2-703-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Northumberland making a Speech', 1897. The Duke appears before a crowd, at a window in the shape of the letter A. (John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504-1553), was the architect and principal supporter of Lady Jane Grey's claim to the throne. He was tried executed after making a public confession). From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]