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Caption: Portrait of King William I of England, with emblems. William the Conqueror is shown in chainmail armor on a horse with coat of arms caparison. Emblems indicate his 8PM curfew, building the Tower of London, the Domesday Book and death in a fall from a horse in 1087. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Mary Ann Rundall from A Symbolical History of England, from Early Times to the Reign of William IV, J.H. Truchy, Paris, 1839. Mary Ann Rundall was a teacher of young ladies in Bath, and published her book of mnemonic emblems in 1815.
Credit: Album / Florilegius
Image size: 6182 × 4688 px | 82.9 MB
Print size: 52.3 × 39.7 cm | 2433.9 × 1845.7 in (300 dpi)