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Cristall, Joshua, 1768–1847
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Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
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Haughton, Matthew, 1768–1821
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Brunias, Agostino, 1728–1796
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Daniell, William, 1769–1837
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Depeuille, François Jules Gabriel, active 1783–1798
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Dunthorne, John, active 1783–1792
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Walker, James, 1748–1808
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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graphite
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watercolor
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Actaeon
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Exhibition History
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)
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English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
2
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
2
' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20)
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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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Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)
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English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)
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Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (Kimbell Art Museum, 1983-12-17 - 1984-02-19)
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Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (National Gallery of Art, 1983-10-02 - 1983-12-04)
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Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07)
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Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28)
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Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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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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Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)
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The Black Figure in the European Imaginary (Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2017-01-20 - 2017-05-15)
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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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The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth
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Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Soldier with Country Women Selling Ribbons, near a Military Camp
1788
Not on view
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Benjamin West, 1738–1820
The Bathing Place at Ramsgate
ca. 1788
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Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
The Salmon Leap, Leixlip
1783
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George Romney, 1734–1802
Lady Clanricarde, Portrait of a Lady
1783
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Matthew Haughton, 1768–1821
Author Reading from a Manuscript to Four Ladies
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Matthew Haughton, 1768–1821
A Fashionable Audience
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Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Lismore Castle, Ireland
1783
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Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Landing a Catch of Mackerel, Hastings
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Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Tarbert Castle
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Print made by Louis Charles Ruotte, 1754–ca. 1806
The West India Flower Girl
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Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
The Meteor of August 18, 1783, as seen from the East Angle of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle
1783
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Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808
The Spell, or Hobnelia
1783
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William Daniell, 1769–1837
View of Monghyr, Bihar
ca. 1788
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures
ca. 1788
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Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Country Folk Gathered Around a Cooking Pot
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Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Family Posed in Front of a Doorway
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John Dunthorne, active 1783–1792
A Preacher
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