Swiss hero William Tell, with his son and holding a crossbow, is arrested in Altdorf for not saluting Albrecht Gessler’s hat mounted on a pole. Guglielmo Tel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrario’s Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1837.

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