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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Drawings & Watercolors
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female
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male
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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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wove paper
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pen
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graphite
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brown ink
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figure study
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religious and mythological subject
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women
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figure study
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drunk
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Cupid
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Venus
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Diana
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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
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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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Allegorical Sketch of Victory
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Sketch of a Dog
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Allegorical Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
First Design of a Battle Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of Knights, Paying Homage, to the King
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies from a French MSS Bible Register
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
MSS Bible Regia
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Pan, Spying, From Behind a Tree, at Putti, Shooting Arrows
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Timon of Athens
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Banquet Scene, with a Roman Soldeir Kneeling to a Famale Figure Sitting on a Throne
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Soldier Attacking a Woman
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Bachanalia Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of Nude Figures in a Wooded Area
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of the Head of a Snake
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study for a Relief with Romanesque Figures
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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
Study of Armored Knights in Battle with Horses
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of Abraham Being Tested by God
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Semi-Nude Woman, Sitting, with Her Arms Raised Over Her Head
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies of Figures and Seals from Sandfords Geneal History
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies for Armour
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies from Cotton MSS Nero
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Skech for Timon of Athens
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies From a French MSS Bible Registry
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
figure Studies for Medieval Noble Life
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Chair
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study for a Piece of Furniture
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Roman Banquet Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene of a Bacchanalia
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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
Two Women Enjoying Their Time by a Stream
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Don Quixote
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Man Seated while Speaking to a Soldier Who is Standing
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Battle Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of an Interior Scene, with Roman Soldiers
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
[One from] Illustrations to Shakespeare
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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
Study of a Woman Sleeping in Her Chamber and a Man Standing Over Her Bed
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Woman Sleeping in the Nude in a Wooded Landscape
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Lady Jane Grey
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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
Figure Studies of a Group of People in a Wooded Clearing
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape
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