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Varley, John, 1778–1842
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Alexander, William, 1767–1816
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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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female
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unknown
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Collective Title
The Costume of China
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Views in the Province of Kiang Nan, China
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Period
18th century-19th century
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18th century
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Materials & Techniques
watercolor
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wove paper
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graphite
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laid paper
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black ink
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pen
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United Kingdom
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England
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China
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Badajoz
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Chu
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Coquet
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Exhibition History
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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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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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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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Richard L. Purdy
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William Alexander, 1767–1816
Remains of a Bridge at San-Sien-Wey on the Pei-Ho near Tong-Tcheou, August 15, 1793
1793
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William Alexander, 1767–1816
Barges of the Embassy Being Raised from One Canal to Another on Their Way from Han-Tcheou-Foo to Tchu-San, 16 November 1793
1793
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John Varley, 1778–1842
London from the Thames
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John Varley, 1778–1842
River Landscape with Figures
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pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
View on the Thames at Battersea
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John Varley, 1778–1842
View of York
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John Varley, 1778–1842
Merida, Spain
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pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Mountainous Landscape, with River Flowing to Bridge in Distance, a Figure Right
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imitator of John Varley, 1778–1842
River Landscape
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John Varley, 1778–1842
Trees and Cottages at the Bend of a River
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Warkworth Castle, Northumberland
ca. 1798
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
The New Walk, York
ca. 1798
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William Alexander, 1767–1816
Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton
1793
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John Varley, 1778–1842
Landscape with a Distant Tower
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John Varley, 1778–1842
Ludlow, Shropshire
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unknown artist
A Barge on the Thames near Fulton
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Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Barn Elmes
1793
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William Alexander, 1767–1816
View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature
1793