3-047-138 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Murder of the Princes in the Tower', 1925. Illustration of a wax tableau at Madame Tussauds, a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French sculptor Marie Tussaud. 'This is a sad story. The unfortunate child king [Edward V] succeeded his father...at the age of twelve...Richard, Duke of Gloucester, sent the boy and his brother, the Duke of York, to the Tower of London, and they were heard of no more'. From "Madame Tussaud's: The Palace of Enchantment" described by Capt. Edric Vredenburg, illustrated by Howard Davie, [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, 1925]