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Birthplace of William Shakespeare, Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon
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NOTES: This is one of the five Shakespeare houses in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, together with Havard House, owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust that cares for Shakespeare's heritage.
St Andrew Undershaft, Leadenhall Street, City of London: detail of the monument to John Stow (d.1605) portrayed seated at a table writing
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NOTES: John Stow (c.1525-1605), antiquarian and historian, was the author of 'The Survey of London', published in 1598.
Dante drawing an angel on the anniversary of Beatrice's death for a translation of Dante's 'Vita Nuova'
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NOTES: In 1848, Rossetti translated Dante's 'Vita Nuova' (The New Life) into English and planned a series of pictorial designs to accompany it. The verso of this drawing features a head and shoulders portrait of a girl.