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    1410 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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Male with a staff in a storm (recto). Anatomical studies of a foot (verso) by William Hamilton, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Male with a staff in a storm (recto). Anatomical studies of a foot (verso)

William Hamilton (d. 1801)

1770–80 · Recto: pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite Verso: pen and brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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An English Country Performance of Macbeth by J. Wright, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An English Country Performance of Macbeth

J. Wright (d. 1790)

1790 · Aquatint and etching, hand-colored

Cleared · Public Domain

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William Shakespeare by Samuel Ireland, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Shakespeare

Samuel Ireland (d. 1800)

1795 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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William Shakespeare by Charles Picart, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Shakespeare

Charles Picart (d. 1850)

1827 · Etching and engraving on chine collé

Cleared · Public Domain

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Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard by Eugène Delacroix, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard

Eugène Delacroix (d. 1863)

1827–28 · Brush and brown wash with watercolor over graphite on heavy watercolor paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1) by Samuel William Reynolds, the elder, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

Samuel William Reynolds, the elder (d. 1835)

1829 · Mezzotint and etching; before first state

Cleared · Public Domain

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King Henry IV by William Heath ('Paul Pry'), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

King Henry IV

William Heath ('Paul Pry') (d. 1840)

ca. 1827 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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William Shakespeare by Samuel Cousins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Shakespeare

Samuel Cousins (d. 1887)

1849 · Mezzotint and engraving; third state

Cleared · Public Domain

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Figure of William Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon, England by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure of William Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon, England

Unrecorded maker

1830–70 · Parian porcelain

Cleared · Public Domain

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William Shakespeare by John Quincy Adams Ward, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Shakespeare

John Quincy Adams Ward (d. 1910)

1870, cast after 1910 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Hamlet and Daemon (Shakespeare's Hamlet)

Edward Gordon Craig (d. 1966)

1909 · Wood engraving

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Ophelia (Shakespeare's Hamlet)

Edward Gordon Craig (d. 1966)

1910 · Wood engraving

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