On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: animal art / Subject Terms: birds

1. The Sleeping Shepherd

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 x 7 inches (21.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

2. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (20.2 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

3. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches (16.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Sleeping Shepherd

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 x 4 1/16 inches (12.2 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun before 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (30.2 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

9. Crowned Eagle and Two Birds

Creator:: Richard Brookes, 1721–1763
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (14.3 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Study for a Tiger and Monkeys

Creator:: James Northcote, 1746–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite, brown wash and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 13 7/8 inches (30.5 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Cowdray

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1882
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 x 12 3/16 inches (23.3 x 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Cowdray

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1882
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 3/4 inches (22.5 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Four Friends

Creator:: Print made by Robert Sargent Austin, 1895–1973
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 8 inches (29.3 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

14. Exotic Birds

Creator:: Print made by Robert Robinson, active 1674–1706
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, state before all letters on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 5 11/16 inches (17.9 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Two cows and two sheep in a stream, a Pl. for 'New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (30.2 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Title page for ' A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 7 5/16 inches (28.3 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Vulture with prey, and a heron, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of various kinds of Birds, Drawn from life by Mr. Francis Barlow, 1731' (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 3/8 inches (28.8 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Two Geese and four other birds, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 5/16 inches (28.8 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Two Crested cranes and four other birds, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn from Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 5/16 inches (28.7 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. One eagle, one owl and three owlets, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 5/16 inches (28.8 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Doves and Pheasants on two plates on one sheet for 'A New Kind of Drawing Book...of various kinds of Birds Drawn from Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Doves and Pheasants on two plates on one sheet for 'A New Kind of Drawing Book...of various kinds of Birds Drawn from Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 3/8 inches (28.8 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Six Snipe and four herons on two plates on one for 'A New Drawing Book..of various kinds of birds, Drawn from the Life by Francis Barlow', 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 1/4 inches (28.8 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Two Turkeys, two hens and four doves a plate for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 5/16 inches (28.8 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Study of Birds

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 5 3/8 inches (21.6 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

25. Study of a Bird

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches (18.1 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Studies of Gulls

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 5 inches (20 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. An Egyptian Vulture

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 9/16 × 26 7/16 inches (52.2 × 67.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/16 × 17 5/16 inches (64.6 × 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 × 18 1/8 inches (63.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Studies of Geese

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, oil, and graphite with scratching out on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches (27.3 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Purple Heron

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 11/16 × 26 9/16 inches (52.5 × 67.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1779 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and soft-ground etching on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 3/8 inches (30.5 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Cave of the Golden Calf: Studies of Tree Houses, Animals and Floor Plan

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick Gore

34. A Maiden Lady and her Family

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1820 and 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches (29.2 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Sleepest or Wakest Thou?

Creator:: Print made by Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885
Date:: ca. 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (10.8 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Sentinel

Creator:: Print made by Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 × 8 inches (13.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Eurasian treecreeper

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately think, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 8 1/4 inches (33 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. European Green Woodpecker

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 8 1/8 inches (34.3 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Two Small Birds

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 16 7/8 inches (26 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Five Birds

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 × 24 inches (48.3 × 61 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Two Birds on a Branch

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (20.6 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Two Tree Creepers

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 6 1/2 inches (20.3 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Magpie

Creator:: John Bewick, 1760–1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 1/4 inches (20.3 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Three Toucans

Creator:: James de Carle Sowerby, 1787–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 6 1/2 inches (32.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

Creator:: Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 7/16 inches (27 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Four dogs, a Pl. for 'New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (30.2 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. A Man, a horse and two dogs, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book..of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 6)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches (30.2 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. A Horse and a dog, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 7 5/16 inches (30.3 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A Duck and an Eagle with prey, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn From the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow, 1731 (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 7 5/16 inches (28.9 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. For Japanning, Plate 1

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (17.4 × 27.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Cave of the Golden Calf: Study for a Mural Decoration, Old Man in Landscape

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, graphite, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Woodpecker and Two Birds

Creator:: Richard Brookes, 1721–1763
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches (14.3 × 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. On the Test

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1878
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, smooth, cream Asian paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 x 12 15/16 inches (23.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

54. Eagles

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 × 19 15/16 inches (33.8 × 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Partridge Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 20 7/8 inches (37.4 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Pheasant Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 20 13/16 inches (38.5 x 52.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Grouse Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 20 7/8 inches (37.2 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. For Japanning, Plate 4

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (17.4 × 27.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. For Japanning, Plate 3

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 3/16 inches (20.1 × 28.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. For Japanning, Plate 5

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 9/16 inches (17.7 × 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle, Buildings on a Hill, and Rustic Lovers

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, gray wash and stumping on thin, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 13 inches (26.7 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Iola S. Haverstick Fund

62. Gull and Wave

Creator:: Print made by Clare Leighton, 1898–1989
Date:: ca. 1954
Materials & Techniques:: Woodcut on thin, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 4 1/2 inches (12.7 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

63. Landscape with Owl and Bats

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1873
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 9 3/8 inches (19.4 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

64. Landscape with Birds and Dog

Creator:: Attributed to Marmaduke Cradock, 1660–1716
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 x 11 7/8 inches (18.3 x 30.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 15 3/8 inches (28.1 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

66. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun before 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 12 3/8 inches (22.1 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun before 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone, retouched with white gouache on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 15/16 inches (17.8 x 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun before 1861; impression printed in 1926
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 13 1/8 inches (25.2 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Mail Coach Behind Time

Creator:: Engraved by Henry Pyall, 1795–1833
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 20 3/16 inches (40.2 x 51.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Two Birds in a Landscape

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 1/4 inches (20.6 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Birds

Creator:: Gertrude Hermes, 1901–1983
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/16 x 9 1/8 inches (12.9 x 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953

72. Sptrepsilas Interpres

Creator:: Print made by John Gould, 1804–1881
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (36.2 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

73. Cassia fistula (Golden Shower Tree)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Unidentified Botanical Subject

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Unidentified Gazelle

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Numida meleagris (Helmeted Guineafowl)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Unidentified Flamingo

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Unidentified Birds

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Unidentified Bird and Skink

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Buteo augur (Augur Buzzard)

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 1/2 inches (40.6 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Tetraodontidae (Pufferfish)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Anthropoides virgo (Demoiselle Crane)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Upupa epops (Hoopoe)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Unidentified Bird

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Unidentified Bird and Skink

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Unidentified Bee-eater

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Hyaena hyaena (Striped Hyena)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 inches (53 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Sleeping Shepherd

2. Opening the Fold

3. The Homeward Star

4. The Homeward Star

5. The Homeward Star

6. The Sleeping Shepherd

7. The Homeward Star

8. The Early Ploughman

9. Crowned Eagle and Two Birds

10. Study for a Tiger and Monkeys

11. Cowdray

12. Cowdray

13. Four Friends

14. Exotic Birds

15. Two cows and two sheep in a stream, a Pl. for 'New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

16. Title page for ' A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

17. A Vulture with prey, and a heron, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of various kinds of Birds, Drawn from life by Mr. Francis Barlow, 1731' (1 of 9)

18. Two Geese and four other birds, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

19. Two Crested cranes and four other birds, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn from Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

20. One eagle, one owl and three owlets, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

21. Doves and Pheasants on two plates on one sheet for 'A New Kind of Drawing Book...of various kinds of Birds Drawn from Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

22. Six Snipe and four herons on two plates on one for 'A New Drawing Book..of various kinds of birds, Drawn from the Life by Francis Barlow', 1731 (1 of 9)

23. Two Turkeys, two hens and four doves a plate for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn from the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow' 1731 (1 of 9)

24. Study of Birds

25. Study of a Bird

26. Studies of Gulls

27. An Egyptian Vulture

28. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

29. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

30. Studies of Geese

31. The Purple Heron

32. Wooded Landscape with Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Castle

33. Cave of the Golden Calf: Studies of Tree Houses, Animals and Floor Plan

34. A Maiden Lady and her Family

35. Sleepest or Wakest Thou?

36. The Sentinel

37. Eurasian treecreeper

38. European Green Woodpecker

39. Two Small Birds

40. Five Birds

41. Two Birds on a Branch

42. Two Tree Creepers

43. A Magpie

44. Three Toucans

45. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

46. Four dogs, a Pl. for 'New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

47. A Man, a horse and two dogs, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book..of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 6)

48. A Horse and a dog, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

49. A Duck and an Eagle with prey, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Various Kinds of Birds, Drawn From the Life by Mr. Francis Barlow, 1731 (1 of 9)

50. For Japanning, Plate 1

51. Cave of the Golden Calf: Study for a Mural Decoration, Old Man in Landscape

52. Woodpecker and Two Birds

53. On the Test

54. Eagles

55. Partridge Shooting

56. Pheasant Shooting

57. Grouse Shooting

58. For Japanning, Plate 4

59. For Japanning, Plate 3

60. For Japanning, Plate 5

61. Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle, Buildings on a Hill, and Rustic Lovers

62. Gull and Wave

63. Landscape with Owl and Bats

64. Landscape with Birds and Dog

65. The Early Ploughman

66. The Early Ploughman

67. The Early Ploughman

68. The Early Ploughman

69. Mail Coach Behind Time

70. Two Birds in a Landscape

71. Birds

72. Sptrepsilas Interpres

73. Cassia fistula (Golden Shower Tree)