Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, November 1803 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a white dress and gloves and a head-dress/hat. The ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1803 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a black and white dress and hat. The other is wearing a white ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, November 1803 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm Ten head-dresses and hats and three bodices.
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1803 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a white dress and gloves and a necklace. The other is wearing ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1803 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a blue dress with a criss-cross trim and a matching hat. The ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1804 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a white dress and a white hat with a feather and black trim. ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1804 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a white dress and a rose bonnet. The other is wearing a white ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1804 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a white dress with a white fur stole and a black hat. The ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1804 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a brown and white dress and a red, white and brown head-dress, ...
Fashion Plate
Fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, c.1804 Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm View of two ladies, standing. One is wearing a gold dress and a veil. The other is wearing a white dress, ...
Fashion Plate
A fashion plate published by R. Phillips, St Paul's Church Yard, 1803. Ink on paper 220mm x 130mm Two ladies stand side by side modelling 'London Full Dresses' from the front and back. The lady on the ...
Figure
This is a carved wooden figure of a woman from central lowland Burma. It is wearing a white Htamein shirtcloth with a long black and gold skirt. Originally the figure may have held a fan or an umberella. ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail
A merchant’s wife and her companion in Shakespeare's London.
Shakespeare's leading ladies frequently reflect contemporary practice by having a companion, or housekeeper, who is not a servant ...
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 ...
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 ...