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Ellis, George Cressal, ca. 1810–1875
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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19th century
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wove paper
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Helena (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Lysander (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Foul by God: River Landscape with Anglers Fishing From a Weir
ca. 1830
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Lysander Awakening to See Helena
1825
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 1, Scene 2
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 4
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857 - Act 4, Scene 2
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