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Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759–1838
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Green, Rupert, 1768–1804
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Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
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Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
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Dance, Nathaniel, 1735–1811
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Downman, John, 1750–1824
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Unknown artist
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1787
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Prints
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Drawings & Watercolors
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female
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unknown
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Collective Title
The Agreeable Surprise
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Period
18th century
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18th century-19th century
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Materials & Techniques
laid paper
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mezzotint
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black chalk
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brown ink
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brown wash
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gouache
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graphite
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stipple engraving
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stumping
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watercolor
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wove paper
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intaglio print
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drawing
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watercolor
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portrait
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ruffles
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costume
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gown
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chair
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coat
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earrings
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fichu
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gesture
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horizon line
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man
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muslin
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self-portrait
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turban
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The Agreeable Surprise, play by John O'Keeffe, 1781
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Bath
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Bath and Northeast Somerset
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England
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United Kingdom
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Associated People
Cosway, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist
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Cowslip (character in The Agreeable Surprise)
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Edwin, John, the elder (1749–1790), actor and singer
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Grose, Francis (bap. 1731, d. 1791), antiquary
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Lingo (character in The Agreeable Surprise)
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Wells [née Davies; other married name Sumbel], Mary Stephens (1762–1829), actress
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Exhibition History
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
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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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Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath
after 1787
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Mrs. Cosway
1787
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Mrs. Cosway
1787
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John Downman, 1750–1824
John Edwin and Mrs. Mary Wells as Lingo and Cowslip in "The Agreeable Surprise"
1787
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Francis Grose
1787