William, Duke of Normandy, asks his scout Vitalis for news of Harold at the Battle of Hastings. Chromolithograph by William Mossman after an illustration by Charles Stothard made for the Society of Antiquaries in Rev. John Collingwood Bruce’s The Bayeux Tapestry Elucidated, John Russell Smith, London, 1856.

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