Materials & Techniques: pen / Period: 18th century / Genre: animal art

1. Madoqua (Dik-dik)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over gaphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches (11.4 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Felis caligata (Booted Lynx)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Wolf

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 5/8 inches (23.8 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Dik-dik

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 3/8 inches (14 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Vulture

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 12 1/8 inches (38.1 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Heterohyrax brucei (Yellow-Spotted Rock Hyrax)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen iand brown ink, over 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

7. The Purple Heron

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 11/16 × 26 9/16 inches (52.5 × 67.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/16 × 17 5/16 inches (64.6 × 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Crane

Creator:: William Hayes, active 1775–1794
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (43.5 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Tree Study with Stags (Landscape)

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 9 3/8 inches (27.9 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Farmyard Animals: Tribulation

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 1/4 inches (21.9 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. An Egyptian Vulture

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 9/16 × 26 7/16 inches (52.2 × 67.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Disproportioned Horse Drawing

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 13 3/8 inches (20.8 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

14. Four Sketches of Hind Quarters of Horse

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (23.8 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

15. Shepherd With Sheep

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 9/16 × 2 3/8 inches (6.5 × 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

16. Two Tigers

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (17.5 x 14.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

17. A Greyhound

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash, pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 9 5/16 inches (14.1 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

18. Horse Dressed in Blanket

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 3/8 inches (27.5 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

19. Parts of the Properly Proportioned Horse

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (21 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

20. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 × 18 1/8 inches (63.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. "The Capriole, When He Rises Before & at the Same Time Thro's Out His Hind Legs & Quarters Upon a Strait Line:" Engraved as Plate 25 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

"The Capriole, When He Rises Before & at the Same Time Thro's Out His Hind Legs & Quarters Upon a Strait Line:" Engraved as Plate 25 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: 1729
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 6 inches (15.6 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. "The Gallop with Left Leg:"Engraved as Plate 15 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: 1729
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 15/16 inches (16.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Hind Legs and Tail of a Horse

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 × 9 1/8 inches (27.3 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. `Sketches of Mares and Foals' - an illustrated letter addressed to J. S. Barry, Esq., and dated Aug. 11, 1800

Creator:: Francis Sartorius, 1734–1804
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/16 x 12 1/2in. (38.9 x 31.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. View near Arwington Hall, Suffolk

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 14 3/4in. (26.5 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove

26. Figures with a Bull From Parthenon Frieze

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches (19.4 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Groom Leading a Racehorse Wearing Hood and Sweaters, June 24, 1743

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 3/8 × 14 3/8 inches (23.8 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Two Horses Trotting in Harness

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 11/16 × 8 13/16 inches (17 × 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Sketches of a Gelding

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 4 5/8 × 5 3/8 inches (11.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Two Horses' Heads

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, red chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 × 8 11/16 inches (13.2 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Hare Running, with Ears Laid Back

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 11/16 × 6 3/4 inches (14.4 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. A Racehorse, Bridled and Saddled

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (24.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 'The Danish Horse' in Training: Standing, with Trainer Holding a Whip

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 9/16 × 9 3/8 inches (19.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Sir Sidney Meadows Schooling a Horse

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on thin, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (17.5 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A Greyhound, Facing Left

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 7 1/16 × 9 1/8 inches (17.9 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Stable of an Inn

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, gouache and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/4 × 17 13/16 inches (26 × 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. A Chestnut Horse at Exercise

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 6 11/16 × 8 inches (17 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. London from Highgate Hill

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 1/4 inches (34 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Artist's Bookplate and Pen Inscription from a Drawing Album

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: between 1745 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Etching (bookplate) with pen and brown ink (attached inscription) on thin, slightly textured, white wove paper (bookplate) and thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper (attached inscription)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 2 5/16 inches (8.3 x 5.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Long-tailed Porcupine

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 15 7/8 inches (24.8 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Stone Curlew

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 11 1/4 inches (25.4 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Madoqua (Dik-dik)

2. Felis caligata (Booted Lynx)

3. Wolf

4. Dik-dik

5. Vulture

6. Heterohyrax brucei (Yellow-Spotted Rock Hyrax)

7. The Purple Heron

8. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

9. A Crane

10. Tree Study with Stags (Landscape)

11. Farmyard Animals: Tribulation

12. An Egyptian Vulture

13. Disproportioned Horse Drawing

14. Four Sketches of Hind Quarters of Horse

15. Shepherd With Sheep

16. Two Tigers

17. A Greyhound

18. Horse Dressed in Blanket

19. Parts of the Properly Proportioned Horse

20. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

21. "The Capriole, When He Rises Before & at the Same Time Thro's Out His Hind Legs & Quarters Upon a Strait Line:" Engraved as Plate 25 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

22. "The Gallop with Left Leg:"Engraved as Plate 15 in "Twenty Five Actions of the Manage Horse..."

23. Hind Legs and Tail of a Horse

24. `Sketches of Mares and Foals' - an illustrated letter addressed to J. S. Barry, Esq., and dated Aug. 11, 1800

25. View near Arwington Hall, Suffolk

26. Figures with a Bull From Parthenon Frieze

27. Groom Leading a Racehorse Wearing Hood and Sweaters, June 24, 1743

28. Two Horses Trotting in Harness

29. Sketches of a Gelding

30. Two Horses' Heads

31. A Hare Running, with Ears Laid Back

32. A Racehorse, Bridled and Saddled

33. 'The Danish Horse' in Training: Standing, with Trainer Holding a Whip

34. Sir Sidney Meadows Schooling a Horse

35. A Greyhound, Facing Left

36. The Stable of an Inn

37. A Chestnut Horse at Exercise

38. London from Highgate Hill

39. The Artist's Bookplate and Pen Inscription from a Drawing Album

40. The Long-tailed Porcupine

41. A Stone Curlew