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Prints and Drawings 2,053

Creator

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 251
Unknown artist 125
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 68
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 58
Diston, Alfred, active 1818–1829 40
Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758–1838 37
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811 33
McLean, Thomas, 1788–1875 33
Gravelot, Hubert-François, 1699–1773 31
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 31
Ward, James, 1769–1859 31
Doyle, John ('H.B.'), 1797–1868 29
Bradshaw, & Blacklock, active ca.1850 26
Barker, Thomas, 1769–1847 25
Barnes, Robert, 1840–1895 24
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 24
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801 24
Alexander, William, 1767–1816 22
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 22
Bretherton, James, ca. 1730–1806 21
Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814 21
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852 20
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833 20
Stothard, Thomas, 1755–1834 20
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828 18
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803–1874 18
Cooper, Alfred W., active 1850–1901 18
Hunt, William Henry, 1790–1864 18
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841 18
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 17

Date

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To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 2,052
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 1

Image Use

Free to Use 1,996
Under Certain Circumstances 57

Image Available

available 2,053

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 1,496
Prints 548
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 9

Collective Title

[One from a volume of 66] "Views Drawn from Nature in the Neighborhood of Rome and Abruzzo etc. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. In the Years 1786 to 1790" 35
Political Sketches 28
Cries of London 25
Subjects copied from Barker's Rustic Figures 22
Symptoms of Being Amused 18
Drawings to Illusrate the Life of Hogarth 17
Illustrations to "The Vicar of Wakefield" 14
Twelve Illustrations to Contemporary Life and Diversions 12
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
The Story of the Oak Tree 9
Costumes of India 8
The Cries of London 7
The Progress of a Midshipman Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead in Seven Plates & Frontispiece 7
Cahier de six sujets 6
Sketches Illustrative of Picturesque Scenery of Norfolk 6
The Spoiled Child 6
Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France 6
A New Book of Landskips 5
Alfred Crowquill's Grotesque Christmas 5
Rural Life 5
The Fairs 4
The Rake's-Progress at the University 4
Views of the Ruins of the Principal Houses Destroyed During the Riots at Birmingham 4
Vues des ruines des principaux batiments qui ont souffert dans les emeutes de Birmingham 4
Illustrations of the Army & Navy Register and Woolwich Gazette 3
Prout's Microcosm: The Sketchbook of Groups of Figurines, Shipping, and other Picturesque Objects 3
The Pastorals of Virgil 3
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions 2
Ben Nevis, Highland Dancers & Constantinople 2
Brighton, 1839 2

Period

19th century 874
18th century 603
18th century-19th century 482
19th century-20th century 47
20th century 22
17th century-18th century 9
16th century-17th century 3
17th century 3
unknown period 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 1,252
graphite 1,160
watercolor 933
laid paper 667
brown ink 487
pen 453
black ink 432
etching (printing process) 284
gray wash 228
gray ink 216
brown wash 157
gouache 127
red ink 92
stipple engraving 82
lithography 79
line engraving 77
colored ink 72
aquatint 68
black chalk 65
red chalk 63
hand coloring 58
wood engraving (process) 52
card 42
mezzotint 38
white gouache 36
pens 35
scratching out 34
chine collé 32
woodcut (process) 32
white chalk 28

Height [cm]

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Width [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 1,493
watercolor 1,153
intaglio print 388
planographic print 87
relief print 81
frontispiece 9
ticket 4
photomechanical print 1

Genre

genre subject 2,010
landscape 368
architectural subject 265
figure study 212
cityscape 140
animal art 77
marine art 75
sporting art 63
portrait 52
military art 26
literary theme 13
historical subject 10
religious and mythological subject 6
still life 5
botanical subject 1

Subject Terms

genre subject 2,053

men 747
women 467
trees 417
landscape 384
man 316
woman 294
hats 292
architectural subject 263
horses (animals) 261
children 254
dog (animal) 229
costume 221
figure study 210
buildings 173
horse (animal) 159
cityscape 138
river 133
dresses 129
hat 126
walking 124
dogs (animals) 121
satire 119
child 104
leisure 103
clouds 102
interior 99
coats 96
figures 96
road 95

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 370
England 337
Europe 336
London 102
Asia 79
Greater London 63
France 48
Italy 36
Spain 35
Tenerife 33
China 25
City of Westminster 25
Zhonghua 24
India 23
Paris 22
Scotland 22
Yorkshire 22
Rome 21
Île-de-France 21
Kent 18
Bath 16
Thames 16
Wakefield 16
Bath and Northeast Somerset 15
Devon 14
Norfolk 13
North and Central America 13
Lazio 12
Wales 11
City of London 10

Associated People

William Hogarth 14
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 11
Bentinck, Lord George (1802–1848), politician/statesman, athlete/sportsman 6
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 4
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), politician/statesman, author/poet 4
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 4
Wood, Sir Charles, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800 - 1885), politician/statesman 4
John Bull, fictitious epitomist of Englishness and British imperialism 3
Minerva 3
O'Connell, Daniel (1775–1847), Irish nationalist leader 3
Peter, Henry, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), politician/statesman 3
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 3
Sibthorp, Col. Charles de Laet Waldo (1783–1855), MP for Lincoln 3
Temple, Henry, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784 - 1865), politician/statesman 3
Bannister, John (1760–1836), actor 2
Bright, John (1811–1889), politician, reformer, MP for Durham and Birmingham 2
Charlotte (1744–1818), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and queen of Hanover, consort of George III 2
Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811–1864) 2
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 2
Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby (1796–1861), MP, radical politician 2
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 2
Goulburn, Henry (1784–1856), politician/statesman 2
Grey, Henry George, 3rd Earl Grey (1802 - 1894), Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Lieutenant 2
Hogarth, William (1697–1764), painter and engraver 2
Hudson, George (1800–1871), MP, the 'Railway King' 2
Hume, Joseph (1777 - 1855), East India Company, Parliament 2
Inglis, Sir Robert Harry, 2nd Baronet (1786 - 1855), politician/statesman 2
Louis Philippe (1773 - 1850), King of France 2
Muntz, George Fredrick (1794 - 1857), MP for Birmingham 2
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor 2

Exhibition History

Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) 73
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) 73
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 62
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 36
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 25
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) 25
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) 25
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) 25
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 22
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 21
Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10) 21
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 20
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 19
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 19
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 18
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 15
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 15
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) 14
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 12
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 12
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 11
Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Block Museum of Art, 2011-01-14 - 2011-03-13) 11
Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2011-04-08 - 2011-06-12) 11
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 9
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 8
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 8
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 7
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 7
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 7
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 7

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2,053

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Accessible in the Study Room
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Ferry

ca. 1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Under the Hammer

between 1912 and 1913
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Sale at Ward's Repository, No. 2

ca. 1918
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Ploughing the Hillside

ca. 1905
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Timber Hauling

ca. 1917
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

A Morning at Tattersalls (with further sketches in left margin folded... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Sussex Farm Wagon

ca. 1906
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Crocks

ca. 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Bayhorse, Tattersall’s

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Horse Mart (with further sketches in the margin)

ca. 1918
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790

The Oyster Woman

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Rising Moon

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Rising Moon

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Herdsman's Cottage

1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Rising Moon

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Herdsman's Cottage

1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Weary Ploughman

1858
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Weary Ploughman

1858
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Rising Moon

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Wayside Smithy

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Timber Wain

between 1833 and 1834
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Timber Wagon Crossing a Stream

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Rising Moon

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Sleeping Shepherd

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

A Shepherd and his Flock under the Moon and Stars

ca. 1827
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Ivy Cottage, Shoreham

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Study of a Pilgrim

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

A Pastoral Scene

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
John Constable, 1776–1837

A Recollection of the New R.A

1837
Accessible in the Study Room
John Constable, 1776–1837

A Country Girl in the Lake District

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
John Constable, 1776–1837

Mr. Hobson of Markfield and Family

ca. 1806
Accessible in the Study Room
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Labourers

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Southwark Fair

1733
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Midnight Modern Conversation

1733
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Sleeping Congregation

1736
Accessible in the Study Room
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The First Stage of Cruelty

ca. 1750
Accessible in the Study Room
attributed to William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Grotesque Male Head

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Study for the Foundlings

ca. 1739
Accessible in the Study Room
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

A View of Boppart, with Figures on the River Bank

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Christ Church Gate, Canterbury

ca. 1792–1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Young Anglers

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

The Straw Yard

1808
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Lulworth Castle, Dorset

ca. 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Ingleborough from Chapel-Le-Dale

between 1810 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Newark-upon-Trent

ca. 1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Rome from Monte Mario

ca. 1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Dartmoor: The Source of the Tamar and the Torridge

ca. 1813
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

High Street, Edinburgh

ca. 1818

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