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Paintings and Sculpture
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Prints and Drawings
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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Dickinson, William, 1746–1823
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Haid, Johann Elias, 1739–1809
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Hurleston, Richard, active 1763–1780
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Millar, James, ca.1735–1805
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Morland, Henry Robert, 1730–1797
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Penny, Edward, 1714–1791
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Runciman, Alexander, 1736–1785
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Rutherford, Archibald, 1743–1779
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Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
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1779
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1769
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1764
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1729
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1784
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1720
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1759
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1710
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1715
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1748
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1751
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1757
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1761
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Available
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Classification
Paintings
5
Drawings & Watercolors
3
Prints
2
Creator Gender
male
10
unknown
1
Collective Title
King Lear
1
Period
18th century
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Materials & Techniques
canvas
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laid paper
5
oil paint
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painting (technique)
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brown wash
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graphite
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gray wash
2
mezzotint
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black ink
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painting
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drawing
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intaglio print
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watercolor
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portrait
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genre subject
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figure study
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animal art
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literary theme
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man
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portrait
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children
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collar
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costume
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cravat
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curtains
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daughter
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family
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father
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figure study
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oval
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painter
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posing
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red
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solemn
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turban
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woman
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Associated People
Cordelia (character in King Lear)
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Fletcher, Col Sir Robert (1738–1776), colonel in the Indian Army, M.P.
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King Lear (character in King Lear)
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Morland, George (1763–1804), landscape and genre painter
1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
1
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain
1
Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter
1
Exhibition History
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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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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Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24)
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English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
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Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery, 2007-11-17 - 2008-02-24)
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Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30)
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Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29)
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23)
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Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08)
1
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Studies of a Classical Bust
1774 to 1775
Not on view
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Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797
George Morland
ca. 1779
Not on view
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Attributed to Richard Hurleston, active 1763–1780
Joseph Wright of Derby
between 1774 and 1776
Not on view
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Edward Penny, 1714–1791
The Virtuous Comforted by Sympathy
1774
Not on view
5
James Millar, ca.1735–1805
Family Group
between 1774 and 1780
Not on view
6
George Romney, 1734–1802
Lear Awakened by Cordelia
between 1774 and 1775
7
Johann Elias Haid, 1739–1809
West, Geschichts mahler
1774
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Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
A Carriage and Pair, with Coachman
1774
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William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Sir Robert Fletcher
1774
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Archibald Rutherford, 1743–1779
Portrait of a Man
1774