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- Deception drama and misunderstanding (20)
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- Fin de siecle (1)
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- London (3)
- Magic illusion and the supernatural (6)
- Poetry (8)
- Politics and religion (2)
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- Power and politics (22)
- Renaissance writers (8)
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- Satire and humour (2)
- Science and nature (1)
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- The novel 1832 to 1880 (1)
- Theatre and entertainment (2)
- Town and city (24)
- Tragedies (12)
- Transforming topography (6)
Creator
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- Ambrogio Brambilla (1)
- Anna Brownell Jameson (1)
- anonymous (1)
- B Smith [Engraver] (1)
- Benjamin West [painter] (1)
- C J Visscher (1)
- Carel Allard (1)
- Charles Vizetelly (1)
- Donald Cooper [photographer] (4)
- Edward Scriven [Engraver] (1)
- F Legat [Engraver] (1)
- Francesco Bartolozzi [Engraver] (1)
- Francis Wheatley [painter] (1)
- François Boitard [illustrator] (1)
- Frans Hogenberg (6)
- G S Facius [Engraver] (1)
- Gavin Hamilton [painter] (1)
- Georg Braun (6)
- George Romney [painter] (1)
- George Whetstone (1)
- Gilbert Dugdale (1)
- Giovanni Battista Giraldi (1)
- Gustave Doré [illustrator] (1)
- Hanns Lautensack (1)
- Henry Fuseli [painter] (1)
- Henry Swinburne (1)
- I G Facius [Engraver] (1)
- I P Simon [Engraver] (1)
- J Caldwell [Engraver] (1)
- J P Simon [Engraver] (1)
- Jacopo de' Barbari (1)
- James Barry [painter] (1)
- James Northcote (1)
- Jan Jansson (1)
- Joan Blaeu (1)
- Johann Heinrich Ramberg [painter] (1)
- John Boydell [editor] (1)
- John Graham [painter] (1)
- John Everett Millais (1)
- John Opie [painter] (1)
- Joris Hoefnagel (5)
- Joseph Wright [painter] (1)
- Josiah Boydell [editor] (1)
- King James VI and I (1)
- Melchoir Tavernier (1)
- Nicholas Goodman (1)
- Nicholas Rowe [editor] (1)
- Peter Simon [Engraver] (1)
- Philip Stubbes (1)
- Popperfoto (1)
- R Horwood (1)
- R. Westall [painter] (1)
- Robert Smirke [painter] (1)
- Robert Thew [Engraver] (1)
- Robert Anning Bell [illustrator] (1)
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- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1)
- Stephen Harrison (1)
- Thomas Kirk [painter] (1)
- Thomas Ryder [Engraver] (1)
- Thomas Ryder Jnr [Engraver] (1)
- Thomas Stothard [painter] (1)
- Unknown (4)
- W Leney [Engraver] (1)
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- William Peters [painter] (1)
- William Blanchard Jerrold (1)
- William Hamilton [painter] Hamilton [painter] (1)
- William Kip [engraver] (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
- William Skelton [engraver] (1)
- William Whittingham [translator] (1)
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Publisher
Language
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17th-century brothel in Nicholas Goodman’s Holland...
Book, Quarto, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageHolland’s Leaguer was a notorious 17th-century brothel which stood, near London’s playhouses, on the south bank of the R...
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1901 edition of Anna Jameson's Shakespeare's Heroi...
Book, Illustration, ImageThis hugely influential book by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) presents a Victorian woman’s view of Shakespeare’s her...
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A Treatise of Spousals by Henry Swinburne, 1686
Book, QuartoThis book tries to untangle the knotty question of marriage law in early 17th-century England. It was written by the ecc...
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Argentina. Strassburg.
Engraving, ViewThis view of Strasbourg was one of a minority of plates for which Jansson commissioned a new engraving for his townbooks...
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Boydell's Collection of Prints illustrating Shakes...
Book, Engraving, Print, Illustration, ImageIn 1789, the publisher John Boydell opened the Shakespeare Gallery, an exhibition space in London’s Pall Mall showcasing...
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Broadside ballad on the Master Constable
Broadside ballad, Ephemera, Woodcut, Illustration, ImageThis humorous 17th-century broadside ballad portrays the Master Constable as a self-important busy-body. He is exposed a...
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Cinthio's Gli Hecatommithi, an Italian source for ...
Book, OctavoThis collection of short Italian tales explores the pros and cons of different kinds of love, especially within marriage...
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Cochin
Engraving, ViewCochin’s status as a fortified trading post dates from the arrival of the Portuguese in 1502. In 1663 the Dutch had expe...
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Engraved view of London by C J Visscher showing t...
Map, IllustrationThis panorama of London, dated 1616, is an engraving by Claes Visscher (1586–1652), and one of the best views of London ...
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Grand Panorama of London from the Thames
Book, Illustration, ImageThis extraordinary engraving depicts a view of the north shore of the Thames running from Western Stone Wharf by the Hou...
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Iron chastity belt, possibly 16th century
Object Created date: Possibly 16th centuryThis bizarre contraption is an iron chastity belt, fastened at the side with a padlock. It was supposedly used to safegu...
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John Philip Kemble as Vincentio in Measure for Mea...
Painting, Image Created date: c. 1794John Philip Kemble played Vincentio, with his sister Sarah Siddons as Isabella, in Measure for Measure at London’s Drury...
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Le plan de la ville, cité, université, fauxbourg...
Map, EngravingThis plan of Paris by Melchoir Tavernier is a modified and updated version of one produced by Matthias Merian (1593–1650...
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Le sette chiese di Roma
Etching, ViewFor centuries the regularly recurring papal jubilees, or Holy Years, brought crowds of pilgrims to Rome. These occasions...
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Legia sive Leodium, vulgo, Liege
Etching, Engraving, Hand colouringThe publishing house which Willem Blaeu founded in Amsterdam came to occupy a pre-eminent position in the world of map-m...
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