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Category Archives: History

Sanctuary at Westminster – From a sketch made by Dr. Stukeley before its destruction in 1775

Tomb of Edward IV at Windsor – From an old print

Ludlow Castle

Street in London. ‘Neighbours, God speed’

Room in the Palace. ‘King Edward led in sick.’ – Scene I

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

Border of Armorial Bearings

Badge of Richard III – From an original drawing by the late Charles Stothard

Sir Thomas Vaughan – From an Effigy on brass plate in Westminster Abbey

John Howard, first Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey

Portrait of Richard III – From an illumination in Warwick Roll, Heralds’ College

Crosby House

King Richard III Full Page Introductory Illustration

Monument to Henry VI, formerly at Windsor

Battle of Tewkesbury – From an illumination in a MS. at Ghent

Tewkesbury – Scene IV

Field of Battle near Barnet – Scene II

Coventry – Scene I

George Duke of Clarence – From Warwick Roll, in Library of College of Arms

Park at Middleham Castle – Scene V

Camp near Warwick – Scene III. ‘This is his tent’

Lewis XI of France – From Montfaucon

Palace of King of France – Scene III. ‘Welcome brave Warwick’

Chace in the North – Scene I

Field of Battle near Towton – Scene III

Before York – 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

Border of Armorial Bearings

Execution of the Duke of Somerset – From an illumination in a manuscript at Ghent

Battle of Barnet – From an Illumination in a MS. at Ghent

Lord Rivers and Caxton presenting a book to Edward IV

Edward IV and his Court

General Costume, end of Reign of Henry VI

Arms of Henry VI and Queen Margaret. From Lydgate’s MS. presented to Henry VI

King Henry VI Part III Full Page Introductory Illustration

Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick – From the Warwick Roll in the College of Arms, London

Field near St Alban’s – Scene II

Between Dartford and Blackheath – Scene I

Ancient View of Street in Southwark

London Stone

Blackheath – Scene III

Sea-shore near Dover – Scene I

Cardinal Beaufort – From his Monument at Winchester

Humphrey Duke of Gloster – From Coventry Tapestry

Bury St. Edmund’s

Parliament in the Abbey at Bury

Queen Margaret – From Coventry Tapestry

Southampton Bar-Gate

Street in London; Cheapside

St Alban’s – Hawking Party

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

Gloster’s Garden. Incantation Scene

Room of State – Scene I

Border

Costume of the Commonalty of the Period – From Harl. MSS

Henry VI – From a Coventry Tapestry

Richard Plantagenet Duke of York – From a painting on glass, in Trinity Hall, Cambridge

King Henry VI Part II Full Page Introductory Illustration

Triumphal Entry of Charles VII into Rouen – from Montfaucon

Regnier Duke of Anjou – from Montfaucon

Old Monument of Joan of Arc, Rouen – from Millin’s ‘Antiqities Nationales’

Angiers

Room in the King’s Palace – Scene V

Effigy upon the tomb of John Talbot

Henry VI and Court; John Talbot receiving a Sword – from Strutt’s ‘Dresses and Habits’

Camp near Bourdeaux

View of Bourdeaux – present state

Duke of Bedford

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the costume of the Golden fleece – from Montfaucon

Parliament of Henry VI – Harl. MSS., No. 2278

Rouen

The Parliament House – Scene I

Bastard of Orleans – from Moutfacon

John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury – from a painting in Heralds’ College

The Temple Garden

Orleans

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

Border – formed of Armorial Bearings of the period, &c

Figures from the Monument of Charles VII and La Pucelle at Orleans

Charles VII in his Presence Chamber. From Monstrelet

John, Duke of Bedford. From the Bedford Missal

Portrait of Henry VI. From a picture in King’s College, Cambridge

King Henry VI Part I Full Page Introductory Illustration

Banners used in the Battle of Agincourt

Infant Shakspere

Isabella of Bavaria, Queen of France

John (Sans Peur) Duke of Burgundy

Helmet, Shield, and Saddle, of Henry V

Katharine

Troyes

Entry of Henry V into London

Montacute, Earl of Salisbury

Sir Thomas Erpingham

Fixed Candlestick

Field of Agincourt

Henry V being armed by his Esquires

Henry V ‘walking from watch to watch’

Duke of Bourbon

Distant View of Harfleur

Rouen

Street in Harfleur

Heights between Havre and Harfleur, from an original sketch

The English Fleet

Charles VI of France

Whitsun Morris Dance

Esquimaux Dog

Swords and Crowns, from Holinshead’s Chronicle

The Louvre, from a print by Della Bella, 1646

Room in the French King’s Palace

Southampton

Archbishop Chicheley

Richard II knighting Henry of Monmouth

Ancient Gateway of Queen’s College, Oxford

Portrait of Henry V

Room of State in Palace

The Globe Theatre

Border – composed of the shields and Bearings of the Characters therein named, together with those of England at the top and of the Dauphin at the bottom

Michael de la Pole, from monument in Haversham Church, Notts

Henry V and his Court, from a MS. in Bennet College Library, Cambridge

King Henry V Full Page Introductory Illustration

‘I saw young Harry – with his beaver on’

Group of Flasks, &c

Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John

A Dancer (from Hollard)

Public Place near Westminster Abbey, exhibiting the north transept as it existed at the period

Hall in Shallow’s House, showing the domestic architecture of the period

Windsor Castle, in the sixteenth century

An Armet and a Helmet, for the same purpose

Three Views of a Helmet of 1495, showing the manner of opening and closing the Beaver and Visor

Henry V. When Prince of Wales

Gualtree Forest

Tilt-yard, Westmister

The Ancient ‘Vice’

Arthur’s Show

Falstaff choosing his Recruits

Broad Shilling of Edward VI

Ancient Rapier, with inscription

Fresco, from the wall of Grove House, Woodford Common, Essex

Interior of Boar’s Head – Falstaff and Hostess Quickly

Street in London of the architecture of the period – Falstaff and Chief Justice

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Gaze Therein...

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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