West Street, Warwick
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) West Street, Warwick Ink on paper 175mm x 250mm The etching depicts a view along West Street, Warwick, with the Malt Shovel Inn in the foreground, to the ...
Westminster
Roland Hutchinson
Westminster, 1930
Ink on paper
240mm x 340mm
A scene looking towards the Houses of Parliament from the Thames.
Weston Mill
Richard Gibbs Henry Toovey (1861-1927)Weston Mill, 1881 Ink on paper 210mm x 140mm. The print depicts a view of Weston watermill. An inscription in ink at the bottom right of the etching reads: "Dick ...
Wheelwrights Shop
Richard Gibbs Henry Toovey (1861-1927)
Wheelwrights Shop
Ink on paper
145mm x 190mm
The two etchings show different stages of the production of a scene inside a wheelwright's shop.
Whitley Common, Coventry
Tom Hamson (1890-1964)
Whitley Common, Coventry
Ink on paper
146mm x 216mm
The print depicts a view of wind blown trees on Whitley Common in Coventry.
Whitnash
A framed colour engraving of Whitnash with a wooden cart in the foreground. There is a farm building and a man in the middleground and a church in the background.
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - quarto title page.
Title page information about Shakespeare's the play of King Lear.
This 'quarto' page is from the edition with a false earlier date on the title-page, published by Thomas Pavier without the permission ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page detail
Shakespeare’s acting company and their theatres.
In Shakespeare's time companies of actors needed a patron to exist within the law. The title-page of a 'quarto' paperback edition of one of Shakespeare's ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio'- detail, Ben Jonson's Poem, p. A4r.
The 'First Folio'’s commendatory poem by Ben Jonson.
At the beginning of the ‘First Folio’ is a eulogy by Shakespeare’s friend, and rival playwright, Ben Jonson, who had published ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - Commendatory letter 'to the great variety of readers', p.A3r
Shakespeare’s friends write about the ‘First Folio’.
John Heminge and Henry Condell, Shakespeare's fellow members in the King's Men at the Globe wrote dedicatory and prefatory letters ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - detail, Macbeth, p.131, p.II 6r.
Macbeth: Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish’ play.
Macbeth, which has earned a reputation among the superstitious and has become known by many actors as ‘The Scottish play’, begins ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Henry the Fifth', p.h1r.
The Prologue to Shakespeare's Henry V.
Shakespeare’s history plays turn the stories found in the English chronicles into tales of human tragedy, discussing the conflicts of life, death and power. ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Plays, p.A8r.
The comedies, histories and tragedies: play titles in the ‘First Folio’.
The plays, collected together by Shakespeare’s fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, for the ‘First ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Macbeth', p131, p.II 6r.
Macbeth: the text as it first appeared in print.
Macbeth is one of the ‘First Folio’ plays for which there was no previously printed text. Like those of his contemporary fellow playwrights, ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - title page
The 'First Folio' of Shakespeare’s plays.
The book known as the 'First Folio' is a collection of thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays gathered together and published seven years after the ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, First Folio' - 'Twelfth Night', opening scenes, p.Y2r.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will, in the Shakespeare ‘First Folio’.
The ‘First Folio’ included eighteen plays that had not previously been printed. These included some of the ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1600 [1619] - casket scene
Aragon chooses a casket in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare explores the idea of obedience in women as Portia has agreed to accept her father’s unusual will which states that ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1600 [1619] - Antonio's melancholy, p.A2r.
Antonio: the merchant in Shakespeare's play of Venice.
Antonio, the Venetian merchant of the play’s title, opens the action with a lament for his depression and worry that all his wealth is at ...