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In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 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
The Art of Music (San Diego Museum of Art, 2015-09-26 - 2016-02-07) 1
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 1

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Subject Terms: cello
Associated People: Lidarti, Cristiano Giuseppe (b. 1730), composer

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Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811

Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

between 1759 and 1760

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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