Duke William of Normandy orders the building of ships. Shipwrights work on two boats while a carpenter planes down timber. Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman Conquest, 1066. Construction de vaisseaux. Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1829.

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