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Prints and Drawings
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Creator Gender
male
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The Taming of the Shrew
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19th century
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pen
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brown ink
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wove paper
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brown wash
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gouache
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graphite
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oil paint
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watercolor
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drawing
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figure study
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plays by William Shakespeare
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The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare
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sitting
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The Taming of the Shrew, play by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Christopher Sly
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Sir Hugh Evans (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
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Sir John Falstaff
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William Page
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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
Christopher Sly and the Page, as His Wife
1821
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Falstaff at Herne's Oak
1821
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Master William Page and Sir Hugh Evans
1821
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Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House: The Fight, Engraved as Plate 39 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
1821
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Dr Syntax outside the Halfway House
1821
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Dr. Syntax with Kitty Cowslip
1821