Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - Ariodante and Dalinda, illustration pl.V, p.31.
Illustration for the story on which Shakespeare based a comedy sub-plot.
The tale of Ariodante, and Ginevra impersonated by Dalinda is the subject of a fine engraving in the 1634 edition of Harington's ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - portrait of Ariosto, prelim.p. 1r. title page, detail.
An Italian who inspired Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
The work of Italian poet and dramatist Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) had considerable influence over in English writing in Shakespeare's time, ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - shipwreck illustration , pl. XLI, p. 341
Shipwrecks and storms at sea were often in the news in Shakespeare's London.
The storms of the Mediterranean sea were notorious. Shakespeare included them in his plays of The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - shipwreck, pl.XLI.
Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. Ariosto’s storms at sea are a possible source for Shakespeare's The Tempest or Pericles.
Shipwrecks and storms often feature in Ariosto’s work, and such ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - Sir John Harington, title page, detail.
A courtier: Sir John Harington, Shakespeare's contemporary.
Sir John Harington, son of Henry VIII's treasurer, was godson to Queen Elizabeth I. He was educated at Eton College and Cambridge before ...
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 ...
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 -p. 32, Book 5, a source for a sub-plot.
The source for Hero and Claudio in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Ariosto’s story of Ariodante and Genevra, as well as Matteo Bandello’s Novelle, was the main source for the Hero ...
Madron Blue Suite I
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Madron Blue Suite I, 1997 Etching and aquatint 481mm x 454mm A square, measuring 300mm x 300mm, indented into the paper by approximately 0.5mm. The ...
Madron Blue Suite II
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Madron Blue Suite II, 1997 Etching and aquatint 483mm x 453mm A square, measuring 300mm x 300mm, indented into the paper by approximately 0.5mm. ...
Madron Blue Suite III
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Madron Blue Suite III, 1997 Etching and aquatint 482mm x 454mm A square, measuring 300mm x 300mm, indented into the paper by approximately 0.5mm. ...
Madron Blue Suite III
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Madron Blue Suite III , 1997 Etching and aquatint 482mm x 454mm A square, measuring 300 x 300mm, indented into the paper by approximately 0.5mm. ...
Mancetter. Church
South view of Mancetter parish church. Engraving. Before 1850
Mancetter. Manor House
An engraving of Mancetter Manor House. Before 1850
Mary Ann's Coventry home
Illustration of Bird Grove, Foleshill, Coventry taken from 'Impressions of Theophrastus Such'. From 1841 to 1849, this was the home of Mary Ann and her father.
The drawing dates to around 1843, but ...
Mary Arden's Cottage
Richard Verner
Mary Arden's Cottage
Ink on paper
180mm x 270mm
The etching depicts a view of Mary Arden's Cottage in Wilmcote, from the road.
Maxstoke Castle.
An engraving of Maxstoke Castle. 1820
Maxstoke Castle.
Engraving of distant view with part of Maxstoke Castle park and approach road. 1800s
Maxstoke Priory.
Engraving of Maxstoke Priory ruins. Before 1850