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Prints and Drawings 25,731

Creator

Unknown artist 3,598
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 3,044
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 1,214
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 1,035
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 905
Ward, Leslie Matthew ("Spy"), 1851–1922 788
Blake, William, 1757–1827 730
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 465
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 414
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 410
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 322
Miller, William, 1796–1882 292
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 286
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 270
Heath, James, 1757–1834 239
Pellegrini, Carlo ("Ape" and "Singe"), 1839–1889 238
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 235
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 222
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 207
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 204
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 203
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698–1780 203
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 200
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 193
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 190
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 188
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 187
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 180
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857 178
Sayers, James, 1748–1823 178

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 25,728
On view 3

Image Use

Free to Use 25,731

Image Available

available 21,743
unavailable 3,988

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 25,731

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 604
Picturesque Views in England and Wales 389
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 308
A Book of Sundry Prints 219
Turner's Annual Tour- The Seine 208
Liber Studiorum 196
Icones Principum Virorum 185
Rogers's Poems 155
Scott's Prose Works 155
Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 138
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 138
Scott's Poetical Works 120
Young's Night Thoughts 120
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 117
Rivers of France 112
Rogers's Italy 103
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 100
Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Bible 77
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 76
Whitaker's History of Richmondshire 74
Campbell's Poetical Works 72
Gay's Fables 72
Illustrations of The Book of Job 70
Arthur Pond's Album 69
The Keepsake 68
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 66
Byron's Life and Works 63
Michelangelo's Capella Sistina 63
A Picturesque Tour of Italy 62

Period

19th century 12,284
18th century 9,928
20th century 718
17th century 696
18th century-19th century 541
16th century 461
17th century-18th century 358
19th century-20th century 95
16th century-17th century 14

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 5,867
etching (printing process) 5,669
laid paper 5,156
line engraving 4,572
mezzotint 3,568
stipple engraving 1,559
watercolor 847
chine collé 660
hand coloring 650
aquatint 606
engraving (printing process) 499
lithography 499
drypoint 435
brown ink 312
relief etching 278
black ink 228
colored ink 179
color printing 174
soft-ground etching 157
plate tone 127
wood engraving (process) 123
letterpress printing 112
chiaroscuro woodcut 110
woodcut (process) 105
graphite 90
photogravure 79
Asian paper 77
card 75
Engraving 64
chromolithography 51

Height [cm]

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Width [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 13,914
relief print 794
planographic print 650
watercolor 391
drawing 209
photomechanical print 106
ticket 78
architectural subject 73
frontispiece 64
landscape 6
animal art 1
collage 1
photograph 1
portrait 1
religious and mythological subject 1
trade card 1

Genre

landscape 3,489
architectural subject 3,335
portrait 3,241
genre subject 2,272
literary theme 1,728
religious and mythological subject 1,509
marine art 1,426
cityscape 1,121
animal art 632
military art 616
historical subject 584
figure study 354
sporting art 184
botanical subject 129
still life 78
cartographic material 38
anatomical study 5
frontispiece 5
abstract art 1

Subject Terms

portrait 1,876
architectural subject 1,393
river 1,166
genre subject 1,085
men 997
trees 936
man 931
landscape 925
religious and mythological subject 906
literary theme 692
cityscape 683
women 656
woman 618
landscape (representation) 559
costume 541
satire 514
clouds 505
marine art 497
caricature 457
church 400
text 358
children 356
castle 340
caricatures 315
coat 301
buildings 299
hills 277
hats 265
curls 258
posing 254

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 1,280
England 1,168
Europe 1,017
France 513
London 317
Seine 294
Scotland 201
Italy 200
Greater London 176
India 163
South Asia 163
City of Westminster 160
Île-de-France 145
Palace of Westminster 114
Thames 112
Paris 102
Loire 100
North America 92
Rome 90
English Channel 88
Devon 69
Lazio 59
Germany 58
Switzerland 57
Kent 55
Suffolk 51
North Yorkshire 50
Cornwall 49
Wales 46
Durham 44

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 653
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 49
Cupid 46
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 38
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 32
Jesus 32
The Virgin Mary 30
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 26
Venus 26
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 22
saint 20
Bacchus 18
Jack Sheppard 17
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 17
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 17
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 15
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 14
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 14
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 14
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 13
Mary 13
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician 12
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 12
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 12
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 11
Mercury 11
Bentinck, Lord George (1802–1848), politician/statesman, athlete/sportsman 10
Diana 10
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), politician/statesman 10
Peter, Henry, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), politician/statesman 10

Exhibition History

The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 242
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 201
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 201
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 176
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 164
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) 140
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 121
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 82
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 79
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 74
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 67
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 60
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 52
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 47
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 45
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) 45
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) 45
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) 45
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 41
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 41
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 38
Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) 37
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 33
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 32
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 32
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 32
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 31
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 27
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) 27
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 26

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 17,883
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 2,073
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1,509
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 1,041
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 281
Yale Center for British Art 269
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 210
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 140
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 133
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 121
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 96
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 96
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 82
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 72
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 70
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louise Lippincott, Yale BA 1974 69
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 62
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 60
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 54
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 49
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 47
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 43
Yale Center for British Art, The Edwin M. Herr, Yale PhD 1884, Memorial Collection; Gift of Mrs. Herr, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 42
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 42
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection 36
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 36
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 34
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 32

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

The Cockpit

1759
Accessible in the Study Room
George Maile, active 1824–1840

The Sportsman
Accessible in the Study Room
Gerard Edelinck, 1640–1707

Édouard Colbert, Marquis de Villacerf

1696
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Dodd, 1748–1816

The Indian Emperor

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Bridge over Waterfall

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Milton, 1742/1743–1827

Lucan-House

1783
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
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Soldiers on a March: "To pack up her tatters and follow the Drum"

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Rev. James Bulwer, 1794–1879

Porlock

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Havell, 1769–1832

Crofton Hall, Yorkshire

1813
Accessible in the Study Room
Edmund Turrell, active 1835–1860

The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevations

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

Mercury and Argus

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870

Caligula's Palace and Bridge, Bay of Baiæ

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851

Dido and Aeneas; The Morning of the Chase

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Hollis, 1792–1842

St. Mark's Place, Venice - Juliet and her Nurse

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Brandard, 1805–1862

Crossing the Brook

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Watson, 1743–1781

Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox

1779
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

Ancient Italy

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

Ancient Italy

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Mason, 1710–1783

The Happy Peasants

1775
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Byrne, 1743–1805

Fonthill as it Was before Mr. Beckford's Alterations

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Buck, 1696–1779

South West Prospect of Shrewsbury, Shropshire

1732
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777

Marine Study No. 2

1773
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811

Love and Wind

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Augustus Busby, 1788–1834

The Celebrated Wooden Bridge across the Delaware at Trenton

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806

Pot Fair, Cambridge

1777
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Isaac Cruikshank, 1789–1856

A Favorite Poodle Hatching Poultry!! - or A Present of Feather Breeches from... [Read more]

1824
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882

Modern Italy

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Williams, active 1796–1830

Conjugal Felicity in High Life

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878

Monstrosities of 1822 - Pt. 5

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878

Traveling in France -or, -Le départ de la diligence

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Dighton, 1752–1814

A Jack in Office

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882

Modern Italy

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878

Specimens of Waltzing

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Isaac Cruikshank, 1789–1856

Dandies Having a Treat

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Henry Heath, active 1824–1835

Extravaganza's of 1827

1827
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882

Modern Italy

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878

Nemi

1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

Oberwesel

1838-1852
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Fashionables of 1816 Taking the Air in Hyde Park!

ca. 1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

The Old Téméraire

1845
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878

Nemi

1838-1852
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

Oberwesel

1838-1852
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

French Fire-Side
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A Maiden Lady and her Family

between 1820 and 1840
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Light Head Dress and Long Petticoats

1802
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863

The Old Téméraire

1845
Accessible in the Study Room
E. J. Pigal, 1798–1872

Phoo! Angalis! Pah! Pish!
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Pye, 1782–1874

Ehrenbreitstein

1845
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Picart, c.1780–1837

The Right Honorable Charles Abbot

1804

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