Siege scene mb-code IX002082 Walter (1818-1894) was first elected

Walter (1818-1894) was first elected to Parliament in 1847 as a Liberal MP for Nottingham

The low building in the middle distance is Federal Hall

stands atop a pedestal labelled Hymen

Alluding to the jousting for the title

17 April 1912

Siege scene mb-code IX002082 Walter (1818-1894) was first electedSiege 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,