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A Thames Barge

Dora A Thames Barge Ink on paper 205mm x 130mm The etching depicts a river scene with a barge in the foreground, and other boats in the background.

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of descriptive panel

A printer describes his map of Shakespeare's London. The French printer of this map of London used a corner to describe the city and the River Thames. Although it is in Latin this description would ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of London Bridge

London’s bridge in Shakespeare's time. London Bridge was lined with houses and shops, and was a route regularly travelled by Shakespeare from his lodgings in the city to his work across the river ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district

Southwark: site of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. When Shakespeare arrived in London, aged about eighteen, he found work, possibly as a tender of horses outside a playhouse known as The Theatre ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district

Southwark: a place for entertainment in Shakespeare's time. The southbank of the river Thames in London was reached from the city only by boat, or across London Bridge. This area, called Southwark, ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of St Paul's and the 'city'

Shakespeare's city home. Shakespeare lodged in Bishopsgate in the 1590s, and later on the corner of Silver Street in Cripplegate. He would have been familiar with the many printers and bookshops in ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - Westminster (site of the Houses of Parliament) and on the opposite bank Lambeth Palace.

Westminster, and Whitehall Palace in Shakespeare's time. To the west of the city of London, reached by road through semi-rural suburbs or by river boat, lay the centre of government at Whitehall Palace ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - detail -The Tower of London.

The Tower of London in Shakespeare's time. The fortress on the banks of the tidal river Thames was a royal palace, and a prison stronghold. It also housed the royal armoury and a public menagerie. ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - A contemporary hand-coloured map of London

London: capital city of Shakespeare's England. William Shakespeare came to London, England's capital city, about 1588. His career in the next twenty years was centred here, as he became the most popular ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - 'Elizabethan' map of London

The walled City of London in Shakespeare's time. Elizabethan London was surrounded by ancient walls, with entrances at Ludgate, Billingsgate, Newgate and Bishopsgate. The medieval maze of streets within ...

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium,c. 1572 - detail - the east of the city and St. Paul's cathedral

St Paul's and the city of London: known by Shakespeare. The city of London, to which Shakespeare travelled in the 1580s, lay within an almost semi-circular wall, bordered to the south by the River ...

Iffley, Oxfordshire

Colour postcard89mm x 141mmBoats on the River Thames at Iffley, Oxfordshire.

John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597]

London Bridge, looking upstream in Shakespeare's time. London's medieval bridge was thronged with passers-by entering the city. At the south end (left on this contemporary engraving) lay the gate above ...

John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - detail of bridge and houses above

A coach enters Shakespeare's London. The centre of London Bridge had one short section where the houses did not loom five or six storeys high above the roadway. Norden shows a coach and a stream of ...

John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - detail of capsized rowing boat

A ‘taxi-boat’ in difficulties on the river Thames in Shakespeare's time. Small rowing boats were the most common method of crossing the river Thames. These ferries acted as taxis and would ...

John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - detail, a 'taxi' boat passes freight-carrying-boats at anchor

River transport in Shakespeare's London. In London the main means of crossing the river, apart from the only bridge, was by small rowing boat ferries, which acted as ‘taxi-boats’. These ...

On The Thames

W. Knox On The Thames Watercolour on paper 255mm x 370mm This painting depicts a view of a large boat on the River Thames.

Thames Barges

Charles Smith Thames Barges, 1970 Oil on board 390mm x 490mm Three boats with sails on the Thames, there is a small rowing boat to the left.

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