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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797
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Young, Edward, 1683–1765
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
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Fittler, James, 1758–1835
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Unknown artist
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Wright, John Massey, 1777–1866
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Bell, John, 1745–1831
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Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–1834/35
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Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Opie, John, 1761–1807
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Thew, Robert, 1758–1802
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Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
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Prints
44
Drawings & Watercolors
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male
48
unknown
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Young's Night Thoughts
38
The Winter's Tale
2
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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British Theatre
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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wove paper
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etching (printing process)
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watercolor
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line engraving
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grass
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plays by William Shakespeare
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Tower of London
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Anne Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Falstaff
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Fenton (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Henry IV (1367–1413), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
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Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
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Herne the Hunter
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Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE)
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Messr. Ford (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Sir Hugh Evans (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Sir John Falstaff
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Slender (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth)
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Exhibition History
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
3
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)
ca. 1797
2
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)
ca. 1797
3
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'O treacherous conscience!' (Page 27)
ca. 1797
4
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)
ca. 1797
5
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)
ca. 1797
6
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain' (Page 46)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)
ca. 1797
8
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)
ca. 1797
9
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)
ca. 1797
10
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)
ca. 1797
11
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)
ca. 1797
12
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)
ca. 1797
13
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)
ca. 1797
14
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)
ca. 1797
15
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)
ca. 1797
16
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)
ca. 1797
17
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
ca. 1797
18
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)
ca. 1797
19
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)
ca. 1797
20
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Christian Triumph; Title Page
ca. 1797
21
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The thunder if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)
ca. 1797
22
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)
ca. 1797
23
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)
ca. 1797
24
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
ca. 1797
25
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)
ca. 1797
26
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the Second. On Time, Death and Friendship; Title Page
ca. 1797
27
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page
ca. 1797
28
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe' (Page 1)
ca. 1797
29
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)
ca. 1797
30
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page
ca. 1797
31
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)
ca. 1797
32
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)
ca. 1797
33
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)
ca. 1797
34
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)
ca. 1797
35
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)
ca. 1797
36
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)
ca. 1797
37
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)
ca. 1797
38
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)
ca. 1797
39
George Romney, 1734–1802
The Witches' Cavern
between 1792 and 1793
40
James Fittler, 1758–1835
'The Gamester,' Act V, Scene IV
1792
41
John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
The Rustics Perform from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
undated
42
Print made by James Fittler, 1758–1835
The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene III
1792
43
Print made by Thomas Cheesman, 1760–1834/35
The Supposed Death of Imogen, 'Cymbeline,' Act IV, Scene IV
1792
44
unknown artist
Falstaff Reproved by King Henry
1792
45
unknown artist
Falstaff reproved by King Henry
1792
46
John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Falstaff Disguised as Herne
undated
47
Print made by Robert Thew, 1758–1802
King Henry VI, Part I: Act II, Scene V, A Room in the Tower (The Death of Mortimer)
1792
48
John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Illustration to Pilgrim's Progress
1792