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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Gilpin, Sawrey, 1733–1807
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1744
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1761
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1781
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1802
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1807
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1811
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Paintings
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male
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18th century
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18th century-19th century
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graphite
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laid paper
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drawing
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animal art
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landscape
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hills
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animal art
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cattle
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cottage
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cows
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field
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forest
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landscape
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meadow
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pasture
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reclining
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sheep
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shepherd
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study (visual work)
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tree
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valley (landform)
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Exhibition History
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)
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Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)
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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)
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Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)
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Rachel Rose (Gladstone Gallery, 2022-01-14 - 2022-03-01)
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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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Thomas Gainsborough (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1980-10-07 - 1981-01-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Shepherd
1748 to 1750
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Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Studies of a Cattle
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