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Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile

Samuel Shelley · 1804

Samuel Shelley: Documented work 1788–1788 (not lifespan)

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Samuel Shelley, Samuel Shelley, Samuel Shelley

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  • Joshua Reynoldseditorial inference
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    The biography identifies Joshua Reynolds as an artistic influence on Samuel Shelley. Reynolds's work influenced Shelley during his Royal Academy period; this is not a claim of personal teaching. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.

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Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile

1804

Yale Center for British Art

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Samuel Shelley. Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile. Image credit: Samuel Shelley; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.

Collection: Yale Center for British Art

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Samuel Shelley. Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile. Image credit: Samuel Shelley; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.