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A Ladies Canoe Trip on the Warwickshire Avon

A page from The Graphic', 14 June 1884. It features an article entitled: 'A Ladies' Canoe Trip on the Warwickshire Avon'. The eight images depict different scenes from a trip along the River Avon.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This is an oil painting on canvas dating from about 1860 depicting a scene from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The artist was W. Balls, and his signature is in the bottom left hand ...

A Morning's Tally

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a dog which has caught three rats. There is a painted inscription which reads BOXER 1836. On the right of the painting is a house, and it is likely that this ...

A Pair of Pigs

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting two prize pigs. During the 19th century paintings of farm animals became a recognised genre, as, in an attempt to produce bigger and better livestock, itinerant ...

A Surprising Incident

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a surprising incident which occurred during an attempt to slaughter a horse in July 1811. The caption at the bottom of the picture describes this as 'An Instance ...

A Terrible Shipwreck

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the shipwreck of several ships in a fierce storm and was painted by T.L Morilyan R.N. in 1870. Local people can be seen on the beach watching the activity and ...

A Walk Round Warwick

A guide to places of interest in Warwick. It is an A4 sheet of paper, folded into thirds, with text and illustrations on both sides. The front shows Westgate and the Lord Leycester Hospital, 1973.

A. Marshall, Dyer and Scourer

This is an oil painting depicting the premises of A. Marshall, Dyer and Scourer in St Ann's Street in Nottingham and which was painted by Arthur Goodwin in 1898. In the lower right corner is inscribed ...

Abel Heywood & Son's Guide Book to Warwick

A guide book entitled Abel Heywood & Son's Guide Book to Warwick, c. 1916. The front cover is printed in black and red and features an image of a hall with suits of armour along one wall, probably the ...

Abraham Offering Up His Son Issac

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a story from the Old Testament in which Abraham offers up his son Isaac to be sacrificed when an angel, seen in the top left corner of the painting, appears ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - binding

A binder's ornament on a book contemporary with Shakespeare. The sturdy, leather binding on this copy of Ortelius' small atlas is the original which was probably created for the book’s first ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - binding view.

Binding for everyday use in Shakespeare's time. Elizabethan books were usually sold unbound, the price being set by a Stationers' Company ordinance, or regulation, of 1586 at 1d. [one old penny] per ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 103 The Turkish Empire.

The world travelled by Shakespeare's characters: Antony, Octavia, and by Pericles. The small pocket version of Ortelius’s great atlas of the known world includes a view of the Eastern Mediterranean ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 3 Asia.

Asia as it was known to Shakespeare’s contemporaries. The trading ventures of Antonio, Shakespeare's merchant of Venice, involved ships sailing to many parts of the world in search of goods to ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 73, Padua, Italy.

The province of Italy inhabited by Kate and her sister in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio’s first words are 'Verona, for awhile I take my leave, to ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p. 90, Map of Ilyria.

Shakespeare's heroine, Viola, is shipwrecked in Illyria, a province in Ortelius’s atlas. Illyria, ruled over by Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night, is the European state, now known as Croatia. ‘What ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p.1. The known world.

The world known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. English sailors, led by Francis Drake, first circumnavigated the world in 1578-1580. By this time the Dutch already had trading stations in India ...

Abraham Ortelius, Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worlde, 1603 - p.2, Europe.

Europe in Shakespeare’s time. The maps of Ortelius, first printed in Antwerp in 1570, were republished in England in a small handbook format in 1603. Contemporary English writers, such as Shakespeare, ...