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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771
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Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753–1827
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DONOWELL, John, active 1753–1786
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Metsu, Gabriel, 1629–1667
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Pether, William, ca. 1738–1821
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Prints
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male
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female
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unknown
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Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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18th century-19th century
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18th century
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graphite
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gouache
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figure study
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military art
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landscape
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trees
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Bible
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adultery
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bean
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bedroom
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books
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bow
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England
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Europe
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Kent
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Sutton Valence
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Adonis
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Cupid
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Diana
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Venus
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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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Print made by William Pether, ca. 1738–1821
A Smoker
1768
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Sir George Howland Beaumont seventh Baronet, 1753–1827
Two Figures by the Side of a Pond and a Church in a Hilly Landscape
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Print made by unknown artist
The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery
1768
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Sketch of Goths Entering Rome, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Wooded Scene with a Couple Laying under a Tree, by a Stream
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Sketch of a Battle Sceene, from Shakespeare's Play, Titus Andronicus
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Battle Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Allegorical Scene
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John Donowell, active 1753–1786
A View of Esq. Turner's Garden at Valence in Kent
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Zuaua Tigri (Erythrina abyssinica)
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