Ages Collection (#12)

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Wife of Baths Tale (left). Also including the Knight solving the riddle (centre) and the Knight on his travels (right). Date: 14th century

View of St Katharines Hospital, Regents Park, London
View of the Royal Hospital of St Katharine, Regents Park, London. It was founded in the 12th century by Queen Matilda, wife of King Stephen

Interior, St Marys Church, Stone, near Dartford, Kent
Interior view of St Marys Church, Stone, near Dartford, Kent, nicknamed the Lantern of Kent, dating back to the 13th century. Date: circa 1845

Doorway, St Marys Church, Stone, near Dartford, Kent
Doorway at St Marys Church, Stone, near Dartford, Kent, nicknamed the Lantern of Kent, dating back to the 13th century. Date: circa 1845

The British Valhalla -- King Canute (Cnut) the Great, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

Effigy of King Edward II in Gloucester Cathedral
Effigy of King Edward II on his tomb in Gloucester Cathedral. Date: 14th century

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Man of Laws Tale, about the life of Constance, or Custance, Christian daughter of the emperor of Rome

The British Valhalla -- King Alfred reading to his mother, Queen Osburh or Osburga, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes. 9th century

The British Valhalla -- King Alfred, coming to the Danish camp as a minstrel, and (right) hailed as the saviour of his people (meeting with the Welsh monk, Asser, who wrote a biography of the King)

View of St Nicholas Church, Barfreston, Kent
View from the south-east of St Nicholas Church, Barfreston (Barfrestone), near Eythorne, Kent, a Norman church dating back to the 12th century. Date: circa 1845

The British Valhalla -- conversion to Christianity
The British Valhalla -- the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon people (Paulinus before Edwin), a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Knights Tale. Palamon in the Temple of Mars, Arcite in the Temple of Venus. Date: 1845

The British Valhalla -- two knights reading history book
The British Valhalla -- two knights reading a history book of Britain, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes

The British Valhalla -- Spensers Faerie Queene, a suggestion for the scheme to decorate the newly built Houses of Parliament with frescoes. Date: 1845

Portable shrine of Ethelbert, King of the East Angles
Portable shrine or pyx of Ethelbert, King of the East Angles (Kent). Date: circa 1845

View of Tonbridge Castle, Tonbridge, Kent, by this time accessible via the new railway from London to Dover. Date: 1843

St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, Kent
St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, Tonbridge, Kent, by this time accessible via the new railway from London to Dover. Date: 1843

Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist
Giotto di Bondone (c1267-1337), Italian painter and architect. Seen here with two angels below. Date: 13th-14th century

Giovanni Cimabue, Italian artist
Giovanni Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo, c1240-1302), Italian artist and designer of mosaics, based in Florence, Italy. Date: 13th century

Jean Froissart presenting book to King Richard II
Jean Froissart presenting his book of Amours and Moralities to King Richard II. 1395

Jean Froissart reading to Gaston de Foix after supper
Jean Froissart reading from his Chronicles at the court of Gaston de Foix at Orthez, south-west France, after supper. 1388

Jean Froissart and Sir Espaing de Lyon on their way to the court of Gaston de Foix at Orthez, south-west France. 1388

Philip van Artevelde of Ghent addressing the people during the Flemish revolt against the French, as reported in Froissarts Chronicles. circa 1381

King Edward III and the Countess of Salisbury -- the origin of the Order of the Garter, as mentioned in Froissarts Chronicles. circa 1348

Sweetheart Abbey, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
Sweetheart Abbey, or New Abbey, a Cistercian abbey near Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, dating back to the 13th century. Date: 1842

Ruins of the medieval castles at Lichtenstein and Falkensten
Ruins of the medieval castle at Lichtenstein, Germany, 333, and ruins of Falkensten Castle, Austria, 334. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of

Ruins of ancient knights castles. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages

Ruins of an ancient knights castle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages

Norman furniture and a king on his throne
Norman furniture: tressel 265, throne 266, church candlesticks 267, 268, clay vessels 269-274, and a Norman king on a throne 275

Frankish architecture and Norman clothing
Frankish open winged building 205, a Norman chainmail shirt 206, Norman monk 207, and Norman short tunic 208. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of

Tomb of King Dagobert I (603-639AD) in the Basilica of St. Denis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Charlemagnes sword, sheath and hilt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages

Varnished soft-paste plate decorated with tulip pattern, Middle Ages. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur

Ceramic tiles with heraldic designs, Middle Ages. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur, Paris, 1874

King Rudolph II, 1552-1612, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Archduke of Austria. In lace ruff, plate armour decorated with gold, slashed padded hose and chainmail socks

Young Furst or nobleman in his student days, wearing precious hat, doublet, hose and cape. From a lifesize oil painting in Nuremburg Museum

City ironsmith Niklas Ruhl and his wife standing
City burgher and ironsmith Niklas Ruhl and his wife standing beside his coat of arms. From an Aschaffenburg Guild Book. He holds a golden lily, and she a rose

Noblewoman from Naples and bourgeois woman of Rome, late 16th century. From miniature paintings in the Stammbuch (Friendship Book) of Andreas Heidenreich von Pidenegg

Heraldic shield of a gunmaster from an art book on the founding of Aschaffenburg. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Oil paintings of children and women, late 16th century. Two-year old child A, one-year old child B, noble woman C, and Sabine of Wurttemberg, Landgravine of Hesse D

Doge and Dogaressa of Venice, and state barge, 16th century
Doge and Dogaressa of Venice, and the state barge or bucentaur, 16th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century

Spanish noblewomen in summer and winter clothes
Spanish noblewomen in summer clothes (left) and winter clothes (right), late 16th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Italian soldiers and helmet, late 16th century
Italian soldier in day wear with sword and dagger A, Italian soldier in battle dress with matchlock musket, wheellock pistol, sword, helm and breastplate B, and Italian helmet C

Festive costume of Conrad Pistor of the Kremer Guild, 1588
Festive costume of Conrad Pistor of the Kremer Guild in 1588, with his coat of arms with ploughshare, indicating blacksmith. From an Aschaffenburg guild book

George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Funeral sculptures of George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and his wife Magdalena of Lippe. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Three women in Venetian dress from the Harlequinade, or Italian comic theatre. From a mural in the Fools Staircase in Klaussnitz Castle

Foppish Pantaloon, Columbine in Italian dress and Pierrot with lute from the Harlequinade, or Italian comic theatre. From oil paintings in Kraussnitz Castle

Noble women of Senez, Provence, and German
Noble women of Senez, Provence, one riding sidesaddle with a page, and another walking with a boy (top) and German women of the same era from Jost Ammans playing cards

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