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Prints and Drawings 5,351

Creator

Unknown artist 5,351

Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 91
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 88
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801 82
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 80
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 77
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 69
Malton, Thomas the Younger, 1748–1804 56
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 51
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 51
Pine, John, 1690–1756 48
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 47
Clark, James, 19th century 46
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 44
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 40
Cole, Benjamin, 1697–1783 39
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 39
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1792–1864 37
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 30
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 29
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677 25
Major, Thomas, 1714–1799 25
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 23
Schnebbelie, Robert Bremmel, active 1803–1849 21
Bowles, Thomas, ca. 1712–1767 19
Smith, John, 1652–1743 19
Howlett, Bartholomew, 1767–1827 18
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833 18
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 17
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 17

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 5,351

Image Use

Free to Use 3,598
Under Certain Circumstances 1,753

Image Available

available 3,823
unavailable 1,528

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 5,351

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 56
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 46
A Book of Sundry Prints 26
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 26
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
Twelve Prints, Representing the Surprising Events in the Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 12
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 11
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions 9
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 9
Views of Bencoolen 8
Black Bess 7
Dogs Drawn from Nature 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
Architectural Remains removed to Farnley, by Walter Fawkes Esqr. from Different Ancient Hall Houses in his Possession 4
English Etchings, A Collection of Thirty-three Original Etchings by English Artists 4
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 4
Architectural and Picturesque Views in Newcastle upon Tyne 3
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
Frank B. Simson, Sport in Eastern Bengal 2
Gay's Fables 2
Marine Views 2
Scotland Delineated 2
Scott's Poetical Works 2

Period

19th century 2,025
18th century 1,869
18th century-19th century 244
17th century 77
19th century-20th century 73
20th century 65
17th century-18th century 61
16th century 29

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 638
laid paper 446
line engraving 437
etching (printing process) 394
mezzotint 223
stipple engraving 117
hand coloring 77
lithography 56
watercolor 51
aquatint 45
letterpress printing 25
chromolithography 20
woodcut (process) 19
Engraving 16
wood engraving (process) 15
graphite 11
card 10
chine collé 9
photomechanical reproduction 7
engraving (printing process) 6
halftone process 6
photomechanical processes: planographic 6
colored ink 4
photoengraving 4
photogravure 4
Asian paper 3
drypoint 3
photomechanical processes 3
soft-ground etching 3
black ink 2

Height [cm]

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Width [cm]

From

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Work Type

intaglio print 1,189
planographic print 83
relief print 51
photomechanical print 33
frontispiece 14
ticket 6
watercolor 2
drawing 1
trade card 1

Genre

architectural subject 380
portrait 294
genre subject 253
landscape 172
cityscape 121
religious and mythological subject 80
animal art 71
literary theme 62
military art 56
historical subject 55
marine art 54
figure study 10
sporting art 8
still life 8
cartographic material 7
frontispiece 5
botanical subject 3

Subject Terms

architectural subject 265
portrait 209
cityscape 100
genre subject 99
man 87
men 84
landscape 80
animal art 46
women 46
horses (animals) 43
trees 42
costume 40
religious and mythological subject 36
woman 33
church 32
caricature 31
river 27
buildings 26
clouds 26
satire 25
hills 23
posing 22
children 21
hats 21
leisure 21
arches 20
boats 20
city 20
coat 20
collar 20

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 135
England 120
London 77
Europe 59
City of Westminster 44
India 43
South Asia 43
Rome 38
Palace of Westminster 36
Greater London 32
Italy 30
Scotland 19
Asia 16
Lambeth 13
Southwark 13
Vauxhall Gardens 13
St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster 12
France 11
House of Commons 11
Japan 11
Lazio 11
Campania 10
Napoli 10
Westminster Abbey 10
Indonesia 8
Naples 8
Southeast Asia 8
Bengkulu 7
City of London 7
Sumatra 7

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 99
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 7
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 4
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 4
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 4
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 4
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Burnet, Gilbert (1643–1715), Bishop of Salisbury 3
John the Baptist (c. 6 BC–c. AD 36) 3
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul (1577–1640), painter 3
The Virgin Mary 3
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 3
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 2
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563–1639), painter 2
Jesus 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
Venus 2
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 2
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 1
Adela, Countess of Warenne (12th century) 1
Aeneas 1
Allan, Sir William (1782–1850), painter 1
Apollo 1
Ariadne 1
Artemis 1
Bacchus 1

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 14
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 11
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26) 7
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 5
Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31) 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
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
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 4
When in Rome - Prints and Photographs, 1550-1900 (Smith College Museum of Art, 2016-09-30 - 2017-01-01) 4
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 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 Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 3
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 2
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 2
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 2
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 2
Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30) 2
Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31) 2
Great Fire of London (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1994-01-27 - 1994-04-02) 2
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 2
Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World (Suzhou Museum, 2025-07-26 - 2025-10-31) 2
Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World (The Palace Museum, 2025-04-01 - 2025-06-30) 2
The God of Our Idolatry - Garrick and Shakespeare (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2012-03-12 - 2012-10-02) 2
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 2
The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29) 2
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 2
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3,844
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 383
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 253
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 210
Yale Center for British Art 153
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 85
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 52
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 49
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael Zinman 42
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 40
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 27
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 20
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist 15
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 12
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 9
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, Gift of David M. Doret in memory of William Ferguson 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 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 4
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Alan S. Fortunoff 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Goldfield 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 3

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Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons

1803
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of Several Palaces at Naples at Sun Rise

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Miss Lissie Weston as Oberon - Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II

1855
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Shylock turn'd MacBeth

1773
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mr. Kean as Richard III

ca. 1837
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Will Sommers - King Henry's Jester

c.1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Sparrow, active 1773–1787

Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex Pl. 4

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Sparrow, active 1773–1787

Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex Pl. IV

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Herstmonceux Castle and Moat

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

[Trade Card] W. Lowe, Foreign & English Toy Warehouse

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Moll King (Broadside Engraved Portrait of the Notorious Mistress of King's... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Plan of ground floor of Herstmonceux Castle

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles John Smith, 1803–1838

Herstmonceux Castle for the history and description of the Sussex Coast

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles John Smith, 1803–1838

Herstmonceux Castle for the history and description of the Sussex Coast

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mr. Thomas Hope's Picture Gallery, Duchess Street, London

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mansion of Thomas Hope Esqr. Flemish Picture Gallery

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mansion of Thomas Hope Esqr. Flemish Picture Gallery

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Pearls

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Robin Hood and Clarinda hunting deer in a wooded landscape

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Interior of the House of Lords

1834
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Johannes Kip, 1653–1722

The Cathedral Church of Ely

between 1707 and 1722
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Browne, 1741–1801

The Sermon of St. John the Baptist in the Desert

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Falstaff Reproved by King Henry

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Byrne, 1743–1805

Morning

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Principal plan of a proposed New House of Commons, by Adam Lee

1833
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John J. Hinchliff, 1805–1875

The Lower Parade with Euston Place, Leamington

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John J. Hinchliff, 1805–1875

Ruins of Kenilworth Castle and the Bed of the Lake

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Duffield Harding, 1798–1863

Kilcrea Abbey, Cork

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Princess of Wurtemberg

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A Pair: Fox Hunting; (2) Coming in to the Death

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A Pair: Fox Hunting; (1) Renard Breaking Cover

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

An English Sloop Engaging a Dutch Man of War

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Prométhée

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Lady Playing a Violin

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

February

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

January

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

April

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

March

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

August

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

July

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

June

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

October

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Plundering the Tower

1777
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

French Privateers, Cruising in the English Channel

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Welladay! Is This my Son Tom!

1773
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Girl Reading by Candle Light

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Feathered Fair, Feeding the Feathered Fowl

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Singers at a Window

between 1700 and 1750
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Double Attack, or French Politeness not a Match for English Assurance

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Doctor Blowbladder Discovering the Perpetual Motion

1772
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Compliance

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Promenade

1781
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Squire's Daughter, Lamenting the Loss of her Robin

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Country Ballad Singers

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Mon Seigneur Le Cox with his Snuff & Snuff Box

1774
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Modern Toilet. Camber's Letter to John Bull

1781
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Sal Dab giving Monsieur a Receipt in Full

1776
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Bottle Companions

1775
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Annette and Lubin

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Holy Family

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Landlord's Daughter

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Archery

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Archery

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Fortune

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Moralist

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Cherry Girl

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Damon and Pastora

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Love Alamode

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Lady Time Present and Lady Time Past

1773
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Fair Penitent

1781
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737

Drinking Scene

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737

Love Scene

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Reverand William Dodd, L.L.D

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Sir John Hawkins Knt

1822
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Unfortunate Dr. Dodd

1865
Accessible in the Study Room
William Ridley, 1764–1838

Edward Gibbon, Esqr

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Samuel Richardson

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
William Ridley, 1764–1838

Rev'd. John Home, Author of Douglas

1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Johann August Hermes

1775
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

John Newton

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Little Will, at the Turks Head Coffee-house

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Swinburne

1900
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Sir Richard Steele, Kt

1755
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Christopher Smart, A.M

1791
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Mrs. Gardiner - The Tragedy of Macbeth

1778
Accessible in the Study Room
James Roberts II, 1753–ca. 1810

Act IV, The Relapse or Virtue in Danger, Scene 3

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Sidney Lawton Smith, 1845–1929

Bookplate: Sir, The Biographical Part of Literature is what I Love Most

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Hieroglyphics

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Bell's British Theatre Comedies

1776
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Lady Preparing for Evening at a Ball

1776
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737

Barthold le Noir Schwartz

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Pether, ca. 1738–1821

Countess Natalia Petrowna Czernichew

1762-1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Helene Apollonie Princesse de Ligne

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Frances, Lady Worsley

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Meeting of Jacob and Esau

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

King Edward VII

1908
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Striking Likeness or Harlequin Turn'd Painter

1770s to 1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

September

1767

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