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Bates, Lydia, active 1784
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Dance, Nathaniel, 1735–1811
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Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811
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Earlom, Richard, 1743–1822
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Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
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Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618–1680
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Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779
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Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810
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Prints
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Paintings
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male
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female
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The Clandestine Marriage
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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Materials & Techniques
laid paper
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mezzotint
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brown ink
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canvas
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graphite
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oil paint
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intaglio print
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drawing
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men
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Richard III, play by William Shakespeare
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The Clandestine Marriage, 1766
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
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actors
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allegory
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bergère hat
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books
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brocade
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cave
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coat
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Baddeley, Sophia (1745?–1786), actress and singer
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Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
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Henderson, John (bap. 1747, d. 1785), British actor and draftsman
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Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), author and lexicographer
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King, Thomas (1730–1805), actor and theatre manager
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Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess
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Pamela (character in Arcadia)
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Philoclea (character in Arcadia)
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Richard (character in Shakespeare's Richard III)
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Sir John Falstaff
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saint
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Exhibition History
Benjamin West : Fidelia and Speranza (Timken Museum of Art, 2004-11-05 - 2005-02-27)
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Benjamin West and his American Students (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1980-10-06 - 1981-01-05)
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Benjamin West and his American Students (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1981-01-30 - 1981-04-19)
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
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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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Benjamin West, 1738–1820
The Cave of Despair
1772
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Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
ca. 1777
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Pamela and Philoclea
ca. 1777
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Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
David Garrick as Richard III
1772
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Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Thomas King and Sophia Baddely in "The Clandestine Marriage"
1772
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Henderson in the Character of Falstaff
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