In a Lane at Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Thomas Hearne (1744-1817) In A Lane At Kenilworth, Warwickshire Ink on paper 215mm x 265mm A scene looking towards Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire from across the river. The etching was produced by ...
In a Lane at Kenilworth, Warwickshire
T. Herranne Benjamin Thomas Pouncy (d.1799) (etcher) In a Lane at Kenilworth, Warwickshire Ink on paper 250mm x 330mm A landscape scene with Kenilworth Castle in the background published by Wilson Lowry ...
Jephson Gardens
A view of Jephson gardens. There is a lake in the foreground and the Jephson Memorial is in the background. People are walking along the paths.
John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, [London], 1634 - title page
Shakespeare collaborates on writing a play.
Towards the end of his career in London Shakespeare collaborated with the younger playwright, John Fletcher in the writing of Henry VIII in 1612, and then ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - garden detail on title page
Shakespeare set scenes in gardens such as this
Many scenes in Shakespeare’s plays are set in gardens. The formal lay-out of beds and hedges seen on this title-page engraving were familiar to ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - apples woodcut, p.1274, detail.
Apples, at the end of a meal are mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Gerarde’s herbal includes all kinds of fruit and trees as well as flowers and vegetables, many of which ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Clove gilloflowers, p.472.
Carnations are the source for a Shakespearian argument in The Winter’s Tale.
Gerarde described carnations [pinks] with their ancient name ‘clove gillivors’ and Shakespeare’s ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - daffodils, p.108
b>Autolycus sings of daffodils in The Winter’s Tale
Autolycus, the former courtier turned pedlar, first arrives on the scene singing of the joys of spring: ‘When daffodils begin to peer... ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - gilloflowers (Wall Flowers), p.370.
The names of plants, discussed by Shakespeare.
The detail with which Gerarde describes plants, vegetables and fruit as well as flowers assisted contemporary herbalists and housewives with their gardens. ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [barnacles], detail, p.1391, detail.
Truth and Myth in Shakespeare's books of reference: The Barnacle Goose Tree.
Shakespeare includes, in The Winter's Tale (4.4), a similar myth to Gerarde’s tale of a barnacle-goose tree in the ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [Barnakle tree], p.1391.
The Elizabethan myth of the goose-tree.
Myth and legend, passed on by word of mouth until it was written down and becomes almost a fact, included the story that Gerarde records at the end of his herbal, ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - holly, p. 1155,detail.
Holly and its uses in Shakespeare's time.
There were twenty-seven holy days, or ‘holidays’ spread through the Elizabethan year, but the twelve days of Christmas, at the time of the winter ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - narcissus, p.108.
Flowers for enjoyment in Shakespeare's England.
The Elizabethans loved colour of all kinds in their embroidered and decorated clothes. The often elaborate painted wall-hangings of their homes frequently ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - portrait, on back of title-page, p.B6v.
John Gerarde, herbalist: a contemporary of Shakespeare.
The large linen ruff was a fashion imported from the Netherlands, but adopted by all who could afford the starches needed to create such an accessory. ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - roses, p.1079.
Roses feature more than once in Shakespeare’s plays.
Gerarde's Herbal gave Elizabethans the chance to see the plants that Shakespeare had in mind as he wrote certain scenes in his plays. In the ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - violets, p.699, detail.
A Shakespearian plant reference.
The plant and flower references in Shakespeare’s works are numerous. John Gerarde’s Herball lists and describes all the plants known in contemporary England, ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Wall Flowers, p.371.
Wallflowers in a Shakespeare source.
Wallflowers in John Gerarde’s History of plantes are clearly illustrated and named ‘gilloflower’. This popular name persists as ‘gillys’ ...
John Howard Visiting Warwick Gaol
John Howard Visiting Warwick Gaol, 1899 Ink on paper 220mm x 175mm John Howard (1726-1790) was a philanthropist whose campaigns for prison reform led to two acts of parliament being passed in 1774. In ...