On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Exhibition History: The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) / Image Use: Free to Use

1. York House, the corner of Villiers Street and the Strand, with Richardson's Ancient and Modern Print Warehouse in the Foreground

Creator:: George Shepheard, ca. 1770–1842
Date:: ca. 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 1/8in. (27.3 x 20.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 16 3/8 inches (30.6 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Portrait of a Lady at a Drawing Table

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured,cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (21 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: ca. 1800-1815
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/16 x 28 5/16in. (48.7 x 71.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Dilettanti Society

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

6. The Dilettanti Society

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

7. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches (42.8 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. The Rotunda and Gardens, Ranelagh

Creator:: John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Date:: ca. 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 16 11/16in. (25.4 x 42.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. View of the Intersection Bridge on the line of St. Helen's & Runcorn Gap Railway, Crossing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway near the Foot of the Sutton Inclined Plane

View of the Intersection Bridge on the line of St. Helen's & Runcorn Gap Railway, Crossing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway near the Foot of the Sutton Inclined Plane

Creator:: S. G. Hughes, active 1832
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored aquatint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Skating in Hyde Park

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 15/16 inches (25.2 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (21 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Four Hooded Falcons

Creator:: Attributed to John Frederick Tayler, 1802–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 1/8 inches (16.8 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Comforts of Bath: The Bath

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 7 1/8 inches (11 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 x 30 3/8 inches (55.9 x 77.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting 1771

Creator:: Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 22in. (47 x 55.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Gaming Table

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and gray ink, over graphite on moderately thick, moderatedly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches (14.9 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Chinese Pagoda and Bridge in St. James's Park, (previous to the fire)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8in. (25.1 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Grand Pavilion in the Green Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 13/16in. (24.9 x 35.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Tunbridge Wells from Frant Forest

Creator:: Robert Havell, 1769–1832
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Colored aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 x 25 3/4in. (48.3 x 65.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Garrick, In the Character of Abel Drugger

Creator:: Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches (58.7 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard, in the Tragedy of 'Macbeth.' Act II. Scene III.

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 x 23 1/4 inches (47.9 x 59.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. St. Paul's from St. Martin's Le Grand

Creator:: James Baily, active 1815–1834
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Colored aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 15 7/8in. (49.2 x 40.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Milliner's Shop

Creator:: Attributed to Henry Kingsbury, active 1750–1780
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 20 1/8in. (38.7 x 51.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Prize Fight

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 27 3/8 inches (46 x 69.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Hall's Library at Margate

Creator:: Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 13/16in. (30.5 x 47.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Inside of the Pantheon in Oxford Road

Creator:: Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 21 7/8in. (49.5 x 55.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Inside of a Smelting House at Broseley, Shopshire

Creator:: Wilson Lowry, 1762–1824
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 22in. (40.3 x 55.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A View of the Iron Bridge, in Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire

Creator:: Francis Chesham, 1749–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 21 1/2in. (40.3 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Regent Street, from Piccadilly

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1831
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Bodmin Cornwall: The Arrival of the Stage-Coach

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 15 inches (23.5 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. A Book Auction

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 13/16 inches (15.2 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A Punch and Judy Show

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (14.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Checkmate

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Billiard Room

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 x 7 3/4 inches (11.9 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Opera Singers

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 4 11/16 inches (14 x 11.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Customs House at Boulogne

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 9/16 inches (20.3 x 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A Drawing of a Part for the Map of the Moon

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 inches (20.3 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Covent Garden Market

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1795 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown ink, and graphite, with pen and gray line and gray wash on border; verso: watercolor blots and pen and ink lines on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 9/16 inches (15.7 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches (50 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Mr. Michell's Picture Gallery, Grove House, Enfield 1817

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and gray ink and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 7/16 inches (14.9 x 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Gentleman's Art Gallery

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and gray ink and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 x 9 inches (14.4 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. A Man doing the Splits

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1760 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (18.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Lending Library

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: between 1800 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink and brown ink on medium, lightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (17.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Guinea Parrot

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (27.3 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Going to School

Creator:: John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: between 1801 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 6 1/8 inches (19.1 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 1 7/16in. (46.7 x 3.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Grown Ladies Taught to Dance

Creator:: Print made by P. Crotchet, active 1768
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches (37.3 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Battledore and shittlecock

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Side Box Sketches

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 18 7/8in. (38.1 x 47.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. York House, the corner of Villiers Street and the Strand, with Richardson's Ancient and Modern Print Warehouse in the Foreground

2. Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum

3. Portrait of a Lady at a Drawing Table

4. Amateurs of Tye-Wig Music

5. The Dilettanti Society

6. The Dilettanti Society

7. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

8. The Rotunda and Gardens, Ranelagh

9. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

10. View of the Intersection Bridge on the line of St. Helen's & Runcorn Gap Railway, Crossing the Liverpool and Manchester Railway near the Foot of the Sutton Inclined Plane

11. Skating in Hyde Park

12. A Game of Bowls on the Bowling Green Outside the Bunch of Grapes Inn, Hurst, Berkshire

13. Four Hooded Falcons

14. Comforts of Bath: The Bath

15. Life School at the Royal Academy

16. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting 1771

17. The Gaming Table

18. The Chinese Pagoda and Bridge in St. James's Park, (previous to the fire)

19. The Grand Pavilion in the Green Park

20. Tunbridge Wells from Frant Forest

21. Garrick, In the Character of Abel Drugger

22. Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard, in the Tragedy of 'Macbeth.' Act II. Scene III.

23. St. Paul's from St. Martin's Le Grand

24. A Milliner's Shop

25. The Prize Fight

26. Hall's Library at Margate

27. The Inside of the Pantheon in Oxford Road

28. The Inside of a Smelting House at Broseley, Shopshire

29. A View of the Iron Bridge, in Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire

30. Regent Street, from Piccadilly

31. Bodmin Cornwall: The Arrival of the Stage-Coach

32. Vauxhall Gardens

33. A Book Auction

34. A Punch and Judy Show

35. Checkmate

36. The Billiard Room

37. The Opera Singers

38. Customs House at Boulogne

39. A Drawing of a Part for the Map of the Moon

40. Covent Garden Market

41. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

42. Mr. Michell's Picture Gallery, Grove House, Enfield 1817

43. A Gentleman's Art Gallery

44. A Man doing the Splits

45. The Lending Library

46. Guinea Parrot

47. Going to School

48. A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump

49. Grown Ladies Taught to Dance

50. Battledore and shittlecock

51. Side Box Sketches