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Map, Engraving, Hand colouring

The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was created by George Braun and Frans Hogenberg in the late-16th and early-17th centuries, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Map, View, Illustration, Engraving, Image

This is a hand-coloured view of 16th-century Vienna – the setting for Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. The view is pa...

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...

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