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Prints and Drawings
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
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Dickinson, William, 1746–1823
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Lock, William II, 1767–1847
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Rigaud, John Francis, 1742–1810
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Tresham, Henry, 1751–1814
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1710
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1737
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1764
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1786
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Drawings & Watercolors
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18th century
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laid paper
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watercolor
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black ink
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graphite
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pen
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brown ink
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gray ink
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wove paper
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brown wash
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copper
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genre subject
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cityscape
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military art
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garden
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soldiers
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swords
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trees
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Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV
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Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, play by William Shakespeare
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Union Jack
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Europe
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England
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United Kingdom
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Blackheath
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Hampshire
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Italy
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Surrey
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Vesuvius
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Winchester
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Associated People
Antonio (character in Twelfth Night)
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Biggin, George (died 1803)
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Fabian (character in Twelfth Night)
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Lunardi, Vincenzo (1759–1806), balloonist
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Mary [Mary Stewart] (1542–1587), queen of Scots
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Sage, Letitia Anne (née Hoare; ca.1750–1817) first British woman to fly
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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Sir Andrew Aguecheek (character in Twelfth Night)
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Sir Toby Belch
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Viola as Cesario
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Exhibition History
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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Imaginative Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-01 - 2006-08-18)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
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The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
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Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Letitia Anne Sage (née Hoare), in a Balloon
1785
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William Lock II, 1767–1847
Mary, Queen of Scots, Embarking
between 1785 and 1790
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Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
The Duel: 'Twelfth Night,' Act III, Scene IV
ca. 1790
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
The Recruiting Sargeant
ca. 1790
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
A Review in a Market Place
ca. 1790
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
A Review on Blackheath, May 1785
1785
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Henry Tresham, 1751–1814
The Ascent of Vesuvius
1785 to 1790
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William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther
1785