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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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brown wash
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laid paper
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genre subject
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landscape
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baby
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woods
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Exhibition History
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (Kimbell Art Museum, 1983-12-17 - 1984-02-19)
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Gainsborough Drawings - International Exhibitions Foundation (National Gallery of Art, 1983-10-02 - 1983-12-04)
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Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)
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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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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Musée du Louvre, 1981-02-07 - 1981-04-26)
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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Arms Wick
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Benjamin West, 1738–1820
The Three Sisters
1783
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures
ca. 1788