siege-pictures

Updated: June 21, 2025

But I was not shocked at her flippant delight in a quaint representation of tortures in hell, nor was I stirred by her scorn of the stiff siege-pictures, with van der Werf offering his arm as food for the starving people, rather than surrender to the Spaniards.

A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - The Chauffeur and the Chaperon