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Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A colour postcard with a painting of the Jephson Gardens and bandstand, Leamington Spa. There is a boat on the river Leam in the foreground. The postcard was produced by Raphael Tuck & Sons.
90mm x 140mm...
Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
Black and white photograph225mm x 191mmThe River Leam in the Jephson Gardens.
Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
Black and white photograph201mm x 251mmThe River Leam in the Jephson Gardens, 1978.
Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
Black and white photograph of the Jephson Gardens in winter. There is a frozen pond in the background, with a snow covered foreground.
Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A black and white postcard showing the Jephson Gardens and the river Leam, Leamington Spa. 86mm x 135mm
Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A sepia photograph of the river Leam with trees overhanging, Jephson Gardens, 1884. 155mm x 258mm
Jephson Memorial in the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa
A photograph of the Jephson Memorial and surrounding trees in the Jephson Gardens, Leamington Spa, covered in snow.
Jet Jewellery
Jet is a form of coal, which was formed from the compressed and chemically altered remains of plants that lived 170 million years ago.
The north eastern town of Whitby, Yorkshire, became the centre, ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, a galleon and a flying fish, off the coast of Brazil.
Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries sailed to America.
English ships were famed for their ease of manoeuvrability and sea-worthiness, on which sailors and explorers depended as they travelled to America ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, creature off the coast of California. [Probably a diving whale's tail]
The ocean : a place of danger for Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
Ships returning to England after travel around the world with Francis Drake, or across the Atlantic with Walter Raleigh, brought ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, exotic bird and fish.
Stories of strange birds and beasts were brought back to Shakespeare’s London.
In Shakespeare's The Tempest Trinculo, finding 'the monstrous' Caliban on the beach speculates on how an Englishman ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, Flying fish (a real species) and an unidentified creature.
Sea monsters were legendary for Shakespeare's contemporaries.
In The Tempest (2,2, lines 24-40) Trinculo imagines he has found a sea-monster when he discovers Caliban hiding from the approaching storm ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, The Pacific Ocean and Solomon Islands, showing a galleon and a sea creature, probably a whale.
Ships from Shakespeare’s England explored the world.
The sailing vessels that traded up the river Thames to London and set off from the English Channel, or from West country ports, were familiar ...
John Bromwich's Cows
Fred W R Roots (fl. 1958-1961) John Bromwich's Cows, 1959 Oil on canvas 350mm x 450mm Landscape scene of fields, trees and cows.
John Clifford Lock And Joan In The Sea
John Clifford Lock and Joan in the sea, c. 1928-1931.
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 ...