Collection items

View of London in Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, Image

This is a contemporary image of the London in which Shakespeare lived and worked for much of his life. As we can see, it...

View of Messina in Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, Image

This beautifully hand-coloured view of 16th-century Messina (or ‘Messana’) shows a large port city at the north-eastern ...

View of Venice in Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, Image

This is a beautifully hand-coloured view of 16th-century Venice – the setting for two of Shakespeare’s plays, The Mercha...

View of Verona in Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, Image

This image shows a bird’s-eye view of the city of Verona, in what is now Northern Italy. It illustrates some of the hist...

Views of Wittenberg and Elsinore in Civitates Orbi...

Map, View, Engraving, Illustration, Image

These beautifully hand-coloured views show key locations in Hamlet – one bird’s-eye view of the German university city o...