Carved cassolette made from the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry tree mb-artistname E. Henry Karcher Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar'

Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar'

the former European figure skating champion

as Chief Minister of France in 1642

with St Paul's Cathedral and the Peckham School in the background

Carved cassolette made from the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry tree mb-artistname E. Henry Karcher Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar'Carved cassolette made from the wood of Shakespeare's mulberry tree, c18th century, (1840). Presented to David Garrick by the corporation of the borough, at the Shakespeare Jubilee, 3 May 1769. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).