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Facius, George Siegmund, 1750–1804
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
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Exhibition History
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11)
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Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)
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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)
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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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Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19)
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Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28)
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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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Gainsborough's Prints (Gainsborough's House, 1988-06-11 - 1988-07-03)
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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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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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The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20)
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The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01)
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Cottage on Fire at Night
between 1785 and 1793
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Print made by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows
between 1785 and 1788
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George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Angel Contemplating the Mystery of the Cross
1785