Matthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child mb-code GNHL483 was taken by the Dublin

was taken by the Dublin police

surmounted by a view of Buckingham Palace with the Victoria Memorial in the foreground

a 19th-century copy from Speed's Map of England

Plate 23 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

Punch took this to mean that he would be writing his memoirs

Matthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child mb-code GNHL483 was taken by the DublinMatthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child, 13th century, (1892). From Paris' own drawing. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume I, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1892.