Magna Carta at Runnymede
“A water meadow beside the Thames, June 15, 1215. King John seals the great charter under a striped pavilion. Foreground shows barons in mail looking grimly on, the parchment unrolled across a trestle; midground reveals clerks heating wax and an archbishop blessing the proceedings; willows and a placid river stretch under a soft English summer light.”
