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Shoe Horn
A bone shoe horn which is cream and brown in colour. It has a hook formed at one end for suspension.
Shottery. Interior view of Ann Hathaway's Cottage
Interior of Ann Hathaway's Cottage, Shottery. 1890s
Shuttle
A small bone shuttle with a fine cord wound inside it.
Side table - detail
This blue-painted side table has a plank top and two frieze drawers flanking a central cupboard door. They sit on square tapering legs joined by chamfered stretchers. Although the table is painted blue, ...
Side table - front
This blue-painted side table has a plank top and two frieze drawers flanking a central cupboard door. They sit on square tapering legs joined by chamfered stretchers. Although the table is painted blue, ...
Siesta
Harold C. Harvey (1874-1941) Siesta, 1927 Oil on board 651mm x 600mm A portrait of a woman and a sleeping baby. © Estate of the Artist
Silver Pin
Silver pin with garnet inlaid ornament, found under the skull of a female child.
6th Century A.D.
67mm long
1922/23 excavations (Grave 96)
Silver Tongs
A pair of silver tongs with incised decoration on the outside surface.
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - instructions for the mews, Book 2, p.11.
The care of hawks: a familiar occupation for Shakespeare.
Falconry was not only a sport of the nobility. In Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Page invites his friends to early morning ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - second title page of Book 2, p.1v., detail
Everyday travel on horseback for Shakespeare’s fellow countrymen.
Most Elizabethans, and people for centuries later, traveling both within a local area or, like Shakespeare, from the country ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page book 2.
Petruchio talks of training his hawk in The Taming of The Shrew
Petruchio who has won a wife with a fortune in The Taming of the Shrew, talks about training her to his wishes by starving her, and constraining ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page, [A1r].
A falconry handbook on a subject well known by Shakespeare.
Falconry was a popular sport with the Elizabethan gentry and nobility. Latham’s handbook describes all aspects of ‘the princely ...
Sir Thomas Trout and The Bloomer
A colour engraving of Sir Thomas Trout and The Bloomer. The print depicts an interior scene with an elderly gentleman in a wheelchair surrounded by male and female figures.
Sister
Yvonne Tocher (fl. 1961-1970) Sisters Oil on canvas 700mm x 545mm View of a young girl giving another child a piggy-back.
Skipton, Yorkshire
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a view of Skipton, Yorkshire.
There is a painted inscription over the castle gatehouse doorway which is the Latin motto of the Clifford family 'DES OR MAIS' ...
Skirt
This is a plain, dark green, herring-bone women's skirt made from eight panels of fabric.
Slide Collection
A slide collection from Fontainbleau, France. A book of slides with a black cover and clear plastic sleeves containing the slides. The slides illustrate the interior decoration and furniture of the Louis ...
Slipper and Wooden Dolls
Embroidered slipper filled with a collection of small dolls. The dolls are all made of wood, with jointed limbs and painted hair and faces. They would have been very cheap to buy, and were probably made ...