IMAGE CREDITS
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BACKGROUND
John Constable
Cloud Study, 1822 [detail]
Oil on paper laid on panel, 28.6 × 48.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.116
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Unknown
Frame, 1732-50
Painted fruitwood, pine carcass, gilt slips, 38 x 31 cm
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Robert Peake the Elder (c. 1551-1619)
Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field [detail]
Oil on canvas, 201.9 x 147.3 cm
Public Domain
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John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-79)
A Cariacature Group, c. 1766 [detail]
Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 106.7 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1981.25.467)
Public Domain
HISTORY
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Thomas Warrender (1662-c. 1715)
Still Life [detail]
Oil on canvas, 59.10 x 74.30 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
Public Domain
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Fox-Hunting [set of six]: 6. The Dinner, 1787-8 [detail]
​Aquatint, hand-coloured, 39.4 x 51.8 cm
Public Domain
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George Romney (1734-1802)
Study for ‘The Leveson-Gower Children’, 1776
Pencil and brown wash, 19 x 12 cm
George Romney (1734-1802)
The Leveson-Gower Children, 1777
Oil on canvas, 202 x 232 cm
George Romney (1734-1802)
Study for ‘The Leveson-Gower Children’, 1776
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 23.8 x 24.1 cm
John Raphael Smith (1751-1812), after George Romney (1734-1802)
The Gower Family: The Children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower, 1781
Mezzotint, 53.3 x 58.9 cm (the sheet)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund (B1970.3.328)
Public Domain
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore, 1834 [detail]
Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 120.8 cm.
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1978.43.15
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Thomas Jones (1742-1803)
View on the River Wye, circa 1776 [detail]
Oil on board, 45.7 x 60.1 cm
Denver Art Museum (2019.14), gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust
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Thomas Jones (1742-1803)
View on the River Wye, circa 1776 [detail]
Oil on board, 45.7 x 60.1 cm
Denver Art Museum (2019.14), gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust
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Thomas Jones (1742-1803)
View on the River Wye, circa 1776 [detail]
Oil on board, 45.7 x 60.1 cm
Denver Art Museum (2019.14), gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Comforts of Bath: The Concert, 1798 [detail]
​Watercolour with pen and grey and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, 12.2 x 18.7 cm
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Bernard Lens III (1682-1740)
Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace, 1720 [detail]
Watercolour and gouache heightened with gold on vellum, 43.8 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm
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A selection of 18th century tickets and trade cards from the Sarah Sophia Banks Collection, British Museum
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A selection of 18th century tickets and trade cards from the Sarah Sophia Banks Collection, British Museum
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Thomas Carwitham (1701/2-45)
Detail from Titanomachy, 1710s
Pen and brown ink, brown wash; 28.5 x 17 cm.
Veritas Art Auctions, Lisbon, 10 October 2018, lot 238
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Mario Asprucci the Younger,
First Designs for Ickworth House, Suffolk, England, ca. 1800
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1938-88-7172
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
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Canaletto (1697-1768)
Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames, 1747 [detail]
Oil on canvas, 95.9 x 127.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1976.7.94)
Public Domain
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Claude de Jongh (c.1600-63)
View of London Bridge, 1632 [detail]
Oil on panel, 48.9 x 109.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund (B2005.4)
Public Domain
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Anonymous
The Library, Grove Hill, nineteenth century [detail]
Engraving, 10.2 x 14.6 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1976.7.94)
Public Domain
MIDDLE
Bernard Lens III (1682-1740)
Classical Landscape with Shepherds and Shepherdess, 1717 [detail], 52.2 x 32.2 cm
medium unknown
Birmingham Museums Trust (1990P106)
Public Domain
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Paul Nash (1903-42)
Trees in Bird Garden Iver Heath, 1913 [detail]
Pen and ink, watercolour, 68 x 50.7 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust (1954P59), presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1954
Public Domain
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William Hogarth
Hudibras and the Lawyer (no. 12), 1726 [detail]
Etching and Engraving, 27 × 35.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1976.7.94)
Public Domain
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Unknown
Mr. Thomas Hope's Picture Gallery, Duchess Street, London, 1821 [detail]
Engraving, dimensions unknown
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1976.7.94)
Public Domain