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Foxgloves
Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, smooth, white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (17.1 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Brambles
Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (17.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Burpham Oct.4.1834
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (26.4 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Reggio

Reggio
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1847
Materials & Techniques:
Pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/8 x 11 7/16 inches (41.6 x 29.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. La Cava

La Cava
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1838
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige-brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 x 9 13/16 inches (12.2 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Fruit trees, 3 April 1863
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1863
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 13/16 x 10 inches (42.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Study of a Cedar Tree
Creator:
Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 10 inches (16.2 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Plums and Mulberries
Creator:
William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:
ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and gum over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (19.7 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Brucea antidysenterica J. Miller (James Bruce's Tree): finished drawing of part stem with flowering shoots and leafy shoots
Creator:
Frederick P. Nodder, active 1773–1800
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 13/16 x 14 1/16 inches (47.8 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Tree

Tree
Creator:
Sir Walter Thomas Monnington, 1902–1976
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/16 × 7 5/8 inches (36.7 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Study of a Tree on a Grassy Bank
Creator:
George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:
1866
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 5 inches (21 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Study in Pinks and Roses
Creator:
Stefano della Bella, 1610–1664
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 21 1/2 inches (9.5 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Macrocarpa
Creator:
Sir Walter Thomas Monnington, 1902–1976
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 3/16 inches (33.7 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Dioecici (botanical specimen)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 8 13/16 inches (27.9 × 22.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Oenostachys abyssinica
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
1769–71
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 8 inches (25.7 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Brucea antidysenterica
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Flowers
Creator:
Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:
ca. 1915
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on thin, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 7 inches (16.8 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower
Brucea antidysenterica
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
1769–71
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite; verso: pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ensete ventricosum
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ensete ventricosum
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 8 7/8 inches (31.8 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Arundinaria alpina
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Buddleis polystachya
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Arundinaria alpina
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Trees, etc., in a Meadow
Creator:
George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:
1866
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 × 5 1/4 inches (20.3 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Docks, September 6, 1777
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches (9.8 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Tulips

Tulips
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor and collage on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 3/8 inches (39.1 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jasminum dichotomun Vahl (African jasmine): finished drawing
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 1/16 inches (40.5 × 30.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Coccinia abyssinica (Lam.): finished drawing, the tuber and detail of fruit
Creator:
James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 × 12 1/8 inches (40.6 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Millettia ferruginea (Hochst.) Baker: finished drawing with a few details excluded
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 1/8 inches (40.5 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gardenia ternifolia Schum.& Thonn. (Wild Gardenia): finished drawing
Creator:
James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 × 12 3/8 inches (40.6 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Euphorbia abyssinica J.F. Gmel. (Ethiopian Tree-Spurge): finished drawing of the tree's habit
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (32.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hagenia abyssinica (Bruce) J.F. Gmel. : finished drawing
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (38.7 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Arundinaria alpina K. Schum. (African Bamboo): finished drawing of sections of stem and of shoot with leaves
Creator:
James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (36.2 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Albizia gummifera (J.F. Gmel.) C.A. Sm. (Gummy Albizia Tree): finished drawing of flowering head of shoot, with details of inflorescence, florets, and leaf
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 3/4 inches (31.4 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pterolobium stellatum (Forssk): finished drawing
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (31.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Juniperus procera Endl. (African Pencil Cedar): finished drawing of trees's habit
Creator:
James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 13 inches (41.9 × 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Garden Flowers
Creator:
Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:
after 1850
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, etching and color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:
Image: 3 7/16 x 6 7/8 inches (8.8 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Garden Flowers
Creator:
Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:
after 1850
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, etching and color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:
Image: 3 7/16 x 6 3/4 inches (8.7 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Dandelion
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
1909
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 15/16 x 5 1/16 inches (15.1 x 12.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Eragrostis Tef
Creator:
Andrew Fyfe, 1752–1824
Date:
1775
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 7/8 inches (40.3 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman (African Wild Banana): finished drawing
Creator:
Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:
1765-1770
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (31.8 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Brucea antidysenterica J. Miller (James Bruce's Tree): finished drawing with stem of fruits added
Creator:
Attributed to James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:
1769–73
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 1/2 inches (36.5 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Clump of Thistles
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 1/2 inches (14.6 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Study of Pinks and Roses
Creator:
Stefano della Bella, 1610–1664
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 21 1/2 inches (9.5 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Study of Pinks and Roses
Creator:
Stefano della Bella, 1610–1664
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 21 1/2 inches (9.5 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of a Climbing Plant (Pumpkin Family)
Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches (54.6 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Study of Pinks and Roses
Creator:
Stefano della Bella, 1610–1664
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 21 1/2 inches (9.5 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Horn Plantains on the Stalk, after the Original by John White in the British Museum [Caribbean and Oceanic, No. 14]
Creator:
Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 9/16 × 8 5/8 inches (31.9 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Acorn Strength
Creator:
Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 inches (6 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sabatia, After the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 56 A]
Creator:
Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 7 inches (34.4 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Cawpea

Cawpea
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 7 3/16 inches (22.4 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Tree Sketch
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/16 × 7 5/16 inches (13.8 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Tree Sketch
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (14 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

55. Sketches

Sketches
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (14 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Plant Sketches
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 10 3/8 inches (35.6 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Milkweed, after the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 55 A]
Creator:
Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 8 1/8 inches (35.4 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Swallow-Tail Butterfly, After the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 108 A]
Creator:
Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 13/16 inches (14 × 19.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Nutmeg, Trinidad
Creator:
Lionel Grimston Fawkes, 1849–1931
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 6 inches (17.8 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
White Hibiscus
Creator:
Lionel Grimston Fawkes, 1849–1931
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 6 inches (17.8 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Garden²

Garden²
Creator:
Marc Quinn, born 1964
Date:
2000
Materials & Techniques:
Series of 8 pigment prints; artist's proofs on 330gsm Somerset Velvet Enhanced wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 31 1/2 × 48 3/4 inches (80 × 123.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Veronica frutescens (Mazerine)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2009
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Eryngium foetidum (Prue)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2009
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Convolvulus jalapa (Yara)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2010
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
The Lone Pine Tree
Creator:
Horatio Ross, 1801–1886
Date:
ca. 1858
Materials & Techniques:
Albumen print from waxed paper negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (34.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro in honor of Amy Meyers
Quot Rami Tot Arbores
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (7.9 × 14 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, Anuradhapura
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (18.4 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan
Out of Focus Object & Flowers 3
Creator:
Colin Self, born 1941
Date:
1968
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed etching and aquatint on thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 41 × 26 3/8 inches (104.1 × 67 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner
Maunoutehn
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/16 × 7 1/16 inches (13.8 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Tree Sketch
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 11/16 inches (14 × 9.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

71. Bongley

Bongley
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 5/16 inches (35.4 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Sketches of Myrtle and a Head Crowned with Myrtle
Creator:
Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 inches (24.8 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection
Country Walks: Spring
Creator:
John Farleigh, 1900–1965
Date:
1965
Materials & Techniques:
Chromolithograph
Dimensions:
Sheet: 38 3/8 x 24 7/8 inches (97.5 x 63.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965
Shell Guide to Norfolk
Creator:
John Aldridge, 1905–1983
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Lithograph
Dimensions:
Sheet: 29 x 20 inches (73.7 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965
Hollow Tree
Creator:
Mary Delany, 1700–1788
Date:
1767
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/16 x 3 3/4 inches (11.2 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
Studies of a Flower
Creator:
John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (14.9 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Lysimachia (Loosestrife), Plate 278 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737
Creator:
Print made by Elizabeth Blackwell, died 1774
Date:
1737
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (36.8 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Jatropha Multifidis
Creator:
Ann Lee, 1753–1790
Date:
1771
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9in. (29.5 x 22.9cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The White Lily with Variegated-Leaves, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, the 'Temple of Flora', 1799-1812
Creator:
Print made by Joseph Constantine Stadler, active 1780–1812
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint engraving with original hand color on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (51.8 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Eucomis Punctata, Plate 208 from Les Liliacées, volume 4, Paris, 1802-1816
Creator:
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1759–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed stipple engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 × 17 1/2 inches (58.4 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ira Brind and David Brind, Yale BA 2000
Galazia Ovata / Galaxia à Feuilles Ovales, Plate 246 from Les Liliacées, volume 5, Paris, 1802-1816
Creator:
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1759–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed stipple engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 × 17 1/2 inches (58.4 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ira Brind and David Brind, Yale BA 2000
Crocus Luteus (Crocus Aureus or Golden Crocus) and Safran Jaune, Plate 196 from Les Liliacées, volume 4, Paris, 1802-1816
Creator:
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1759–1840
Date:
between 1802 and 1816
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed stipple engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 × 17 1/2 inches (58.4 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ira Brind and David Brind, Yale BA 2000
Caryophyllus X. Mercurius. Plate 67 from 'Hortus Nitidissimis Omnem per Annum Superbiens Floribus', Nuremberg, 1768
Creator:
Print made by Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1733–1797
Date:
1768
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving with original hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
The Dragon Arum, 1801, from Robert John Thornton, the 'Temple of Flora', 1799-1812
Creator:
Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:
December 1, 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint engraving printed in color with original hand coloring on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (57.2 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
The Blue Passion Flower, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, 'The Temple of Flora', London, 1799-1812
Creator:
Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint, stipple and line engraving with hand coloring on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 1/2 x 18 7/8 inches (59.7 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Phalaena Quernaria. Quercus Rubra (American Oak Beauty, Northern Red Oak), Plate 103 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797
Creator:
Print made by John Harris the elder, 1767–1832
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving with original hand color on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 x 12 1/8 inches (40.6 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Pastinaca (Parsnip), Plate 379 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737
Creator:
Print made by Elizabeth Blackwell, died 1774
Date:
1737
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 1/8 inches (37.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Study of an Arrangement of Anemones
Creator:
attributed to Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (24.1 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Landscape in Ceylon, With Barking Deer and Fawn and a Pair of Paradise Fly-Catchers
Creator:
Samuel Daniell, 1775–1811
Date:
between 1808 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and gouache on medium, moderately textured, beige 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
Study of an Oak Leaf
Creator:
John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, white gouache, gum, and graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 6 7/8 inches (19.1 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Cow Parsley
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 5 1/8 inches (14 × 13 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Aristolochia bilobata (Nimine)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2010
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Veronica in Bloom
Creator:
William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800–1877
Date:
between 1843 and 1844
Materials & Techniques:
Salted paper print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 7 1/2 inches (22.9 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Banana Tree, Plate 16
Creator:
Print made by Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1708–1770
Date:
1750
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (32.4 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bernard Kosto, Yale 1957, MD 1962
Jan Davidsz. De Heem I (Small New Order)
Creator:
Gordon Cheung, born 1975
Date:
2015
Materials & Techniques:
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm paper
Dimensions:
Frame: 32 1/8 × 22 1/4 inches (81.6 × 56.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund, with additional support from Francis O’Brien
Breadfruit Plant (Artocarpus altilis)
Creator:
Unknown artist (Company style)
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 19 1/4 inches (38.1 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Plant Study
Creator:
Robert Burrows, 1810–1883
Date:
1860s
Materials & Techniques:
Albumen print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (10.8 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Group of Scotch Pines near the Obelisk, Age 104 Years
Creator:
William Bambridge, 1819–1879
Date:
1864
Materials & Techniques:
Albumen print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (28.6 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Cedars at Maturity in Belvidere Wood, age 104 years
Creator:
William Bambridge, 1819–1879
Date:
1864
Materials & Techniques:
Albumen print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (29.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Study of a Tree Overgrown with Ivy
Creator:
Attributed to James Mudd, 1821–ca. 1906
Date:
1860s
Materials & Techniques:
Albumen print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (36.8 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Isaacs