Materials & Techniques: brown wash and gray wash / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: genre subject

1. Shepherdess Cutting an Inscription on a Tree

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink; verso: gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 16 3/8 inches (32.1 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

2. London Cries: A Man with a Basket (Man Selling Pots and Pans)

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash, graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (19.1 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Classical Study of Three Figures

Creator:: Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565–1617
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and brown wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 × 4 1/8 inches (6.8 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. London Cries: Small Coal or Brushes

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 5 3/8 inches (20.3 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. London Cries: All Fire and No Smoke

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (19.7 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. London Cries: A Man Swaggering

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (19.7 x 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Peasants in a Grotto

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and gray wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 11/16 inches (17.6 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. London Cries: Throws for a Ha'penny Have You a Ha'penny

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, graphite, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (19.7 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Soldier on Horseback

Creator:: Attributed to unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 9 1/16 inches (13.7 × 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Flying the Kite

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 inches (14.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Battledore and Shuttlecock

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 inches (14.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Fashionable Audience

Creator:: Matthew Haughton, 1768–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 7/8 inches (13 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Wayfarers

Creator:: Sir John Gilbert, 1817–1897
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 5 5/8 inches (15.2 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Fisherman

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (8.6 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Horsemen in a Landscape

Creator:: Charles H. Schwanfelder, 1774–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite; verso: watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Music: Composition in a Garden

Creator:: John James Chalon, 1778–1854
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash, graphite on textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 17 5/8 inches (32.4 × 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Interior of a Coppersmith's, Shoe Lane

Creator:: Henry William Burgess, active 1809–1860
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (14 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Utensils

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 1/2 inches (21.9 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. View on the Liris at Isola di Sora

Creator:: Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1758–1838
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 1/4 inches (39.5 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Wood Cutters

Creator:: John James Chalon, 1778–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash, gouache, graphite on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 13/16 × 17 9/16 inches (35.1 × 44.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Head of a Man with a Beard Looking to the Left

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: black ink and brown ink with gray and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (16.8 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. An Execution, Rome

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, graphite, brown wash, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 18 3/16 inches (25.4 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 inches (11.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

24. Illustration for The New Doll: Sewing Clothes for the Doll

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (9.5 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

25. An Orchestra Rehearsing

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 15 7/8 inches (26.7 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. An Underground Shrine with Two Figures Kneeling before a Pieta

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches (16.5 x 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A View at Lucerne

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and brown ink over graphite with brown and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (41.9 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Travellers Resting under Tree, Temple of Minerva, Medici, Rome

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite; squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (29.2 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Servant Bringing Water to Three Hunters

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 1/8 inches (17.5 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Horseman Approaching Traveller Beside River

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (18.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Illustration for The New Doll: The Doll brought Home

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (11.4 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

32. Ilustration for The New Doll: Untitled

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 4 1/2in. (9.8 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

33. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 7/8 inches (11.4 × 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

34. A Stage Coach Outside of the Entrance of an Inn

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 10 1/16 inches (14.9 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Johnny and His Pony

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and gray wash, with black chalk, and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches (11.4 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. A Carriage and Pair, with Coachman

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, white gouache and graphite on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 4 1/16 × 4 15/16 inches (10.3 × 12.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Full-length study of a Man carrying books

Creator:: Attributed to William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 3 3/4 inches (15.9 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Norwich Market Place

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray-brown ink, and wash over graphite; verso: pen and gray brown ink and wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 x 6 7/8 inches (13.8 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Archibald Rutherford, 1743–1779
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, brown wash, gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches (18.4 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Tea Party

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 13 inches (45.4 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Dissecting Scene

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (9.8 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

42. Tall Monument at a Roadside

Creator:: John Skippe, 1741–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.5 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Cottage Door

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Barker, 1769–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, black chalk, brown chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 1/4 × 30 inches (64.1 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Study for a Block on the Road

Creator:: Gustave Doré, 1832–1883
Date:: between 1869 and 1872
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, black chalk, gray wash, brown wash, graphite, and white gouache on thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 × 13 3/16 inches (43.3 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Morgan Offending the Delicate Organs of Captain Wiffle

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, brown wash, pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (18.7 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Collector

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches (37.1 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Wooded Landscape with Figures

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and stumping, with touches of white and red chalk, gray and brown wash, heightened with gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. A Cow Byre

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 12 3/8 inches (32 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Study of a Lady

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, brown wash, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Shepherdess Cutting an Inscription on a Tree

2. London Cries: A Man with a Basket (Man Selling Pots and Pans)

3. Classical Study of Three Figures

4. London Cries: Small Coal or Brushes

5. London Cries: All Fire and No Smoke

6. London Cries: A Man Swaggering

7. Peasants in a Grotto

8. London Cries: Throws for a Ha'penny Have You a Ha'penny

9. A Soldier on Horseback

10. Flying the Kite

11. Battledore and Shuttlecock

12. A Fashionable Audience

13. Wayfarers

14. The Fisherman

15. Horsemen in a Landscape

16. Music: Composition in a Garden

17. Interior of a Coppersmith's, Shoe Lane

18. Utensils

19. View on the Liris at Isola di Sora

20. Wood Cutters

21. Head of a Man with a Beard Looking to the Left

22. An Execution, Rome

23. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

24. Illustration for The New Doll: Sewing Clothes for the Doll

25. An Orchestra Rehearsing

26. An Underground Shrine with Two Figures Kneeling before a Pieta

27. A View at Lucerne

28. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Travellers Resting under Tree, Temple of Minerva, Medici, Rome

29. A Servant Bringing Water to Three Hunters

30. Horseman Approaching Traveller Beside River

31. Illustration for The New Doll: The Doll brought Home

32. Ilustration for The New Doll: Untitled

33. Illustration for The New Doll: Untitled

34. A Stage Coach Outside of the Entrance of an Inn

35. Johnny and His Pony

36. A Carriage and Pair, with Coachman

37. Full-length study of a Man carrying books

38. Norwich Market Place

39. Portrait of a Man

40. The Tea Party

41. A Dissecting Scene

42. Tall Monument at a Roadside

43. The Cottage Door

44. Study for a Block on the Road

45. Morgan Offending the Delicate Organs of Captain Wiffle

46. The Collector

47. Wooded Landscape with Figures

48. A Cow Byre

49. Study of a Lady