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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Ellis, George Cressal, ca. 1810–1875
7
von, Holst Theodor, 1810–1844
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Dance, Nathaniel, 1735–1811
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Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835
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Robson, George Fennell, 1788–1833
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Smirke, Mary
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Gandy, Joseph Michael, 1771–1843
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Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
24
Not on view
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Free to Use
25
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Available
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Unavailable
1
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
21
Prints
2
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
1
Paintings
1
Creator Gender
male
25
female
2
Collective Title
Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
8
Henry IV, Part I
5
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2
Romeo and Juliet
2
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2
The Tempest
1
Period
19th century
25
Materials & Techniques
wove paper
19
gouache
17
graphite
16
brown ink
13
watercolor
12
pen
10
brown wash
9
oil paint
7
varnish
4
gum
3
laid paper
2
mezzotint
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black chalk
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canvas
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gray wash
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painting (technique)
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scraping
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drawing
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watercolor
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painting
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literary theme
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figure study
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architectural subject
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cityscape
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landscape
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portrait
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plays by William Shakespeare
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figure study
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men
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architectural subject
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Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
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cape
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costume
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drapery
4
gesturing
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hat
4
sitting
4
women
4
clouds
3
man
3
road
3
talking
3
woman
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woods
3
A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare
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Associated Places
United Kingdom
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Scotland
2
England
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Europe
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Forres
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Great Britain
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Italy
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London
1
Rome
1
Associated People
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Banquo (character in Macbeth)
2
Bardolph (character in Henry IV, parts I and II)
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Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
2
Juliet (character in Romeo and Juliet)
2
Sir John Falstaff
2
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571–1610), Italian painter
1
Fleance (character in Macbeth)
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Helena (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Hotspur (Henry Percy), character in Henry IV, Part I
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Lady Mortimer (character in Henry IV, Part I)
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Lord Capulet (character in Romeo and Juliet)
1
Lysander (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth)
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Mistress Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Mistress Quickly (character in Henry IV, Part I)
1
Oberon (character from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Robin Goodfellow (Puck), character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
1
Shallow (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
1
Slender (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Exhibition History
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
12
The Romantic Art of Theodor von Holst (Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, 1994-06-11 - 1994-07-23)
3
The Romantic Art of Theodor von Holst (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., 1994-05-05 - 1994-06-01)
3
British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30)
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Constable to Delacroix : British Art and the French Romantics 1820-1840 (Tate Britain, 2003-02-06 - 2003-05-11)
1
Joseph Gandy - Visionary Architect (Richard L. Feigen & Co., 2006-04-25 - 2006-07-22)
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Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Charles Robert Leslie, 1794–1859
Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv
1825
Not on view
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George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
The Murder of Banquo
ca. 1830
3
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Falstaff Instructing Bardolph
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Lysander Awakening to See Helena
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Falstaff Dragging the Body of Hotspur
1825
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Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Sheet of Sketches
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Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Faust and Margaret
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George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath
ca. 1830
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Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Ferdinand Riding the Waves
ca. 1830
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Falstaff with Mistress Quickly and Bardolph
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Oberon and Puck
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Hotspur and the Plotters at Bangor
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet
1825
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Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Garrick in the Character of Richard III
1825
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 2, Scene 3
undated
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Joseph Michael Gandy, 1771–1843
A Scene in Ancient Rome: A Setting for Titus Andronicus, I, ii
ca. 1830
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857 - Act 4, Scene 2
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 3
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for the Setting of Charles Kean's Production of Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 1, Scene 2
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George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 4
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Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Garrick in the Character of Richard, third
1825