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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Bickham, George, 1683/4–1758
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Devis, Arthur, 1711–1787
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Prints
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Paintings
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male
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unknown
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Collective Title
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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laid paper
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black chalk
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etching (printing process)
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white chalk
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black ink
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black wash
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canvas
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graphite
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gray wash
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genre subject
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peasant
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woman
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baby
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Bacon, Catherine (1735–?)
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Bacon, Catherine (née Lowther, life dates unknown)
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Bacon, Charles (1733–1743)
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Bacon, John (1709–1752)
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Bacon, John William (1733–1767)
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Fountaine, Sir Andrew (1676–1753), art collector
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Gainsborough, Thomas (1727–1788), painter and printmaker
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Rutter, Dorothy (née Bacon, 1737–1809)
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Exhibition History
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11)
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Arthur Devis (Harris Museum and Art Gallery, 1983-11-25 - 1984-01-29)
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Arthur Devis (National Portrait Gallery, 1983-10-01 - 1983-11-12)
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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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Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)
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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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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
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The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Berkeley Art Museum, 1995-08-23 - 1995-11-19)
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The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 1995-12-10 - 1996-02-04)
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The New Child - The Origins of Modern Childhood in English Art 1730-1830 (Joslyn Art Museum, 1996-03-09 - 1996-05-05)
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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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Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
John Bacon, Catherine Bacon (née Lowther), and their children John, Charles, Catherine, and Dorothy
between 1742 and 1743
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Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762
Sir Andrew Fountaine
ca. 1747
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Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Seven and a man, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Gainsborough
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attributed to Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains
1742
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copy after Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Man Holding a Claude Glass
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows
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