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Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
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Carwitham, Thomas, active 1723
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Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675–1734
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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male
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Collective Title
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book V
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18th century
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pen
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laid paper
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brown ink
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black ink
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brown wash
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graphite
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gray wash
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wove paper
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architectural subject
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architectural subject
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Palladian
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country house
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figures
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literary theme
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nude
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Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
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angels
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biblical studies
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building
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child
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crucifixes
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history paintings
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man
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pose
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serpents
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trees
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woman
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Associated Places
Dunster
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England
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Lowther
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Minehead
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Somerset
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United Kingdom
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Associated People
Ascalabus, son of Misme
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Callisto, one of the followers of Artemis
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Ceres, Roman deity
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Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE)
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Jupiter
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Misme, mother of Ascalabus
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Moses
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Exhibition History
British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30)
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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, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Court Front
between 1718 and 1729
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Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Garden Front
between 1718 and 1729
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5
ca. 1723
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
ca. 1723
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Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Moses and the Brazen Serpent - Design for the chapel at Dunster Castle
ca. 1723