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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812
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Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)
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Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2003-06-15 - 2003-09-14)
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Thomas Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art, 2003-02-09 - 2003-05-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Deposition
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Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Study for the Magus
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John Russell, 1745–1806
Head of a Lady
ca. 1780
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John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
He Goeth after Her straightway as an Ox Goeth to the Slaughter (Proverbs, Chapter VII, Verse 22)
ca. 1780
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John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
So She Caught Him and Kissed Him (Proverbs, Chapter VII, Verse 13)
ca. 1780
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool
ca. 1780
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John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
The Charmer
ca. 1780
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures on Horseback Crossing a Bridge
between 1775 and 1780
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Gypsy Encampment
between 1775 and 1780
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures outside a Cottage Door
between 1775 and 1780
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Studies of Girls Carrying Faggots
ca. 1780