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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
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Drawings & Watercolors
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18th century
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children
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branches
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harpsichord
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inkwell
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Comyns, John Richard
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Exhibition History
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14)
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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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Thomas Gainsborough (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2003-06-15 - 2003-09-14)
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Thomas Gainsborough (National Gallery of Art, 2003-02-09 - 2003-05-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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John Greenwood, 1727–1792
John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters
1775
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Studies of Girls Carrying Faggots
ca. 1780