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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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[One from] Illustrations to Shakespeare [from Coriolanus]
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18th century
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black ink
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color printing
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watercolor
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wove paper
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Coriolanus, play by William Shakespeare
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angels
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boy
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cloak
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Coriolanus
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Virgilia
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Volumnia
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Exhibition History
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
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Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19)
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Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08)
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The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20)
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The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01)
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William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Spring, from Songs of Innocence
ca. 1795
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Pity
ca. 1795
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Virgilia and Volumnia Plead with Coriolanus
ca. 1795