Wax Head Doll
This doll was made by the Pierotti workshop. Originally from Italy, the Pierotti family set up a wax-modelling business in England in the early 19th century. They made doll's heads and limbs by pouring ...
Wax Head Doll
This doll has a wax-over-composition head. The head was made from composition - a paper or wood pulp mixture, and then coated with a thin layer of wax.It has a fabric body and legs, with pink leather ...
Wax Head Dolls
These twin dolls have wax-over-composition heads. The composition head was made from a paper or wood pulp mixture, and then dipped in wax. These dolls have real hair, inserted into holes in their heads. ...
Wayzgoose for Coventry Printers
Group photograph of workers during an annual outing.
Wedding Dress
A cream satin wedding dress, with a full length skirt and long sleeves. There is a cream lace edging to the bodice, collar and cuffs, 1915.
Wedding Dress
This wedding dress was worn at a ceremony in Ecclesfield, South Yorkshire, in around 1890. It is made of cream silk with an embroidered lace overlay. The sleeves and collar are encrusted with beads and ...
Wedding Dress Skirt Attachment
Wedding dress skirt attachment with plaited silk bow decoration. Lace trim underneath edge and raw edge at top. All lined with satinised cotton.
Wedding Garland
Wedding hairband worn by Alma Ramsey at her wedding to Dick Hosking in 1930. The hairband is covered in cream silk and decorated with artificial whie flowers and foliage.
Wedding Slipper
A cream satin wedding slipper, with a medium sized heel. There is a rosette style ruff with a rectangular gold buckle at the front. This slipper was worn by the donor's mother at her wedding c.1874 and ...
Wedding Slipper
A cream satin wedding slipper, with a medium sized heel. There is a rosette style ruff with a rectangular gold buckle at the front. This slipper was worn by the donor's mother at her wedding c.1874 and ...
White Villas
This is an oil painting on board depicting a simple scene of a row of white houses. There are figures in the street in the foreground, including a couple walking, a small dog and a pony and trap. It was ...
Whitnash. Empire Day celebrations
Group of children in fancy dress with some adults celebrating Empire Day, Whitnash. 1920s. [Images of England -Whitnash by Jean Field Pages 62/63 describes the scene as May Day Celebrations 22nd May ...
Whitnash. May Day celebrations
Group of children celebrating May Day in Whitnash. 1920s
Whitnash. Prince of Wales visit
Group of children with decorated bicycles, prams etc. and other children and adults looking on, celebrating the Prince of Wales visit to Leamington Spa. 1924
William Angus Drogo Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester
A portrait of the Duke of Manchester dressed as the Marquis of Grammat.
This photograph was taken at a costume ball, Bal Poudre, at Warwick Castle in 1895.
Frances Evelyn Brooke (or Daisy), the ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - bookplate
An owner’s bookplate in a Shakespeare ‘quarto’.
The ownership of books is frequently indicated by a label or ‘bookplate’ created for an individual owner. The label of ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 , 'First Folio' - portrait, title page detail.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616.
The portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from the title page of the first collected edition of his plays.
Full title: William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares ...
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 ...