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      • Measure for Measure
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
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      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
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      • Coriolanus
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  • Kenny Meadows
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure For Measure
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Pericles
      • The Taming of The Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
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      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
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      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
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      • Timon of Athens
      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
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  • John Gilbert
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure for Measure
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Pericles
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
      • King Henry VI Part II
      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
      • Julius Caesar
      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
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  • H.C. Selous
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure for Measure
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Pericles
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
      • Julius Caesar
      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
      • Troilus and Cressida
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    • Special Wood Engraved Illustrations by Various Artists
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  • John Dicks (pub.)
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Category Archives: Charles Knight

Mariana

Leicester Abbey

Archbishop Crammer

Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex – From Holbein

Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester – From Holbein

Group of Christening Gifts

The Palace at Greenwich; returning from the Christening

Sir Thomas More – From Holbein

Christ Church, Oxford

Street in Westminster – Scene I

Wolsey surrendering the Great Seal – From Douce’s copy of Cavendish

Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk – From Holbein

Cardinal Campeius – From an engraving of a medal published by Harding

York Place – From Sylvester

The Disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey

Palace at Bridewell

Queen Katharine – From Vanderwerff

Cardinal Wolsey – From Holbein

Hall at Blackfriars, Trial Scene

Westminster Hall, water-side

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

Wolsey and his Suite – from a drawing in Mr. Douce’s copy of Cavendish’s ‘Life of Wolsey’

Border of Armorial Bearings

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – From a picture by Titian

Chancellor in his Robes – From the old painting of Henry VIII granting a charter to the Barber-Surgeons

Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk – From Holbein

Dr. Butts sent to Wolsey – From a drawing in Mr. Douce’s copy of Cavendish’s ‘Life of Wolsey’

Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Great Seal, Cardinal’s Hat, &c

King Henry VIII Full Page Introductory Illustration

Handle of Cross-bow found at Bosworth – From Nichols’ ‘Bib. Top. Brit.’

Portrait of Duke of Norfolk – From a picture by Holbein, in the Queen’s private collection

Plan of Battle of Bosworth, from Nichols’ ‘History of Leicestershire’

Tamworth Castle

Blue Boar Inn, Leicester

View of Leicester

Bosworth Field – Scene IV

View of Salisbury – Scene I

Salisbury

Thomas Lord Stanley (Earl of Derby) – From a painting by Holbein

Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward IV – From a picture formerly in the Kerrich collection

The Bloody Tower, London

Before the Palace. –’Ah! my poor princes.’ Scene IV

Burial of the Sons of Edward IV

Before the Tower – Scene I

Edward Prince of Wales (son of Edward IV) – From his seal engraved in Archaeologia, vol xx.

Baynard’s Castle. ‘The mayor is here at hand.’

Pomfret Castle – Scene III

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

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

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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 Charles Knight Cleopatra Comedy Coriolanus (Character) Coriolanus (Play) Cressida Cymbeline Desdemona Dramatis Personae Duke of Vienna Exterior 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 Interior Introductory Remarks / Notice Isabella John Dicks John G. Murdoch John Gilbert John Tallis 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) Malvolio Marc Antony Measure For Measure Miranda Mistress Quickly Much Ado About Nothing Olivia Ophelia Orlando Othello (Character) Othello (Play) Pericles Petruchio Photographs Portia 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 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 (Play) Tragedy Troilus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Valentine Viola

How to Cite the Archive: General references to the archive should employ the following formula: 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 February 2016]. 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 February 2016].

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

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