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Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - detail -The Tower of London.
The Tower of London in Shakespeare's time.
The fortress on the banks of the tidal river Thames was a royal palace, and a prison stronghold. It also housed the royal armoury and a public menagerie. ...
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 ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium,c. 1572 - detail - the east of the city and St. Paul's cathedral
St Paul's and the city of London: known by Shakespeare.
The city of London, to which Shakespeare travelled in the 1580s, lay within an almost semi-circular wall, bordered to the south by the River ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - A royal picnic, p.91.
A picnic for Shakespeare's royal patron.
Among the many engravings of huntsmen and their dogs that illustrate Turberville’s book of the chase, is this of the mid-day break for a meal with wine, ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - p. 35.
Hunting with dogs as in Shakespeare's plays.
Turberville’s handbook covers the training of dogs for hunting deer or hare. The woodcut illustrations show the kind of hunt Shakespeare would have ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - title page.
The care of hunting dogs in Shakespeare's time.
Turberville’s handbook was popular in Queen Elizabeth’s time and was reprinted after James I succeeded her on the English throne. The care ...
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - Book 2, p.112r.
A ribald tale in a Shakespeare sourcebook
Shakespeare’s wide range of reading gave him a knowledge of many Italian writers and their work that he might potentially use in his plays, or poems. ...
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 ...
Girl With Fowls
Emily A. Browne (1844-1938)
Girl With Fowls, 1928
Watercolour on paper
A girl in a white dress is holding two hens.
Goatfell In Arran
Unknown Goatfell in Arran Watercolour on paper 180mm x 265mm The painting depicts a veiw of Goatfell, which is the highest peak on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Geographical references have been marked ...
Gordon House, Old Leamington
Gordon House, Old Leamington Ink on paper 105mm x 160mm This etching depicts a view of Gordon House in Leamington Spa. There is a canoe on the lake in the foreground.
Gospel Oak, Lapworth
A blank postcard with a blue embossed address on the reverse side. An inscription reads 'Gospel Oak, Lapworth, Birmingham, Lapworth 135'. There is a pencil message under the address.
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
A sepia photograph entitled Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, by W.H. Jackson. The picture depicts a view of the Grand Canyon, Arizona. W.H.Jackson was a photographer for the United States Geological Survey, ...
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
A sepia photograph of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, by W.H.Jackson. The picture depicts a view of the Grand Canyon, Arizona. W.H.Jackson was a photographer for the United States Geological Survey, ...
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
A sepia photograph entitled Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, by W.H.Jackson. The picture shows a mountainous canyon covered in snow and trees W.H.Jackson was a photographer for the United States Geological ...
Grandborough.
Grandborough. 1890s
Grandborough. Village street
Village street with group of children and perambulator in the foreground, Grandborough. 1920s