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Prints and Drawings 5,420
Paintings and Sculpture 129

Creator

Unknown artist 5,549
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 107
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 105
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 87
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 77
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801 77
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 68
Malton, Thomas the Younger, 1748–1804 53
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 48
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1792–1864 41
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 40
Constable, John, 1776–1837 38
Cole, Benjamin, 1697–1783 34
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 32
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 29
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 29
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 28
Major, Thomas, 1714–1799 25
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 25
Barker, Thomas, 1769–1847 23
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677 22
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 21
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 21
Schnebbelie, Robert Bremmel, active 1803–1849 21
Bowles, Thomas, ca. 1712–1767 18
Buckler, John FSA, 1770–1851 18
DeWint, Peter, 1784–1849 18
Howlett, Bartholomew, 1767–1827 18
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 17
Leech, John, 1817–1864 17

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 5,418
Not on view 116
On view 15

Image Use

Free to Use 3,836
Under Certain Circumstances 1,713

Image Available

available 4,036
unavailable 1,513

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 3,844
Drawings & Watercolors 1,349
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 180
Paintings 106
Photographs 37
Sculptures 12
Ceramics 7
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 4
Painted Objects 4
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 3

Collective Title

A Voyage Round Great Britain 104
London Cries: A Volume of Seventy-Seven Drawings 75
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 56
A Collection of Surveys of Scottish Estates of the Earl of Selkirk 39
Views Taken at Exmouth and in Its Vicinity 31
A Book of Sundry Prints 26
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 26
Subjects copied from Barker's Rustic Figures 23
Porfolio of Sixteen Designs after Greek Vases 16
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 14
A Collection of 13 Rococo Designs for Furniture and Ornamental Work 13
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestoke House, Park and Surroundings 12
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
Eleven Designs for Houses and Shops 10
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions 9
Eight Drawings of Hunting and Coaching 8
Views of Bencoolen 8
Dogs Drawn from Nature 7
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 7
"Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster", John Topham, 1795 6
The Victorious Battles of the Immortal Prince, John Duke of Marlborough 5
An Album of 17 Views of Erlestone House, Park and Surroundings 4
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 4
Icones Principum Virorum 3
The Ports of England 3
Whitaker's 'Loidis and Elmete' 3
"The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster", Brayley and Britton, 1836 2
A Collection of Landscapes after Gaspar Poussin 2
A Selection of Facsimiles of Watercolour Drawings by British Artists, 1826-1836 2
Cooke's Rivers of Devon 2

Period

19th century 2,594
18th century 1,785
18th century-19th century 258
17th century 84
19th century-20th century 76
17th century-18th century 48
20th century 41
16th century 40
unknown period 12
15th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 996
graphite 608
watercolor 581
laid paper 417
black ink 405
line engraving 285
pen 276
brown ink 185
etching (printing process) 166
gray wash 138
oil paint 115
painting (technique) 106
stipple engraving 104
mezzotint 95
gouache 88
canvas 62
gray ink 52
hand coloring 50
black chalk 45
brown wash 44
aquatint 40
lithography 38
gelatin silver process 29
card 28
scratching out 28
letterpress printing 22
red chalk 22
white gouache 22
paper 21
panel (wood) 18

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 944
watercolor 607
intaglio print 606
painting 106
planographic print 47
relief print 38
photograph 36
photomechanical print 21
sculpture 13
ceramic 7
ticket 6
medallion 5
collage 4
miniature 4
bust 3
frontispiece 3
statue 3
statuette 3
cigar box 2
buttons 1
letter box 1
misericord 1
snuff box 1
trade card 1

Genre

architectural subject 751
landscape 440
portrait 314
genre subject 235
cityscape 146
marine art 118
animal art 113
figure study 101
religious and mythological subject 52
cartographic material 43
sporting art 37
literary theme 36
botanical subject 32
still life 31
historical subject 30
military art 30

Subject Terms

architectural subject 660
landscape 340
portrait 260
trees 178
men 163
boats 151
man 148
genre subject 147
cityscape 122
figure study 103
animal art 91
women 87
hills 83
costume 80
sails 80
horses (animals) 79
river 76
woman 70
buildings 69
church 69
marine art 69
house 63
clouds 62
figures 60
cliffs 56
design 52
bridge (built work) 47
ships 47
castle 46
sea 45

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 417
England 373
Europe 281
London 138
City of Westminster 75
Palace of Westminster 57
Greater London 52
Italy 45
Scotland 44
Kent 32
Thames 27
Wales 26
Levant 25
Devon 24
Lambeth 16
Rome 16
St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster 16
House of Commons 15
Westminster Abbey 15
Cornwall 14
France 14
Southwark 14
East Sussex 13
India 13
South Asia 13
Vauxhall Gardens 13
Lazio 12
Asia 11
Somerset 11
St. Paul's Cathedral 11

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 24
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 9
Locke, John (1632–1704), philosopher 5
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 5
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 4
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Burnet, Gilbert (1643–1715), Bishop of Salisbury 3
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 3
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 3
Andromeda 2
Ariadne 2
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 2
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (63 BC–AD 14) 2
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 2
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563–1639), painter 2
God 2
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 2
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter 2
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, baronet (1646–1723), history and portrait painter 2
Mascall, Edward James (1757/8–1832), civil servant 2
Mor, Antonis (born 1512–1516, died ca. 1576), portrait painter 2
Neptune 2
Opie, John (1761–1807), portrait and history painter 2
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 2
Perseus 2
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul (1577–1640), painter 2
Shee, Sir Martin Archer (1769–1850), portrait painter and writer 2
Sibyl of Cumae 2
The Virgin Mary 2
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 2

Exhibition History

Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 21
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 18
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 17
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 13
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 11
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 10
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 9
John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) 8
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26) 7
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 6
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 6
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 6
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 5
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Clark Art Institute, 1996-03-02 - 1996-04-14) 5
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Davison Art Center, 1995-09-01 - 1995-10-28) 5
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1995-04-04 - 1995-07-16) 5
William Hogarth - A Selection of Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1971-02-12 - 1971-05-30) 5
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) 4
Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31) 4
When in Rome - Prints and Photographs, 1550-1900 (Smith College Museum of Art, 2016-09-30 - 2017-01-01) 4
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 3
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 3
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 3
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 3
Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29) 3
Penn's England (Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1982-09-05 - ) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 3
The Garden (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1979-05-21 - 1979-08-26) 3
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 3

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5,549

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unknown artist

The Mall

between 1740 and 1750
unknown artist

The Cousin of John Gawler of Ramridge House, Weyhill, Hampshire

ca. 1765
On view
unknown artist

Study of Birds

ca. 1840
unknown artist

The Wolverhampton Racecourse

1837
unknown artist

Schloss Rosenau, Coburg

1841 to 1844
unknown artist

Windsor Castle Seen from the Thames

ca. 1700
unknown artist

An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

ca. 1590
unknown artist

The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's

ca. 1670
unknown artist

The Old Parish Church and Village, Hampton-on-Thames, Middlesex, 18th... [Read more]

late 18th century
unknown artist

An Unknown Man, Aged 29, Possibly of the Kempe Family

1589
unknown artist

An Unknown Young Man

ca. 1622
On view
John Dixon, ca. 1740–1810 or 1811

Lee Priory, Kent

1785
unknown artist

The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

ca. 1834
unknown artist

A Review of the London Volunteer Cavalry and Flying Artillery in Hyde... [Read more]

ca. 1804
unknown artist

Coast with Cliffs and Boats

early 19th century
unknown artist

Landscape with Lake and Two Figures Riding

ca. 1820
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape with Figures by a Lake

1825 to 1830
unknown artist

Landscape with Trees on a Slope

early 19th century
unknown artist

Mountainous Landscape with Figures and Cattle

1806 to 1807
unknown artist

A Horse Frightened by a Lioness

ca. 1800
On view
unknown artist

Charles Goring of Wiston and an Unknown Attendant

ca. 1765
unknown artist

The Billiard Room

ca. 1725
unknown artist

A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's... [Read more]

between 1790 and 1799
unknown artist

An Exercise in Haute Ecole: the Passage to the Left along a Wall, after... [Read more]

ca. 1730
unknown artist

Ely Cathedral

ca. 1800
unknown artist

Street with Church and Figures

1822 to 1825
unknown artist

Seapiece with Boats: Evening

ca. 1815
unknown artist

Yacht Racing on the Solent

ca. 1827
unknown artist

Building with Trees

1825 to 1827
unknown artist

Landscape with Lake

1828 to 1829
unknown artist

Man on a White Horse

early 19th century
unknown artist

?Petit Andeleys on the Seine

1822 to 1825
unknown artist

Avenue with Figures

ca. 1807
unknown artist

Landscape with Trees, Building in left middle distance

early 19th century
On view
unknown artist

Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

1684
unknown artist

Llannerch, Denbighshire, Wales

ca. 1667
On view
unknown artist

Denham Place, Buckinghamshire

ca. 1695
unknown artist

Thames at Lambeth Palace

after 1745
unknown artist

Trentham Park

ca. 1801
unknown artist

Lincoln's Inn, the Chapel, and Old Hall, London

ca. 1730

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