Sixteenth Collection (#6)

Portrait of Michelangelo (print)
3794179 Portrait of Michelangelo (print); (add.info.: Michelangelo - Italian artist Italian sculptor, painter, architect. M: 6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564); Lebrecht History

La Gaillarde
3782184 La Gaillarde; (add.info.: La Gaillarde, reproduced from an engraving in Thoinot Arbeau's Orchesographie, a study of late sixteenth century French Renaissance social dance)

Venice - St. Mark's Place with cathedral and gondolas, 16th century (engraving)
3794131 Venice - St. Mark's Place with cathedral and gondolas, 16th century (engraving); (add.info.: Venice - St. Mark's Place with cathedral and gondolas, 16th century. St Marks Square)

Spur maker
3782195 Spur maker; (add.info.: Spur maker by Jost Amman, reproduced from a sixteenth century engraving. Swiss artist, 13 June, 1539 - 17 March, 1591)

Goldsmith
3782188 Goldsmith; (add.info.: Goldsmith by Jost Amman, from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Conquest of Mexico: Cortes arresting the king Montezuma II, 1519 (chromo)
3788704 Conquest of Mexico: Cortes arresting the king Montezuma II, 1519 (chromo) by Unknown Artist, (19th century); (add.info.: Cortez takes Montezuma prisoner (French)

Gypsies - male and female gypsies fortune telling, 1552 (engraving)
3794142 Gypsies - male and female gypsies fortune telling, 1552 (engraving); (add.info.: Gypsies - male and female gypsies fortune telling, 1552)

Gypsy man washing his hands in molten lead, as was believed in the 16th century, 1560 (engraving)
3794140 Gypsy man washing his hands in molten lead, as was believed in the 16th century, 1560 (engraving); (add.info.: Gypsy stereotype -Gypsy man washing his hands in molten lead)

Basin maker
3782196 Basin maker; (add.info.: Basin maker by Jost Amman, from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Sword maker
3782194 Sword maker; (add.info.: Sword maker from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Needle maker
3782190 Needle maker; (add.info.: Needle maker from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Carpenter
3782198 Carpenter; (add.info.: Carpenter, reproduced from the original drawing by Michael Wolgemut (Wohlgemuth) in the Chronique de Nuremburg'. German printmaker and painter, 1434 - 1519

Coppersmith
3782197 Coppersmith; (add.info.: Coppersmith by Jost Amman, from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

Court Fool
3782179 Court Fool; (add.info.: Court Fool, reproduced from a woodcut in a 1552 folio of Sebastian Munster's Cosmographie Universelle)

Barber
3782187 Barber; (add.info.: Barber from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...), Collection of woodcuts by Jost Amman (13 June 1539 -17 March 1591)

William Kempe dancing the Morris
3789545 William Kempe dancing the Morris; (add.info.: William Kempe, or Kemp, dancing the Morris. English actor and dancer specialising in comic roles)

William Kempe dancing the Morris
3789584 William Kempe dancing the Morris; (add.info.: William Kempe, or Kemp, dancing the Morris. English actor and dancer specialising in comic roles)

The Brewer
3782174 The Brewer; (add.info.: The Brewer from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...), Collection of woodcuts by Jost Amman (13 June 1539 -17 March 1591)

Portrait of queen Elizabeth I of England (print)
3781846 Portrait of queen Elizabeth I of England (print); (add.info.: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death)

The Great Pond At Elvetham In 1591, The Scene Of The Entertainment Given By The Earl Of Hertford During The Visit Of Elizabeth I. The Queens Presence Seat And Her Attendants At A, Top Left

St. Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire
16th century St. Botolph's Church (the Boston Stump'), Boston, Lincolnshire. The church has one of the tallest medieval towers in the country

Sports for the New Year in the Sixteenth Century Date: 1854

Monastery of Santa Maria. Cloister of the Porteria. Built between 1575 and 1578 in Renaissance style. It is attributed to the master Juan de la Sierra the Elder

Hall's Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare's daughter Susanna (1583-1649), after her marriage to John Hall in 1607. Date: 1954

The Great Bed of Ware, once belonging to the Saracen's Head Inn, was later kept at Rye House. Nowadays it resides at the V&A Museum. Date: circa 1954

16th century riding stirrup found on Hamden Hill
Sixteenth century ornate riding stirrup found on Hamden Hill, Somerset. Date: 16th century

The hull of a Venetian galleon Date: 1564

Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599. English renaissance poet. From an illustration by A. S. Hartrick
3052762 Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599. English renaissance poet. From an illustration by A.S. Hartrick. by Hartrick, Archibald Standish (1864-1950); Private Collection

Robert Herrick, 1591-1674. Seventeenth century cavalier poet. From an illustration by A. S. Hartrick
3052771 Robert Herrick, 1591-1674. Seventeenth century cavalier poet. From an illustration by A.S. Hartrick by Hartrick, Archibald Standish (1864-1950); Private Collection

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Galileo Galilei and John Milton, 1921 (chromo)
3780094 Galileo Galilei and John Milton, 1921 (chromo); (add.info.: John Milton pays a visit to Galileo Galilei, who explains his theories to him)

Mary Tudor, 1496 - 1533
3116261 Mary Tudor, 1496 - 1533.; Private Collection; (add.info.: Queen of France as the third wife of Louis XII of France. Hand writing sample and signature.)

Edward VI, 1537 - 1553. King of England and Ireland. Hand writing sample and signature
3116257 Edward VI, 1537 - 1553. King of England and Ireland. Hand writing sample and signature.; Private Collection

Catherine of Navarre, 1468 - 1517
3116244 Catherine of Navarre, 1468 - 1517.; Private Collection; (add.info.: Queen of Navarre. Hand writing sample and signature.)

Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp, 1539 - 1621. Hand writing sample and signature
3116204 Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp, 1539 - 1621. Hand writing sample and signature.; Private Collection

Queen Elizabeth I of England, 1533 - 1603. Hand writing sample
3116247 Queen Elizabeth I of England, 1533 - 1603. Hand writing sample.; Private Collection

Hand writing sample of Catherine of Aragon, 1485 - 1536, also known as Katherine or Katharine, Queen of England
5916637 Hand writing sample of Catherine of Aragon, 1485 - 1536, also known as Katherine or Katharine, Queen of England; Private Collection; (add.info.: Catherine of Aragon, 1485 - 1536)

Hunting alligators in the Southern States of America, from an illustration in the 16th century book De Bry's
878572 Hunting alligators in the Southern States of America, from an illustration in the 16th century book De Bry's Travels. From The Strand Magazine published 1897

Hand writing sample of Queen Elizabeth I of England, 1533 - 1603
5916638 Hand writing sample of Queen Elizabeth I of England, 1533 - 1603; Private Collection; (add.info.: Queen Elizabeth I of England, 1533 - 1603. Hand writing sample.); Photo © Ken Welsh

Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, aka Margaret of Lancaster, 1443 -1509
3116272 Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, aka Margaret of Lancaster, 1443 -1509.; Private Collection; (add.info.: Mother of King Henry VII. Hand writing sample and signature.)

The rich man and Lazarus (oil on panel)
3930927 The rich man and Lazarus (oil on panel); 115x171 cm; National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; (add.info.: Gospel according to St Luke)

Queen Elizabeth I enters London, 23 December 1558
3785674 Queen Elizabeth I enters London, 23 December 1558; (add.info.: Queen Elizabeth I enters London, 23 December 1558. On horseback accompanied by her court)

The Baker. 19th century reproduction of 16th century (engraving)
3052931 The Baker. 19th century reproduction of 16th century (engraving) by Amman, Jost (1539-91) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: engraving by Jost Amman)

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer
3785219 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer; (add.info.: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Protestant reformer and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII)

Philip II of Spain
3785218 Philip II of Spain; (add.info.: Philip II of Spain. King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily. Husband to Mary I of England (1556-1558). 21 May 1527 - 13 September 1598

King James I
3784953 King James I; (add.info.: King James I. Became King James VI of Scotland in 1567 and then inherited the Crown of England and Ireland as James I)

The Baker, 1568 (engraving)
3782498 The Baker, 1568 (engraving) by Amman, Jost (1539-91); (add.info.: The Baker from the Book of Trades / Das Standebuch (Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum...)

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