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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Pocock, Nicholas, 1740–1821
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Drawings & Watercolors
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18th century
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black ink
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cityscape
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England
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Avon Gorge
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Rochester
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Exhibition History
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
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Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30)
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Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (Tate Britain, 2002-07-04 - 2002-09-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
The River Avon: with Passing Vessels
1785
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Rochester, Kent: from the North
ca. 1790