Plan of Shakspeare's birth-place
Item Information
- Title:
- Plan of Shakspeare's birth-place
- Title (alt.):
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Plan of Shakespeare's birth-place
- Description:
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William Shakespeare was born into a middle-class family in Elizabethan England, and grew up in a comfortable home on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon. The early 19th-century house plan displayed here shows what Shakespeare’s boyhood home looked like in 1824 – 260 years after his birth – along with neighboring properties and their owners. On the first floor there are a number of rooms in which to prepare food, such as a kitchen, pantry and buttery. These utilitarian rooms were separated from the living quarters, which were on the second floor. The glove shop run by Shakespeare’s father John was in the adjoining property.
- Cartographer:
- Hemings, W.
- Name on Item:
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W. Hemings delint.
- Date:
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1824
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Dramatists, English--Homes and haunts--England--Stratford-upon-Avon
Real property--England--Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Maps
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Places:
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EnglandWarwickshire (county)Stratford-upon-Avon
- Extent:
- 1 map : hand color ; 19 x 23 cm
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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[England?] :
[Publisher not identified]
- Scale:
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Scale approximately 1:260
- Language:
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English
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "Shakespeare's here and everywhere," organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2016-2017.
- Identifier:
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06_01_015829
- Call #:
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G5754.S85G46 1824 .H46
- Barcode:
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39999085940722
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