Siege scene mb-code IX002082 A living room furnished with

A living room furnished with traditional patterns

The low building in the middle distance is Federal Hall

Alluding to the jousting for the title

17 April 1912

Siege scene mb-code IX002082 A living room furnished withSiege scene, c1260, (1843). Copy of a manuscript illustration showing a party preparing to attempt the breach which has been made in the tower. Others are raised by means of a wooden machine to fight on an equality with soldiers on the walls. On the right, similar expedients are adopted to raise the men in the ships. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London,