Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

by Michael John Goodman

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  • Charles Knight (ed.)
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • 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
      • 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
      • King Lear
      • Hamlet
      • Julius Caesar
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
      • Troilus and Cressida
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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
      • 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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  • 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
      • 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
      • Troilus and Cressida
    • Photogravure Plates
    • Special Wood Engraved Illustrations by Various Artists
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  • John Dicks (pub.)
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  • John Tallis (pub.)
    • Comedies
    • Histories
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  • John G. Murdoch (pub.)
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  • Heroines of Shakspeare
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  • Imperial Edition
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Category Archives: Exterior

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Roman General, Standard Bearer, &c, landing from a bridge of boats. From Column of Trajan

Combat of Posthumus and Iachimo

The Forest

The Cave

Restoration of the Roman Forum

‘Hark! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings’

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

The Garden

Border. Fidele’s Flowers

Conflict between Romans and Barbarians. From the Column of Trajan

Stonehenge. The high Altar

Cymbeline Full Page Introductory Illustration

‘There is a willow grows aslant a brook’

Kemble as Hamlet, from Sir T. Lawrence

‘Anon, as patient as the female dove’

Hamlet’s Grave

Church and Churchyard at Elsinore

Pelicans

Ophelia

Danish Ships

A Plain in Denmark

Kronberg Castle

View of Elsinore

Palace of Rosenberg

Danish Standard and Arms

Platform at Elsinore

‘Smote the sledded Polacks’

Juliet’s Tomb

Tomb of the Scaligeri, Verona, from an original sketch

Tomb of the Capulets

Mantua

Musicans, from the ‘Roman de la Rose’ Harl. MS. 4425

Verona, from an original sketch – the Funeral Procession of Juliet, from an old italian engraving of a ‘Funeral Pomp’

Friar Laurence’s Cell

Juliet and Romeo (Loggia)

Falconry

Nurse and Peter

Capulet’s Garden

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

Grove of Sycamore

Maskers

Verona

‘Where the bee sucks’

‘Thy Groans did make wolves howl’

Naples from the sea

A Tyrolese peasant with a goitre.

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

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

Ferdinand and Miranda before the cell of Prospero

Painted Fish. From a Print of the time of Chas. I.

‘Misery makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows’

‘Apes that moe and chatter’

Ariel as a sea-nymph

Prospero and Miranda

Prospero and Miranda

Border

Bermuda

‘On a bat’s back’

The Tempest Full Page Introductory Illustration

Little Conduit in Cheapside. From a Print by De la Serre, 1638

Scene III – ‘Come, buy of me, come’

Time, as Chorus, dispersing the clouds which conceal Perdita and Florizel

Scene III – ‘I am gone for ever’

Scene III – ‘What have we here?’

Tripod

Scene I – ‘Behind the tuft of pines I met them’

Emblems of Jealousy

Scene II – ‘We were as twinn’d lambs’

Introductory Notice – Act IV. Scene III ‘I bless the time / When my good falcon made her flight across / Thy father’s ground’

‘Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd’

Near City Gate

Scene V – Fields without the Town

‘The moated grange’

Scene II – Street before Prison

Scene II – ‘Thy sharp and sulphurous bolt’

‘An o’ergrown lion in a cave’

Scene III – Street in Vienna

Scene IV – ‘Here comes a pair of very strange beasts.’

The Hellespont

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

Scene III – ‘Lay sleeping on his back.’

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

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

Scene VI – ‘Dear master, I can go no further.’

Melancholy Jaques

Scene I – ‘A poor sequester’d stag.’

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

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

Cross at West-Cheap

Forest of Arden

As You Like It Full Page Introductory Illustration

Scene I – Spalatro – ‘My lord, I do protest.’

Scene I – Spalatro – ‘Hold, Toby, on thy life.’

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

Scene I – Olivia’s Garden

Scene IV

Scene I – Sea-coast near Spalatro

‘Turn o’ the toe like a parish-top’

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

Twelfth Night Full Page Introductory Illustration

Messina, from the Sea

Exterior of Cathedral of Messina

‘Haggards of the Rock’ – Peregrine Falcon

Scene III – Setting the Watch

Garden. Balthazar sings

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

Streets in Messina

Much Ado About Nothing Full Page Introductory Illustration

Supplementary Notice

Gentle Astringer – From a French Sculpture, temp. Eliz

Marseilles

Carriage of 1532

Travelling Wagon of the Fifteenth Century

Florentine Camp and General View of Florence – Scene I

Without the Walls of Florence – Scene V

Florence: The Wall with the S. Nicolo Gate

General View of Paris

Gate of Perpignan

Italian Crosses in Lombardy. From Original Sketches

‘The light we see is burning in my hall’

Avenue to Portia’s House

Piazetta di san Marco

Court of Ducal Palace

The Goodwin Sands during a Storm.

Rialto Bridge

Place for hiring Gondolas. From Canaletti

Canal in Venice

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

St Mark’s Place

Border. The Doge’s state Gallery, the Bucentaur, passing one of the Red Columns of the Piazzetta. From Prints in ‘Vedute di Venezia, designata da Antonio Canale and Antonio Visentini’

Venice, from the Lagunes. From a Print of the commencement of the 18th century

Group of Fairies

Love in Idleness

Puck

Bottom awaking

‘When in a wood of Crete they bay’d the bear.’

Titania and Bottom

Mount Taurus

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

Puck

Bottom

Oberon enchanting Titania

Fairies. – Scenes I and II

Bringing in the May-pole

Hermia and Helena

Border. From a design by W. Harvey

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Full Page Introductory Illustration

‘The pleasant garden of great Italy.’ View between Padua and the Coast. – Design by H. Anelay

Sly at the Ale-house Door. – Design by H. Melville

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Rare Visions…

Achilles Actors Angelo Animals Antipholus of Syracuse Antonio Armour Army Arthur Arviragus Ass Audrey Autolycus Axes Babies Bardolph Bars Baskets and Boxes Bassanio Bats Beds Beheadings Belarius Birds Biron Books Bottles Bows and Arrows Brabantio Bridges Brutus Bugs and Insects Cardinal Wolsey Cassio Cassius Castles and Palaces Caves Celia Chains Chairs Charmian Cherubs and Babies Chests Children Chorus Christopher Sly Citizens Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing) Clown (The Winter's Tale) Clowns and Jesters Coins Conflict Cordelia Costard Countess of Roussillon Crab Crowns Crucifix Curtains Daggers Dancing Death Deers and Stags Dogs Don Pedro Doorways Drink Dromio of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Duke of Clarence Duke of Gloster Duke of Venice Dumaine Earl of Kent Earl of Warwick Edgar Fairies Fans Feste Fire Fires Flags Flora and Fauna Flowers Flying Fountains Ghosts Glasses Goneril Grumio Guiderius Headpieces Henry Bolingbroke Hero Horatio horns Horses Hotspur Iachimo Induction Jack Cade Jessica Joan La Pucelle John of Gaunt Julius Caesar Justice Shallow King Edward IV King Henry IV King Henry VI King of Navarre Kings Lady Constance Lanterns and Lamps Launce Leonato Letters Longueville Lord Talbot Lucio Maria (Twelfth Night) Masks Mistress Ford Mistress Page Monsters Moon Murderers Musicians and Music Night Nurse Pandarus Parolles Perdita Pericles Philip the Bastard Pillars Pistol Plates Poins Polixenes Polonius Portraits Posthumus Pots Princess of France (Love's Labour's Lost) Queen (Richard II) Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth I Queen Katherine Queen Margaret Queens Reading and Writing Regan Richard Duke of Gloster Richard Duke of York Richard Plantagenet Rings Sea Ships and Boats Shipwrecks Shovels and Spades Sir Hugh Evans Sleep Smoke Snakes Soldiers Spears Speed Staff Staffs Statues Stephano Stools Storms Streets Supplementary Notice Swords Tables Tailpieces Tents The Fool The Watch Thrones Tombs Torches Touchstone Trees Tress Trinculo Views Vines Virgilia Volumnia Walking Sticks Walls Water Whips Wings Witches Wood Woods and Forests

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 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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