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Paintings and Sculpture
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Wootton, John, approximately 1682–1764
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Collet, John, ca. 1725–1780
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Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
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Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782
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Paintings
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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Period
18th century
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18th century-19th century
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painting (technique)
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black ink
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brown ink
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brown wash
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canvas
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graphite
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gray wash
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laid paper
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oil paint
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abbey
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men
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birds
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sky
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Europe
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United Kingdom
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Askeaton
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Caernarfon
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Caernarfon Bay
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Caernarfon Castle
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Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire
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Cymru
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Deel
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England
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Ireland
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Limerick
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Menai Strait
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Munster
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North Yorkshire
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Rievaulx
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Wales
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Yorkshire
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Exhibition History
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)
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John Wootton (1682-1764) (Kenwood House, 1984-07-03 - 1984-09-30)
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Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)
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Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Modern Gothic : The Revival of Medieval Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-04-04 - 2000-07-30)
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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John Wootton, 1682–1764
Rievaulx Abbey
ca. 1745
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John Wootton, 1682–1764
Haycart Passing a Ruined Abbey
ca. 1745
Not on view
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Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Caernarfon Castle
ca. 1745
Not on view
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Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Askeaton Abbey near Limerick, Ireland on the River Deel
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John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Ecclesiastical Ruins beside the Thames (?)
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