Питер Акройд (Peter Ackroyd)
Illustrations
“Trees V: Spreading Branches,” 1979, by Henry Moore (Tate, London 2002) Twelfth-century spiral markings, church of St. Laurence Pittington, County Durham (Peter Burton and Harland Walshaw)
Ornamental page with the beginning of the Gospel according to John, from the Lindisfarne Gospels (AKG/British Library)
Photograph of Charles Dickens dreaming, 1861, by John and Charles Watkins (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Stone portrait of John Donne in his shroud, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London (London UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Ornamental page with monogram from the Lindisfarne Gospels (AKG/British Library)
“Sir Bedivere throws the sword Excalibur into the water.” Manuscript illumination, early fourteenth century (AKG/British Library)
Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII (National Portrait Gallery, London, loan, courtesy of private collection)
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert dressed as Queen Guinevere and King Arthur, at the Bal Costumé of 12 May 1842, by Edwin Landseer (from the Royal Collection by gracious permission of Her Majesty the Queen)
“Figure of Guinevere,” circa 1858, by William Morris (Tate, London 2002)
“Guenever”: illustration to the Arthurian legend, by David Jones (Tate, London 2002)
“Babooneries”: photographs by Peter Burton/Harland Walshaw and a selection of details from the Luttrell Psalter, c. 1340 (AKG/British Library) The Chapter House of Wells Cathedral (Peter Burton and Harland Walshaw)
“Sir Jeffery Chaucer and the Nine and Twenty Pilgrims on their Journey to Canterbury,” by William Blake, detail (Glasgow Museums, Stirling Maxwell Collection)
“Longways Dance” by Thomas Rowlandson (Tate, London 2002)
Thomas Tallis and William Byrd (Lebrecht Music Collection) Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, by Nicholas Hilliard (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Edmund Spenser, engraving by George Vertue, 1727 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
William Shakespeare, seventeenth-century engraving by Martin Droeshout (National Portrait Gallery, London)
“Britannia”: frontispiece illustration to William Camden’s Britannia, 1600, by John Stow (Guildhall Library, Corporation of London)