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Gillray, James, 1756–1815
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1789
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare
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Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England] (1375?–1447), bishop of Winchester and cardinal
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Bottom (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
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Boydell, John (1720–1804), engraver and printseller
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British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
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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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Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
1789