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Canaletto, 1697–1768
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Gillray, James, 1756–1815
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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Muller, John S., ca. 1715–1792
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Prints
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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Creator Gender
male
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Period
18th century
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19th century
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Materials & Techniques
graphite
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black ink
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laid paper
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watercolor
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wove paper
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etching (printing process)
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gray ink
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gray wash
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hand coloring
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drawing
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intaglio print
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architectural subject
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genre subject
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literary theme
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Subject Terms
architectural subject
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare
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Battle of Hexham
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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Henry VI, part I by William Shakespeare
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Henry VI, part II by William Shakespeare
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King Lear, play by William Shakespeare
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Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare
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Royal Academy of Arts
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The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare
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altar
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avarice
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babies
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battle
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bellows
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book
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boys
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bridge (built work)
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brushes
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England
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London
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United Kingdom
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City of Westminster
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Europe
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Greater London
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Lambeth
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Middlesex
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Palace of Westminster
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Somerset House
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Southwark
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
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Vauxhall Gardens
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Westminster Abbey
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Associated People
Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England] (1375?–1447), bishop of Winchester and cardinal
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Bottom (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Boydell, John (1720–1804), engraver and printseller
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Cordelia (character in King Lear)
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Fool (character in King Lear)
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Fuseli, Henry [formerly Johann Heinrich Füssli] (1741–1825), painter and writer
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Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
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King Lear (character in King Lear)
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Northcote, James (1746–1831), artist and author
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Puck (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist
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Richard (character in Shakespeare's Richard III)
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Richard III (1452–1485), king of England and lord of Ireland
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Royal Academy
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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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Exhibition History
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)
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British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
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Canaletto in England (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1993-10-14 - 1994-01-09)
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
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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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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Ruins of the Savoy Palace, London
undated
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Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger
1789
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John S. Muller, ca. 1715–1792
A View of the Temple of Comus & c. in Vauxhall Gardens
ca. 1794
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Attributed to office of Sir John Soane, 1753–1837
Plan of the Principal Story, Shewing the New Committee Rooms &c, House of Lords
ca. 1794
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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
1789