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Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
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Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819
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Fisher, George Bulteel, 1764–1834
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Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
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Day, William, 1764–1807
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Henderson, John, 1764–1843
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Canaletto, 1697–1768
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Ducros, Abraham Louis Rodolphe, 1748–1810
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Morrison, Robert, active ca. 1791
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Sillett, James, 1764–1840
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1764
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1768
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1777
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1826
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1763
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1786
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1776
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1746
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1761
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1809
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1831
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1748
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1848
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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male
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Period
18th century
11
18th century-19th century
11
Materials & Techniques
watercolor
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graphite
14
laid paper
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black ink
11
brown ink
10
pen
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wove paper
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gray ink
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pens
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gray wash
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blue wash
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architectural subject
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genre subject
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landscape
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sporting art
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cityscape
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portrait
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marine art
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Subject Terms
architectural subject
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genre subject
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leisure
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sporting art
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buildings
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games
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landscape
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men
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portrait
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Grand Tour
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architecture
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bridge (built work)
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church
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figures
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hat
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pipe
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river
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ships
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trees
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arch
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Associated Places
Europe
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England
9
United Kingdom
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London
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Italy
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Southwark
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Barnet
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Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
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Chelsea
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City of London
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Colosseum
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Croydon
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Derbyshire
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Edinburgh
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Funchal
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Greater London
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Greenwich
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Hampshire
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Kennington
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Lambeth
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Associated People
Boswell, James (1740–1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson
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Boswell, James (1778–1822), barrister and literary scholar
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Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie [Peggie] (1738?–1789)
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Boswell, Sir Alexander, first baronet (1775–1822), poet and politician
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Monsey, Messenger (1693–1788), physician
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Samuel Johnson
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Exhibition History
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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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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Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)
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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
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Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Block Museum of Art, 2011-01-14 - 2011-03-13)
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Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2011-04-08 - 2011-06-12)
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Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman and Frances Carey in Memory of Diana Vincent-Daviss
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Robert Morrison, active ca. 1791
Design for Court of Edinburgh University
1779
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Studies from the Bust of Samuel Johnson
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George Bulteel Fisher, 1764–1834
View of Portsmouth Harbor with Shipping, Showing Buildings on Shore
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Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, 1748–1810
Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum
1779
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John Henderson, 1764–1843
Venetian Fantasy
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John Henderson, 1764–1843
Castle on the Sea Coast
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James Sillett, 1764–1840
Pockthorpe, Norwich
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Vauxhall Gardens
ca. 1784
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Fives played at the Tennis court Leicester Fields
ca. 1784
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Foot Ball played at Market Place, Barnet
ca. 1784
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
James Boswell and His Family
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Madeira
1779
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Funchal, Madeira: A Square with a Church
1779
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Sugar Loaf, Cape of Good Hope
1779
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Coits Played opposite the Horns, Kennington Common
ca. 1784
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Trap Ball Played at the Black Prince, Newington, Butts
ca. 1784
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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Four Corners Played at the Swan, Chelsea
ca. 1784
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Dr. Messenger Monsey of Chelsea Hospital, 1693-1788
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George Bulteel Fisher, 1764–1834
View of St. Paul's from Greenwich
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William Day, 1764–1807
A Scene in Derbyshire; Industrial Works spanning a River
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William Day, 1764–1807
Wooded Rocks by a Stream (Derbyshire?)
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George Bulteel Fisher, 1764–1834
River Landscape - On the Thames
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