16th Collection (page 5)

England / Broadway
The village of Broadway, Worcestershire, often referred to as the Jewel in the Cotswolds, the main street being lined with 16th century limestone buildings

Drivers view at Brooklands
An impression of rounding a banked curve at Brooklands at a speed of 110 miles per hour, from the mechanics seat of a 59.6h.p. Benz, driven by Mr. L. G. Hornsted

Vesalius Demonstrates
Vesalius demonstrating

Nuremberg / General 1501
A general view of the city at the beginning of the 16th century

Map / London / City Late 16C
Plan of the City of London in the Time of Queen Elizabeth

Ottoman C16 Koran / Back
A fine manuscript page on handmade paper from the Ottoman Koran, finely scripted and embellished in gold leaf. Reverse of page

Combined Operations by David Wright, showing a model surrounded by pictures of soldiers. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Edinburgh / Canongate / 1840
Edinburgh: Moray House in Canongate (a 16th century scene)

16th Century Musicians 1
A piper performs with players of three types of stringed instruments - a rebec, a lute and a harp

Tower, 16th Century
The Tower and its Liberties taken from correct Surveys made in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Dangers of Love 16C
The dangers of love

Serjeants at Law / Glass
Sergeants at law. During medieval times, these were members of a superior order of barristers from which, until 1873, the Common Law judges were always chosen

Elizabethan Judges
Two judges from the Elizabethan period in their robes

Polo in Persia
A game of polo, with musical accompaniment, in sixteenth century Persia

C16 CHEMISTs SHOP
MEDICINES WHILE YOU WAIT: a druggist of the 16th century prepares a medicament, pounding the ingredients with pestle and mortar while two customers wait with their dog. Date: circa 1570

Oxford Castel C16th ?
Plan of the motte and bailey castle of William the Conqueror showing the ditch, surrounding houses & their gardens, the Session House & St Georges Tower & the keep

Caravel (Liebig)
A Spanish caravel

Clock-Watch C16
An early English watch

Gathering Pepper
Gathering pepper in the Spice Islands - the Moluccas, in the East Indies, the major producers of spices at that time

Inn-Yard Play / C16 / Swain
A performance of Shakespeares Twelfth night is given in the yard of an inn

Noblewoman & Son, Knole
A noblewoman and her son sit looking at a book by the fireplace in the Brown Gallery at Knole, Kent

Sport / Bowls C16
A bowling green in Tudor times

Sir Francis Drake attacking a Spanish treasure ship (actually a Portuguese carrack, the Sao Filipe, containing gold, spices and silk), off the Azores, 8 June 1587

Eleanor Rumming, the famous alewife of England
Eleanor Rumming, the (fictional) famous alewife of England, illustration to a poem by John Skelton, Poet Laureate to King Henry VIII. 16th century

Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth enter London
Queen Mary and her sister Princess Elizabeth enter London after the suppression of Wyatts Rebellion. Date: circa 1564

The Pilgrimage of Grace (October 1536-October 1537) - a massive protest against Henry VIIIs break with the Roman Catholic Church, the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Mexican Priest Cut the Heart Out of Human Sacrifice
AZTECS OF MEXICO A priest cuts the heart out of a living victim Date: circa 16th century

Old Six Chimneys, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a country residence built around 1520 with six gables and chimneys. The Crown and Anchor Hotel is on the left. Date: circa early 1900s

Commedia dell arte Characters
Four Characters from Commedia dell arte, an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theatres in the 16th18th centuries, based on stock characters

Robert Raikes House - an historic 16th century timber-framed town house at 36-38 Southgate Street, Gloucester. Date: circa 1907

English attack on Puerto Rico, Battle of San Juan, June 1598, part of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604). Date: 1598

Vessels of the Spanish Armada wrecked on the rocky Irish west coast after being driven there by storms, September 1588. Date: 1588

Tuaghs (from the Gaelic, tuagh-chatha), also known as Lochaber axes, a type of poleaxe, Scottish battle axes used in medieval times, preserved at Edinburgh

Sir John Bolle of Thorpe Hall, Louth, Lincolnshire
Sir John Bolle (?-1606) of Thorpe Hall, Louth, Lincolnshire. circa early 17th century

Portrait of a German maiden in late 16th century garb. She wears a lace ruff, a painted glass brooch with her own likeness, and holds a prayer book bound in painted parchment

Ceremonial dress of orders of chivalry, 16th century
Ceremonial robes of knights of the Golden Fleece A, Order of the Garter B, Teutonic Knights C, D, and sword and wreath of Georg Hund von Wenkheim E

Women of Venice dying their hair using a solana (a wide brim hat with a hole in the centre), one with a sponge A, and one with comb in front of a mirror after Cesare Vecellio B, and wooden comb C

Amy Robsart, first wife of Lord Robert Dudley
Amy Robsart (1532-1560), first wife of Lord Robert Dudley, favourite of Elizabeth I of England

Joust between Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Hereford
A joust between Thomas Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk and Henry Bolingbroke, the Duke of Hereford at Gosford Green in Coventry on 16th September 1398 to settle an argument is disrupted by King Richard

Virgin Mary with Santa Ines and Santa Tecla by El Greco (1541-1614) - canvas. Date: circa 1599

Harvard House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Built in 1596 by Thomas Rogers, grandfather of the benefactor of Harvard University, John Harvard. Date: circa 1910s

Astronomical Clock - Hampton Court Palace, London. Installed in 1540 on the gatehouse to the inner court. Designed by Nicholas Crazter and made by Nicholas Oursian

Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (1908-1975). Date: circa 1924

The signature of Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603). Date: late 16th century

Commedia dell arte Italian. 16th century. Engraving, 19th century. Colored

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (1503-1572). Engraving. Colored
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (1503-1572). Spanish admiral and governor. Engraving by Weber. The Artistic Illustration, 1886. Colored

Francisco Pizarro (1471 / 1476-1541)
Francisco Pizarro y Gonzalez, 1st Marquess of los Atabillos ( c.1471 or 1476-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima. Peru

Ufo / Trindade Island / 1958
Almiro Barauna aboard the ship Almirante Saldhana took six photographs of a UFO seen at Trindade Island near

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