Actors playing Henry Tudor fighting King Richard III of England on stage in a theatre. Other actors wait in the wings in tunics with red and white roses. A few Victorian men and women sit in the theatre boxes. The Battle of Bosworth Field. A scene from the Great Drama of History. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett’s Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880.

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