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Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Boydell, John, 1720–1804
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Collings, Samuel, active 1784–1795
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Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
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Morland, George, 1763–1804
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Pastorini, Benedetto, Italian, ca.1746–after 1803
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Pine, Robert Edge, 1730–1788
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Rigaud, John Francis, 1742–1810
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Torré, Giovanni Battista, active 1753–1776
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Watson, Caroline, 1760–1814
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Prints
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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female
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18th century
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laid paper
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stipple engraving
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wove paper
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brown wash
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canvas
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etching (printing process)
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graphite
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gray ink
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drawing
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painting
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genre subject
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portrait
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men
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books
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cloaks
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clouds
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costume
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hat
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stockings
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sword
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Cavia porcellus
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Guinea pigs
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Peter and/or John make sure that the tomb of Christ is empty
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Shakespeare Jubilee, 1769
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The Decameron (Boccaccio)
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actor
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angel
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animals
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England
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Europe
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Stratford-upon-Avon
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Warwickshire
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Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375), author and poet
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Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
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Griselda
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Gualtherus
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John the Evangelist, Saint (c. 1–c. 100 AD)
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Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess
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Peter, the Apostle, St. (ca. 1 BC - ca. 68 AD)
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Roubiliac, Louis François (1702–1762), sculptor
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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saints
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Exhibition History
Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)
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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)
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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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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander
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George Morland, 1763–1804
Selling Guinea Pigs
ca. 1789
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre
1784
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Gualtherus and Griselda
1784
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Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee
1784
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Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Morgan Offending the Delicate Organs of Captain Wiffle
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