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Allan, David, 1744–1796
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Basire, James, 1730–1802
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Darly, Matthew, active 1754–1778
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Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811
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Gosset, Isaac, 1713–1799
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18th century
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laid paper
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The Alchemist
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Kennington
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Lazio
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Piazza del Popolo
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Abel Drugger (character in The Alchemist)
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Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
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Harris, James (1709–1780), philosopher and musical patron
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Exhibition History
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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Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31)
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Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620-1820 (Toledo Museum of Art, 2021-04-24 - 2021-07-25)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
The Opening of the Carnival at Rome
ca. 1781
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Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady
1776
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Print made by James Basire, 1730–1802
James Harris
after 1776
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Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"
1776
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Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Kennington Common
1776