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Prints and Drawings
12
Paintings and Sculpture
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Creator
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
2
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
2
Dance, Nathaniel, 1735–1811
1
Downman, John, 1750–1824
1
Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
1
Grose, Francis Capt., 1731–1791
1
Haughton, Moses Jr., 1772–1848
1
Mabon, Robert, died 1798
1
Moore, James, 1762–1799
1
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
1
Sequeira, Domingos Antonio de, 1768–1837
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Smith, John, 1749–1831
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Unknown artist
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1795
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60
2004
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1960
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1789
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1765
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1799
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1780
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1771
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1790
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1830
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1762
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1770
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1773
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1784
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1630
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1750
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1783
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1787
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1802
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1753
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1756
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1763
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1777
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1786
12
1796
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1817
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1818
12
1826
12
1618
11
1764
11
1769
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1774
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1788
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1813
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1819
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1827
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1965
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1700
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1746
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1822
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1748
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1757
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1766
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1823
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1803
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1806
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1814
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1829
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1832
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1875
8
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
12
Not on view
2
Image Use
Free to Use
14
Image Available
Available
14
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
7
Prints
5
Paintings
2
Creator Gender
male
13
unknown
1
Collective Title
The Agreeable Surprise
1
Period
18th century
12
18th century-19th century
2
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
7
graphite
5
watercolor
5
wove paper
5
black ink
4
canvas
2
etching (printing process)
2
gray wash
2
mezzotint
2
oil paint
2
painting (technique)
2
pen
2
stipple engraving
2
black chalk
1
black wash
1
brown ink
1
gouache
1
line engraving
1
soft-ground etching
1
squaring (transferring technique)
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Work Type
drawing
8
watercolor
7
intaglio print
5
painting
2
Genre
portrait
6
figure study
2
genre subject
2
landscape
2
architectural subject
1
literary theme
1
religious and mythological subject
1
Subject Terms
man
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coat
6
portrait
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woman
4
costume
3
cravat
3
oval
3
politician
3
wig
3
baron
2
barrister
2
buttons
2
child
2
clouds
2
figure study
2
genre subject
2
landscape
2
lawyer
2
magistrate
2
ruffles
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Associated Places
England
1
Hertfordshire
1
South Mimms
1
United Kingdom
1
Associated People
Dunning, John, first Baron Ashburton (1731–1783), barrister and politician
2
Cowslip (character in The Agreeable Surprise)
1
Edwin, John, the elder (1749–1790), actor and singer
1
Grose, Francis (bap. 1731, d. 1791), antiquary
1
Lingo (character in The Agreeable Surprise)
1
Moore, James (British painter, 1762–1799)
1
Pinto de Sousa Coutinho, Luis, first Viscount Balsemão (1735–1804 )
1
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister
1
Smith, Walter
1
Wells [née Davies; other married name Sumbel], Mary Stephens (1762–1829), actress
1
Exhibition History
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
2
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
1
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
1
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
1
Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (National Maritime Museum, 2005-08-25 - 2005-10-25)
1
Masters of the Sea - British Marine Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-06-10 - 1987-08-02)
1
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
1
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Lydia Evans Tunnard
1
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Walter Smith
1787
Not on view
2
Studio of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
William Pitt
1787 to 1789
Not on view
3
Robert Mabon, died 1798
A Hindu Austere
ca. 1792
4
Moses Haughton Jr., 1772–1848
A Young Country Couple
undated
5
Print made by François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Landscape with Cottages
undated
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Luis Pinto de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Viscount of Balsemão
before 1797
7
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
John Dunning
1787
8
James Moore, 1762–1799
The Artist Sketching Mlle. de St. Legier as a Shepherdess
1787
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
John Dunning
1787
10
Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
South Mimms Church, Hertfordshire
1787
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Francis Grose
1787
12
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
The Maniac
1787
13
John Downman, 1750–1824
John Edwin and Mrs. Mary Wells as Lingo and Cowslip in "The Agreeable Surprise"
1787
14
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Bay Scene in Moonlight
1787