Catch-pole Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Young Man Carrying an Old

Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back (Aeneas and Anchises)

View of Billingsgate Market with people and fish on the quayside

Inscribed: 'Tab 1

This follows the introduction of the Protection of Person and Property Bill by the Liberal Chief Secretary for Ireland

Catch-pole Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Young Man Carrying an OldCatch pole, mid 16th century, (1843). A weapon, dating from the reign of Henry VIII, said to have been used to take horsemen by the neck in battle, and drag them from their horses. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).