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Prints and Drawings 1,456

Creator

Unknown artist 224
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 155
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 146
Vivarès, François, 1709–1780 123
Major, Thomas, 1714–1799 95
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 70
Guercino, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591–1666 66
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 56
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698–1780 52
Pine, John, 1690–1756 46
Clark, James, 19th century 45
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 45
Gough, Richard, 1735–1809 33
Poussin, Gaspar, 1615–1675 33
McArdell, James, ca. 1729–1765 28
Watson, James, 1740–1790 26
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 25
Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781 25
Le, Clerc Sebastien, 1676–1763 24
Roberts, James, 1725–1799 22
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 22
Dickinson, William, 1746–1823 20
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 20
Faber, John the Younger, ca. 1695–1756 18
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 18
Teniers, David the Younger, 1610–1690 18
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801 18
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785 16
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 15
Hamilton, William, 1751–1801 15

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Free to Use 1,456

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Prints 1,456

Collective Title

A Book of Sundry Prints 143
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 91
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 45
Etchings by the Late Richard Gough, Esq. 33
A Collection of Landscapes after Gaspar Poussin 31
Scenographia Americana 24
Beaver's Military Punishments 17
Cries of London 12
Twelve Original Views in Italy 12
English and Foreign Views 10
Illustrations to John Beaver's "Roman Military Punishments" 10
Studies of Trees 9
Six Views of the Most Remarkable Places in the Gulf and River of St. Laurence 8
The Natural History of Barbados 7
A Harlot's Progress 6
Six Landscapes with Figures and Animals 6
Six Small Landscapes 6
Six Small Landscapes in Oval Medallion Shapes 6
A Book of Sheep and Goats from the Original of Berghem 5
Bulls and Cows 5
English History Delineated 5
Eight Views of Windsor Great Park 3
Views in Greece and Asia Minor 3
Before and After 2
Eight Views in North America and the West Indies 2
Gay's Fables 2
Illustrations to John Beaver's Proposed "Modern Military Punishments" 2
Les de´lices de la Grand' Bretagne 2
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 2
The Invasion 2

Period

18th century 1,456

Materials & Techniques

laid paper 544
etching (printing process) 392
mezzotint 332
line engraving 264
wove paper 94
stipple engraving 74
watercolor 45
hand coloring 44
aquatint 30
color printing 14
soft-ground etching 10
colored ink 7
brown ink 2
chiaroscuro woodcut 2
engraving (printing process) 2
chine collé 1
graphite 1
ink 1
letterpress printing 1
silk (textile) 1
white gouache 1
woodcut (process) 1

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intaglio print 847
ticket 10
relief print 3
architectural subject 2
frontispiece 2

Genre

portrait 254
landscape 205
genre subject 138
religious and mythological subject 71
architectural subject 66
military art 56
animal art 44
historical subject 41
literary theme 25
marine art 22
cityscape 11
botanical subject 8
figure study 5
frontispiece 5
sporting art 4
cartographic material 3
anatomical study 1
still life 1

Subject Terms

portrait 119
religious and mythological subject 27
landscape 26
architectural subject 23
genre subject 21
woman 16
children 15
women 14
tree 13
costume 12
man 12
curls 11
hats 11
caricature 10
clouds 10
trees 10
boy 9
cityscape 9
men 8
robe 8
wings 8
basket 7
botanical subject 7
cloud 7
collar 7
feathers 7
gaze 7
lace 7
posing 7
barefoot 6

Subject Period

Associated Places

North America 20
Italy 13
Rome 8
Barbados 7
England 6
United Kingdom 5
Banqueting House 3
Europe 3
Egypt 2
Greater London 2
India 2
Lambeth 2
Russia 2
South Asia 2
St. Petersburg 2
Avon 1
Bayberry 1
Carlisle 1
Castle Howard 1
City of London 1
Clapham 1
Clapham Common 1
Holy Trinity Clapham 1
Imperial Colleges 1
Lazio 1
London 1
Nile 1
North Yorkshire 1
Piazza del Popolo 1
Scotland 1

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 13
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 6
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 4
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician 3
Cupid 3
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 3
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 3
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 3
Cavendish [née Spencer], Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), political hostess 2
Diana 2
Felix, Marcus Antonius (5–10CE), Roman procurator 2
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 2
Jane, Duchess of Gordon (née Maxwell) (1748/9 - 1812), academic/intellectual 2
Moses 2
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 2
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 2
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 2
The Virgin Mary 2
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 1
Aglaia 1
Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717–1783), French mathematician 1
Anguisciola, Sofonisba (ca. 1535 - 1625), painter 1
Artemis 1
Bacchus 1
Barbara (née St John), Countess of Coventry (d. 1804) 1
Baretti, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio (1719–1789), writer 1
Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of (British aristocrat, 1765–1802) 1
Bedford, John Russell, 6th Duke of (British aristocrat, 1766–1839) 1
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, third Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British politician and head of Whig party (1782) 1
Burke, Edmund (1729/30–1797), politician and author 1

Exhibition History

Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 18
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 10
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 6
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 5
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14) 5
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31) 5
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 5
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 4
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 4
The Engraved Work of George Stubbs (1724-1806) (Ferens Art Gallery, 2005-09-24 - 2005-11-06) 4
The Engraved Work of George Stubbs (1724-1806) (The British Sporting Art Trust, 2005-07-25 - 2005-08-17) 4
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 4
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 3
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) 3
Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30) 3
Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31) 3
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) 3
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 3
William Hodges, RA (1744-1797) (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 3
Benjamin West : Fidelia and Speranza (Timken Museum of Art, 2004-11-05 - 2005-02-27) 2
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 2
Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31) 2
Rubenism (Bell Art Gallery, 1975-01-30 - 1975-02-23) 2
Stubbs & The Horse (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-11-14 - 2005-02-06) 2
Stubbs & The Horse (The National Gallery, London, 2005-06-29 - 2005-09-25) 2
Stubbs & The Horse (The Walters Art Museum, 2005-03-05 - 2005-05-20) 2
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 2
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 2
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 2
American Colonial Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1987-10-09 - 1988-01-10) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1,064
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 123
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 105
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 49
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 35
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Bequest of Doris M. Brixey 9
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bernard Kosto, Yale 1957, MD 1962 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 7
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 6
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Beekman C. and Margaret Cannon 4
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of William S. Konecky 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 3
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 3
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Bequest of Doris M. Brixey 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 2
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 2
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 2
Yale Center for British Art 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carole Young 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Goodfriend in memory of Milton S. Goodfriend, M.D., transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown, Yale MA (HON.) 1971 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Knapp 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art; Bequest of Robert W. Carle, B.A. 1897 1

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William Ward, 1766–1826

Jupiter, by Eclipse. The Property of Colonel Thornton

ca. 1792
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John Sanders, 1768–1826

Matlock High Tor

ca. 1786
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Figures by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

[Fox-Hunting]

1783
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William Lowry

Perspective View of Design... Cast Iron Bridge... To Supply the Place of the... [Read more]

ca. 1800
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Print made by Adam Smith, active 1760s–1770s

View of the Office of Ordnance with the Entrance... House of Lords

1770
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Print made by Adam Smith, active 1760s–1770s

View of the office of Ordnance with the entrance... of the House of Common from... [Read more]

1770
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Print made by unknown artist

Frontispiece to Roman History, Vol. 3

1729
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Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785

A Toupapow with a Corpse on It

1777
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Print made by David Deuchar, 1743–1808

Man in Fur Coat and Cap

undated
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Print made by unknown artist

Medals of the Cities of Acherontia, Pandosia, and Terina

1729
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Print made by unknown artist

Different Sorts of Tortures Used by the Romans (I)

1729
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Benjamin Green, ca. 1736–ca. 1800

Brood-Mares

1768
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George Townly Stubbs, 1748–1815

Brown Horse Mask

1773
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Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836

Lion and Horse

1791
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Benjamin Green, ca. 1736–ca. 1800

The Lion and Horse

1769
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George Townly Stubbs, 1748–1815

The Horse and Lion

1770
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T. Sympson, active 1725

[Racing] Set of four: (2) View of the Round-Course or Plate-Course with... [Read more]

ca. 1725
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Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734

[Racing] Set of four engravings: (4) Plate of the Fox Chase

ca. 1725
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Print made by William Pether, ca. 1738–1821

A Farrier's Shop

1771
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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John Laguerre, 1688–1746

From Doggett and Hippisley's Ballad-Opera [set of seven]: 'Flora, or... [Read more]

ca. 1730
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Set of sixteen: Outlines of Figures and Landscapes

1790-1792
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Set of sixteen: Outlines of Figures and Landscapes

1790-1792
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Set of sixteen: Outlines of Figures and Landscapes

1790-1792
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Print made by George Smith of Chichester, 1714–1776

Rural Scene, Chichester

1767
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1780
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Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823

Mary Robinson

1785
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Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765

Lady Caroline Russell

undated
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Duchess of Rutland

1780
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Countess of Salisbury

1781
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Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781

The Strawberry Girl

1774
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Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823

Miss Benedetta Ramus

1779
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Mrs. Yates, in the Character of the Tragic-Muse

1772
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Anne Luttrell Duchess of Cumberland

1783
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

David Garrick with a Bust of Shakespeare

1769
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Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826

Mrs. Benwell

1785
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Countess of Aylesford

1783
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

The Bedford Family

1778
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Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765

Lady Ann Dawson as "Diana"

1754
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Lady Betty Delme and her two Children

1779
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Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823

Jane, Duchess of Gordon

1775
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Lady Jane Halliday

1779
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Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781

Lucy Hardinge

1780
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Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Countess of Harrington

1780
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Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781

Mrs. Hardinge

1780

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