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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
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Dawe, Philip, ca.1750–ca.1790
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Morland, Henry Robert, 1730–1797
2
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Russell, John, 1745–1806
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Smirke, Mary
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Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Wilson, James, c.1735–c.1786
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1774
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1827
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1965
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1674
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1719
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1720
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1760
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1773
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1793
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1807
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1814
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1843
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1873
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1895
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1756
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1762
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1768
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1778
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1802
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1805
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1810
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1812
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1829
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1841
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1855
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1741
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1748
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1750
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1759
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1764
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1791
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1803
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1818
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1819
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1824
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1890
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Not on view
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Classification
Paintings
3
Prints
3
Drawings & Watercolors
1
Creator Gender
male
7
female
1
Collective Title
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
1
Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare
1
Period
18th century
6
18th century-19th century
1
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
4
canvas
3
mezzotint
3
oil paint
3
painting (technique)
3
etching (printing process)
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graphite
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wove paper
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intaglio print
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painting
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drawing
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Genre
portrait
3
genre subject
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landscape
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religious and mythological subject
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Subject Terms
woman
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costume
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portrait
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book
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bow (costume accessory)
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bracelets (jewelry)
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chair
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chiaroscuro
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choker
2
dark
2
earrings
2
flounces
2
flowers (plants)
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genre subject
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interior
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jewelry
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lace
2
lamp (lighting device)
2
leisure
2
light
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Associated Places
Avon
1
England
1
United Kingdom
1
Associated People
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress
1
Adonis
1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
1
Venus
1
West, Elizabeth (née Shewell, 1740–1814)
1
West, Raphael Lamar (1769–1850), history painter
1
Exhibition History
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
1
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Daimaru Museum of Art, 1993-03-10 - 1993-03-29)
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British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Hiroshima Museum of Art, 1993-01-23 - 1993-03-07)
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British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-09-17 - 1992-10-20)
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British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Koriyama City Museum of Art, 1992-11-21 - 1993-01-17)
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British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Mie Prefectural Art Museum, 1993-04-10 - 1993-05-09)
1
British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Ohita Prefectural Art Hall, 1992-10-24 - 1992-11-15)
1
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
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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)
1
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)
1
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
1
Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)
1
Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of John N. and Dorothy C. Estabrook
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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John Russell, 1745–1806
Portrait of a Lady
1768
Not on view
2
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Landscape with Cattle
ca. 1773
Not on view
3
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Elizabeth West (née Shewell), and Her Son Raphael
ca. 1773
Not on view
4
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
1768
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James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)
between 1768 and 1786
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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Allegorical Scene
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Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
1768