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Prints and Drawings
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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Prints
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male
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female
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Collective Title
Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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Period
18th century-19th century
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Materials & Techniques
wove paper
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graphite
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pen
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black ink
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wood engraving (process)
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brown ink
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laid paper
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watercolor
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drawing
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relief print
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figure study
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animal art
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literary theme
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religious and mythological subject
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sporting art
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bushes
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lake
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pond
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river
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animal art
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bacchanalia
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bait (for fishing)
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baiting (fishing)
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bird
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boots
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branches
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clouds
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figures
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fisherman
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fishing
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fishing pole
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grass
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Emerson Tuttle, B.A. 1914
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Woman, Imploring for the Return of Her Captive Child
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Woman Sleeping in Her Chamber and a Man Standing Over Her Bed
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Bachanalia Scene
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Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
"The Mute Swan" or "Tame Swan"
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Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Fisherman
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