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Prints and Drawings 23,691

Creator

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 3,044
Unknown artist 1,891
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 1,151
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 1,035
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 905
Ward, Leslie Matthew ("Spy"), 1851–1922 788
Blake, William, 1757–1827 730
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 465
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 414
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 410
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 322
Miller, William, 1796–1882 292
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 286
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 270
Heath, James, 1757–1834 239
Pellegrini, Carlo ("Ape" and "Singe"), 1839–1889 238
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 235
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 222
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 207
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 204
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 203
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698–1780 203
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 200
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 193
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 191
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 188
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 187
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 180
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857 178
Sayers, James, 1748–1823 178

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 23,688
On view 3

Image Use

Free to Use 23,691

Image Available

available 20,055
unavailable 3,636

Provenance

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Classification

Prints 23,691

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 588
Picturesque Views in England and Wales 389
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 308
Turner's Annual Tour- The Seine 208
Liber Studiorum 196
A Book of Sundry Prints 195
Icones Principum Virorum 185
Rogers's Poems 155
Scott's Prose Works 155
Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 138
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 130
Scott's Poetical Works 120
Young's Night Thoughts 120
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 117
Rivers of France 112
Rogers's Italy 103
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 100
Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Bible 77
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 76
Whitaker's History of Richmondshire 74
Campbell's Poetical Works 72
Gay's Fables 72
Illustrations of The Book of Job 70
Arthur Pond's Album 69
The Keepsake 68
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 66
Byron's Life and Works 63
Michelangelo's Capella Sistina 63
A Picturesque Tour of Italy 62

Period

19th century 11,417
18th century 9,042
20th century 702
17th century 661
18th century-19th century 522
16th century 461
17th century-18th century 339
19th century-20th century 80
16th century-17th century 14

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 5,564
etching (printing process) 5,516
laid paper 5,013
line engraving 4,506
mezzotint 3,529
stipple engraving 1,510
watercolor 834
chine collé 660
hand coloring 615
aquatint 558
engraving (printing process) 497
lithography 446
drypoint 432
brown ink 311
relief etching 278
black ink 226
color printing 174
soft-ground etching 157
plate tone 127
colored ink 126
wood engraving (process) 116
chiaroscuro woodcut 110
letterpress printing 106
photogravure 79
graphite 77
Asian paper 76
Engraving 62
card 56
chromolithography 51
woodcut (process) 48

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Work Type

intaglio print 13,481
relief print 715
planographic print 593
watercolor 391
drawing 209
photomechanical print 99
ticket 77
architectural subject 74
frontispiece 57
animal art 1
collage 1
landscape 1
photograph 1
portrait 1
religious and mythological subject 1

Genre

landscape 3,387
architectural subject 3,219
portrait 3,176
genre subject 2,175
literary theme 1,722
religious and mythological subject 1,497
marine art 1,403
cityscape 1,082
animal art 626
military art 594
historical subject 572
figure study 351
sporting art 183
botanical subject 123
still life 71
cartographic material 36
anatomical study 5
frontispiece 5
abstract art 1

Subject Terms

portrait 1,769
architectural subject 1,310
river 1,150
genre subject 1,021
men 958
man 925
religious and mythological subject 900
trees 897
landscape 885
literary theme 690
cityscape 647
women 622
woman 610
landscape (representation) 559
costume 511
satire 502
clouds 490
marine art 489
caricature 446
church 390
text 358
children 332
castle 329
caricatures 304
coat 298
buildings 288
curls 255
hats 254
hills 253
posing 249

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 1,226
England 1,134
Europe 1,003
France 513
Seine 294
London 290
Italy 200
Scotland 184
Greater London 173
City of Westminster 146
Île-de-France 145
India 131
South Asia 131
Thames 112
Palace of Westminster 103
Paris 102
Loire 100
North America 91
English Channel 88
Devon 69
Rome 68
Lazio 59
Switzerland 56
Kent 55
Germany 54
Suffolk 51
Cornwall 49
North Yorkshire 49
Durham 44
Centre 43

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 549
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 48
Cupid 46
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 38
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 32
Jesus 32
The Virgin Mary 30
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 26
Venus 26
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 22
saint 20
Bacchus 18
Jack Sheppard 17
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 17
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 17
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 15
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 14
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 14
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 13
Mary 13
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician 12
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 12
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 12
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 12
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 11
Mercury 11
Bentinck, Lord George (1802–1848), politician/statesman, athlete/sportsman 10
Diana 10
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), politician/statesman 10
Peter, Henry, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), politician/statesman 10

Exhibition History

The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 242
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 201
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 201
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 176
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 164
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 140
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 121
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 81
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 79
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 74
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 60
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 60
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 47
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 47
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) 45
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) 45
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) 45
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 44
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 41
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 41
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 38
Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) 37
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 33
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 32
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 32
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 32
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 31
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 27
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) 27
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 26

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 16,488
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1,904
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1,293
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 986
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 281
Yale Center for British Art 226
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 210
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 136
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 127
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 119
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 96
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 89
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 79
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 70
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louise Lippincott, Yale BA 1974 69
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 69
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 61
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 60
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 52
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 51
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 49
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 45
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 43
Yale Center for British Art, The Edwin M. Herr, Yale PhD 1884, Memorial Collection; Gift of Mrs. Herr, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 42
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 42
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 36
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 34
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 32
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection 31
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943 29

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George Maile, active 1824–1840

The Sportsman
Accessible in the Study Room
Gerard Edelinck, 1640–1707

Édouard Colbert, Marquis de Villacerf

1696
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Say, 1768–1834

Mrs. Siddons

1810
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Cockpit

1759
Accessible in the Study Room
George Maile, active 1824–1840

The Sportsman
Accessible in the Study Room
Newton Limbird Smith Fielding, 1799–1856

Death

1853
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Milton, 1742/1743–1827

Lucan-House

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of Several Palaces at Naples at Sun Rise

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Havell, 1769–1832

Crofton Hall, Yorkshire

1813
Accessible in the Study Room
Edmund Turrell, active 1835–1860

The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevations

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
John Sebastian Miller, 1715–1792

Title page: "Gleanings of Natural History" (15 unpublished... [Read more]
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Medland, 1755–1823

Ruins of St. Paul Covent Garden

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
William Payne, 1760–1830

On the River Wye, Monmouthshire
Accessible in the Study Room
John Maurer, active 1713–1761

The Mansion House

1750
Accessible in the Study Room
John Maurer, active 1713–1761

The Mansion House
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Constantine Stadler, active 1780–1812

The Farm House

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789

Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

ca. 1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Archibald Robertson, 1748–1788

No.1 and No. 2 in the 8 stages of growth of the Surinam Frog

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Ashkoko

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Fennec

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Tsaltsalya / El Adda

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Tortoise

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Binny

1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Cerastes

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Abba Gumba

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Nisser Werk

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Arab of Loheia, Tribe Beni Koreish

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Examples of Ceremonial Dress of Soldiers

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Clarke Hook, 1819–1907

A Few Minutes to Wait before Twelve O'Clock

ca. 1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741

Narcissus

c.1714
Accessible in the Study Room
Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741

St. Catherine Reading

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741

Virgin and Child

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853

Chepstow

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Rochester

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Nottingham

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Chester

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Walker, active 1792–1803

Flint, from Park-Gate

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Elgin Cathedral, Morayshire

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Tagg, died 1809

The Tower of London

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Rothwell, ca. 1742–1807

Guildford

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Murray, died 1822

Neath

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Landseer, 1769–1852

Orchard Bay

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Landseer, 1769–1852

Orchard Bay

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Bartholomew Howlett, 1767–1827

Sleaford Church

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Bartholomew Howlett, 1767–1827

Grantham Church

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Landseer, 1769–1852

Freshwater Bay

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Rothwell, ca. 1742–1807

Swansea

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Landseer, 1769–1852

Alum Bay and the Needles

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Landseer, 1769–1852

Alum Bay and the Needles

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Landseer, 1769–1852

Alum Bay and the Needles

1799

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