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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797
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Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
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Luny, Thomas, 1759–1837
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Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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Period
18th century
4
18th century-19th century
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graphite
2
laid paper
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painting (technique)
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watercolor
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black ink
1
canvas
1
oil paint
1
scraping out
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wove paper
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drawing
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landscape
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marine art
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landscape
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beach
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castle
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cliff
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clouds
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full-rigged ships
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England
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United Kingdom
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Campagna
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Derbyshire
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Derwent
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Dover
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Dover castle
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Europe
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Italy
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Kent
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Matlock
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Nemi, Lago di
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South Foreland
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Exhibition History
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
2
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)
1
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)
1
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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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
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English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Britain, 1990-02-07 - 1990-04-22)
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Joseph Wright of Derby (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990-09-06 - 1990-12-02)
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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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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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Travelling. J.M.W. Turner in Search of the Sublime and Picturesque (LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, 2019-11-08 - 2020-01-26)
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William Beckford, 1760-1844 (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2001-09-15 - 2002-05-15)
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William Beckford, 1760-1844 (The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 2001-09-15 - 2002-05-15)
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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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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment
between 1780 and 1785
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Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland
1780
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Edward Swinburne, 1765–1847
Dustanborough Castle
undated
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John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
On the Lake of Nemi
between 1780 and 1783
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Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Palace on a Cliff Above a River
1780-1789 (?)