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Prints and Drawings
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Smirke, Mary
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1821
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1825
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1822
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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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Henry IV, Part I
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Romeo and Juliet
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Period
19th century
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Materials & Techniques
brown ink
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brown wash
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gouache
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pen
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oil paint
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wove paper
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varnish
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graphite
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gum
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laid paper
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figure study
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plays by William Shakespeare
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men
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Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
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drapery
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gesturing
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sitting
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare
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cape
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curtains
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dress
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feather
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hat
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illusion
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magic
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sleeping
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talking
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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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Helena (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Hotspur (Henry Percy), character in Henry IV, Part I
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Lady Mortimer (character in Henry IV, Part I)
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Lord Capulet (character in Romeo and Juliet)
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Lysander (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Mistress Quickly (character in Henry IV, Part I)
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Oberon (character from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Robin Goodfellow (Puck), character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Oberon and Puck
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Hotspur and the Plotters at Bangor
1825
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet
1825
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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 with Mistress Quickly and 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
Lysander Awakening to See Helena
1825