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Gaydon. School pupils, possibly at May Day
Group of children outside the school in Gaydon. They are dressed up possibly for May Day celebrations. 1959
Genealogy of Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, Baronet, and the Waller family in general.
The volume contains 25 pages, some or which are blank. It was copied originally from papers in the house of JC Slack at Kentish Town, 1815, since destroyed by fire, and corrected and recopied by Jonathan ...
Gentian Violet Jelly
A box containing a tube of Gentian Violet Jelly. Gentian Violet Jelly is an organic dye and antiseptic agent often used to treat burns.
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail
A merchant’s wife and her companion in Shakespeare's London.
Shakespeare's leading ladies frequently reflect contemporary practice by having a companion, or housekeeper, who is not a servant ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of a citizen and his servant
An alderman and his servant in Shakespeare's London.
The Londoner's fashionable gown with hanging sleeves is 'guarded' [edged] with fur. His servant carries a sword and buckler as a sign that he will ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of city walls on the north-west.
London's City walls and the fields beyond in Shakespeare's time.
Close beyond the city walls lay fields and orchards. The engraving shows the wooden frames on which laundresses would hang fabric to ...
George Eliot, Brother and Sister, 1st Edition - title page
These poems draw on her relationship with her brother Isaac and their childhood growing up in Nuneaton.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton ...
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 ...
Gin Glass
Drinking glass, made in England, with a narrow, fluted funnel bowl on a stem with two small knops. It has a folded foot, c.1750-1800.
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1620 - book 2 p.13v
Fine printing in Shakespeare's time.
This volume was printed by Isaac Jaggard who worked alongside his father, William, and later inherited the family printing house. Isaac’s fine edition of ...
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 Decameron, 1620 - title page, book 2
A Shakespeare source with a fine binding.
This volume's fine binding given to it by a nineteenth-century owner, is in green Morocco goatskin, with fine gold-tooling, including decoration along the ...
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 Cherries
This is an oil painting on canvas of a young girl holding a bunch of cherries and a sprig of red flowers. Cherries are tradtionally held in the hand of the infant Christ and religous overtones like this ...
Glass Pen
This glass pen topped with a white rabbit was made by Chance Brothers of Smethwick. In 1832 Chance Brothers was the first company in Britain to adopt the cylinder method of producing sheet glass. The ...
Glasses and Box
These spectacles belonged to Isaac Evans, the brother of George Eliot. Their father, Robert Evans, had passed them down to him. Isaac and his sister had been close when young, but later disagreed over ...