Richard II, 1 Henry IV, Henry V, Macbeth
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(I. 303k, II. 250k)
The first image (I.) is "Queen Elizabeth I" by Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, c.1592. Known as the "Ditchley" portrait, it was painted to commemorate Elizabeth's visit to Sir Henry Lee's house at Ditchley in 1592. (Her feet rest on Oxfordshire.) Click here to see a detail of this portrait (164k). The second image is the family of Henry VIII. [Larger version of - II - (403k).]
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The two images above are from early seventeeth-century minature watercolors and show card-playing (I.) and wining and dining (II.) in a tavern of the period.
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(I. 322k, II. 240k, III. 288k, IV. 288k, V. 301k, VI. 172k, VII. 169k)
These images are from one of the first known maps of London (c. 1553-9). No original copies are extant, but two of the estimated 20 copper engravings survive. The first image (I) shows all of the surviving map. The other images (II-VII) are details of the first.
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(I. 267k, II. 263k, IIIa. 309k, IIIb. 306k)
"Middle-sex described with the most famous cities of London and Westminster" from John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, (1611). The first image (I) is of the entire engraving; the others are details from the upper left inset (II) and from the upper right inset (IIIa-b). [Larger version of - II - (374k)].
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(I. 283k, II. 639k, III. 407k, IV. 414k)
The first (IV) is an anonymous map of the British Isles created between 1534 and 1546. The second (V) is of Plomberow, Essex by Israel Ames (1579); one of eight maps to accompany a written survey of the property of Edmund Tirrell so that the estate could be divided among his heirs. The third and fourth are from a map of Cornwall -- the full map (VI) and a detail (VII). [Larger versions: - IV - (182k), - VI - (412k).]
