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This page provides links to extant shoes in museums, since a list of all footwear-related iconography would be tedious.
For more links on period shoes & shoemaking, click here.
- A child's leather slippers, Thebes, 1st century AD (Met 25.3.223a, b)
- A pair of shoes from Egypt, 6th-7th century (Met 90.5.36a and 90.5.36b)
- Medieval shoes and boots at the Historiska Museet (Sweden): 121038, 121723, 121819, 121838, 122986, 396313, 590593, 619938, 619939, 619946, 620384, 620385, 620386, 620387, 621810, 621814, 621813, 621824, 621825, 621821, 621822, 621826, 620388
- Poulaine with long pointed toe (Met 29.158.914), 1300-1450
- Some shoes from medieval Sweden
- A shoe cut to accommodate a hammer-toe and bunion (MoL BC72[250]<3777/1>), c. 1350
- A shoe in two parts, the back part missing, c. 1370-1500
- A child's ankle-shoe (MoL 73.193), late 14th century
- A shoe with a long, pointed toe (MoL BC72[55]<1513>), late 14th century
- Buttoned boot for a boy (pieces), 15th century
- Four fragments from a medieval shoe, 15th century
- A child's shoe (Cl. 21150), 15th century
- A shoe with lattice cutwork on the vamp (Cl. 21103), 15th century
- Shoes with cutwork decorations, 15th and 16th centuries
- Cow-mouth shoe, first half of the 16th century
- Cow-mouth shoe, c. 1510-1560
- The Bata Shoe Museum's Gothic, Tudor and Renaissance collection includes a Dutch leather poulane, c. 1450, and a broad-toed English Tudor shoe, c. 1550; see also REAL medieval shoes from the
Bata Museum Collection, Toronto, Ontario
- Henry VII style leather shoe, c. 1485-1509
- Round-toed shoe with slashed vamp (MoL 84.454/13), late 15th to early 16th century
- Leather shoe with punchwork (Mantua, Palazzo Ducale), c. 1500
- A cow-mouth shoe (Cl. 20370), France, c. 1500
- Leather shoe, 16th century Europe (Met 29.158.892)
- 16th century British shoes at the Met: 29.158.454, 29.158.456, 29.158.461, 29.158.466, 29.158.469, 29.158.477, 29.158.479, 29.158.889, 29.158.893, 29.158.896, 29.158.898, 29.158.899, 29.158.906
- Broad square-toed shoes with slashed decoration, 1520s-1540s - V&A T.412-1913 and T.413-1913)
- Man's shoe (LACMA AC1999.46.39), England, c. 1530-1545
- Shoes from the Mary Rose, 1545 (see also The Mary Rose ship reveals a haul of old treasures)
- Sandals of Stephen III, made in Spain c. 1570
- 16th century shoe as worn on the stage of the Rose Theatre
- Shoes from 16th century Germany
- Slippers, 16th century Italy (Met 16.154.16)
- A lady's shoe (Cl. 10402), late 16th century
- A baby's shoe from the Hursley Cache, 17th century
- A man's latchet tie shoe from the Stockbridge Cache, mid-17th century
- A pair of embroidered mules, England, c. 1650s-1660s
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