The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe
Object study 1: Panyer Alley Boy, carved stone relief, seventeenth century(?), mounted onto the external wall of a modern building (now a coffee-shop) in Panyer Alley, London.
Object study 2: Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde, or Pocket Atlas, 1603, by Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598), London, 13 cm x 17 cm x 3.2 cm. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, SBT 83081313 (SR 87).
Object study 3: Unknown artist [printmaker was probably Martin Droeshout after Crispijn de Passe the Elder], the Persian Sibyl banquet trencher, c.1601–c.1625, wood with applied print and black ink, diameter 13.5 cm. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Object study 4: ‘Witch-bottle’, maker unknown, Frechen stoneware (Holmes type IX). Height 9 inches. Museum of London, Museum no. 18013. Image © Annie Thwaite, 2014.
Object study 5: Drug jar, tin-glazed earthenware, Deruta, Italy, 1501, 32 cm x 21.5 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum Number, C.132–1931. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Object study 6: Robart Mindum (maker), shoe horn, dated 1612, held at the Museum of Design in Plastics, on permanent loan from the Worshipful Company of Horners. Image credit: Museum of Design in Plastics, Arts University Bournemouth.
Object study 7: Plate, painted maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Italian, 23 cm diameter, Victoria and Albert Museum, C.312–1931. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Object study 8: A baby’s shoe, c.1600s, 15 cm x 8 cm and 12 cm x 6 cm. No accession numbers, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Object study 9: Detail from The Nuns Book: Directions for Weaving Watch Strings, anonymous, seventeenth century, English manuscript, instruction book, 12 pages, ink on paper with 35 silk samples, unbound, unpaginated, 30 cm x 20 cm. Photograph by Jan Sibthorpe © The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2008.67.1.
Object study 10: Balsambüchse, unknown maker, seventeenth century, Germany, partially gilt silver, Science Museum London, Image © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library.
Object study 11: Helmet, Italian, sixteenth century with later alterations. Author’s photograph reproduced courtesy of Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery.
Object Study 12: Beeldenkast, Dutch, dated 1622, oak, dimensions: 243.8 cm (height), 210.8 cm (width), 88.9 cm (depth), Metropolitan Museum, New York. Accession Number: 64.81. Image provided through Open Access for Scholarly Content via the website: www.metmuseum.org.
Object study 13: Mirror with embroidered frame, worked on satin with silk, chenille threads, purl, shells, wood, beads, mica, feathers, bone or coral (60.3 cm x 50.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, Accession Number 64.101.1332. Image provided through Open Access for Scholarly Content via the website: www.metmuseum.org.