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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771
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Gilpin, Sawrey, 1733–1807
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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female
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
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Period
18th century-19th century
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18th century
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graphite
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laid paper
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pen
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watercolor
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wove paper
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brown ink
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gouache
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squaring (transferring technique)
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colors
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Pegasus
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buildings
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clouds
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figure study
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fish
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gods
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halo
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mouths
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religious and mythological subject
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tooth
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wings
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
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Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
El Hudderi
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Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Cartoon for "Gulliver Taking Leave of the Land of Houyhnhms"
between 1768 and 1769
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Timon of Athens
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Scene from Don Quixote
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