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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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1825
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Drawings & Watercolors
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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19th century
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brown ink
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Helena (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Lysander (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Oberon (character from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Robin Goodfellow (Puck), character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Oberon and Puck
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Lysander Awakening to See Helena
1825