Battle of Naseby
Engraving Battle Of Naseby The print depicts a panoramic view of the village of Naseby with the armies represented beyond. The Battle of Naseby was fought on the 14th June 1645 between Parliamentarian ...
Cavalry Charge
Cavalry ChargeInk on paper510mm x 380mmA scene depicting a charging cavalry or army. There is a man on horseback in the front holding his sword up to indicate the charge.
Edgehill. Battlefield
Battlefields from Round Tower, Edgehill. 1920s
Edgehill. Memorial
The memorial, Edge Hill. 1950s
The cast metal plaque reads:
The battle of Edgehill was fought on this ground October 23rd 1642. Several hundred of those who fell in the fighting both cavalier and ...
Edgehill. Memorial
The memorial, Edge Hill. 1950s
The cast metal plaque reads:
The battle of Edgehill was fought on this ground October 23rd 1642. Several hundred of those who fell in the fighting both cavalier and ...
Extract of a letter from Col. Lacy Yea of the 7th Fusiliers to General Wetherall, Adjutant General (pages 1 and 4)
Extract of a letter written by Colonel Lacy Yea, serving in the Crimea at the Camp before Sebastopol, to General Wetherall at Horse Guards.
Col. Yea writes that they are in need of Captains but are ...
French Wartime Postcard
A French colour postcard depicting a wartime scene with soldiers hiding behind an earthen bank. 138mm x 88mm
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - The Knight's Tale, Fol. 1, B1r.
The source for Shakespeare and Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which pilgrims each contribute a story to entertain their fellow travelers, begins with the ...
Letter from George Henry Waller to his father, Thomas, describing a battle in the Crimea (pages 1 and 4)
Letter from George Henry Waller to his father, Thomas Wathen Waller. George is serving as an officer in the Crimean War and is currently at the 'Camp before Sebastopol'.
He includes an account of the ...
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 - 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 ...
Private Henry Tandey On Battlefield WW1
Fortunino Matania (1881-1963)Private Henry Tandey On Battlefield WW1Ink on paper420mm x 620mmThe print depicts a war scene with troops examining the destruction and carrying the wounded.
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - 'History of England', p.46.
Shakespeare's source for England's mythical history.
The woodcut illustrations of the first edition of Holinshed’s work depicting scenes of battle and warfare are in contemporary dress, with ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - Kings Cymbeline and Guiderius, 'History of England' p.47.
Shakespeare's source for Cymbeline.
Besides the story of Guiderius, which was based on myth and legend, Shakespeare found, in the 'Chronicles of Scotland', a tale of a nobleman and his two sons fighting ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577, 'History of Scotland', - a siege, woodcut, p. 231, detail.
War in Europe in Shakespeare’s time.
War between the states of Europe was common in the sixteenth century and Queen Elizabeth's armies, and navy fought against the Spanish, and in the Low Countries ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577, 'History of Scotland', - battle woodcut, , p.99, detail.
Contemporary battles inspired woodcuts in the first edition of Shakespeare’s source.
The detailed woodcuts in Holished's first edition, inspired by contemporary Elizabethan campaigns in Ireland, ...