Skip to main content

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

COLLECTIONS SEARCH

Search the collections

All
Objects
Artists

Object filters

Collection

Prints and Drawings 804
Paintings and Sculpture 18

Creator

Unknown artist 822
Pugin, Augustus Charles, 1762–1832 53
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852 51
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 30
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 16
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 14
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 12
Yenn, John, 1750–1821 11
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 10
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 8
Basire, James, 1730–1802 7
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 7
Constable, John, 1776–1837 7
The, London Printing and Publishing Company 7
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 7
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802 6
Thayer, Benjamin W., active 1841–1853 6
Topham, John, 1746–1803 6
Godfrey, John 5
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677 5
Illustrated, London News, 1842–2003 5
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801 5
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1792–1864 5
Adam, Robert, 1728–1792 4
DONOWELL, John, active 1753–1786 4
Bluck, John, active 1791–1819 3
Bowles, Thomas, ca. 1712–1767 3
Cole, Benjamin, 1697–1783 3
Day, & Son, ca.1840–ca.1869 3
Godfrey, Richard Bernard, 1728–op.1794 3

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 804
Not on view 13
On view 5

Image Use

Free to Use 593
Under Certain Circumstances 229

Image Available

available 636
unavailable 186

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 292
Prints 269
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 187
Photographs 51
Paintings 18
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 5

Collective Title

[One of] Sixty-seven sheets of elevations, ground plans, and ornamentation from several Gothic structures. One loose drawing. 51
A Collection of Surveys of Scottish Estates of the Earl of Selkirk 38
A Collection of 13 Rococo Designs for Furniture and Ornamental Work 12
A Voyage Round Great Britain 11
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 11
Eleven Designs for Houses and Shops 10
"Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster", John Topham, 1795 6
Architectural Remains removed to Farnley, by Walter Fawkes Esqr. from Different Ancient Hall Houses in his Possession 4
"The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster", Brayley and Britton, 1836 2
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 2
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 2
"A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey ", WJ Loftie, 1894. 1
"History of Westminster Abbey", R. Ackermann, 1871. 1
"Vetusta Monumenta", Society of Antiquaries of London, 1747-1906 1
Environs of London 1
History of London from Its Foundation to the Present Time 1
History of the Isle of Wight, 1781 1
Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales, 1786 1
Smirke [Shakespeare] Album 1
Two Volumes of 187 Drawings and Manuscripts, Including, 4 Etchings 1
Views in the South Seas 1776-1780 1
“The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster”, Brayley and Britton, 1836. 1

Period

19th century 476
18th century 207
18th century-19th century 54
19th century-20th century 30
20th century 21
17th century 9
unknown period 7
16th century 6
17th century-18th century 6

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 533
graphite 374
watercolor 253
black ink 218
laid paper 144
pen 138
line engraving 119
brown ink 86
gray wash 83
etching (printing process) 54
gelatin silver process 26
hand coloring 24
gray ink 23
lithography 23
gouache 22
albumen process 21
canvas 18
oil paint 18
painting (technique) 18
aquatint 15
brown wash 15
pink ink 14
wash 14
black chalk 11
pens 10
white gouache 10
red ink 9
woodcut (process) 7
scratching out 6
stipple engraving 6

Height [cm]

From

To

Width [cm]

From

To

Work Type

drawing 457
watercolor 236
intaglio print 182
photograph 51
planographic print 24
painting 18
relief print 12
photomechanical print 8
miniature 3
collage 2

Genre

architectural subject 820
landscape 105
cityscape 68
genre subject 57
cartographic material 38
marine art 18
historical subject 8
portrait 5
religious and mythological subject 5
military art 4
still life 3
sporting art 2
botanical subject 1

Subject Terms

architectural subject 822

landscape 107
trees 85
cityscape 62
castle 61
men 60
church 57
windows 57
Gothic (Medieval) 56
genre subject 53
house 51
design 45
plans (drawings) 45
buildings 40
women 37
costume 30
building 29
arches 28
architecture 26
horses (animals) 26
columns (architectural elements) 25
exterior view 25
country house 24
sections 24
steps 24
palace 23
river 23
ruins 23
boats 21
city 21

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 225
United Kingdom 218
Europe 112
London 103
City of Westminster 68
Palace of Westminster 54
Monmouthshire 35
Raglan Castle 34
Greater London 30
India 30
Italy 27
Westminster Abbey 20
Kent 17
St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster 16
House of Commons 15
Rome 14
Scotland 13
Lazio 11
Levant 10
Hinton St George 9
Somerset 9
St. Paul's Cathedral 9
Wells 9
Yorkshire 9
East Sussex 8
Campania 7
City of London 7
House of Lords 7
Naples 7
Napoli 7

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 4
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
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 3
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 2
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 2
Barrett, Thomas (1744–1803), antiquary 1
Brudenell-Bruce, Thomas (1729–1814), 1st Earl of Ailesbury 1
Caulfeild, James, first earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), politician 1
Charles I (1600–1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1
Flora 1
Foote, Samuel (bap. 1721, d. 1777), actor and playwright 1
George IV 1
God 1
Leopold I (1790–1865), king of the Belgians 1
Lowther, Sir William (1727–1756), 3rd Baronet, of Marske, Yorkshire 1
Neptune 1
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 1
Steavans, Thomas (ca. 1728–?1759) 1
Stow, John (1524/5–1605), historian 1
Taylor, Brook, mathematician (1685–1731) 1
Turner, Sir Charles (1727–1783), 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire 1
Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717–1797) 1
Wyatt, James (1746–1813), architect 1

Exhibition History

Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 19
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 5
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 4
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 3
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 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 Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 3
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 3
Art in Focus : William III (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-04-08 - 2011-07-31) 2
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 2
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 2
The Anglo-Dutch Garden in the age of William and Mary (Christie's (UK), 1989-01-03 - 1989-02-02) 2
The Architect and the British Country House (High Museum of Art, 1986-08-03 - 1986-09-27) 2
The Architect and the British Country House (National Academy Museum & School, 1986-05-04 - 1986-06-20) 2
The Architect and the British Country House (The Octagon Museum, 1985-11-05 - 1986-04-06) 2
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) 1
Courts and Colonies - the William and Mary Style in Holland, England, and America (Carnegie Museum of Art, 1989-03-18 - 1989-05-28) 1
Courts and Colonies - the William and Mary Style in Holland, England, and America (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 1988-11-11 - 1989-02-12) 1
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 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
Horticulture (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 1981-06-09 - 1981-08-23) 1
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) 1
Making her Mark (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2024-03-30 - 2024-07-01) 1
Making her Mark (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-07) 1
Milltown (National Gallery of Ireland, 1997-10-15 - 1997-12-14) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 664
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 58
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse 25
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 25
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler in memory of Paul Mellon, Yale College, Class of 1929 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935 6
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, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Isaacs 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Kenny and Susan Phillips, In Memory of Richard Kressler and Leland Sweet 2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Caroline Fearey Schimmel 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeanne-Marie & Homer Byington 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown, Yale MA (HON.) 1971 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 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 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Elisabeth Manwaring 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Hill Morgan 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1

Language

Archival Collections

Archival Collection Level

Artist filters

Gender

Birth Place

Death Place

Place of Activity

Place of Visit/Tour

Place of baptism

Place of study

: unknown
Subject Terms: architectural subject
Per page: 15
Keywords: title_s asc, score desc
Keywords: masonry

All (822)
Objects (822)
Artists (0)

Shows 1 - 15 from 822 results

Grid

unknown artist

Canal under construction, possibly the Bude Canal

ca. 1840
unknown artist

Bologna

ca. 1826
unknown artist

A Country House in a River Landscape, Previously Identified as Oatlands

ca. 1805
On view
Katherine Read, 1723–1778

British Gentlemen in Rome

ca. 1750
unknown artist

House on a Common

between 1770 and 1780
unknown artist

Windsor Castle from the South

after 1681
unknown artist

The Interior of Westminster Abbey

ca. 1714
unknown artist

Ely Cathedral

ca. 1800
unknown artist

The Hermitage

ca. 1772
On view
John Dixon, ca. 1740–1810 or 1811

Lee Priory, Kent

1785
unknown artist

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

ca. 1730
unknown artist

Llannerch, Denbighshire, Wales

ca. 1667
On view
unknown artist

Denham Place, Buckinghamshire

ca. 1695
unknown artist

Calke Hall, Derbyshire, the Seat of Sir Henry Harpur, Bt

ca. 1734
On view
unknown artist

Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

ca. 1705

Pagination

Page1
Page2
Page3
…
Next page
Last page

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

Sign up for our e-newsletter

Hours and visitor information
Calendar

Museum Bookshop
Tours
Accessibility

Exhibitions and programs

Now and upcoming
Past exhibitions and programs

Collections

Collections overview
Search the collections
Using the collections
Conservation
Collections departments
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery

Research and learning

Reference Library
Study Room
Research initiatives
Community
K–12 teachers
Colleges and universities
Children and families
Yale community
Residential awards
Internships and Opportunities
Publications

About us

About
Paul Mellon, Founder
Architecture
News and press
Annual Reports
Videos
Get involved
Departments and staff
Job opportunities
Contact us

Privacy and cookies
Accessibility at Yale
Contact us