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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Unknown artist
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Smirke, Mary
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Constable, John, 1776–1837
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Cotman, Miles Edmund, 1810–1858
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Linnell, John, 1729–1796
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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Creator Gender
male
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unknown
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female
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Collective Title
Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
4
Henry IV, Part I
3
Romeo and Juliet
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Illustrations of the Book of Job
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Period
19th century
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Materials & Techniques
wove paper
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graphite
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brown ink
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brown wash
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gouache
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pen
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watercolor
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oil paint
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gum
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black chalk
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black ink
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card
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laid paper
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varnish
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figure study
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figure study
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literary theme
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plays by William Shakespeare
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Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
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coast
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drapery
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landscape
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men
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Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare
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architectural subject
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castle
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curtains
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gesturing
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hat
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road
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sailboats
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talking
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trees
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windmill
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Henry IV Part I, Act IV, Scene II
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England
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Europe
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United Kingdom
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East Sussex
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Devon
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Hastings
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Hastings Castle
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Newhaven
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Norfolk
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Norwich
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Sidmouth
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Juliet (character in Romeo and Juliet)
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Bardolph (character in Henry IV, parts I and II)
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Hotspur (Henry Percy), character in Henry IV, Part I
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Job
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Lord Capulet (character in Romeo and Juliet)
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Sir John Falstaff
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Exhibition History
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837
Landscape with Windmill
between 1825 and 1830
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Falstaff Instructing Bardolph
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Falstaff Dragging the Body of Hotspur
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Hotspur and the Plotters at Bangor
1825
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circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Title Page: Illustrations of the Book of Job
after 1825
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unknown artist
Hastings Castle
ca. 1830
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unknown artist
Above Newhaven
ca. 1830
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unknown artist
Sidmouth Cliffs
ca. 1830
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Miles Edmund Cotman, 1810–1858
View of Norwich
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