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Religious Card
An Urdu polychrome card and text, from Asia. It bears a religious inscription on a shield against multi-coloured printed flowers.
Religious Print
A sepia religious print featuring a King surrounded by Angels. 235mm x 415mm.
Religious Print
A sepia religious print of four figures in Bethlehem. 275mm x 275mm.
Religious Print
A sepia religious print of an Angel with Mary. 240mm x 273mm.
Revd. Edward Willes, M.A.
Ink on paper Revd. Edward Willes, M.A. By W. Artaud, by John P. Quilley 365mm x 265mm The print depicts a portrait of an elderly gentleman with white hair.
Reverend Canon Frederick Barre Feist, Vicar of Leamington
A photograph of Reverend Canon Frederick Barre Feist, Vicar of Leamington in the 1920s. The reverse of the photograph has been printed as a postcard. This photograph is by Ernest Wells of Leamington Spa....
Reverend J. Lincoln Galton
Henrietta Gubbins Reverend J. Lincoln Galton, 1842 Pastel on paper 350mm x 255mm A portrait of the Reverend J. Lincoln Galton preaching at Christ Church, Leamington Spa, in 1842.
Reverend William Marsh
Taylor Reverend William Marsh, 1843 Oil on canvas Portrait of Reverend William Marsh holding his spectacles in his right hand and a book in his left.
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - A corpse awaits burial, p.89r, detail.
A body in its linen burial cloth, or shroud, and laid in a tomb: a possible source for Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare, in 1605, purchased an interest in the local tithes, and so automatically became ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Animals woodcut, p.81r.
An ornamental woodcut, on a text contemporary with Shakespeare.
Among the many woodcut ornaments in Richard Day’s book of prayers is a distinctive group of animals which include a mythical unicorn, ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Baptism woodcut,, p.61v. detail
An Infant Baptism: Shakespeare was baptised 23 April 1564.
William Shakespeare, the first boy, but third child of John and Mary Shakespeare, was baptised in the local parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Christian duty p.53v, detail.
Homilies : life-style advised for Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
All children would accompany their parents to church each Sunday, where they would hear the readings from the Bible, and also the ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Communion woodcut, p.62r, detail.
Holy Communion: a church service attended by all Elizabethans.
This woodcut shows the distribution of wine and bread at Holy Communion to the congregation at the altar. It was the duty of all confirmed ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Confessional prayer, p.56v.
The Christian life to be followed by Elizabethans.
This prayer asks for forgiveness of sins and is flanked by flowers, a quotation and a woodcut on the sense of smell. Smells, both pleasant and unpleasant, ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Feed the Hungry woodcut, p.72v.
Charity: feeding the poor in Shakespeare's time.
All communities had their share of the poor and Elizabethans would regularly offer their unwanted ‘left-over’ food to those less fortunate ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Help the thirsty woodcut p.73r detail
Drinks available in Shakespeare's time.
The regular drink of Elizabethans was cider, ale (which was not strong beer), or for the more wealthy, wine was imported from France, or Germany. Water was used ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - infant woodcut detail, p.100v.
Infant mortality: Shakespeare's older sisters died young.
William's two older sisters both died in infancy. For Elizabethans the death of a child was a common occurrence. William's younger brothers, ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Life and death, p.122v.
Death in everyday life in Shakespeare's time.
Life and death went hand-in-hand everywhere in Shakespeare’s England, where medical knowledge was very limited, and most illness depended on traditional ...