 2826), 1578-1579, fols. 106r, 106v, 108r, 108v, 109r, 109v
- Village festival in honor of St. Hubert and St. Anthony by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
- Peasants at Archery by David Teniers the Younger, c. 1645
- The Archers by David Teniers the Younger, late 1640s
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