Sailing ships of William the Conqueror during the naval invasion, Norman Conquest, 1066. Commander's galley with mast and square sail, carved prow and stern, horse transport ship and troop ship with decorated shields. Based on the Bayeux Tapestry. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by James Merigot, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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