As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Othello
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These are images from the text of Spenser's Shepheard's Calendar. Included are a view of the full page and a closeup of the woodcut alone for the months of April (I, II), September (III, IV), and October (V, VI). [Larger versions of - I - (339k), - II - (316k), - III - (266k), - IV - (383k), - V - (252k), - VI - (376k).]
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The first two images are from Helikiah Crooke's Microcosmographia: A Descriptions of the Body of Man (1615): the first (I) is a depiction of the female reproductive organs, the second (II) of the male. The third image (III) is a depiction of a uterus from another early anatomy book. [Larger versions: - I - (358k), - II - (418k).]
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The images above are of a portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard known as "Young Man amonst Roses." The first (I) is a full view of the miniature; the second (II) is a detail of his head; the third (III) is a detail of his body.
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(I. 103k, II. 50k, III. 107k, IV.123k)
The first image above (I) is from a contemporary sketch of the staging of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. The others are of the Drake jewel, presented to Sir Francis Drake by Elizabeth I in the winter of 1586-87: the inside and outside of the jewel (II), and details of the outside (III) and inside (IV). [Larger version of - II - (249k).]
