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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Bartram, William, 1739–1823
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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18th century-19th century
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18th century
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wove paper
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graphite
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wood engraving (process)
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animal art
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animal art
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Linnaeus, Carl (1707–1778), naturalist and taxonomist
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Emerson Tuttle, B.A. 1914
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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William Bartram, 1739–1823
The Soft Shell'd Tortoise Got in Savanah River Georgia
ca. 1773
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Study of a Semi-Nude Woman, Sitting, with Her Arms Raised Over Her Head
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Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
"The Mute Swan" or "Tame Swan"
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The Goshawk
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