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Prints and Drawings
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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Date
1805
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Smirke [Shakespeare] Album
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The Tempest
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The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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19th century
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brown ink
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brown wash
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gouache
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oil paint
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clouds
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plays by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Ferdinand (character in The Tempest)
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Miranda (character in The Tempest)
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Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
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Prospero (character in The Tempest)
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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
The Death of Ophelia
ca. 1810
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Prospero Conjuring a Masque for Ferdinand and Miranda
ca. 1810