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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Nixon, John, ca. 1760–1818
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18th century
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laid paper
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Binstead Parsonage, Isle of Wight
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool
ca. 1780
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures outside a Cottage Door
between 1775 and 1780