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Category Archives: Act I

Measure for Measure Headpiece

Falstaff, Pistol and Nym

Anne Page and Slender

Sir Hugh Evans, Shallow and Slender

The Merry Wives of Windsor Headpiece

Julia and Lucetta

Valentine and Proteus

The Two Gentlemen of Verona Headpiece

Ferdinand Lured by Ariel

Prospero, Miranda and Caliban

Prospero and Miranda

Tempest

The Tempest Act I Headpiece

Anne Bullen – From Holbein, in the possession of M. Wocken at Bale

Duke of Buckingham (Edward Bohun of Stafford) – From a portrait engraved in the Houbraken series

Henry VIII – From Holbein

Meeting of Henry VIII and Francis – From the bass-relief at Rouen

The Tower, from the Thames

Presence Chamber in York Place, the Masque

Anne, Queen of Richard III – From the Warwick Roll

Portrait of Richard III – From a picture in the possession of the Royal Society of Antiquaries

View of Chertsey from the Meadows

Room in the Tower – Scene IV

Street in London. ‘Lo! here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword’ – Scene II

Edward Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI – From a Seal in Sandford’s ‘General History’

Sandal Castle – Scene III

The Parliament House – Scene I

Marriage of Henry VI – From Walpole’s ‘Anecdotes of Painting’

Gloster’s Garden. Incantation Scene

Room of State – Scene I

Charles VII of France – From Montfaucon

Joan of Arc – From a painting in Town Hall of Rouen

Tomb of Henry V in Westminster Abbey

Tower Hill

Westmister Abbey – Scene I

Archbishop Chicheley

Richard II knighting Henry of Monmouth

Ancient Gateway of Queen’s College, Oxford

Portrait of Henry V

Room of State in Palace

Portrait of Chief Justice Sir W. Gascoyne

Three-man Beetle

Smithfield, in 1554

Paul’s Walk

‘Scaly Gauntlet’

Various forms of ancient Spurs

Eastcheap, with the Church of St. Michael, Cornhill – Falstaff and Chief Justice

Entrance Tower of Warkworth Castle

Portrait of Earl of Westmoreland

View of Gadshill

Hotspur and the Fop

Hotspur denying his Prisoners

Richard II pronouncing sentence of banishment on Bolingbroke, from an illumination in a MS. copy of Froissart in the British Museum

Portrait of Richard II, from a painting in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster

Portrait of Eleanor Bohun, Widow of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloster, from her monument in Westminster Abbey

The Savoy, ‘The Duke of Lancaster’s Palace”

The gold noble of Richard II

The Lists at Coventry – ‘The King hath thrown his Warder down’

A Room in the Royal Palace, London

Angers

Richard Coeur de Lion Forgiving Bertrand de Jourdan

Queen Elinor

King John

Richard I and the Lion

‘Three-Farthing Rose’ of Elizabeth

Silver Groat of Henry VII

Ceremony of creating a Knight on the Field of Battle

Room of State

Antony and Cleopatra – From a Silver Coin in the British Museum

Atrium of Caesar’s House – a Restoration from Pompeii

Room in Cleopatra’s Palace

Roman Augur

Statue of Caesar

A Restoration from the Remains known as the Temple of Pallas, supposed to be a portion of the Forum of Nerva

Isola Tiberiana. From an Italian Print

The Tiber: Mount Aventine in the distance

Site of Rome: Tiburtine Chain in the Distance

Phrygian Tunic, Bipennes, Bow, Quiver, Helmets, &c. From Hope’s ‘Costume’

Phrygian Lady with Casket. From a Greek Vase in Hope’s ‘Costume’

Ulysses. From a Gem in Wosleyan Museum

Scene III – Before Agamemnon’s Tent

Cawdor Castle

Glamis Castle

St. Colmes’ Inch

Distant View of the Heath

View from the site of Macbeth’s Castle, Inverness

The Coxcomb. From ‘Catzii Emblemata’

Henry VIII and Will Sommers

Scene IV

Marriage a-la-mode. From Hogarth

Rake’s Levee. From Hogarth

View of Athens

Anthropophagi, &c. From Hondius’s Latin translation of Raleigh’s ‘Voyage to Guiana’

The Harbour of Rhodes. From a view in Le Brun’s ‘Voyage en Orient’

The Arsenal at Venice

Court of the Ducal Palace, Venice.

Venice: The Ducal Palace

‘This diamond was my mother’s: take it, heart’

The Garden

‘Hyperion as a Satyr’

Danish Standard and Arms

Platform at Elsinore

‘Court Cupboard’ and Plate, selected from specimens in private collections, and from old prints

The ‘Measure’

Plantain Leaf, from specimens, and a group in Gerade’s Herbal

Fete Champetre; designed from an illumination in the ‘Roman de la Rose,’ Harl. MS. 4425

Lady masked, from Vecellio

Grove of Sycamore

Bills and Partizans, from specimens

Maskers

Verona

Manacles. From Specimens in the Tower of London

Ariel as a sea-nymph

Prospero and Miranda

Prospero and Miranda

Virginal. Costume, temp. Eliz. From a specimen

Emblems of Jealousy

Scene II – ‘We were as twinn’d lambs’

‘An o’ergrown lion in a cave’

Scene V – Interior of Nunnery

Scene III – Street in Vienna

Scene III – ‘To liberty, and not to banishment.’

Scene I – ‘Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?’

Sheriffs’ Posts – From Archaeologia,’ vol. xxix

Portrait of Moll Cut-Purse – From Middleton’s ‘Roaring Girl’

Viol-de-Gamboys – From Harl. MS. 4375

‘Turn o’ the toe like a parish-top’

Spalatro – Scene II. ‘This is Illyria, lady.’

Canker, or Dog Rose

Fashions of Hats

Portrait of Fulk Greville, first Lord Brooke

Bird-bolts – From a Cut in Douce’s Illustrations

Flight Arrows – From Specimens

Scene II – ‘A thick-pleached alley in my orchard’

Streets in Messina

Gate of Perpignan

Interior of Palace in Rousillon – Countess and Clown

Jester. From the ‘Triumphs of Maximilan’

Two-headed Janus. From an antique engraved in Montfaucon

Venetian Ships of the 16th Century. – ‘Argosies of portly sail’

St Mark’s Place

Choragus instructing the Actors. From a Mosaic found at Pompeii

Bringing in the May-pole

Bottom

Hermia and Helena

Ladies of Padua. From Prints by Vecellio and Wiegel

Town-house, Padua. From a Plate in ‘Storia Dimostrazione della Citta di Padova,’ 1767

‘We were encounter’d by a mighty Rock’

Ephesus

Winchester Tower, Windsor Castle

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Act Headers Act I Act I Headers Act II Act II Headers Act III Act III Headers Act IV Act IV Headers Actors Act V Act V Headers All's Well That Ends Well A Midsummer Night's Dream Antony and Cleopatra Ariel As You Like It Beatrice Benedick Bertram Bottom Caliban Characters Charles Knight Cleopatra Comedy Coriolanus (Character) Coriolanus (Play) Cressida Cymbeline Desdemona Dogberry Dramatis Personae Duke of Vienna Edition/Illustrator/Editor/Publisher Exterior Female Ferdinand (The Tempest) Full Page Illustrations H.C. Selous Hamlet's Ghost Hamlet (Play) Helena (All's Well That Ends Well) Hermione Heroines of Shakspeare History Iago Imogen Imperial Edition Interior Introductory Remarks / Notice Isabella John Dicks John G. Murdoch John Gilbert John Tallis Julia Juliet Julius Caesar Katharina Kenny Meadows King Claudius King Henry IV Part I King Henry IV Part II King Henry V (Character) King Henry V (Play) King Henry VIII (Character) King Henry VIII (Play) King Henry VI Part I King Henry VI Part II King Henry VI Part III King John (Character) King John (Play) King Lear (Character) King Lear (Play) King Richard II (Character) King Richard II (Play) King Richard III (Character) King Richard III (Play) Lady Macbeth Leontes Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth (Character) Macbeth (Play) Male Malvolio Marc Antony Measure For Measure Miranda Mistress Quickly Much Ado About Nothing Oberon Olivia Ophelia Orlando Othello (Character) Othello (Play) Pericles Petruchio Photographs Portia Preliminary Material/Other Prince Hal Prince Hamlet Prospero Proteus Puck Queen Gertrude Romeo Romeo and Juliet Rosalind Shylock Silvia Sir Andrew Aguecheek Sir John Falstaff Sir Toby Belch Songs & Sonnets of Shakespeare Sycorax The Comedy of Errors The Merchant Of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter's Tale Timon of Athens (Character) Timon of Athens (Play) Titania Title Pages Titus Andronicus (Character) Titus Andronicus (Play) Tragedy Troilus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Valentine Viola

How to Cite the Archive General references to the archive should use the following: Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive [date accessed]. e.g. For a record of key illustrations to Howard Staunton’s Complete Plays of Shakespeare (1865-67), see Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive (VISA) [1 May 2026]. Subsequent references can be truncated to VISA. Referring to Specific Image within the Archive: Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive [date accessed]. e.g. See the record for Kenny Meadows’ ‘The Tempest Full Page Introductory Illustration’ (1846), in Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive [1 May 2026].

This Archive is indebted to the Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration and The Illustration Archive, directed by Prof. Julia Thomas

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