Caption:
William, Duke of Normandy, orders the construction of ships. Men cut down trees with axes, carpenters build ships, and men drag boats to the shore. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruces The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.