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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Unknown artist
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Young, John, 1755–1825
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Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810
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Dean, John, 1754–1798
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Devis, Arthur William, 1762–1822
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Dickinson, William, 1746–1823
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Downman, John, 1750–1824
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Hoppner, John, 1758–1810
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Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740–1812
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Nasmyth, Alexander, 1758–1840
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Walker, James, 1748–1808
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Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
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1754
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1795
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1719
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1762
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1775
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1778
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1783
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1756
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1758
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1763
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1781
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1790
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1794
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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11
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Paintings
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Prints
4
Drawings & Watercolors
3
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male
10
unknown
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Period
18th century
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laid paper
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canvas
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oil paint
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painting (technique)
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mezzotint
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black ink
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graphite
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watercolor
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wove paper
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stipple engraving
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intaglio print
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painting
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drawing
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watercolor
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genre subject
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portrait
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figure study
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hat
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woman
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portrait
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genre subject
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dress
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basket
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costume
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flowers (plants)
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trees
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cape
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feathers
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girl
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hills
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landscape
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man
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street vendor
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actress
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apron (main garment)
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Hoppner, Phoebe (d. 1786)
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Mathew, Lady Jane
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Robinson, Mary (1756/1758?–1800), author and actress
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Ross, Eleanor
1
Ross, Margaret
1
Exhibition History
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
2
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
2
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10)
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English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26)
1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05)
1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13)
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Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)
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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)
1
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)
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Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)
1
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01)
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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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Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822
A Couple, Traditionally Identified as Mr. and Mrs. Fraser
1785 to 1790
Not on view
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Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840
Eleanor and Margaret Ross
between 1785 and 1790
Not on view
3
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Revellers on a Coach
between 1785 and 1790
Not on view
4
unknown artist
Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters
ca. 1790
Not on view
5
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Adelaide
between 1785 and 1786
6
Print made by John Young, 1755–1825
The Flower Girl
1785
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John Young, 1755–1825
The Flower Girl
1785
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
The Love Letter
ca. 1790
9
unknown artist
Man Carrying a Basket, from Behind
ca. 1790
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Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Phoebe Hoppner as a Flower Girl
1785
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Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Mary Robinson
1785