1-630-228 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Tower of London with London Bridge, c1500, (c1901). Charles, Duke of Orleans can be seen writing inside the Tower of London, and also at a window and in the courtyard, sending a letter. Charles was the last and arguably greatest of the French courtly poets, who also gained a reputation for his poems in English written during 25 years exile in England after his capture at Agincourt in 1415. Illustration from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, Miniatures, Borders, and Initials, by George F Warner, series III, (British Museum, London, 1901).