2-715-956 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'William Tell in the Market-Place of Altdorf', 1890. 14th century Swiss folk hero of who, according to legend, was an expert marksman who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrant of the Austrian dukes who placed his hat on a pole, and ordered the people to bow before it. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]