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Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881
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Diston, Alfred, active 1818–1829
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Varley, Cornelius, 1781–1873
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Constable, John, 1776–1837
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Cox, David, 1783–1859
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Period
19th century
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graphite
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wove paper
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watercolor
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brown ink
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gouache
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black chalk
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marine art
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England
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Shoreham
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Ghost of Hamlet's Father
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Exhibition History
Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (British Museum, 2005-10-21 - 2006-01-22)
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Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-03-07 - 2006-05-28)
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English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Through the Looking Lens - The Story of Artist Cornelius Varley and his Telemicroscope, 1800-1860 (American Philosophical Society, 2013-05-17 - 2013-12-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Francis Danby, 1793–1861
A Lake in Norway
ca. 1825
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Ivy Cottage, Shoreham
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
The Valley of Dolwyddelan
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Mount Siabod from Tyn-y-Coed near Capel Curig
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
A Page from a Cornish Sketchbook: Cornwall 32
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
A Page from a Cornish Sketchbook: Cornwall 30
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Rome from San Spirito
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Harlech Castle
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
A Barn with a Mossy Roof, Shoreham
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
An Ancient Barn at Shoreham
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Streets of the Tombs, Pompeii
undated
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John Constable, 1776–1837
Hampstead Heath
1820
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Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire
1820
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Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire
1820
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David Cox, 1783–1859
Greenwich Hospital from Woolwich Reach
1820s
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York
1820
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Bodmin Moor
ca. 1825
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Alfred Diston, active 1818–1829
The Convent and Part of the Town of Candelaria, on the south side of Tenerife
1820
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Alfred Diston, active 1818–1829
Huckster of Port Orotava, Tenerife
ca. 1825
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George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Hamlet and the Ghost
ca. 1825