Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Thew, After Matthew William Peters, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

The Meeting, a man bows before a seated woman at center, while couples wearing masks converse in the background

Charles Joseph Flipart, After Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), Joseph Wagner

The Resentment of Queen Catherine (Paul de Rapin, History of England)

John Ogborne, After William Hamilton, John Thane

Hero Fainting in Church (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1)

Peter Simon, After William Hamilton, John & Josiah Boydell, William Shakespeare

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

William Hogarth, Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, William Shakespeare

Mary, Queen of Scots kneeling on the scaffold

William Nelson Gardiner, After John Francis Rigaud, Tebaldo Monzani, Mary, Queen of Scots

Shylock's House–Shylock, Jessica and Launcelot (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 5)

Peter Simon, After Robert Smirke, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

The Conclusion of the Treaty of Troyes

Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, After William Hamilton

Olivia and Viola

William Hamilton

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

After William Hogarth

Bayard Refusing the Presents of His Hostess, in Brescia

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

The Wedding of Lismahago and Tabitha, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1. 1793

Charles Grignion, I, After Thomas Rowlandson, James Sibbald