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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797
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Young, Edward, 1683–1765
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Young's Night Thoughts
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18th century
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watercolor
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wove paper
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Exhibition History
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
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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 Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
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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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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)
1797
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Robert Streatfeild, 1786–1852
Stowe House, Buckingham
1797
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Saint Cuthbert's Holy Island
1797
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attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Barmouth Estuary with Cader Idris, North Wales
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