La Primavera
Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)La Primavera (Spring) Signor Fattorini (copyist) Ink on paper 725mm x 648mm The image shows nine figures and is a narrative depicting the coming of Spring. Read from right ...
Leaflet
A leaflet, from Samoa, featuring a religious text in Samoan.
Leaflet
A leaflet, from Scotland. It contains a book extract of a Biblical story in Gaelic or Scots.
Leaflet
A leaflet, from Ireland, with a translation of Psalm 547 in Irish or Celtic.
Letter from Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller to his son, Thomas Wathen Waller (pages 1 & 4)
A letter sent by courtier Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller to his son, Thomas, during the aftermath of the death of King George IV. The letter has black edges, a warning to the recipient that sender was in ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - title page, prelim.p.1r.
An English translation of a Shakespeare source.
Shakespeare also knew the work of the Italian Renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso was published in Italy in 1516, and ...
Mercury Resting
Sabatino De Angelis Mercury Resting Bronze on marble 425mm x 240mm A bronze sculpture of Mercury resting on a rock. The original was found at Herculaneum, Italy, and is now in the collections of the Naples ...
Michael Drayton, Polyolbion, 1613 - Map of Warwickshire, plate between p. 212 & p. 213.
Contemporary writers in Shakespeare’s County.
William Shakespeare's native county of Warwickshire in the English Midlands was illustrated in the long poem, Polyolbion, by Michael Drayton. The ...
Michael Drayton, Polyolbion, 1613 - Map of Warwickshire, plate between p.212 & p.213.
Warwickshire and the river Avon, for Shakespeare’s contemporary poet.
Polyolbion, the long poem by Shakespeare’s fellow Warwickshireman, Michael Drayton, is illustrated by fanciful engraved ...
Miniature bucket pendant
An individual miniature bucket pendant. Each one was made of three pieces of bronze.
AD 410 - AD 600
Mosaic Detail - Photograph
A sepia photograph of the black and white mosaic of Mercury with a Nymph. The mosaic is in the Piazza della Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome. 205mm x 167mm.
Naiades
Gioacchino Pagliej (1852-1896) Naiades, 1882 Oil on canvas 1100mm x 1620mm The painting shows a scene on a rocky sea coast. Seated inside a huge sea shell lying on a beach, a naked young girl is dipping ...
Pieta
Glyn Philpot (1884-1937) Pieta, 1905 Oil on panel 350mm x 250mm The traditional image of the dead Christ in the arms of his mother is depicted by Philpot in a dramatic manner. This small painting was ...
Polish Folklore in Great Britain Festival Programme
A printed programme for the Polish Folklore in Great Britain Festival, Royal Leamington Spa, February 1993. (Accompanying item M4568.2001).
Polish Folklore in Great Britain Festival Programme
A printed programme for the third Polish Folklore in Great Britain Festival, Royal Leamington Spa, May 1997. (Accompanying item M4568.2001)
Prayer Wheel
A Buddhist prayer wheel, from Tibet. It is a circular metal drum with pierced sides. The wheel has several small panels with script on and a 'ball' and chain attached. It also has a wooden handle that ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577, 'History of Scotland', - a sermon, woodcut, p.144, detail.
Sermons: frequently heard by Shakespeare.
Regular attendance at church made all Elizabethans familiar with sermons delivered by the local, or visiting clergy. In Shakespeare's comedies especially, ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587, Printer's ornament, vol. 3, p.A3r, detail..
A Printer's header ornament on a Shakespeare sourcebook.
The printer’s ornaments in many Elizabethan books have elaborate detail. In this volume hunters with their dogs confront a bear while ...