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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Barry, James, 1741–1806
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Dean, John, 1754–1798
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Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825
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Nollekens, Joseph, 1737–1823
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Drawings & Watercolors
2
Prints
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Sculptures
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Creator Gender
male
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Collective Title
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Period
18th century
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Materials & Techniques
brown wash
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laid paper
2
black chalk
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black ink
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brown ink
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graphite
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mezzotint
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pens
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plaster
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wove paper
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drawing
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watercolor
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bust
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sculpture
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figure study
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portrait
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religious and mythological subject
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figure study
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spear
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Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare
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armor
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bandit
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beard
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bones
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capes
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cauldron
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cave
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collar
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magic
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owls
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plays by William Shakespeare
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Greece
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Olympia
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Associated People
Bourguignon, Louis Dominique (1693–1721), highwayman
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Hercules
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Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), author and lexicographer
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Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth)
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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
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823
Samuel Johnson
1777
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James Northcote, 1746–1831
Macbeth and the Witches
between 1777 and 1778
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Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Cartouche
1777
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James Barry, 1741–1806
Study of Hercules for 'Crowning the Victors at Olympia'
between 1777 and 1780