Materials & Techniques: laid paper / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Image Available: Available / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: religious and mythological subject

1. Moses Receiving the Law

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1784 to 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Viscountess Bulkeley as Hebe

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (41.9 x 21.9 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

4. A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 16 inches (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Mythological Group of Women and Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 16 1/2 inches (26.4 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 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

7. River God

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches (40 x 51.4 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

8. Design for a Wall Panel

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Leander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont

Creator:: Attributed to William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen and brown ink, red chalk, graphite, with scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 5/8 inches (35.9 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: ca. 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 11/16 x 8 3/4 inches (14.5 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

11. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 inches (17.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 inches (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Peter Oliver, 1589–1647
Date:: 1631
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 x 8 13/16 inches (19.2 x 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. An Angel

Creator:: Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565–1617
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 2 15/16 inches (10.8 × 7.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Leda and the Swan

Creator:: Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565–1617
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, graphite, gouache, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (16.5 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Design for a Mythological Scene, with Jupiter and Juno

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (13.7 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Relief Design for a Silver Salt Cellar

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (11.4 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Design for a Mural Executed in the Salon at Roehampton House, Surrey: Apollo Carrying off Aeneas in a Cloud

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 inches (14 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Design of Apollo and the Python for a Painted over-door Decoration

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper laid down on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches (21.3 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, moderately textured cream laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 inches (16.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

21. Apollo Preceding Hector with His Aegis, and Dispersing the Greeks, Fuseli's Lectures

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, red chalk, watercolor, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 5/8 inches (20.3 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Study of the Resurrection of Lazarus

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (16.5 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Study of Christ Raising Lazarus

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 5 11/16 inches (9.2 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Study for, Agony in the Garden

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (31.4 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Illustration to the Iliad

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: between 1760 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (23.5 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Ariadne

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (18.1 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 x 12 1/2 inches (14.1 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Birth of Venus

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8in. (18.4 x 14.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Parsi Priest or Adam

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache, with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 5 7/8 inches (15.4 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A Mohametan with his Parrot

Creator:: Attributed to Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 inches (16.8 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Mahadeo

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 19 5/8 inches (30.2 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Raphael's Visit to Adam and Eve, from Milton's Paradise

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 8 inches (31.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Fry Print Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale University Medical Library

33. Allegory for Spring

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 11 1/8 inches (12.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: 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

34. Neptune

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 6 11/16 inches (18.7 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Neptune and Coronis: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash; squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, mounted to medium, slightly textured white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 7 1/2in. (16.4 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (13.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Blinding of Elymas

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1709 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (20.6 x 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Diana

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (29.2 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. St. Agnes (after Domenichino)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 1/8 inches (44.8 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Rape of Persephone

Creator:: William P. Sherlock, c.1780–1850
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 23 1/8 inches (43.5 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. St. Michael and Lucifer

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 6 1/4 inches (24.6 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. II, No. 1

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 3 15/16 inches (16 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for Vol. IV, 1772

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 3/4 inches (16.8 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Frontispiece Vol. VII, No. I for 1775 from Town and Country Magazine

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 3 9/16 inches (17 × 9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 9 9/16 inches (11 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for 1769 (1st issue therefore no Vol. no.)

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, laid wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 3 15/16 inches (16 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. Unidentified Periodical/Play Illustration

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 4 5/16 inches (16 × 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. Pan, Spying, From Behind a Tree, at Putti, Shooting Arrows

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (8.3 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 5/8 inches (10.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 3 3/4 inches (16.2 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

51. Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slight textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 3/4 inches (14.9 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 1/16 inches (16.8 × 10.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. III for 1771, No. 1

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 × 3 15/16 inches (15.7 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

54. Town and Country Magazine, Frontispiece for Vol. X for 1778

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 1/4 inches (16.8 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Adoration

Creator:: Hamlet Winstanley, 1698–1756
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 9 1/4 inches (20.3 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (22.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 6 3/8 inches (15.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Design for a Ceiling at Addiscombe: Bacchus and Ariadne

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/16 inches (24.8 x 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Britannia in Distress

Creator:: Anthony Walker, 1726–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (32.1 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Anna lamenting the absence of Tobias (Tobit 10:7)

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 5/8in. (12.4 x 11.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. An Allegory on the Plight of the Artist

Creator:: Mauritius Lowe, 1746–1793
Date:: between 1772 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches (23.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Telemachus and Mentor Landing on the Island of Calypso

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 7/8 inches (19.1 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: 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

64. Figure from Indus Sabha

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.3 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa below Shiva and Parvati

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches (27.3 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. A Lewsa of Jettee - A Kind of Hindu Monk

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 5 3/4 inches (14.3 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. A Gosain - A Tribe of Hindu Religious Beggars

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 6 inches (14.3 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. A Mohamatan Fakir

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite 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

69. A Jungum, a religious Hindu Beggar

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 3/8 inches (16.8 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Parishnant

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 19 3/4 inches (30.5 × 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Figure from Elephanta

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 19 3/4 inches (30.5 × 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. The Angel appearing to the shepherds, the visitation, and the annunciation: a sheet of notes for a proposed decorative scheme with 3 sketches of paintings for overdoors

The Angel appearing to the shepherds, the visitation, and the annunciation: a sheet of notes for a proposed decorative scheme with 3 sketches of paintings for overdoors

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite, and gray wash on sheet: moderately thick, moderately textured beige laid paper; mount: moderately thick moderately textured beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 8in. (23.5 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. The Stoning of St. Stephen

Creator:: Imitator of John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 20 1/8 inches (31.8 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. A Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 8 1/8 inches (40.6 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Nymphs Bathing in a Wooded Glade

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:: ca. 1765-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/4 inches (30.5 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. The Assumption

Creator:: John Baptist Medina, 1655–60–1710
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 inches (16.5 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Indian Charnel House, after the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 41 A]

Creator:: Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen, in black ink and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 15/16 inches (32.1 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Indians Dancing Around a Circle of Posts, after the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 42 A]

Creator:: Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 13 5/8 inches (27.1 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Group of Indians Roud a Fire, after the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 43 A]

Creator:: Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen in brown ink, over graphite, with gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 7 5/8 inches (21.3 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Sculptural Study

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 4 1/16 inches (15.4 × 10.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

81. Ganesha, near Sita's Temple, Rangpur

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 × 8 1/2 inches (26.2 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

82. Light of Asia

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 9/16 inches (26 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

83. Sketch of Deposition

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 1/8 inches (11.4 × 18.1 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

84. Appearance of Angel Above Standing Figures?

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (11.4 × 18.4 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

85. Flight into Egypt

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink, gray wash, watercolor, black chalk, red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (23.5 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

86. Hector, Andromache and Astyanax: Study of Three Figures

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 6 inches (15.2 × 15.2 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

87. Head of Diana

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (19.7 x 16.2 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

88. Study for the Damned

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 7 3/4 inches (16.2 × 19.7 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

89. Scene from the Inferno Dramatic Landscape

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (16.2 × 20 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

90. Hebe

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid 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, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

91. Initiation of a Rustic Nymph

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (19.7 × 15.6 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

92. Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (22.2 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

93. Raphael receiving the money of Tobias from Gabael: Tobit 9:5

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 x 9 9/16 inches (17.8 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

94. Narada Muni

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 inches (26 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

95. A Triton holding a Fish

Creator:: Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black chalk and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 11 inches (24.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

96. The Archangel Gabriel Awaiting Night

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 7/8 inches (30.6 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. The Disobedient Prophet

Creator:: William Mulready, 1786–1863
Date:: 1848, retouched 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (18.4 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

98. Ariadne

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 4 3/4 inches (22.9 × 12.1 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

99. Nymphs at a Roman Bath

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 x 7 7/16 inches (22.4 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

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1. Moses Receiving the Law

2. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

3. Viscountess Bulkeley as Hebe

4. A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames

5. Mythological Group of Women and Children

6. Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar

7. River God

8. Design for a Wall Panel

9. Leander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont

10. Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5

11. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

12. Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector

13. Venus and Adonis

14. An Angel

15. Leda and the Swan

16. Design for a Mythological Scene, with Jupiter and Juno

17. Relief Design for a Silver Salt Cellar

18. A Design for a Mural Executed in the Salon at Roehampton House, Surrey: Apollo Carrying off Aeneas in a Cloud

19. Design of Apollo and the Python for a Painted over-door Decoration

20. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

21. Apollo Preceding Hector with His Aegis, and Dispersing the Greeks, Fuseli's Lectures

22. Study of the Resurrection of Lazarus

23. Study of Christ Raising Lazarus

24. Study for, Agony in the Garden

25. Illustration to the Iliad

26. Ariadne

27. Design for a Ceiling

28. The Birth of Venus

29. A Parsi Priest or Adam

30. A Mohametan with his Parrot

31. Mahadeo

32. Raphael's Visit to Adam and Eve, from Milton's Paradise

33. Allegory for Spring

34. Neptune

35. Neptune and Coronis: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2

36. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

37. The Blinding of Elymas

38. Diana

39. St. Agnes (after Domenichino)

40. The Rape of Persephone

41. St. Michael and Lucifer

42. Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. II, No. 1

43. Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for Vol. IV, 1772

44. Frontispiece Vol. VII, No. I for 1775 from Town and Country Magazine

45. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

46. Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for 1769 (1st issue therefore no Vol. no.)

47. Unidentified Periodical/Play Illustration

48. Pan, Spying, From Behind a Tree, at Putti, Shooting Arrows

49. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape

50. Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration

51. Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration

52. Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration

53. Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. III for 1771, No. 1

54. Town and Country Magazine, Frontispiece for Vol. X for 1778

55. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

56. The Adoration

57. Design for a Ceiling

58. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

59. Design for a Ceiling at Addiscombe: Bacchus and Ariadne

60. Britannia in Distress

61. Anna lamenting the absence of Tobias (Tobit 10:7)

62. An Allegory on the Plight of the Artist

63. Telemachus and Mentor Landing on the Island of Calypso

64. Figure from Indus Sabha

65. Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa below Shiva and Parvati

66. A Lewsa of Jettee - A Kind of Hindu Monk

67. A Gosain - A Tribe of Hindu Religious Beggars

68. A Mohamatan Fakir

69. A Jungum, a religious Hindu Beggar

70. Parishnant

71. Figure from Elephanta