Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...
Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection, mostly amassed during the reign of Charles II, including show-stopping sheets from ...
He simply couldn’t help himself. The Royal Collection has an extraordinary number of Renaissance drawings – thanks in large part to Charles II – and here, brought together, are 160 of them showing the ...