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Long Itchington. Country dancers

Country dancers in front of the church at Long Itchington. June 2nd 1951

Long Itchington. Cricket Club members

Members of the Long Itchington cricket club. Back row, second from left - Mr Hall, Jasper Cleaver, Mr Hall (brother to first Hall), George Wilks. Middle row - William Arkell, Dr Frederick William Barton, ...

Long Itchington. Hunt meet

Hunt meet at the edge of Long Itchington. Horses, riders and on-lookers. 1905

Long Itchington. Maypole dancing

Maypole dancers at Long Itchington. June 2nd 1951

Long Marston. Grammar School

Grammar School with croquet players in front. Long Marston. 1900s

Look Before You Leap

Basil James Nightingale (1864-1940) Look Before You Leap, 1915 Pencil and on paper 270mm x 365mm The horse in this drawing is refusing to jump, causing its huntsman rider to be thrown forward.

Lowsonford. Village scene

A village scene, Lowsonford. 1900s

Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 1634 - Decorative printer's borders around a plot summary, Book 5, p.32 detail.

A printer's heading ornament in a Shakespeare sourcebook. The finely engraved illustrations in this edition of Ariosto contrast with the simple printer’s border with decorative ornaments above ...

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 - binding view.

A contemporary expensive decorative binding on a Shakespeare source text The fine gold tooling, and leather spine label are original to this volume, indicating a wealthy first owner who commissioned ...

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 ...

Madame F Lablanche

John Burgess (Junior) (1813-1874) Madame F Lablanche, October 1844 Pencil on paper 100mm x 70mm This drawing is on the back of a concert programme, in which Madame Lablanche sang, in October 1844. This ...

Majorettes at a Carnival in Leamington Spa

Majorettes parading along a street in Leamington Spa during a carnival.