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Prints and Drawings
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Stoppelaer, Herbert, active 1730–1775
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Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810
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Drawings & Watercolors
7
Paintings
2
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male
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Period
18th century-19th century
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18th century
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Materials & Techniques
oil paint
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wove paper
6
graphite
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brown ink
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canvas
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painting (technique)
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black ink
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board
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drawing
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literary theme
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turban
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actors
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column (architectural element)
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costume
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robe
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Cymbeline, play by William Shakespeare
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The Merchant of Venice, play by William Shakespeare
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The Winter's Tale, play by William Shakespeare
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angel
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animal
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baby
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boots
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Covent Garden
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Don Quixote
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Shylock (character in The Merchant of Venice)
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Tubal, Shylock's friend
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Exhibition History
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
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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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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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"
1767
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Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"
1767 to 1769
Not on view
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Illustration for Don Quixote, Two Figures at a Table
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Illustration for Don Quixote (with figures on a donkey)
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with female figure reclining at left)
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights', with Two Male Figures Standing
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Illustration for Shakespeare's " A Winter's Tale" or '"Cymbeline"
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)
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