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Prints and Drawings 15,104
Paintings and Sculpture 3
Rare Books and Manuscripts 2

Creator

Romney, George, 1734–1802 882
Unknown artist 792
Smith, Charles Hamilton, 1776–1859 744
Simpson, William, 1823–1899 631
Hastings, Thomas Capt., 1778–1854 508
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 482
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 428
Smirke the Younger, Robert, Sir, 1781–1867 423
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 369
Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771 308
Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834 284
Gilpin, Sawrey, 1733–1807 277
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 241
Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797 237
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 220
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840 198
Moore, James, 1762–1799 175
Swinburne, Henry, 1743–1803 150
Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819 141
Ward, James, 1769–1859 137
Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842 136
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852 134
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 132
Pugin, Augustus Charles, 1762–1832 131
Wyatt, James, 1746–1813 131
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 127
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802 117
Wyatville, Jeffry, Sir, 1776–1840 103
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 102
Sowerby, James, 1756–1822 100

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 15,069
On view 37
Not on view 3

Image Use

Free to Use 14,033
Under Certain Circumstances 1,076

Image Available

available 12,965
unavailable 2,144

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 9

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 12,482
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 1,326
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 1,169
Prints 118
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 5
Photographs 4
Paintings 3
Posters 1

Collective Title

A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804 418
The Environs of London 272
Beaumont Album 204
Sketches, Volume IV: Drawings of Isle of Wight, Hampshire and Devon 184
Sketches, Vol. 6: 152 Drawings of Isle of Wight, Canterbury, and Hampstead, etc. 151
Collection of Sketches by Henry Swinburne 149
Rowlandson's Sketches: Album of 150 Drawings 149
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 142
Italian Sketchbook 130
A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl 115
Sketches, Vol. 7: Drawings of Devon, Wales, Lakes, etc. 95
Views of France, Volume II 92
Two Volumes of, 187 Drawings and Manuscripts, Including, 4 Etchings 87
Two Volumes of 187 Drawings and Manuscripts, Including, 4 Etchings 83
Views of England and Wales, Volume I 82
Views of France, Volume I 81
Views of Northern Europe, Volume II 78
Views of England and Wales, Volume II 74
Views of Spain, Volume II 72
Views of Spain, Volume I 69
Views of Northern Europe, Volume I 68
Brighton Sketchbook, April to June 1870 67
Charles Keene Sketchbook 66
[One of] Sixty-seven sheets of elevations, ground plans, and ornamentation from several Gothic structures. One loose drawing. 65
[One from a volume of 66] "Views Drawn from Nature in the Neighborhood of Rome and Abruzzo etc. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. In the Years 1786 to 1790" 61
The Poems of Thomas Gray 58
Sketchbook of Jerusalem, Odessa, and Sebastopol 57
Sketchbook of Metz and Scotland 56
Fifty-five Ornamental Designs 54
Desseins Originaux des Attitudes Continuée dans L'École des Armes 47

Period

19th century 6,807
18th century 4,483
18th century-19th century 2,941
20th century 426
19th century-20th century 218
17th century-18th century 69
21st century 54
17th century 48
unknown period 12
16th century 4
16th century-17th century 3

Materials & Techniques

graphite 15,109

wove paper 10,027
watercolor 6,689
laid paper 5,006
black ink 3,601
pen 3,244
brown ink 3,157
gray wash 1,970
gouache 1,538
brown wash 933
gray ink 842
white gouache 357
black chalk 312
red chalk 276
red ink 237
scratching out 218
pens 139
white chalk 139
varnish 126
ink 84
black wash 81
scraping 80
card 79
gum arabic 76
blue wash 71
wash 71
etching (printing process) 64
pastel 58
red pencil 57
line engraving 56

Height [cm]

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To

Width [cm]

From

To

Work Type

drawing 14,744
watercolor 7,989
intaglio print 107
photograph 31
frontispiece 21
planographic print 13
miniature 11
collage 10
sketchbook 4
landscape 3
painting 3
drawings (visual works) 1
poster 1

Genre

architectural subject 5,059
landscape 4,470
genre subject 1,985
figure study 1,656
animal art 1,184
marine art 766
cityscape 663
sporting art 591
religious and mythological subject 470
portrait 468
literary theme 318
botanical subject 221
historical subject 176
military art 151
still life 116
abstract art 99
cartographic material 94
anatomical study 18

Subject Terms

architectural subject 4,419
landscape 3,355
trees 1,853
genre subject 1,511
figure study 1,263
men 1,167
animal art 1,113
man 759
river 747
buildings 626
women 615
mountains 601
church 591
woman 575
hills 561
figures 557
horses (animals) 546
portrait 505
marine art 456
sporting art 434
boats 433
water 433
religious and mythological subject 432
rocks (landforms) 428
cityscape 424
ruins 409
sky 392
clouds 389
horse (animal) 361
windows 354

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 1,978
England 1,845
Europe 1,568
London 660
India 602
South Asia 602
Italy 432
Greater London 350
Africa 292
Egypt 220
Kent 216
Nile 196
France 179
City of Westminster 176
Asia 159
Wales 144
Palace of Westminster 120
Cobham 115
Cobham Hall 114
Rome 108
Ireland 99
Scotland 95
Cymru 90
Thames 79
China 76
Zhonghua 76
Norfolk 74
Nubia 72
Lazio 70
Turkey 68

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 160
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 54
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 26
Venus 22
Adonis 20
William Hogarth 15
Cupid 12
Apollo 10
Eve 9
Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth) 9
The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth) 9
Lady Hamilton 8
Sir John Falstaff 8
The Virgin Mary 8
demons 8
Adam 7
Banquo (character in Macbeth) 7
Christ 7
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 7
King Lear (character in King Lear) 7
Prospero (character in The Tempest) 7
Satan 7
Ariadne 6
Diana 6
Lady Macbeth (character in Macbeth) 6
Mary 6
Miranda (character in The Tempest) 6
Bacchus 5
Cordelia (character in King Lear) 5
Jesus 5

Exhibition History

Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) 148
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 116
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 106
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 104
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) 98
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) 98
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 91
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 81
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 78
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 76
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 70
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 69
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 66
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) 65
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) 65
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) 65
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) 65
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 64
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) 61
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 53
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 46
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 44
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 44
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 43

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 11,992
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 709
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 436
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 378
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter 177
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 159
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe 94
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 82
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 77
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 68
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse 64
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 44
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 41
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 38
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W 37
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Andria Derstine 36
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914 32
Yale Center for British Art, Estate of Brian Sewell 27
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove 27
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection, University Purchase, Everett V. Meeks, Yale BA 1901, Fund 25
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick Gore 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 18
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 18
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942 14
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935 14
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, B.A. 1905 13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 12
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 12

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English 2

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Gwen John, 1876–1939

Young Woman Holding a Cat

ca. 1920
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1951 (still life – sweet peas)

1951
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

February 1957 (brown and grey)

1957
Accessible in the Study Room
James Playfair, 1755–1794

Design for a Country Mansion

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740

The Reverand Dr. John Harris

1707
Accessible in the Study Room
Bryant Edward Duffay

Bryant Edward Duffay, 1833, Oct. 19th

1833
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Tree and Pond

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Caricature of Three Blacks

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Church Interior

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Thumbnail Sketch of Port City

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape with River

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Ram and Two Sheep

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Rear View of a Goat Lying in a Forest

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Two Trees

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Chair with Shelf and Inscription

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Man with Hood and Landscape

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Man Asleep at Table with Dogs

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape and Lake

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Two Sketches: Country House and Mountainous Landscape

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Island with Castle

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Three Men

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Man Standing (Madeira Jan 15/68)

1868
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Buildings and Cypress Trees

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Three Men (Jan 31/68)

1868
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Waterfall and Forest

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Landscape

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Landscape with Waterfall

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Landscape with Large Tree and Figure Below

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Thatched Roof and Tree

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Indian Statue

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Landscape with Smokestack

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Battersea

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Croydon Church

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Sidney Shepherd, 1784–1862

Wandshorst Church Surrey

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

South View of St. Neot's Bridge, Built About 1589 Out of the Ruins of the Priory

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Attributed to Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857

The Death of - set by William Etty R.A

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
James Arthur O'Connor, 1792–1841

Bangor, Belfast Lough

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Madonna and Child

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
James Arthur O'Connor, 1792–1841

Bray Head and the F (cut-off)

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Deer and Dog

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

The Parsonage, Hawkshead

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Cows and Milkmaid

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Dogs, People and Horses

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Horse, Man and Pig

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Man, Horses and Dogs

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Lodge at Oxenhoath, Hadlow near Tunbridge, the Estate of Sir William Geary... [Read more]

1870
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Landscape by a Stream

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Lady with a Veil

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Horses and Landscape

undated

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