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Category Archives: Act III

Duke of Bourbon

Distant View of Harfleur

Rouen

Street in Harfleur

Heights between Havre and Harfleur, from an original sketch

Tilt-yard, Westmister

The Ancient ‘Vice’

Arthur’s Show

Falstaff choosing his Recruits

Portrait of Owen Glendower

Lady Mortimer singing

View of Bangor

Meeting of Richard II and Bolingbroke

Ancient View of Bristol, including the Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe

‘There the Antick sits –’ From ‘Mortis Imagines’

Tomb of Edward III in Westminster Abbey

The Duke of York’s Garden at Langley

Flint Castle – Meeting of Richard II and Bolingbroke

Castle of Falaise

Ceremony of Excommunication in the Romish Church

The Field after the Battle

The Battle, near Angiers

Cleopatra’s Needle

Prow of Roman Gallery – From a Baso Relievo, forming a portion of a frieze found at Palestrina.

Promontory of Actium

Roman Consul

The Forum

Rome: The Forum

Street leading to the Capitol

Rome. A Fragment after Piranesi

Tarpeian Rock. From an Italian Print

Old Walls of Rome

Achilles. From a Statue in Borghese Collection

Scene I – Helen unarming Hector

Forres; Eminence at the Western Extremity

Forres

‘This night wherin the cub-drawn bear would couch…’

Lear in the Storm

The Parthenon

Athens. The Pnyx

Venetian General. From ‘Habiti d’ Huominie Donne Venetiane’, 1609

Venetian Remains at Famagusta – being a Gothic Cathedral, now converted into a Turkish Mosque

Coin of Augustus. From a gold specimen in British Museum

‘Well, madam, we must take a short farewell’

Restoration of the Roman Forum

Pictures on arras

‘The herald Mercury’

Kronberg Castle

Old Stage and Balcony, from the title-page to Dr. W. Alabaster’s Tragedy of Roxana, 1632

Juliet and Romeo (Loggia)

Juliet and Nurse

A Harpy. From a Sculpture at Thebs. ‘Disc. de l’Egypte’

A Tyrolese peasant with a goitre.

A ‘forth-right’ Maze. Projected from a ground plan in ‘The Country Housewife’s Garden,’ 1617

Picture of ‘Nobody.’ From the title to an old anonymous comedy, called ‘Nobody and Somebody,’ prior to 1600

Ariel, like a Harpy, ‘vanishes in thunder, and enter Shapes’

Ferdinand and Miranda before the cell of Prospero

Scene III – ‘I am gone for ever’

Scene III – ‘What have we here?’

Death and the Fool

‘The moated grange’

Scene II – Street before Prison

Scene III – ‘Be of good cheer, youth.’

Falcon with bells

Suffolk Ox-yoke

Ancient ‘Painted Cloth’ – From Gough’s Sepulchural Monuments

Scene V – ‘Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me.’

Scene II – ‘Tongues I’ll hang on every tree.’

Scene III – ‘Into the chantry,’

Chests of the time of Elizabeth

‘The new Map, with the augmentation of the Indies.’ From ‘Linschoten’s Voyages,’ 1598

The Bed at Ware – From a Print by Shaw

Scene III – ‘Once, in a sea-fight, ‘gainst the count his galleys.’

Scene I – Olivia’s Garden

Holy Thistle – From a Specimen

Rabato, or ruff for the neck – Portrait of the Countess of Bedford, from a contemporary Print

Lanterns, temp, Eliz. From contemporary Prints

‘Haggards of the Rock’ – Peregrine Falcon

Ancient Watchmen, temp. Eliz

Scene III – Setting the Watch

Arquebus

Hand-gun

Without the Walls of Florence – Scene V

Florence: The Wall with the S. Nicolo Gate

Court of the Duke’s Palace, Florence – Scene I

The Goodwin Sands during a Storm.

Bassanio Receiving the Letter Concerning Antonio

Rialto Bridge

Mount Taurus

Group of Birds, – ‘The woosel-cock, so black of hue’

Puck

Bottom

‘Hark, hark! I hear the Minstrels play.’ Designed from Prints by Schopper, 1568

Church of St. Giutinia, Padua. From Plate in ‘Storia Dimostrazione della Citta di Padova,’ 1769

‘Sing, Siren.’

Syracuse

Old Bridge at Windsor

Bucklesbury, with Woolchurch. From Aggas’s Map, 1578.

Datchet Mead. – ‘The rogues slighted me into the river.’

Street, Windsor

The Tumbler’s Hoop: design by R. W. Buss

The Hobby Horse: design by R. W. Buss

The Brawl: design by R. W. Buss

The Inamorato, from Burton’s Anatomie of Melancholy

The Palace and Park – Biron and Costard

Queen Elizabeth’s Salt-cellar (from Nichol’s Progresses)

General View of Milan

Cinna the Poet and Citizens

Antony and Caesar’s Body

Brutus

Antony and Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar Act III Header

Achilles

Ulysses, Achilles and Nestor

Troilus, Cressida and Pandarus

Troilus and Cressida Act III Header

Jewels, Letter and Crown

Thaisa in the Chest

Servants with a Chest

Pericles Act III Header

Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey

Cardinal Wolsey and King Henry VIII

Cardinal Wolsey

Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and Lord Chamberlain

King Henry VIII Act III Header

Antipholus of Syracuse

Dromio of Syracuse and a ‘Kitchen-Wench’

The Comedy of Errors Act III Header

Cupid in a Ring

Helena and Widow

Camp Before Florence

The Walls of Florence

As You Like It Act III Header

Touchstone and Audrey

Orlando, Rosalind and Celia

Touchstone and Corin

Orlando Hanging Verses

As You Like It Act III Header

Pot

Timon Throwing Plates

Alcibiades and Senators

Flavius in a Cloak

Lucullus and Servilius

Timon of Athens Act III Header

Gauntlet

Warwick Kneeling

King Edward and Lady Gray

King Henry VI Act III Header

The Death of Cardinal Beaufort

The Death of Gloucester

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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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