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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
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1815
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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19th century
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Laocoon and his twin sons are strangled by two serpents during the preparations for a sacrifice
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Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I
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Laocoön
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Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth)
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth)
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demons
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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 Fund
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William Blake, 1757–1827
Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia
1815
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William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head
ca. 1820