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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Collings, Samuel, active 1784–1795
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Copley, John Singleton, 1738–1815
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Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Nixon, John, ca. 1760–1818
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
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Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
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1767
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Drawings & Watercolors
5
Paintings
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male
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Period
18th century
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watercolor
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graphite
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laid paper
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pen
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black ink
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gray ink
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painting (technique)
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wove paper
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canvas
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oil paint
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drawing
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painting
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genre subject
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cityscape
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landscape
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literary theme
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marine art
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fair
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figures
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ship
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advertising
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apron
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arches
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bathing machine
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England
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United Kingdom
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London
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City of Westminster
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Dublin
1
Greater London
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Hampshire
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Hyde Park
1
North Tyneside
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Northumberland
1
Southsea
1
Southsea Castle
1
St. Paul's Cathedral
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Thames
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Tower of London
1
Tynemouth
1
Éire
1
Exhibition History
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
1
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
1
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)
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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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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30)
1
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)
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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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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 Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)
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Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Frost on the Thames
1788 to 1789
Not on view
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John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'
ca. 1793
Not on view
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Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
The Gunpowder Magazine, Hyde Park
ca. 1793
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Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Donnybrook Fair
1788
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John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Bathing Machine on the Common, near Southsea Castle
1788
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
The Prospect Before Us
1788
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Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Tynemouth Priory, Northumberland
ca. 1793