Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A sepia photograph of the lake and the Jephson memorial in the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. 140mm x 183mm
Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A sepia postcard by Valentines showing a view of the Jephson Memorial from across the lake, Leamington Spa. 88mm x 140mm
Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
This postcard shows the lake and the Jephson Memorial in the Jephson Gardens. 85mm x 135mm.
Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A colour postcard of the Jephson Memorial in the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa 90mm x 142mm
Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
Black and white photograph295mm x 247mmThe Jephson Gardens, with the Jephson Memorial to the right.
Jephson Memorial, Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
Black and white photograph295mm x 222mmThe Jephson Gardens, with the Jephson Memorial to the left, Leamington Spa. The memorial was built in May 1848 in honour of Dr Henry Jephson (1798-1878), who encouraged ...
Jephson Memorial, Leamington Spa
A photograph of a man driving a tractor past the Jephson Memorial in the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa. It is one of a group of photographs of the Massey Ferguson 2135 tractor in Jephson Gardens. They ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - garden detail on title page
Shakespeare set scenes in gardens such as this
Many scenes in Shakespeare’s plays are set in gardens. The formal lay-out of beds and hedges seen on this title-page engraving were familiar to ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - apples woodcut, p.1274, detail.
Apples, at the end of a meal are mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Gerarde’s herbal includes all kinds of fruit and trees as well as flowers and vegetables, many of which ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Clove gilloflowers, p.472.
Carnations are the source for a Shakespearian argument in The Winter’s Tale.
Gerarde described carnations [pinks] with their ancient name ‘clove gillivors’ and Shakespeare’s ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - daffodils, p.108
b>Autolycus sings of daffodils in The Winter’s Tale
Autolycus, the former courtier turned pedlar, first arrives on the scene singing of the joys of spring: ‘When daffodils begin to peer... ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - gilloflowers (Wall Flowers), p.370.
The names of plants, discussed by Shakespeare.
The detail with which Gerarde describes plants, vegetables and fruit as well as flowers assisted contemporary herbalists and housewives with their gardens. ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [barnacles], detail, p.1391, detail.
Truth and Myth in Shakespeare's books of reference: The Barnacle Goose Tree.
Shakespeare includes, in The Winter's Tale (4.4), a similar myth to Gerarde’s tale of a barnacle-goose tree in the ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree [Barnakle tree], p.1391.
The Elizabethan myth of the goose-tree.
Myth and legend, passed on by word of mouth until it was written down and becomes almost a fact, included the story that Gerarde records at the end of his herbal, ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - Goosetree described by Gerarde, p.1392.
Locations of plants known to Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Herbals and gardening books in Elizabethan England often describe the locations in which a plant may be found in the wild, as well as where ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - hand drawn detail added to title page.
Garden detail replaced in an amateur way by an owner of a volume contemporary with Shakespeare.
This copy of the first edition of Gerade’s Herball has original hand-colouring of all the illustrations ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - holly, p. 1155,detail.
Holly and its uses in Shakespeare's time.
There were twenty-seven holy days, or ‘holidays’ spread through the Elizabethan year, but the twelve days of Christmas, at the time of the winter ...
John Gerarde, The Herball, 1597 - narcissus, p.108.
Flowers for enjoyment in Shakespeare's England.
The Elizabethans loved colour of all kinds in their embroidered and decorated clothes. The often elaborate painted wall-hangings of their homes frequently ...