Siege scene Chrome showing five figures playing with

showing five figures playing with a blindfolded young man

Five years later

9 September 1963

55 GRACECHURCH STREET

Plate 19 from Plates Illustrative of the Researches in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Siege scene Chrome showing five figures playing withSiege scene, c1260, (1843). Copy of a manuscript illustration showing a party preparing to attempt the breach which has been made in the tower. Others are raised by means of a wooden machine to fight on an equality with soldiers on the walls. On the right, similar expedients are adopted to raise the men in the ships. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London,