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...major symbols for all seasons, but especially Summer, who is Ceres in 17th century dress. The calendar itself gestures towards the cyclical nature of the seas [[Category: 16th century]]

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...le criterion: we are all equal in the face of death. Since the seventeenth century, writers have collected, analyzed, and republished these curious documents :Acting as public officers for the parish from at least 1592 through the 19th century, women searchers examined dead bodies to determine cause of death for Londo

...mond Goff, ''Incunabula in American libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections'' (New York: Bibliographical S ...C.c.'' (except C.c.1, see above): correspondence (late 18th century - 19th century)

...ed with Kindness''. The remaining plays were re-bound together in the 19th century, then separated and re-bound as six individual volumes at the Folger in 196

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Edwin Booth was one of the most renowned Shakespearean actors of the 19th century, celebrated for his roles as Hamlet, Richard III, and Iago. He also was bro ...sses, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th Century ; by Herbert Clark Hoover ... and Lou Henry Hoover …''

#For 19th- and early 20th-century books, it may be worth searching for a digitized copy; there may be additio

* Compare 19th-century productions of Shakespeare with today's through historic photographs and pr ...cation, photograph, or other item that was originally produced in the 20th century or later, you should check with us about copyright. Please contact [mailto:

* LOAN courtesy of Rosamond Purcell. 4 mercury glass jars. 20th century. [https://flic.kr/p/dgrJrb Image]. * LOAN courtesy of Rosamond Purcell. Framed mirror. 18th century.

Other items of interest in the reading rooms include the pair of 19th century globes at the main entrance (replicas of Renaissance globes), the stained g ...od of her Master’s degree from Vassar College. The hand-painted eighteenth-century fan in her hand depicts the wedding scene from Shakespeare’s Henry V; it

...|| Monogrammist T.E. || ''Ophelia'' ('''Hamlet''' IV.7) || Late nineteenth century || Oil on canvas, oval || 67.9 x 55.7 cm || [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/ ...ff's cowardice detected'' ('''Henry IV, Part 1''', II.4) || Mid-eighteenth century || Oil on canvas || 26.4 x 36.5 cm || [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bi

...strations.folger.edu/ British Book Illustrations: Extending Access to 17th-century Visual Culture] is a project of the Folger Shakespeare Library, funded by a ...ject to help the Folger digitize thousands of 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century images representing Shakespeare’s plays.

...oricalsociety.com/charlotte-cushman-cross-dressing-tragedienne-of-the-19th-century/ New England Historical Society] ''For more 19th century American actresses not included in the Folger Collection, see the following

...es of Shakespeare’s early reputation. Similarly, starting in the late 20th century landmark TV mini-series and a wealth of films have done for Austen as she n ...cts— from the sublime to the ridiculous. Literary celebrity, from its 18th-century beginnings, is as much about relics and souvenirs as about books and plays.

...802) was one of the most successful English artists of the late eighteenth century. Born in the north of England, where he was apprenticed briefly to Christop ...has long received recognition as a major British artist of the eighteenth century, but his drawings have remained virtually unknown. In this country it is on

...T 231747.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Park's Shakespeare Characters, a nineteenth-century picture game. Folger Digital Image [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/1 [[Category: 16th century]]

...f digital humanities methodologies to support research into the nineteenth-century repertoire and offers up a methodology for working with theater playbills t ...g Digital Methodologies to Unlock Information Hidden within the Nineteenth-century Playbill==

...pted and adopted by newcomers in America from advertisements to early 19th century immigrant theater productions.

Shakespeare’s popularity rose across the eighteenth century, but particularly after the [[David Garrick, 1717–1779: A Theatrical Life The late eighteenth century also saw England becoming the economic powerhouse of Europe. But in the art

...avid Garrick revolutionized acting and the English stage in the eighteenth century. ...l elite of the kingdom. They formed a veritable hall of fame of eighteenth-century England. Many were pall-bearers at his funeral: the Duke of Devonshire, the

Commentary in two sixteenth-century Bible translations reflects strong theological differences between Christia ...brary]. Manuscript Draft of the Pauline and Catholic Epistles. Early 17th century. Order no: [http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/CalmView/Record.asp

...n English like the ''Governor'' (which went through 8 editions in the 16th century) could enrich the language and elevate its status at home and abroad. Elyot ..., Costard, (5.1.143) as part of a joke (displayed here). By the later 16th century, this word had become a stock joke about pedantry and ludicrous Latinate te

...a, “the palace of courtesy”). The palace was demolished in the seventeenth century, and the Old Royal Navy College now stands on the same site. ...ensive construction of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, which was begun a century earlier. Despite these grand gestures, one might conclude that his goal was

During the sixteenth century, fashionable young men took to wearing the new style of sword called a rapi By the sixteenth century, a heated debate had arisen in England over the new weapon and its techniqu

...Janice Farrar. "A Spirit Free and Female: Eva Maria Garrick." ''Eighteenth Century Life'' 10, no. 3 (1986): 86–103. ...Garrick versions are included in this series of facsimilies of eighteenth-century editions held by the Birmingham Shakespeare Library.

*''Cookbook [manuscript]''. early 18th century. W.a.87, 84 images. ([http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=2 ...res [graphic] / by Charles Hamilton Smith and his daughter, Emma]''. [19th century] ART Vol. d3-4 (pictorial content), 62 images. ([http://hamnet.folger.edu/c

*''Ben Jonson''. Drawing on ivory. Late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=128739 F ...Dugdale. He was certainly one of the most important collectors of the 17th century. His library included English and Continental books in many languages and d

...’s works. This copy once belonged to Rachell Paule, a woman living in 17th-century London.<br /> ...n. These themes, as well as the tensions present in Bell’s early twentieth century, are evident in these illustrations.

...r || 1614 || Sir David Murray of Gorthy || No || Perdita - b&w || Leather, 19th c || [https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8 [[Category: 17th century]]

...ow-google-rediscovered-the-19th-century/ “How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century.”] ''Chronicle of Higher Education'' 22 July 2013. Web. 8 August 2013. ....org/web/20080908103158/http://www.r-alston.co.uk/estc.htm “The Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue: a personal history to 1989.”] 8 September 2008. We

Women in the seventeenth century were not allowed to become members of the College of Physicians (which lice * Jane Dawson. ''Cookbook of Jane Dawson''. Manuscript, late 17th century. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=226753 V

The obsession with the First Folios in the 19th century led booksellers and collectors to create what are known as “sophisticated ...lger, I'm known as Folio number 58, or the "scissors" copy. My seventeenth-century owner or binder left a pair of scissors in my pages, and you can still see

...nursery rhymes, formerly peddled by chapmen. ||RBMS ||Do not use for 20th century items which represent themselves as chapbooks. ...ded to be given as gifts and often published annually; popular in the 19th century. For works produced to mark an occasion, use "keepsakes (books)." ||AAT||

...ety. Dictionary catalog of American books pertaining to the 17th through 19th centuries |Bennett, W. Practical guide to American nineteenth century color plate books

...he big, the major, work that Hacklett produced in the very end of the 16th century. He put out a revised edition of this book, but so revised that it took up ...ody who had explored the issue at great length, that the…in the early 17th century it was pronounced Per-Kiss. So I tried to come on board and do it the way t

...dies-ballets, before going on to write monographs on cross-casting in 17th-century French theatre and on the Tartuffe controversy, as well as numerous article ...laim valuable information dormant in NQ items, footnotes, indexes and 19th-century PhDs. WordWeb will re-present and contextualize this data, with entries als

...h Woods, ''Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1984), 4–5.</ref> By the mid-eighteenth century the actor was becoming a public personality whose public and private life w

...tist. ''The Old Theatre in Tankard Street Ipswich''. Watercolor, late 18th century. Call number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=127171 A ...am Hogarth. ''Mr. and Mrs. Garrick at home''. Hand-colored engraving, 19th century. Call number: Uncat. Garrickiana Maggs no.33 and [http://luna.folger.edu/lu

.../luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/jh2xrh ''Annales''], written in the second century AD, told the story of Boadicea, a British warrior widow who led a native re ...pensible source of information about London at the turn of the seventeenth century. His ''Survey'' is organized as a systematic walk around the walls, through

...rren's (Firm), || George Riddle || Boston : Warren's Portraits, [late 19th century?] || 1880-1880 || 7/14/2016 || http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.c | Manuscript || Smith, Richard, || Fine early eighteenth century illustrated and calligraphic manuscript, || || uuuu || 9/27/2016 || http:/

| HH6/7. Bound in 19th-century vellum, by Riviere, with the Miller arms in gilt on both covers. Pencilled ...and back endpapers (obliterated)'''; list of books in 1st half of the 17th-century hand on back endpaper (the word "green" and occasionally "red" precedes or

...;" see [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1587064 P. Leith-Ross, "A Seventeenth-Century Paris Garden," Garden History Vol. 21, No. 2 (Winter 1993)] :(not the 19th c. pioneer of antisepsis), p. 19 c. 1