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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Aglio, Agostino, 1777–1857
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Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842
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Dighton, Robert Jr., 1786–1865
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Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
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Gendall, John, 1790–1865
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Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
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Nixon, John, ca. 1760–1818
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Shepheard, George, ca. 1770–1842
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Varley, Cornelius, 1781–1873
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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Studies of, 167 Drawings, and 1 Print, for Oil Paintings, by Benjamin R. Haydon
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The Tempest
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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19th century
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18th century-19th century
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gouache
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wove paper
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watercolor
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portrait
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sporting art
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architectural subject
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clouds
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figure study
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gesturing
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landscape
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literary theme
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plays by William Shakespeare
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portrait
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sitting
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trees
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare
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architecture
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castle
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cottage
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door
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United Kingdom
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England
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Banqueting House
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Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire
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Castle Acre
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City of Westminster
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Cymru
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Ferdinand (character in The Tempest)
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Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer
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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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British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
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Through the Looking Lens - The Story of Artist Cornelius Varley and his Telemicroscope, 1800-1860 (American Philosophical Society, 2013-05-17 - 2013-12-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Portrait of a Young Man
1805
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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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Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Cottages at Llanllyfni, North Wales
1805
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John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Castle Acre Priory
1805 to 1806
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John Gendall, 1790–1865
Northeast view of Westminster Abbey
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Agostino Aglio the elder, 1777–1857
An Imaginary Design for a Monument to Lord Nelson
1805
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John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Brighton Races
1805
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George Shepheard, ca. 1770–1842
The Banqueting House, Whitehall, from the River
ca. 1810
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Sir Alexander Hood, Bart
ca. 1810