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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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Wright, John Massey, 1777–1866
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Bell, John, 1745–1831
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Fittler, James, 1758–1835
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Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
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Opie, John, 1761–1807
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
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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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Collective Title
Young's Night Thoughts
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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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The Winter's Tale
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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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graphite
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brown ink
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gesturing
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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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Fenton (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Herne the Hunter
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Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth)
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Messr. Ford (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Messr. Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Mistress Quickly (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Pistol (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Proteus
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Silvia (character in The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
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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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Valentine
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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)
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Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)
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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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Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)
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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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Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave
1792
Not on view
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'O treacherous conscience!' (Page 27)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)
ca. 1797
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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
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)
ca. 1797
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George Romney, 1734–1802
The Witches' Cavern
between 1792 and 1793
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James Fittler, 1758–1835
'The Gamester,' Act V, Scene IV
1792
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John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
The Rustics Perform from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
undated
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John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Falstaff Disguised as Herne
undated
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John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Illustration to Pilgrim's Progress
1792