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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Delatre, Jean Marie, 1746–1840
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Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
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Molteno, Anthony, 1784–1845
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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female
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Collective Title
Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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The Tempest
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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19th century
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brown ink
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brown wash
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gouache
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oil paint
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pen
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wove paper
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hand coloring
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laid paper
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line engraving
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figure study
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clouds
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figure study
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gesturing
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plays by William Shakespeare
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sitting
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
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Ferdinand (character in The Tempest)
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Marcus Antonius (83 BC–30 BC), Roman politician and general
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Miranda (character in The Tempest)
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Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
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Prospero (character in The Tempest)
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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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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Prospero Conjuring a Masque for Ferdinand and Miranda
ca. 1810
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
The Death of Ophelia
ca. 1810
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Print made by Jean Marie Delatre, 1746–1840
The Death of Mark Antony
1805