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Towne, Francis, 1740–1816
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Cosway, Richard, 1742–1821
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Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
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Daniell, William, 1769–1837
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Dupont, Gainsborough, 1754–1797
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Saillair, Louis, 1748–1795
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Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812
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Smith, Thomas, ca. 1720–1767
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Staffordshire, pottery
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male
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18th century
9
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laid paper
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brown ink
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graphite
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oil paint
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stipple engraving
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trees
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Asia
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Bengal, Bay of
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Coniston Water
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Cumbria
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Côn So'n
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Vietnam
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Vung Tau-Con Dao
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Windermere
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Wesley [Westley], John (1703–1791), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism
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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)
2
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
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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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In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)
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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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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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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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
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John Webber, 1752–1793
The Harbour of Pulo Condere
1786
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Gainsborough Dupont, 1754–1797
A Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Herdsman
before 1796
Not on view
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Staffordshire pottery
Bust of the Reverend John Wesley: in clerical collar and black robes
ca. 1791
Not on view
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J. Wells, active 1780–1791
A View of Margate with the Bathing Place
1786
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire
1786
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Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Lake Windermere
1786
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Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Fowl Island, Bay of Bengal, Coast of Arakan
1786 (?)
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Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Thoughts on Matrimony
1786
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Print made by Louis Sailliar, 1748–1795
His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales
1786-1787