3-047-136 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Alfred the Great in the Neat-Herd's Cottage', 1925. King Alfred accidentally burns some cakes while preoccupied with the problems of his kingdom. Illustration of a wax tableau at Madame Tussauds, a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French sculptor Marie Tussaud. From "Madame Tussaud's: The Palace of Enchantment" described by Capt. Edric Vredenburg, illustrated by Howard Davie, [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, 1925]