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Towne, Francis, 1740–1816
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Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758–1838
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Moore, James, 1762–1799
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Creator Gender
male
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Two Volumes of, 187 Drawings and Manuscripts, Including, 4 Etchings
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[One from a volume of 66] "Views Drawn from Nature in the Neighborhood of Rome and Abruzzo etc. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. In the Years 1786 to 1790"
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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brown ink
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graphite
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laid paper
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watercolor
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wove paper
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landscape
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cityscape
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lake
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Grand Tour
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Cumbria
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Coniston Water
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England
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Keswick
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Nemi
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Nemi, Lago di
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Scotland
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United Kingdom
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Windermere
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Exhibition History
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Francis Towne (Leeds Art Gallery, 1997-10-02 - 1998-01-04)
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Francis Towne (Tate Britain, 1997-06-24 - 1997-09-14)
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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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Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)
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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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Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Windermere at Sunset
1786
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Lake Windermere
1786
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire
1786
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Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1758–1838
The Town and Lake of Nemi, in Italy
1786 to 1819
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
The Grange at the Head of Keswick Lake
1786
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James Moore, 1762–1799
Loch Oich
ca. 1791