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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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Dean, John, 1754–1798
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Downman, John, 1750–1824
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Drawings & Watercolors
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female
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The Agreeable Surprise
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18th century
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laid paper
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mezzotint
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watercolor
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black chalk
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portrait
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The Agreeable Surprise, play by John O'Keeffe, 1781
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Blenheim Palace
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England
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Oxfordshire
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United Kingdom
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Woodstock
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Cosway, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist
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Cadogan, Lady Mary (1750–active 1797)
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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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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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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Mrs. Cosway
1787
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Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
The Gate at Blenheim
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 John Dean, 1754–1798
Lady Cadogan
1787