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Notable Intaglio
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WHEN MEMBERS of the nation's largest coin organization gather in
Chicago next month, federal officials will be on hand to sell cards
bearing a reproduction of a rare 1878 $5,000 U.S. note.
The notes, bearing James Madison's portrait and selling for $4
each, are part of a series of souvenir sheets that the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing issues at a half-dozen coin and stamp shows
each year. Like the currency and stamps that the bureau long has
produced, the cards illustrate the fine art of intaglio printing, a
craft that has won the bureau followers in both numismatics and
philately.
But ...
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Touching touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute.(character in Renaissance English dramatist John Ford's 1634 play 'The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck')
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...sight, The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck seems to be the only one of John...by her husband to another man. Perkin Warbeck, by contrast, presents a cast...being devoid of sexual deviancy, Perkin Warbeck actually encodes a transgressive...
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The Execution of Perkin Warbeck November 23rd, 1499.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...NOVEMBER 23RD, 1499, Perkin Warbeck was drawn on a hurdle...have been employed. Warbeck and Warwick were confined...neighbouring cells and one of Perkin's erstwhile supporters...found guilty of treason. Perkin Warbeck was hanged on November...
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The politics of ambivalence: romance, history, and gender in Mary W. Shelley's Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
Magazine article from: CLIO
; ...historical romance, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, elicited reviews that questioned...in establishing the context for Perkin Warbeck's subsequent neglect by almost...purposefully and consciously crafted Perkin Warbeck as a literary laboratory wherein...
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The end of the English history play in Perkin Warbeck.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; John Ford's Perkin Warbeck has been called a "fascinating oddity...been out of favor. (1) What makes Perkin Warbeck an anomaly, an "oddity," is that...effective dramatist. (2) What makes Perkin Warbeck more than an anachronistic return...
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The man who would be king Blair Worden praises this vivid Life of Perkin Warbeck, the Flemish boatman's son who staked a claim for Henry VII's throne
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; Perkin: A Story of Deception by Ann Wroe Jonathan...pretenders, gamblers. The pretender Perkin Warbeck, in his royal guise was, like Henry...contemptuously put to work in the royal kitchens. Warbeck affected to be Richard Duke of York...
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The Perfect Prince: the Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; THE PERFECT PRINCE: THE MYSTERY OF PERKIN WARBECK AND HIS QUEST FOR THE THRONE OF ENGLAND. Ann Wroe...but intriguing figure in English history: baseborn Perkin Warbeck or Richard Plantagenet, one of the two little princes...
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Conspirator Perkin Warbeck captured. (English history)(Freeze Frame: October 5th, 1497)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today
; Perkin Warbeck's capture in Beaulieu by Henry VII...retaken shortly afterwards. The tale of Perkin Warbeck, though riddled with failure and defeat...twenty-five-year-old pretender Perkin Warbeck finally nullified in November 1499...
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Perkin's princely plot.(Television Program Review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...was really an imposter called Perkin Warbeck. The programme consisted largely...Argentine, closely observed by Warbeck's champion, the oleaginous...attempt was made to explain why Perkin Warbeck had gone to such lengths to pass...
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Books: The fairytale prince in a world of mud, superstition and bad drains Enigmatic to the end: Bill Saunders admires an engaging account of the impostor who almost fooled them all
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; For most people Perkin Warbeck orbits at the outer edges of the memory...and engaging book seeks to restore Perkin's claim to significance, if not to the throne itself. Perkin impersonated Richard, Duke of York...
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Did one of the princes get away? Everyone knows the story of the little princes murdered in the Tower. But were they really killed? A compelling new TV drama suggests that a Pretender, who claimed to have survived, was actually telling the truth. NIGEL JONES reports.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Pretender' is known to history as Perkin Warbeck - but many think this was not...wronged royal? Who was the real Perkin Warbeck and why did he attract so much...Six years into Henry's reign, Perkin Warbeck emerged, claiming that he was...
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