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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
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Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720–1778
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Williams, Hugh William "Grecian", 1773–1829
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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male
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18th century
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graphite
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watercolor
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wove paper
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laid paper
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brown ink
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columns
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United Kingdom
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Lazio
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Rome
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Arch of Janus
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Bolton Abbey
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Bothwell Castle
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Hastings
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Exhibition History
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30)
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Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
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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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Cotman in Normandy (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2012-10-10 - 2013-01-13)
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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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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
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Sites and Sensibilities - Views of Rome 1500-1992 (Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1992-09-01 - 1992-11-08)
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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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Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire
1798
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Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
The Porta Nigra, Trier
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Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Beach Scene
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Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
The Colosseum, Rome
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Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Bolton Abbey
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imitator of Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen
between 1798 and 1801
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Arch of Janus, after Piranesi
between 1798 and 1799
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Classical Composition
1798 to 1799
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Tempio d' Antonio e Faustina
between 1798 and 1799
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John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
East End of Howden Church, Yorkshire
ca. 1803