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
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      • Macbeth
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      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
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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 Tallis (pub.)
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Category Archives: King Henry VIII (Play)

Anne Bullen

Queen Katherine

Miss Glyn as Queen Katherine

Mr. Macready as Cardinal Wolsey

Mr. George Bennett as King Henry the Eighth

Henry VIII and Catherine Parr

Cardinal Wolsey Entering the Abbey of Leicester

Wolsey and Buckingham

King Henry VIII Tailpiece

King Henry VIII and Elizabeth

King Henry VIII and Butts

King Henry VIII and Crammer

The Vision

Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell

King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey

King Henry VIII Reads

Queen Katherine

King Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey and Queen Katherine

King Henry VIII and Norfolk

King Henry VIII and Anne Bullen

Sir Henry Guildford

King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine

King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey

King Henry VIII Full Page Introductory Illustration

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

Exeunt All

King Henry Meets Elizabeth

The Council Chamber

King Henry VIII and Old Lady

King Henry VIII Act V Header

Katherine Led Away by Patience

The Vision

Katherine, Griffith and Patience

King Henry VIII Act IV 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

Cardinals Depart

In Blackfriars

Anne Bullen and an Old Lady

Norfolk and Suffolk

King Henry VIII Act II Header

Banquet

King Henry VIII and Anne Bullen

King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey

King Henry VIII Act I Header

King Henry VIII Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Henry VIII Epilogue

King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII Act V Header

Spirits of Peace

King Henry VIII Act IV Header

Queen Katharine, Wolsey and Campeius

King Henry VIII Act III Header

Anne Bullen And An Old Lady

Pray God Be Not Angry

King Henry VIII Act II Header

A Health, Gentlemen; Let It Go Round

King Henry VIII Act I Header

King Henry VIII Prologue

King Henry VIII Dramatis Personae

King Henry VIII Introductory Remarks

King Henry VIII Title Page

King Henry VIII Full Page Introductory Illustration

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 Emilia 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 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 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 King of France The Watch Thrones Tombs Torches Touchstone Trees Tress Trinculo Views Vines Virgilia Volumnia Walking Sticks Walls Water Whips Wings Witches Wood Woods and Forests

Micael John Goodman is a post doctoral researcher at Cardiff University. You can contact him at MJ_Goodman@outlook.com or on Twitter @DrMikeyGoodman To learn more about Michael’s work, go to michaeljohngoodman.org

Gaze Therein...

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 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) 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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