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Prints and Drawings
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Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
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Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
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Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
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Dawe, Philip, ca.1750–ca.1790
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Dawes, William, active 1760–1774
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Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
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Morland, Henry Robert, 1730–1797
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Pether, William, ca. 1738–1821
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Unknown artist
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Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753–1827
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Bradford, Thomas, active 1763–died 1773
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Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785
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Clowes, Butler, active 1768, died 1782
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Collet, John, ca. 1725–1780
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Copley, John Singleton, 1738–1815
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Goldar, John, 1729–1795
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Metsu, Gabriel, 1629–1667
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Parker, Henry, 1725–1809
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Classification
Prints
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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unknown
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female
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Collective Title
Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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Period
18th century
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18th century-19th century
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Materials & Techniques
laid paper
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mezzotint
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wove paper
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etching (printing process)
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graphite
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watercolor
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line engraving
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black chalk
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gouache
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gray ink
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intaglio print
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drawing
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relief print
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cityscape
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figure study
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landscape
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marine art
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portrait
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sporting art
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genre subject
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interior
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chairs
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costume
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flounces
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jewelry
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table
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women
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chair
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flowers (plants)
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humor
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men
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beach
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book
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bow (costume accessory)
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bracelets (jewelry)
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candle
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chiaroscuro
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England
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North Yorkshire
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United Kingdom
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Europe
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Robin Hood's Bay
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Staithes
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Yorkshire
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Associated People
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Exhibition History
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11)
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Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
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Celestial Images - Astronomical Charts from 1500 to 1900 (Boston University Art Gallery, 1985-01-16 - 1986-01-10)
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
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The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
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Three Centuries of Comic Art-Eighteenth Century Satire: John Collet (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998-06-06 - 1998-08-23)
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection
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Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Staithes, Yorkshire
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Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire
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attributed to Sir George Howland Beaumont seventh Baronet, 1753–1827
The Picnic
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John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Study of Sailors Raising a Flag for the Victory of Lord Duncan
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after Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Stourhead, Wiltshire
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Print made by unknown artist
The Hen Peckt Husband
1768
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John Goldar, 1729–1795
The Refusal
1768
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Butler Clowes, active 1768, died 1782
The Dying Usurer or the Wife Physician
1768
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Print made by John Greenwood, 1727–1792
The Curious Maids
1768
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Print made by William Pether, ca. 1738–1821
A Smoker
1768
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Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
1768
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Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
1768
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Print made by John Greenwood, 1727–1792
The Social Friends
1768
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Print made by William Pether, ca. 1738–1821
The Orrery
1768
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Print made by unknown artist
The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery
1768
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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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Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Fisherman
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Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Mother and Child
1768