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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Smith, John, 1749–1831
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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laid paper
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black chalk
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brown chalk
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gray wash
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white chalk
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blue chalk
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drawing
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watercolor
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landscape
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cows
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landscape
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cottage
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trees
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child
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shepherd
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sunset
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Associated Places
Belle Isle
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Cumbria
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England
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Europe
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Lake District
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United Kingdom
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Windermere
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Exhibition History
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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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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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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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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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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John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Lake Windermere from Calgarth with Belle Isle
ca. 1790
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imitator of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures, Cottage and Cow
between 1785 and 1788
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Herdsman, Cows and Cottage
between 1785 and 1788
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Open Landscape with Figures, Cows and Cottage
between 1785 and 1788