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Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 1
Champagne ! (Musee Beaux Arts de la ville de Reims, 2012-12-11 - 2013-05-26) 1
Georgian Canada - Conflict and Culture (Royal Ontario Museum, 1984-05-01 - 1984-11-01) 1
Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (Gardiner Museum, 2019-10-10 - 2020-01-12) 1
Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2020-02-29 - 2021-01-03) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 1

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Philippe Mercier, 1691–1760

The Sense of Taste

1744 to 1747
Philippe Mercier, 1691–1760

The Sense of Hearing

1744 to 1747
Accessible in the Study Room
Anthony Highmore, 1719–1799

Ladies Beside a Column and Arcade

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