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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Gilpin, Sawrey, 1733–1807
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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female
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Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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18th century-19th century
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18th century
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graphite
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wove paper
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black ink
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watercolor
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watercolor
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figure study
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Woman, Imploring for the Return of Her Captive Child
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Sketch of Goths Entering Rome, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Sketch of a Battle Sceene, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
MSS Bible Regia
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Timon of Athens
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Roman Banquet Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Don Quixote
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Skech for Timon of Athens
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Soldier Attacking a Woman
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Allegorical Sketch of Victory
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Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Cartoon for "Gulliver Taking Leave of the Land of Houyhnhms"
between 1768 and 1769