Duck Shooting - detail
This is an oil painting on canvas of a duck shooting scene. In the foreground is a man with a rifle and his two dogs. The man is shooting at two ducks, one of which is falling to the ground. The painting ...
Engraved portrait of Charles Bray
Engraved portrait of Charles Bray, aged 72, by H. Adlard from a photograph.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
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Ettington. Jeffrey Bevington Lowe
Jeffrey Bevington Lowe, as an old man, seated in front of his summer house door at Ettington. He died 25th October, 1864. 1860
Farmer and his Prize Heifer
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting Henry Hamilton, a servant of farmer Ralph Walker, holding the rope of a prize heifer. It was painted by an artist of the English Provincial School about 1844. ...
Figure
This is a carved wooden figure of a Burman. It is wearing a white Pasoe, or shirtcloth, with a long pink skirt, decorated with the Acheik pattern. On it's head is a pink Gaung Baung (headress). Originally ...
Frock Coat
Black gentleman's frock coat in felted wool with silk black braiding at edges, cuffs and breast pocket. Lined with black cotton twill. Sleeves lined with cream with brown striped in satinised cotton. ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - Family tree, p. A6r.
The author's family tree illustrates a Shakespeare sourcebook.
In this finely printed edition the preliminary pages of Chaucer’s Works include a portrait of the author, surrounded by an elaborate ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of a citizen and his servant
An alderman and his servant in Shakespeare's London.
The Londoner's fashionable gown with hanging sleeves is 'guarded' [edged] with fur. His servant carries a sword and buckler as a sign that he will ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Londoners
Townsfolk of Shakespeare's England.
For country merchant class people such as the Shakespeare family the fashions of the city were slow to be adopted. Shakespeare was swift to comment in his plays ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - A contemporary hand-coloured map of London
London: capital city of Shakespeare's England.
William Shakespeare came to London, England's capital city, about 1588. His career in the next twenty years was centred here, as he became the most popular ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - 'Elizabethan' map of London
The walled City of London in Shakespeare's time.
Elizabethan London was surrounded by ancient walls, with entrances at Ludgate, Billingsgate, Newgate and Bishopsgate. The medieval maze of streets within ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - A royal picnic, p.91.
A picnic for Shakespeare's royal patron.
Among the many engravings of huntsmen and their dogs that illustrate Turberville’s book of the chase, is this of the mid-day break for a meal with wine, ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - p. 35.
Hunting with dogs as in Shakespeare's plays.
Turberville’s handbook covers the training of dogs for hunting deer or hare. The woodcut illustrations show the kind of hunt Shakespeare would have ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - title page.
The care of hunting dogs in Shakespeare's time.
Turberville’s handbook was popular in Queen Elizabeth’s time and was reprinted after James I succeeded her on the English throne. The care ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - title page, book 2
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
This volume's fine binding given to it by a nineteenth-century owner, is in green Morocco goatskin, with fine gold-tooling, including decoration along the ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Modell of witt [Decameron Book 1], 1625 - title page, p.A2r.
Italian stories provide source material
Giovanni Boccaccio is known chiefly for Decameron, which was written in 1353. This is a collection of a hundred tales told by ten people who have taken refuge ...
Glove
A man's right-hand grey kid glove with a single button. It belonged to Clarence John Forsyth and was made on 1 January 1930.
Glove
A grey right handed glove with three ribs along the back of the hand. There is a button and buttonhole on the underside of the wrist. Print on the inside of the glove states that it is a mens size eight, ...