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Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
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Taverner, William, 1703–1772
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Alexander, John, 1686–before 1768
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Raphael,, Italian, 1483–1520
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Carwitham, Thomas, active 1723
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Delvaux, Laurent, 1696–1778
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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male
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Collective Title
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book II
1
Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book V
1
Period
18th century
14
17th century-18th century
2
19th century
1
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
9
pen
7
gray wash
6
black ink
4
graphite
4
gray ink
4
brown ink
3
brown wash
3
marble
2
watercolor
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wove paper
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red chalk
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drawing
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watercolor
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sculpture
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statuette
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architectural subject
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religious and mythological subject
4
landscape
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literary theme
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portrait
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cityscape
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architectural subject
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Palladian
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nude
4
religious and mythological subject
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trees
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country house
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landscape
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woman
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Grand Tour
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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figures
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floor plans
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house
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literary theme
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portrait
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sleeping
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Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
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Italian
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angels
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England
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Italy
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United Kingdom
2
Cumbria
1
Dunster
1
Europe
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Lowther
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Minehead
1
Rome
1
Somerset
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Westmorland
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Ariadne
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Ascalabus, son of Misme
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Callisto, one of the followers of Artemis
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Ceres, Roman deity
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Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
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Diana
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Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE)
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Jupiter
1
Misme, mother of Ascalabus
1
Moses
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Exhibition History
Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15)
2
British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30)
1
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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781
Cleopatra
ca. 1723
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Laurent Delvaux, 1696–1778
Ariadne
ca. 1723
Not on view
3
William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Trade Sheet for: Richard Hand, The Oldest Original Chelsey Bunn Baker at the King's Arms Chelsey
1718
4
Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Moses and the Brazen Serpent - Design for the chapel at Dunster Castle
ca. 1723
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William Taverner, 1703–1772
Italian Landscape with Ruined Castle
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William Taverner, 1703–1772
Landscape, Trees and a Distant View of Rome
undated
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William Taverner, 1703–1772
Diana
undated
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Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Lowther House, Westmorland: Principal and First Floor Plans
between 1718 and 1729
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Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Court Front
between 1718 and 1729
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Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Garden Front
between 1718 and 1729
11
Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Lowther House, Westmorland: Lower Ground Floor Plan
between 1718 and 1729
12
William Taverner, 1703–1772
An Italian Landscape: village on a hill left, hillside sloping towards right, with distant valley beyond
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John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Dedicatory page, The Stanza d'Eliodoro
1718
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2
ca. 1723
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Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5
ca. 1723
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John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Abraham's Offering
1718
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John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Jacob and the Heavenly Ladder
1718