Artist: Ralph Bruce (biography)
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 10" x 6" (260mm x 150mm)
Date: 1973

This is the unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Ralph Bruce.

The Last English Earl. At the illegal wedding feast, the Earl of Norfolk rose and made a fiery speech attacking the absent King William and beseeching Hereford and Waltheof to overthrow the tyrant monarch.

Waltheof (1050-31 May 1076), Earl of Northumbria and last of the Anglo-Saxon earls. He was the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I.

This is the original artwork from Look and Learn no. 580 (24 February 1973).