Shakespeareana No.1 – A Holiday Jig-saw
Catherine Simpson and Rebecca Wormald discuss a jig-saw from the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The post Shakespeareana No.1 – A Holiday Jig-saw appeared first on Finding Shakespeare.
View ArticleShakespeareana No.2 – A Mulberry Wood Tankard
Rebecca Wormald and Rosalyn Sklar discuss an 18th Century Mulberry Wood Tankard from the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The post Shakespeareana No.2 – A Mulberry Wood Tankard...
View ArticleShakespeareana No.3 – A Textile Panel by Tibor Reich, 1969
This joyful and vibrant textile panel is the most recent acquisition into the collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. It was designed and produced by Tibor Reich to celebrate the 1969...
View ArticleShakespeareana No.4 – Tibor Reich and the Shakespeare Centre, 1964
The Age of Kings by Tibor Ltd, 1964. This photograph is a detail from a set of stage curtains that were designed for the new Shakespeare Centre. In the last blog, we looked at a textile panel created...
View ArticleTibor Reich Around the Globe
Henry VIII and his Wives by Tibor Reich This week’s blog tells the incredible, globe-trotting tale of how a particular Tibor Reich cloth came into the museum collection via Afghanistan and Pakistan....
View ArticleHenry Ireton
This week’s blog is a special video for Parliament Week which runs from the 19th to the 25th November this year. In it, Rosalyn Sklar will discuss the life and career of Henry Ireton (1611-1651) and...
View ArticleSir Walter Scott at Shakespeare’s Tomb
On the 15th August 1771 Walter Scott was born in College Wynd in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Scott achieved popular success as a poet and novelist during his lifetime. He is remembered today as the...
View ArticleStratford’s Ceremonial Maces
The Stratford Corporation Mace, c.1552-53 The ceremonial mace has been a symbolic object for hundreds of years. It represents power and authority. At one time the mace would have been a practical...
View ArticleSusanna and the Elders
Susanna and the Elders, attributed to the school of Frans Floris, c.1550 Susanna and the Elders is a story from the Old Testament book of Daniel, but is only present in the Roman Catholic and...
View ArticleSir George Carew
Portrait of Sir George Carew (1555-1629), English School. Visitors to Nash’s House will recognise this portrait of Sir George Carew (1555-1629) which hung in the staircase there until recently. The...
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