Beneath the Eiffel Tower Size:M: 50 x 40cm Harding's Secretary of War

Harding's Secretary of War

Probably an allusion to the Vagrancy Act

Drawing of the Royal Society's Charles II mace resting upon a tasselled mace cushion

as it appeared in c1500

as (incorrectly) observed by J F Griendelius and illustrated in his work Micrographia Nova (Nuremberg

Beneath the Eiffel Tower Size:M: 50 x 40cm Harding's Secretary of WarBeneath the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889. Designed by the French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832 1923), the Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition staged in Paris in 1889 to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. Constructed from iron, it was the tallest building in the world until 1930. From L'Album de l'Exposition 1889 by Glucq, (Paris 1889).