The Motley Fool

schembart carnival costumes

illustrations from a schembartbuch, depicting costumes from the nuremberg 'schembartlauf' festival from the years 1449 to 1539. nuremberg, c. 1551-1600

floral initials

from a copy of plutarch’s de viris clarissimis. flanders, c. 1478-87

CRIMSON PEAK

ab. 1475-1480 The Cloisters Playing Cards by South Netherlandish master

King of Horns / Queen of Horns / Knave of Horns

King of Nooses / Queen of Nooses / Knave of Nooses

King of Collars / Queen of Collars / Knave of Collars

King of Tethers / Queen of Tethers / Knave of Tethers

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

‘How does my Lady’s Garden Grow?’

Coloured version and a line drawing to colour. Taken from  ‘Walter Crane’s Painting Book’ by Walter Crane.

Published 1889 by George Routledge & Sons.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

samson and the foxes // samson and delilah // samson destroying the philistine temple

illustrations from rüdiger schopf's copy of nicholas of lyra's postilla super totam bibliam, freiburg im breisgau, c. 1401