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Avon 4
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British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 1
Francis Danby ARA (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1988-11-05 - 1989-01-21) 1
Francis Danby ARA (Tate Britain, 1989-02-15 - 1989-04-09) 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) 1
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) 1
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) 1
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 1

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Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge

between 1816 and 1818
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge at Sunset

ca. 1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge, Looking toward Clifton

ca. 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Jackson, 1794–1869

The Avon near Bristol

undated

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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