Tea Towel
This souvenir tea towel is decorated with a copy of the frontispiece from the 1623 First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works, featuring Martin Droeshout's portrait engraving.
Made c. 1990
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Tercentenary Favour
A silk favour, or badge, made for celebrations in 1864 marking the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, with a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
Made c. 1864
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Tercentenary Favour
A silk badge made for the celebrations in 1864 which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and featuring a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
Made c. 1864
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Tercentenary Favour
A silk badge made for the celebrations in 1864 which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and featuring a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
One of three ...
Tercentenary Favour
A silk badge made for the celebrations in 1864 which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and featuring a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
One of three ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary by Pinches of London.
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth, an event marked by festivals in London ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary, 1864 by Pinches of London.
The quotation "Each change of many coloured life he drew, exhausted worlds and then imagined new" is from Samuel Johnson's Prologue ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal commemorating the three-hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck by Hunt and Roskell from a design by John Bell and engraved by L.C. Wyon.
This side shows Shakespeare's ...
Tercentenary Medal
This white metal medal commemorates the three hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck c. 1864 by Ottley of Birmingham.
The portrait of Shakespeare is closely based on the Chesterfield ...
Tercentenary Medal
This white metal medal commemorates the three hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck c. 1864 by Ottley of Birmingham.
Shown on the medal's reverse is Shakespeare's Birthplace, ...
Tercentenary Medal
One of a pair of commemorative medals struck in 1916, for the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre for the Tercentenary. Designed by Dorothy Dick
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth ...
Tercentenary Medal
One of a pair of commemorative medals struck in 1916, for the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre for the Tercentenary. Designed by Dorothy Dick
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth ...
The Chesterfield portrait of William Shakespeare
This portrait, once owned by the Earl of Chesterfield, is perhaps the most Baroque of all interpretations of the poet, with its flamboyant and expressive gesture.
Shakespeare's head is clearly modelled ...
The Gower Memorial - front
Gower donated his memorial to the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The monument was moved to its present site on the Bancroft Gardens with the building of the existing Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1933.
The ...
'The noate of corn and malte', 4 February 1598
A list of Stratford townsmen giving details of how much corn and malt they held in their barns.
During the mid 1590s there was a series of disastrous harvests due to bad weather. Thousands faced near ...
The Stratford Portrait of William Shakespeare
Also known as the Hunt portrait, this painting closely resembles the Holy Trinity Church memorial bust. There was some speculation, when it first came to light in the nineteenth century, that the portrait ...
The Wright Portrait of William Shakespeare
Drawn c. 1688, by Thomas Wright (d. 1700)
According to a now very faint inscription, this drawing was copied by Wright from a painting in his own collection. Although its subject is shown facing left ...
Thomas Greene's Diary, 15 - 22 November 1614
Late in 1614, there was a controversial proposal to enclose some of the old open fields to the east and north-east of Stratford. As a titheholder, and possibly a freeholder as well, William Shakespeare ...