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Prints and Drawings
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Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
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Green, Amos, 1735–1807
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Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713–1770
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Brooking, Charles, 1723–1759
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Cotes, Francis, 1726–1770
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Heckel, Augustin, 1690–1770
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Laroon, Marcellus the Younger, 1679–1772
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Nebot, Balthazar, active 1730–1762
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Nickolls, Joseph, active 1713–ca. 1755
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Robins, Thomas the elder, 1715–1770
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Taverner, William, 1703–1772
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
10
Not on view
5
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Free to Use
15
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15
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Drawings & Watercolors
9
Paintings
5
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
1
Creator Gender
male
15
Period
18th century
12
18th century-19th century
3
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
7
graphite
6
gray wash
6
painting (technique)
5
black ink
4
canvas
4
oil paint
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brown ink
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brown wash
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watercolor
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wove paper
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opaque watercolour
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marine art
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landscape
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river
8
trees
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hills
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men
4
mountains
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architectural subject
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costume
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ruins
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boats
2
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buildings
2
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geology
2
man
2
mountain
2
rocks (landforms)
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Grand Tour
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United Kingdom
3
England
2
Aysgarth
1
Campania
1
Cwmbran
1
Eolie, Isole
1
Europe
1
Greater London
1
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1
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1
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1
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The Hague
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Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), poet
1
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver
1
Stanhope, William, first earl of Harrington (1683?–1756), diplomatist and politician
1
Exhibition History
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
3
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)
2
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
1
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)
1
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
1
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
1
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)
1
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
1
Fame and Friendship : Pope , Roubiliac , and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-02-20 - 2014-05-19)
1
Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner: British Painting and the Rise of Modernity (Fondazione Roma Museo - Palazzo Sciarra, 2014-04-14 - 2014-07-20)
1
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)
1
Inventing Old Virginia : The Decline and Rise of a Pastoral Ideal (Virginia Historical Society, 2003-02-22 - 2003-06-15)
1
Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03)
1
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
1
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26)
1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
1
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
1
The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29)
1
View of Pope's Villa (Kenwood House, 1980-07-19 - 1980-09-28)
1
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Pope's Villa, Twickenham
ca. 1755
Not on view
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Landscape with Stream and Weir
between 1750 and 1753
Not on view
3
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore
ca. 1755
Not on view
4
Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762
Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire
between 1750 and 1762
Not on view
5
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Lovers in a glade
between 1750 and 1755
Not on view
6
William Taverner, 1703–1772
Rural Landscape
between 1750 and 1755
7
Amos Green, 1735–1807
Landscape with Wooden Bridge
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Amos Green, 1735–1807
Classical Landscape
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Amos Green, 1735–1807
Pont Newydd near Dolgelly
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Thomas Robins the elder, 1715–1770
View of Gloucestershire Country House
ca. 1755
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Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Stromboli
1750
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Attributed to Francis Cotes, 1726–1770
An Artist Sketching, possibly Paul Sandby
ca. 1755
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Tree and Distant Hills
between 1750 and 1755
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
River and Mountain, with Ruins
between 1750 and 1759
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Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Landscape with Mountain and Lake
1750s