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Prints and Drawings
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Bigg, William Redmore, 1755–1828
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Stothard, Thomas, 1755–1834
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Beechey, William, Sir, 1753–1839
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Chinnery, George, 1774–1852
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Prints
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Paintings
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male
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Collective Title
Europe. A Prophecy, Copy A
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Period
18th century
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oil paint
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black ink
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color printing
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relief etching
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watercolor
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wove paper
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religious and mythological subject
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religious and mythological subject
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men
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text
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leaf
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vines
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Ariel (character in The Tempest)
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Miranda (character in The Tempest)
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Morland, George
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Othello (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
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Prospero (character in The Tempest)
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Symmons, Charles (1749–1826), poet and biographer
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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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William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)
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William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08)
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Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)
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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
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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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The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Berkeley Art Museum, 1995-08-23 - 1995-11-19)
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The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 1995-12-10 - 1996-02-04)
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The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Joslyn Art Museum, 1996-03-09 - 1996-05-05)
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The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)
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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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Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
The Return of Othello, 'Othello,' Act II, Scene II
ca. 1799
Not on view
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Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839
Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons
1794
Not on view
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Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii
ca. 1799
Not on view
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Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Gentlemen Fishing
1794
Not on view
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Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822
Emily and George Mason
between 1794 and 1795
Not on view
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George Chinnery, 1774–1852
A Man Carrying Faggots
ca. 1799
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William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Birth of the Heir
ca. 1799
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William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Christening of the Heir
ca. 1799
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Thomas Hand, died 1804
George Morland on his Hunter
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Frontispiece, The Ancient of Days (Plate 1)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Title Page, Europe a Prophecy (Plate 2)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Plague (Plate 13)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"And the clouds & fires pale rolld round in the night of Enitharmon"... (Plate 14)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"The red limb'd Angel siez'd in horror and torment..." (Plate 15)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Ethinthus queen of waters, how thou shinest in the sky..." (Plate 16)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Shot from the heights of Enitharmon..." (Plate 17)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"The shrill winds wake!..." (Plate 6)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Now comes the night of Enitharmons joy!..." (Plate 7)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Famine (Plate 8)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Arise 'O Rintrah eldest born..." (Plate 9)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Preludium, "The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc..." (Plate 3)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Prophecy. "The deep of winter came..." (Plate 5)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Enitharmon slept. ..." (Plate 10)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Unwilling I look up to heaven! unwilling count the stars!..." (Plate 4)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"In thoughts perturb'd they rose..." (Plate 11)
1794
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Albions Angel rose upon the Stone of Night..." (Plate 12)
1794