Artifacts
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-09-16.
This section includes a page on online lists of artifacts and pages on categories of artifacts such as postcards, souvenir items, prints, paper toys, plastics toys, casts, costumes, sports paraphernalia, means of transport etc. There will also be a page on unique (art) items such as paintings, statues etc. There is as yet little if any general criticism.
Lists
These are all listings at online auction sites.
- eBay.com: Robin Hood. At any given time a search for "Robin Hood" at eBay.com yields the fullest list of artifacts relating to the outlaw that can currently be found.
Mass-produced artifacts
Cigarette cards
Beer and ale
Means of payment
Discussion
- Christy, Miller. The Trade Signs of Essex: A Popular Account of the Origins and Meanings of the Public House & Other Signs Now or Formerly Found in the County of Essex (Chelmsford; London, 1887), pp. 137-38. Robin Hood appears on many of the 17th century tokens issued by Essex public houses named the Green Man.
Unique artifacts
Objects allegedly connected with Robin Hood or members of his band; works of art such as statuary, paintings etc. These items all belong in IRHB's Place-names section.
- Little John's Arrows (Hathersage Church)
- Little John's Bow (Hathersage Church)
- Little John's Chain Mail (Hathersage Church)
- Little John's Helmet (Hathersage Church)
- Mantelpiece (Thoresby Hall)
- Robin Hood (Penzance)
- Robin Hood Cave Horse (Creswell Crags)
- Robin Hood figure (Mottram Moor)
- Robin Hood signpost (Bassenthwaite)
- Robin Hood Statue (Nottingham Castle)
- Robin Hood Statue (Thoresby Hall)
- Robin Hood Topiary (Nottingham Castle)
- Robin Hood's Arrows (Chetham's Library)
- Robin Hood's Arrows (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Boots (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Bottle (Robin Hood Inn, Barnsdale)
- Robin Hood's Bottle (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Bow (Renishaw Hall)
- Robin Hood's Bow (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Cap (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Chair (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)
- Robin Hood's Horn (Loxley, Bramshall)
Studies and criticism
- Griffy, Henry. 'The Work of Robin Hood Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 123-37
- Lux, Sherron. 'Picturing Marian: Illustrations of Maid Marian in Juvenile Fiction', in: Potter, Lois, ed.; Calhoun, Joshua, ed. Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern (Newark, 2008), pp. 197-208