3-075-102 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Tudor Exhibition: relics of the sixteenth century, 1890. 'Katherine Parr's Jug (Glass with Metal Mountings); Hand-Buckler or Target for use with the Sword; Tooth of Katherine Parr; Henry VIIIth's Hat (Crimson Plush, and Green Feather); Anne Boleyn's Shoes; Anne Boleyn's toilet case, ivory comb etc; Blue and white Porcelain Ewer (Silver-gilt Mountings, circa 1570; Spoon from a Ship of the Spanish Armada; Jewelled Dagger of Henry the Eighth (Oriental workmanship); White Feather Tippet (with Blood-stains on it) Taken from the Shoulders of Anne Boleyn on the morning of her Execution; The Garrick Vase carved from Mulberry Tree planted by Shakespeare; Henry VIIIth's Shoes (Embroidered velvet - with Silver Heels and Silver on edge of Soles); The Cat that fed Sir Henry Wyatt - when imprisoned in the Tower "This Knight with hunger, cold, and care, neere starv'd, pincht pin'de away, I Sillie Beast did feede, heate, cheere with [?], warmth, and playe"...At the other side of the room we find the celebrated hat of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn's shoes, which were given by the King to Nicholas Bristowe...the formidable velvet and silver shoes which Henry VIII. wore at the Field of the Cloth of Gold...There are various relics of Katherine Parr...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.