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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Bradford, Thomas, active 1763–died 1773
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Collet, John, ca. 1725–1780
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Goldar, John, 1729–1795
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Grose, Francis Capt., 1731–1791
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Prints
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male
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female
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unknown
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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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wove paper
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graphite
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watercolor
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figure study
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humor
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satire
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table
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adultery
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bonnets
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Devon
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Drake's Island
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England
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Plymouth Sound
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United Kingdom
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Associated People
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Adonis
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Venus
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Exhibition History
Three Centuries of Comic Art-Eighteenth Century Satire: John Collet (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998-06-06 - 1998-08-23)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of an Interior Scene, with Roman Soldiers
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Wooded Scene with a Couple Laying under a Tree, by a Stream
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Battle Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Sketch of a Battle Sceene, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus
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Print made by unknown artist
The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery
1768
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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
Allegorical Scene
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Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
St. Nicholas's Island off Mount Edgecombe
1768
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John Goldar, 1729–1795
The Refusal
1768