Collection: Prints and Drawings / Exhibition History: Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)

1. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 1/8 inches (20.3 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights', with Two Male Figures Standing

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and graphite on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 3 inches (10.5 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with female figure reclining at left)

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and black ink on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/8 inches (11.4 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Travellers in Turkey

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 20 3/8 inches (16.5 × 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. "Arch of Marcus Aurelius at Tripoli "

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured,cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 25 3/4 inches (48.9 × 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Elevation of Pedestal Entableature of the Arch at Tripoli

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches (64.8 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 16 inches (30.6 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Jerboa

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, watercolor, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Banditti of Kurdistan Assisting Georgians in Surprising and Carrying off Circassian Women

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash, squared and numbered for transfer on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/2 × 32 5/8 inches (57.2 × 82.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. The Dilettanti Society

Creator:: Print made by William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof before letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 × 18 inches (61.6 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. The Dilettanti Society

Creator:: Print made by Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof before titles) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/8 × 20 1/8 inches (70.2 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. The Woman Taking Coffee

Creator:: Print made by Louis Marin Bonnet, 1736–1793
Date:: ca. 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Crayon manner, colored, heightened with gold on moderately thick, textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 inches (31.8 × 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Top Panel: Plan, Column Details; Bottom Panel: View of a Ruined Theater, Probably that at Miletus

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with gray and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 15 inches (54 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Ruines à Troye

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 21 9/16 inches (37.6 x 54.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. North Porch of the Erectheion, Athens

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 inches (30.2 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Arch of Hadrian

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 × 8 5/8 inches (29.1 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Temple of Hephaestus

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 17 1/4 inches (29.2 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Locust

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (22.5 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. An Elephant and a Camel

Creator:: Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607–1677
Date:: 1663
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 8 3/8in. (14.9 x 21.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: between 1764 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 inches (29.2 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The King’s Bagnio

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1686
Materials & Techniques:: Broadside
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7in. (27.9 x 17.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Repose in Egypt

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 9/16 inches (20.6 x 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Otostegia tomentosa: outline sketch of flowering stem with details of flowers and leaf

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (30.2 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14in. (24.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Wellesley Arabian

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, proof before letters
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 1/4 x 22 5/8in. (48.9 x 57.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Royal Exchange

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Coffee-House Characters, or Hints to the Readers of Newspapers: The Private Declaimer

Creator:: George Moutard Woodward, ca. 1760–1809
Date:: 1808
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, lightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3in. (11.4 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevation of the Doric Entablature and Roof Section

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black and red ink, graphite and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 13/16 inches (31.8 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: View of the Interior

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 19 1/2 inches (29.8 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Columns in the Island of Aegina, Temple of Venus

Creator:: John Foster, ca. 1787–1846
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (42.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Near Mourad Pasha

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, textuted, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (13.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Miletus

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 18 1/2in. (27.9 x 47cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Aleppo - January 1836.

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/8 inches (17.1 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Aleppo

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1835-1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor; on verso, graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/8 × 9 inches (10.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Man With a Pipe

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1835-1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on thick, textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 × 14 inches (45.7 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

2. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights', with Two Male Figures Standing

3. Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]

4. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with female figure reclining at left)

5. Travellers in Turkey

6. "Arch of Marcus Aurelius at Tripoli "

7. Elevation of Pedestal Entableature of the Arch at Tripoli

8. Unidentified Fish

9. Jerboa

10. Banditti of Kurdistan Assisting Georgians in Surprising and Carrying off Circassian Women

11. The Dilettanti Society

12. The Dilettanti Society

13. The Woman Taking Coffee

14. Top Panel: Plan, Column Details; Bottom Panel: View of a Ruined Theater, Probably that at Miletus

15. Ruines à Troye

16. North Porch of the Erectheion, Athens

17. Arch of Hadrian

18. Temple of Hephaestus

19. Locust

20. An Elephant and a Camel

21. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

22. The King’s Bagnio

23. Repose in Egypt

24. Otostegia tomentosa: outline sketch of flowering stem with details of flowers and leaf

25. Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

26. The Wellesley Arabian

27. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

28. The Royal Exchange

29. Coffee-House Characters, or Hints to the Readers of Newspapers: The Private Declaimer

30. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)

31. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevation of the Doric Entablature and Roof Section

32. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: View of the Interior

33. Columns in the Island of Aegina, Temple of Venus

34. Near Mourad Pasha

35. Miletus

36. Aleppo - January 1836.

37. Aleppo

38. Man With a Pipe