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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
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Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Pether, Abraham, 1756–1812
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Robert, D., active ca. 1775–1800
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Not on view
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11
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Drawings & Watercolors
8
Paintings
3
Creator Gender
male
11
Period
18th century
11
Materials & Techniques
gray wash
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laid paper
5
graphite
4
black ink
3
canvas
3
oil paint
3
painting (technique)
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watercolor
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gray ink
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drawing
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watercolor
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landscape
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landscape
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cliffs
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cottage
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men
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river
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water
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animals
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boats
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child
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clouds
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cows
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town
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trees
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angels
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India
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Asia
2
Bihar
1
England
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Europe
1
Kent
1
Rochester
1
Sasaram
1
United Kingdom
1
Exhibition History
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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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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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11)
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Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)
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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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Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
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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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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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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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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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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Cottage on Fire at Night
between 1785 and 1793
Not on view
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D. Robert, active ca. 1775–1800
Tomb of Sher Shah, Sasaram, Bihar
ca. 1790
Not on view
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Abraham Pether, 1756–1812
Wooded Hilly Landscape
1785
Not on view
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
A Timber Waggon
ca. 1790
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
At Hooghly
1785
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Siccregully [Sakrigali]
1785
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Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
At Chinsurah [Chinsura]
1785
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Rochester, Kent: from the North
ca. 1790
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John Flaxman, 1755–1826
The Creation of the Heavens
ca. 1790
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imitator of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Wooded Landscape with Figures, Cottage and Cow
between 1785 and 1788
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Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Open Landscape with Figures, Cows and Cottage
between 1785 and 1788