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Portrait of a young man among roses by Nicholas Hi...
Painting, Image Created date: c. 1587This miniature portrait (c. 1587) shows a love-sick young man leaning against a tree, entwined in eglantine roses. It is...
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Portrait of John Donne, aged 18
Book, Octavo, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis portrait portrays John Donne (1572–1631), aged 18, as a young man poised for adventure. He is dressed in a dark pa...
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Portrait of John Donne, c. 1595
Painting, Image Created date: c. 1595This atmospheric oil painting depicts John Donne (1572–1631) as a romantic young writer. It is one of the first known p...
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Portrait of Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth by Georg...
Painting, Image Created date: 1814Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was one of the greatest actors of her day. Particularly renowned for tragedy, she was the firs...
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Quarto 1 of King Lear, 1608
Book, QuartoThis item is the first published version of Shakespeare’s King Lear, known as the first quarto or Q1. We can see from th...
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Quarto of Much Ado About Nothing, 1600
Book, QuartoMuch Ado About Nothing was first printed in 1600 in this small quarto edition, around two years after the play was writt...
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Rapier, c. 1600
Object Created date: c. 1600This highly ornate rapier or thin sharp sword – 131cm long – was made in France around 1600. It was intended for display...
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Richard III, arch-topped portrait, c. 1510–40
Painting, Image Created date: c. 1510–40The arch-topped portrait, held by the Society of Antiquaries, is thought to be the earliest surviving painting of King R...
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Richard III, portrait with overpaint, c. 1504–20
Painting, Image Created date: c. 1504–20This painting in the Royal Collection was first recorded in an inventory of Henry VIII’s collection and would have been ...
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Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall
Book, DictionaryRobert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604, was the first single-language English dictionary ever published...
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Second quarto of Hamlet, 1605
Book, QuartoThis is a copy of the ‘second quarto’, one of the three early modern printed editions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. What does...
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Seneca His Ten Tragedies, 1581
Book, QuartoSeneca (c. 4 BC–AD 65) was a Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright. His highly popular and widely influential bloo...
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Shakespeare's Collected Poems, 1640
Book, Octavo, Engraving, Illustration, ImageThis controversial edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets and miscellaneous poems was published in 1640 by John Benson (d. 166...
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Shakespeare's First Folio
Book, FolioThe First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays, collated and published in 1623, seven yea...
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The Art of Physiognomy by Thomas Hill
Book, Octavo, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageA Pleasant History (1613) is Thomas Hill’s treatise on the art of physiognomy, which is founded on the belief that the f...
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