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Subject Terms: chalice
Exhibition History: Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)

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James Northcote, 1746–1831

Master Betty as Hamlet, before a Bust of Shakespeare

between 1804 and 1806

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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