Elizabethan Collection (page 8)

Harrow Old Schools, the oldest part of Harrow public boys school, was built in 1572, when the school was founded. Appropriately, it contains the History Dept.!

Coronation Carving 1559
Detail of one of the carvings on an oak settle made to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I

Englishwoman 1580
The Elizabethan lady had a big choice what to wear - this wide rich gown and undergown set are utterly different from the farthingale look chosen by the more style-conscious

Englishman 1580
He wears the characteristic garments of the Elizabethan male - doublet with double linen collar where he might have worn a ruff : short cloak, elegant hose

Elizabeth I Deer Hunt
Queen Elizabeth I at a deer hunt. As a keen devotee of the sport, she hunted regularly until she was sixty-seven years old

Smithfield / Cloth Alley
A narrow London street, not greatly changed since Elizabethan times - Cloth Alley, Smithfield

England / Levens Hall
Levens Hall, Cumbria, an Elizabethan mansion famous for its topiary garden

Merton Hall 1930S
A garden party at Merton Hall, Norfolk, England. An Elizabethan mansion was completed by William de Grey in 1613 and the building was extended in the 19th century

Christmas Banquet C16
Trumpeters announce the arrival of the Boars Head, brought in procession to the Christmas diners in an Elizabethan hall

Marbles Championships
ENGLAND: RING TAW Good Friday at Tinsley Green, West Sussex a game of marbles is played. Originated in the Elizabethan era when 2 suitors played for the hand of a girl

Marbles Cotest / 1950
ENGLAND: RING TAW Good Friday at Tinsley Green, West Sussex a game of marbles is played. Originated in the Elizabethan era when 2 suitors played for the hand of a girl

Marbles Contest / 1950
ENGLAND: RING TAW Good Friday at Tinsley Green, West Sussex a game of marbles is played. Originated in the Elizabethan era when 2 suitors played for the hand of a girl

Ellen Terry / P&p Beatrice
Dame ALICE ELLEN TERRY English actress in the role of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing

Vivien Leigh / Elizabethan
VIVIEN LEIGH English actress of stage and film in Fire Over England (1936)

Armada / Spanish Attacked
THE SPANISH ARMADA The Spanish fleet attacked by the English ships in the Channel

Montacute Post Office
A Post Office situated within an elegant Elizabethan building at Montacute, South Somerset. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Montacute House, England
Montacute House, situated in the South Somerset village of Montacute. A fantastic example of late Elizabethan architecture The three floored mansion, constructed of local Ham Hill stone

Costume / Women 1590
Two Englishwomen of the Elizabethan period

Bruce Castle, 1656
An Elizabethan manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, associated with the Bruce family : much changed during its history, but luckily still exists today as a museum

Owen Jones Elizabethan
Designs copied from needlework, tapestry, diapers, drapery and dress patterns

Elizabethan Falconer
An Elizabethan falconer with his bird

Jean De Reszke / Vfair 91
JEAN DE RESZKE (Jan Mieczyslaw) Polish tenor, popular in Paris, London and New York

Anne of Denmark / Ful-Lgth
QUEEN OF JAMES I Daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway; married James I in 1589

Anne of Denmark Costume
Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI of Scotland/ I of England, wears the farthingale which is de rigueur for ladies of rank : they can be more than a metre wide !

Late 16th Century Woman
A young lady of the Elizabethan period, playing her lute

Grape-Trimmed Dress 1840
Dress adorned with bunches of grapes: with a lace falling tucker, pointed waist & short puffed sleeves. The skirt is pinned up on one side. Worn with a plumed tudor style hat

Swedish School 1555
The class listens intently to the teacher who is holding a cane

Lord Mayor & Aldermen
A Lord Mayor and two aldermen of the Elizabethan period

Street Pedlar C16
FINE KNACKS FOR LADIES A street pedlar of Elizabethan times - illustrating a song by John Dowland

Wimbledon Manor House built by Sir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter in 1588, re-modelled and then demolished in 1732 to make way for a new building

Smoking / Drinking C1600
A mens smoking party in late Elizabethan/early Jacobean times

16th Century Style
A dining room in the Elizabethan style, designed by Trollope Studios

Costume C16 & C17 / Strutt
Examples of English costume of the 16th and 17th centuries according to a later source

Hereford Butcher Row
An splendid example of Elizabethan domestic architecture in Butcher Row, Hereford : several market traders are active in the foreground

16th Century Yule Log
A Christmas party in Elizabethan times : the traditional Yule Log is dragged into the Great Hall of an Elizabethan mansion

Accession of Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth Is accession to the throne is marked by rejoicing among the people; here petals are strewn in front of her horse

16th Century / Drinking
A group of men drinking

London / View / Elizabethan
A plan of London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Maypole (Nash)
Dancing round the maypole on the village green, in Elizabethan times

Christmas / Mummers
Mummers perform in the courtyard of an Elizabethan manor house

Elizabethan Sailor / Symon
An Elizabethan sailor

17th Earl of Oxford
Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Writer

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Walsingham, English statesman, Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, popularly referred to as her Spymaster

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