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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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black chalk
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Exhibition History
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (Kimbell Art Museum, 1983-12-17 - 1984-02-19)
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Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (National Gallery of Art, 1983-10-02 - 1983-12-04)
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Gainsborough's Family Album (National Portrait Gallery, 2018-11-22 - 2019-02-03)
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Gainsborough's Family Album (Princeton University Art Museum, 2019-02-23 - 2019-06-05)
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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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Thomas Gainsborough (Ferrara, Italy) (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 1998-06-07 - 1998-08-30)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Study of a Woman in a Mob Cap
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures and Houses on the Hill
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows
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attributed to Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains
1742
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imitator of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Coastal Scene with Figures and Boats
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