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Prints and Drawings 388
Paintings and Sculpture 23

Creator

Unknown artist 411
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 27
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 26
Barker, Thomas, 1769–1847 23
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 17
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 16
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 15
Collet, John, ca. 1725–1780 15
Day, & Son, ca.1840–ca.1869 10
Silver, J. M. W., active 1867 9
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 8
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 8
Laurie, Robert, 1755?–1836 7
Charton, Gabriel, active 1810 6
Leech, John, 1817–1864 6
Smith, John, 1652–1743 6
The, London Printing and Publishing Company 6
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 5
Eastern, National Omnibus Company Ltd, 1929–1990 5
Haines, & Son, active 1795–1809 5
Barnes, Robert, 1840–1895 4
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 4
Clark, James, 19th century 3
Hardie, Martin, 1875–1952 3
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 3
Pine, John, 1690–1756 3
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 3
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 2
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 2
Bickham, George, 1683/4–1758 2

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 388
Not on view 19
On view 4

Image Use

Free to Use 329
Under Certain Circumstances 82

Image Available

available 351
unavailable 60

Provenance

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Classification

Prints 250
Drawings & Watercolors 106
Paintings 21
Posters 21
Photographs 7
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 3
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 1
Painted Objects 1
Sculptures 1

Collective Title

Subjects copied from Barker's Rustic Figures 23
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 9
Eight Drawings of Hunting and Coaching 6
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 3
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions 2
Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics 1
Cooke's Rivers of Devon 1
Dogs Drawn from Nature 1
Frank B. Simson, Sport in Eastern Bengal 1
Marine Views 1
The History of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green 1
The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham 1
The Pocket Magazine- Ladies Pocket Magazine and Pocket Print Magazine 1
Views in the South Seas 1776-1780 1

Period

18th century 173
19th century 143
18th century-19th century 34
20th century 32
19th century-20th century 12
17th century-18th century 8
17th century 6
unknown period 2

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 165
laid paper 121
mezzotint 90
graphite 79
watercolor 69
etching (printing process) 60
line engraving 57
pen 28
stipple engraving 27
brown ink 26
black ink 23
lithography 21
oil paint 21
painting (technique) 21
hand coloring 20
canvas 17
chromolithography 10
gouache 10
letterpress printing 9
brown wash 8
gray wash 8
aquatint 6
black chalk 6
gray ink 6
wood engraving (process) 6
steel engraving 5
woodcut (process) 5
gelatin silver process 4
halftone process 4
panel (wood) 4

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Work Type

intaglio print 197
drawing 107
watercolor 65
planographic print 46
painting 21
poster 21
relief print 16
photograph 7
photomechanical print 6
frontispiece 2
cigar box 1
miniature 1
sculpture 1
statue 1

Genre

genre subject 411

architectural subject 64
figure study 39
landscape 39
portrait 32
cityscape 30
animal art 18
sporting art 15
marine art 12
religious and mythological subject 12
historical subject 7
literary theme 4
botanical subject 1
military art 1

Subject Terms

genre subject 209
men 83
architectural subject 57
women 54
costume 43
figure study 39
landscape 37
trees 32
hats 29
cityscape 28
woman 28
man 26
buildings 25
horses (animals) 24
children 21
rustic 21
walking 21
coats 20
church 17
figure 17
architecture 16
dog (animal) 16
dogs (animals) 16
dresses 16
portrait 16
Grand Tour 15
interior 15
figures 14
leisure 14
city 13

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 38
Asia 36
England 35
Europe 20
Bharat 19
India 19
Greater London 17
Italy 15
London 15
Japan 11
Campania 8
Napoli 8
City of Westminster 7
Naples 7
Rome 6
Royal Palace of Naples 6
Thames 6
Lazio 5
Roma 5
City of London 4
Gulf of Naples 4
Aberdeenshire 3
Balmoral Castle 3
France 3
Scotland 3
Westminster Abbey 3
Africa 2
China 2
Colosseum 2
Kent 2

Associated People

Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 3
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 2
Artemis 1
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter 1
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver 1
Brudenell-Bruce, Thomas (1729–1814), 1st Earl of Ailesbury 1
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver 1
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor 1
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator 1
Caulfeild, James, first earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), politician 1
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter 1
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect 1
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman 1
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 1
Flora 1
Fortune 1
George VI (1895–1952), King of England, succeeded on the abdication of Edward VIII 1
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect 1
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator 1
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter 1
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter 1
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife 1
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter 1
Leopold I (1790–1865), king of the Belgians 1
Lowther, Sir William (1727–1756), 3rd Baronet, of Marske, Yorkshire 1
Mathew, Lady Jane 1
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter 1
Morgan & Sanders (fl. 1801–1820), cabinetmakers 1
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter 1

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 9
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 5
Three Centuries of Comic Art-Eighteenth Century Satire: John Collet (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998-06-06 - 1998-08-23) 5
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 4
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 4
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 3
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 3
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 2
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 2
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) 2
All The Queen's Horses (National Horse Racing Museum, 2003-04-26 - 2003-08-23) 1
Antiques & Fine Art Fair 2002 (BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, 2002-03-13 - 2002-03-19) 1
Art in Focus : William III (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-04-08 - 2011-07-31) 1
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 1
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 1
Casanova - The Seduction of Europe (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2018-02-10 - 2018-05-20) 1
Casanova - The Seduction of Europe (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2018-06-17 - 2018-10-08) 1
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05) 1
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 1
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 1
Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31) 1
Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30) 1
Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31) 1
Giuseppe Vasi's Rome - Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 2010-09-25 - 2011-01-02) 1
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1997-02-05 - 1997-04-07) 1
Grand Tour - The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century (Tate Britain, 1996-10-10 - 1997-01-06) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 234
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 75
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 19
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 16
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Kenny and Susan Phillips, In Memory of Richard Kressler and Leland Sweet 9
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 6
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 4
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 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Paul Walter 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 2
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art 1
Yale Center for British Art, Fry Print Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale University Medical Library 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Jensen 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Melville and Naomi Stone 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935 1
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Chauncey B. Tinker, B.A. 1899 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John A. Gee, from the Estate of Chauncey B. Tinker 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Whitney Collections of Sporting Art 1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Robert W. Carle 1

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The Wolverhampton Racecourse

1837
unknown artist

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

between 1790 and 1799
unknown artist

Bologna

ca. 1826
unknown artist

The Interior of Westminster Abbey

ca. 1714
unknown artist

The Billiard Room

ca. 1725
unknown artist

Crickhowell, Breconshire

ca. 1800
On view
unknown artist

Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

ca. 1705
On view
Katherine Read, 1723–1778

British Gentlemen in Rome

ca. 1750
unknown artist

View of Shepperton on the River Thames

after 1752
unknown artist

The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

ca. 1725
On view
unknown artist

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

1684
unknown artist

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

ca. 1730
unknown artist

Lady Jane Mathew and Her Daughters

ca. 1790
Attributed to H. J. Aveling, active 1839–1842

First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on... [Read more]

exhibited 1839
unknown artist

A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

ca. 1745

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