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Prints and Drawings
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815
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Humphrey, Hannah, ca. 1745–1818
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Nixon, John, ca. 1760–1818
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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female
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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wove paper
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aquatint
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etching (printing process)
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drawing
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intaglio print
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figure study
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cloaks
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Macbeth, Act I, Scene III
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Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare
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burlesque
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darkness
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Brighton
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East Sussex
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England
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Gunn, Martha (1726–1815), the most famous of Brighton's bathing women (also known as "dippers"), was born in the seaside village of Brighthelmstone (Brighton)
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Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth)
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Thurlow, Edward, first Baron Thurlow (1731–1806), lord chancellor
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Exhibition History
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19)
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Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Martha Gunn, Bather at Brighton
1791
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James Gillray, 1756–1815
Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)
1791