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Varley, Cornelius, 1781–1873
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Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842
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Martin, John, 1789–1854
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Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
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male
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Period
19th century
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Materials & Techniques
wove paper
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graphite
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watercolor
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black ink
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brown ink
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board
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gouache
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Europe
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United Kingdom
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Barnard Castle
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Campania
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Cymru
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Durham
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Italy
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Llantysilio
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Napoli
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Pompeii
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Staffordshire
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Teesdale
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Valle Crucis Abbey
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Wales
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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)
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British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block 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 (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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English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
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Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
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Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04)
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
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Through the Looking Lens - The Story of Artist Cornelius Varley and his Telemicroscope, 1800-1860 (American Philosophical Society, 2013-05-17 - 2013-12-29)
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Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)
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Turner : Tours of Durham and Richmondshire (The Bowes Museum, 2006-01-05 - 2006-05-28)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Streets of the Tombs, Pompeii
undated
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Barnard Castle
ca. 1825
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John Martin, 1789–1854
Moonlit Landscape with a Ruined Castle
between 1820 and 1830
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Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire
1820
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Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire
1820
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after John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Ruin of a Norman Church
ca. 1825