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Read, David Charles, 1790–1851
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Griffith, Moses, 1747–1819
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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The Tempest
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Period
19th century
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watercolor
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wove paper
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laid paper
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brown ink
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brown wash
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graphite
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gouache
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oil paint
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pen
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plays by William Shakespeare
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sitting
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Ferdinand (character in The Tempest)
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Miranda (character in The Tempest)
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Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
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Prospero (character in The Tempest)
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Exhibition History
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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William Blake, 1757–1827
The Gambols of Ghosts According with Their Affections Previous to the Final Judgement
1805 to 1808
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Moses Griffith, 1747–1819
The Beautiful Vale and Mowddach River, Merionethshire
1805
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John Linnell, 1792–1882
View from Mr. Sheppard's Window, The Ridge, Gloucestershire
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David Charles Read, 1790–1851
Landscape with two figures beside an old building
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David Charles Read, 1790–1851
Landscape with Hills in the Distance
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David Charles Read, 1790–1851
Landscape With Figures and a Wagon
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Prospero Conjuring a Masque for Ferdinand and Miranda
ca. 1810
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
The Death of Ophelia
ca. 1810
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David Charles Read, 1790–1851
Landscape With a Ploughed Field in the Foreground
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