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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Alexander, William, 1767–1816
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Views in the Province of Kiang Nan, China
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Young's Night Thoughts
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18th century
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Taw
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Exhibition History
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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English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004-02-19 - 2004-04-12)
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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (National Gallery of Australia, 2004-04-24 - 2004-07-18)
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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (National Gallery of Victoria, 2004-08-13 - 2004-10-03)
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John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2003-12-05 - 2004-02-01)
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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 Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)
ca. 1797
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John Glover, 1767–1849
River with Fishermen
1792
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
London from Highgate Hill
1792
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Estuary on the River Taw, Devon
ca. 1797
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William Alexander, 1767–1816
View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain
1792 to 1794
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John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Village of Stonethwaite and Eagle Cragg, Borrowdale
1792