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Dance, Nathaniel, 1735–1811
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Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus, 1733–1794
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Hoare, Mary, 1744–1820
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Smart, John, 1741–1811
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
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male
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female
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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18th century
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gouache
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watercolor
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graphite
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laid paper
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ivory
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genre subject
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trees
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Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
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bonnets (hats)
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buildings
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capes (outerwear)
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carriage
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children
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climbing
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costume
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cows
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death
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donkeys
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England
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Kennington
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Kent
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United Kingdom
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Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725–1774), army officer in the East India Company and administrator in India
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Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Exhibition History
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05)
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English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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John Smart, 1741–1811
Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey
1776
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Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Ophelia's Death
ca. 1781
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Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Kennington Common
1776