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The Beauties of Writing Exemplified in a Variety of Plain and Ornamental Penmanship

Thomas Tomkins

May 19, 1777

Shakespeare Seated Between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting, Who is Pointing Him Out as the Proper Subject for Her Pencil

James Stow

1797

Bardolph, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer

May 20, 1775

Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is"–Shakespeare

T. W. Huffam

1843

Illustration to the Tempest: Caliban, Ferdinand and Ariel

Henry Courtney Selous

1836

Illustration to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 4

Walter Crane

1894

Hamlet and Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene I)

William Greatbach

1825–26

William Shakespeare

Illman and Sons

mid-19th century

Isabella and Angelo (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 2)

James Fittler

1794

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

1870

Hamlet and the Ghost of his Father

Adam Vogler

mid-19th century

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)

Caroline Watson

1784

Falstaff at Herne's Oak (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)

Michele Beneditti

May 30, 1793

"To you I give myself, for I am yours" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 4)

Peter Simon

September 29, 1792

Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare, Poems, Verse 3, line 13)

Charles Rolls

1825–40

Cassandra Raving (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 2)

Francis Legat

first published 1795; reissued 1852

Titania (Shakespeare, Le songe d'une nuit d'été / A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Umberto Brunelleschi

1947

Hamlet and Horatio, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

Andrew Best Leloir

December 1837

Mrs. Gwyn & Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Dickinson

1780

Ophelia: "There's fennel for you, and columbines" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)

William Wynne Ryland

1787

"If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets": plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau

1844

"Therefore, be merry Cassio": plate 6 from Othello (Act 3, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau

1844

Macbeth and the Witches (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1)

William Woollett

1770

Cleopatra, Eros, Antony, Charmian and Iras (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, Scene 9)

Charles Rolls

1825–40

Magazin de Modes (Fashion Boutique)

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

1827–29

Cordelia and King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)

Charles Heath, the elder

1825–40

Hartford Building and Loan Association: Hamlet

Wilbur Macey Stone

1897

"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)

William Sharp

1793

Hero, Ursula and Beatrice (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1)

Peter Simon

first published 1790; reissued 1852

[Group of 12 Stereograph Views of British Cathedrals]

Unknown

1850s–1910s

Pandarus and Cressida (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2)

Henry Corbould

1825–40

The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 4, containing Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, King John, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Part 1

William Shakespeare

1805

Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona

Walter Crane

1894

Mr Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the characters of Romeo and Juliet

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

1765

The Play-Within-A-Play

Eugène Delacroix

1835

Design for Stage Scene: King Lear

Edward Gordon Craig

block cut 1908, printed 1923

Scene from Antony and Cleopatra, at the Princess's Theatre, from "Illustrated London News"

Alfred Hunt

June 8, 1867

Illustration to Shakespeare's Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1

Walter Crane

1893

Illustration to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V, Scene 4

Walter Crane

1894

Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare

1931

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