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Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771
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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
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Grose, Francis Capt., 1731–1791
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Creator Gender
male
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female
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Collective Title
Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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Period
18th century-19th century
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18th century
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Materials & Techniques
watercolor
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graphite
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laid paper
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wove paper
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gouache
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pen
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brown ink
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black ink
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red ink
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squaring (transferring technique)
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animal art
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religious and mythological subject
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landscape
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literary theme
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cityscape
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figure study
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marine art
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military art
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fish
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religious and mythological subject
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colors
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teeth
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landscape
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women
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god
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red
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sea
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Pegasus
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bacchanalia
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beach
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bow
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buildings
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cliffs
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clouds
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figure study
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United Kingdom
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England
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Europe
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North Yorkshire
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Blackheath
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Cader Idris
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Devon
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Drake's Island
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Gwynedd
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London
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Plymouth Sound
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Robin Hood's Bay
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Snowdonia National Park
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Staithes
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Associated People
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Bacchus
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Cupid
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Diana
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Exhibition History
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
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The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
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Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire
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Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Cader Idris, North Wales
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Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Staithes, Yorkshire
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Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
St. Nicholas's Island off Mount Edgecombe
1768
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
A Fish
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
A Fish
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Cuzzo (Hagenia abyssinica)
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Allegorical Designs for Medals
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies From a French MSS Bible Registry
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
A Fish
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Four Fish
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Two Blowfish
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Najel
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Studies from a French MSS Bible Register
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene of a Bacchanalia
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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
Two Women Enjoying Their Time by a Stream
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
[One of] Miscellaneous Sketches in Wrapper
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Fiore di Berberra
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Locust
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Mullup
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Harid
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
El Hudderi
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
A Fish from the Red Sea
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
A Fish from the Red Sea
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Abutilon Longicuspe
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Mimosa Pigra; Selcienn (Dispyros abyssinica)
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Roman Banquet Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study for a Piece of Furniture
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Man Seated while Speaking to a Soldier Who is Standing
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
A Fish
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Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
London from Blackheath
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Pan, Spying, From Behind a Tree, at Putti, Shooting Arrows
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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
Study of a Soldier Attacking a Woman
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Banquet Scene, with a Roman Soldeir Kneeling to a Famale Figure Sitting on a Throne
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Don Quixote
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Bachanalia Scene
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Battle Scene
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after Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Stourhead, Wiltshire
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