home » Literature & theater
![PLIT2A-00045](/t/473/plit2a-00045-5881442.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00045</figcaption></b><br>Title page of the 1605 "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00045
5881442
Lindisfarne Gospels page
5881564
Immanuel Kant
5882005
![Beowulf manuscript page](/t/473/beowulf-manuscript-page-5882365.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Beowulf manuscript page</figcaption></b><br>Page from the Old English manuscript of "Beowulf" in the British Museum. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
Beowulf manuscript page
5882365
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5882319
Edgar Allen Poe
5882269
PLIT2A-00106
5882249
![PLIT2C-00110](/t/473/plit2c-00110-5882111.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2C-00110</figcaption></b><br>Walt Whitman and his first edition title page of "Leaves of Grass." Composite art of hand-colored woodcut and document<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2C-00110
5882111
Jane Austin
5881474
PANC2A-00033
5878352
Dante
5882135
Samuel Johnson
5882127
PSOC2A-00005
5882009
Hegel
5881998
Nietzsche
5881995
Wealthy opera-goers, 1900
5881987
PLIT2A-00050
5882361
![PLIT2A-00051](/t/473/plit2a-00051-5882355.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00051</figcaption></b><br>Title page of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning," 1633. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00051
5882355
Sleeping Beauty
5882349
![PLIT2A-00058](/t/473/plit2a-00058-5882337.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00058</figcaption></b><br>Ship in stormy seas from Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century Gustave Dore illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00058
5882337
PLIT2A-00068
5882331
PLIT2A-00061
5882325
![Hand-colored woodcut](/t/473/hand-colored-woodcut-5882313.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Hand-colored woodcut</figcaption></b><br>Gulliver in Lilliput, from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." Hand-colored woodcut of a Thomas Stothard illustration <br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
Hand-colored woodcut
5882313
PLIT2A-00076
5882311
Charles Dickens writing
5882305
![PLIT2A-00079](/t/473/plit2a-00079-5882297.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00079</figcaption></b><br>Opening page of "Hamlet," from Shakespeare's First Quarto. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00079
5882297
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5882293
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5882285
![PLIT2A-00100](/t/473/plit2a-00100-5882279.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00100</figcaption></b><br>Title page of Shakespeare's "Sonnets," London, 1609, first edition. Woodcut reproduction witih a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00100
5882279
PLIT2A-00090
5882275
PLIT2A-00109
5882245
![PLIT2A-00110](/t/473/plit2a-00110-5882241.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00110</figcaption></b><br>First edition title page of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," 1855. Hand-colored woodcut.<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00110
5882241
PLIT2A-00108
5882235
PLIT2A-00107
5882229
PLIT2A-00125
5882225
PLIT2A-00117
5882219
PLIT2A-00112
5882213
PLIT2A-00111
5882203
Louisa May Alcott
5882201
PLIT2A-00197
5882197
Rabelais
5882193
PLIT2A-00162
5882189
![Daniel Defoe](/t/473/daniel-defoe-5882183.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Daniel Defoe</figcaption></b><br>Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe." Digitally colored engraving of a portrait<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
Daniel Defoe
5882183
Hans Christian Andersen
5882179
Poet Robert Burns
5882175
PLIT2A-00207
5882169
Robert Burns' poem illustration
5882145
Erasmus
5882131
PLIT2D-00001
5882123
Mark Twain
5882103
PLIT2D-00004
5882097
Harriet Beecher Stowe
5882095
Dante
5882091
PMYT2A-00037
5882087
PMYT2A-00035
5882083
PMYT2A-00036
5882079
![PMYT2A-00065](/t/473/pmyt2a-00065-5882075.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PMYT2A-00065</figcaption></b><br>Giant octopus attacking the submarine "Nautilus" in Jules Verne's book, "10,000 Leagues under the Sea," edition of 1873, Paris. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PMYT2A-00065
5882075
PMYT2A-00057
5882073
![PMYT2A-00056](/t/473/pmyt2a-00056-5882057.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PMYT2A-00056</figcaption></b><br>"Open, Sesame" password allowing Forty Thieves to stash their plunder in one of thei 1001 Arabian Nights tales. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PMYT2A-00056
5882057
PREV2A-00032
5882051
Gutenberg Bible page
5882049
PSCI2A-00031
5882025
![PREV2A-00045](/t/473/prev2a-00045-5882019.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PREV2A-00045</figcaption></b><br>Title page of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack," 1733. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PREV2A-00045
5882019
PSOC2A-00001
5882015
PSOC2A-00004
5882002
Thomas Hobbes
5882001
Malthus
5881997
David Hume
5881996
SOAR2A-00027
5881993
Rousseau
5881990
PSOC2A-00074
5881988
Globe Theatre in London
5881983
Schoolbook page, 1870s
5881961
New England Primer page
5881955
Scribner's magazine 1897
5881696
Secondhand bookstore, 1800s
5881688
BUSN2A-00065
5881682
Writing with a quill pen
5881678
BUSN2A-00090
5881672
Printed color lithograph
5881656
BUSN2A-00155
5881642
Old books
5881630
Java dancers and actors
5881592
HREC2A-00028
5881586
PBIB2A-00014
5881546
PLIT2A-00003
5881540
Erasmus
5881532
PLIT2A-00004
5881526
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5881522
![PLIT2A-00008](/t/473/plit2a-00008-5881516.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>PLIT2A-00008</figcaption></b><br>Tiny Tim carried in celebration, from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Hand-colored photogravure reproduction of a 19th-century illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
PLIT2A-00008
5881516
PLIT2A-00017
5881510
PLIT2A-00011
5881508
Scene from The Scarlet Letter
5881504
Erasmus' Colloquies
5881502
PLIT2A-00031
5881500
PLIT2A-00022
5881496
PLIT2A-00025
5881490
PLIT2A-00032
5881488
![Scene from a Moliere play](/t/473/scene-moliere-play-5881482.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Scene from a Moliere play</figcaption></b><br>Stage scene from Moliere's comedy, "Les Precieuses Ridicules." Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
Scene from a Moliere play
5881482
![A Moliere comedy performed](/t/473/moliere-comedy-performed-5881478.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>A Moliere comedy performed</figcaption></b><br>Theatrical production of "Les Fourberies de Scapin," a play by Moliere. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
A Moliere comedy performed
5881478
PLIT2A-00039
5881468
PLIT2A-00044
5881462
PLIT2A-00043
5881456
Francis Bacon
5881450
![Dante fragment, 14th century](/t/473/dante-fragment-14th-century-5881444.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Dante fragment, 14th century</figcaption></b><br>Fragment of Dante's "Divina Commedia" manuscript, 1300s. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
Dante fragment, 14th century
5881444
PPRT2A-00003
5880585
Puss-in-Boots
5878503
PANC2A-00055
5878290
PANC2A-00115
5878288
Plato
5878284
PANC2A-00086
5878258
PANC2A-00071
5878254
Assyrian or Babylonian scribes
5878037
navigation back to top
Literature & theater
141 Items
!['Scarlet Letter' protagonist Hester Prynne](/t/473/scarlet-letter-protagonist-hester-prynne-5882263.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>"Scarlet Letter" protagonist Hester Prynne</figcaption></b><br>Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl, from Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter". Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
![Latin grammar page from Gutenberg's press](/t/473/latin-grammar-page-gutenbergs-press-5882043.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Latin grammar page from Gutenberg's press</figcaption></b><br>Page of the "Grammaire Latine" by Donatus, published by Gutenberg. Woodcut with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
![Hutchinson's account of Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s](/t/473/hutchinsons-account-massachusetts-bay-colony-5881953.jpg "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Hutchinson's account of Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s</figcaption></b><br>Title page of Thomas Hutchinson's "History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay," first published in 1764. Woodcut with a watercolor wash<br><em>© North Wind Picture Archives</em>")
