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Prints and Drawings 6,347

Creator

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 1,186
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 363
Unknown artist 343
Blake, William, 1757–1827 288
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 230
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 187
Heath, James, 1757–1834 159
Miller, William, 1796–1882 147
Robinson, & Co., 1764–1830 145
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 144
Sayers, James, 1748–1823 144
Haden, Francis Seymour, Sir, 1818–1910 134
Short, Frank, Sir, 1857–1945 129
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 121
The, Paragon Press 121
Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797 118
Young, Edward, 1683–1765 118
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 117
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 107
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855 99
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 98
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 96
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 76
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765–1810 76
Gay, John, 1685–1732 72
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 72
Chapman, Dinos, born 1962 71
Chapman, Jake, born 1966 71
Stockdale, John, ca. 1749–1814 71
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 66

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 6,338
On view 7
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 2

Image Use

Free to Use 5,187
Under Certain Circumstances 1,160

Image Available

available 5,174
unavailable 1,173

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 3

Classification

Prints 6,347

Collective Title

Liber Studiorum 189
Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Scott's Prose Works 118
Young's Night Thoughts 118
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 116
Rogers's Italy 96
Picturesque Views in England and Wales 79
Icones Principum Virorum 74
Gay's Fables 72
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 71
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 70
Whitaker's History of Richmondshire 68
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 67
Subjects from the Liber Studiorum after J.M.W. Turner 66
A Picturesque Tour of Italy 62
The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair 55
Fables by John Gay, Vol. I 54
Études à l'eau-forte 49
Thoughts on Outline 46
Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views of Paris and its Environs 43
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 41
The Turner Gallery 40
Beaver's Military Punishments 36
Cries of London 35
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 32
Fifty-six Engravings Illustrative of Italy: A Poem 30
Mother and Child Album 30
Cooke's Views in Sussex 27
Byron's Life and Works 25
Illustrations from Camden's 'The imperial history of England' 25

Period

19th century 2,776
18th century 1,851
20th century 1,160
18th century-19th century 226
19th century-20th century 128
17th century 102
21st century 48
16th century 13
16th century-17th century 13
17th century-18th century 8
20th century-21st century 1

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 6,347

wove paper 3,019
laid paper 2,398
line engraving 1,763
drypoint 686
aquatint 587
stipple engraving 526
engraving (printing process) 473
watercolor 419
mezzotint 382
hand coloring 365
chine collé 326
brown ink 286
colored ink 140
plate tone 131
color printing 102
Asian paper 79
woodcut (process) 70
graphite 60
roulette 46
card 45
letterpress printing 45
open biting 31
chiaroscuro woodcut 30
soft-ground etching 30
gray wash 25
Japanese paper 22
gouache 22
steel engraving 22
artist's proof 19

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 6,239
relief print 223
watercolor 89
frontispiece 23
ticket 16
drawing 7
photomechanical print 7
planographic print 5
animal art 1
architectural subject 1
collage 1
religious and mythological subject 1
trade card 1

Genre

landscape 1,774
architectural subject 1,655
genre subject 1,099
literary theme 699
portrait 672
cityscape 596
marine art 588
religious and mythological subject 368
animal art 339
historical subject 282
military art 224
figure study 126
botanical subject 118
abstract art 109
still life 67
sporting art 41
cartographic material 19
frontispiece 5

Subject Terms

architectural subject 744
genre subject 680
landscape 673
trees 652
men 615
river 512
man 477
portrait 435
women 363
costume 324
marine art 317
literary theme 313
religious and mythological subject 304
woman 301
clouds 290
cityscape 286
buildings 275
church 239
landscape (representation) 222
hats 202
hills 193
children 191
windows 180
arches 179
animal art 171
boats 170
coat 170
illustration 165
castle 158
grass 158

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 715
England 645
Europe 572
Italy 168
France 112
Greater London 112
London 111
Scotland 111
Thames 63
India 56
Île-de-France 56
City of Westminster 54
English Channel 53
Seine 53
Devon 49
Lazio 43
Paris 38
Rome 36
Kent 35
Cornwall 34
Surrey 31
Dorset 28
Durham 27
Veneto 27
North Yorkshire 24
Palace of Westminster 24
Venice 24
Richmond 23
Venezia 22
North Sea 20

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 103
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 26
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 22
Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 21
Jack Sheppard 17
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 15
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 15
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician 11
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 10
Cupid 9
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 9
Pan (god) 9
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 9
Syrinx, nymph and follower of Artemis 9
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343–1400), English poet 8
Cobbett, William (1763–1835), political writer and farmer 8
Mercury 8
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet 7
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 7
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 7
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), politician 7
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model 7
Howard, Charles (1746–1815), eleventh Duke of Norfolk, politician 7
Jenkinson, Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), prime minister 7
Sir John Falstaff 7
Tierney, George (1761–1830), British politician 7
Addington, Henry, first Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844), prime minister 6
Bacchus 6
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 6
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 6

Exhibition History

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 78
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 78
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 76
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) 62
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 42
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 30
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 29
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 26
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 23
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) 23
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) 23
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) 23
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 22
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-12 - 2020-12-15) 20
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 19
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 18
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 15
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 14
J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27) 14
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 14
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 13
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 12
Whistler " The Naval Review " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-05-19 - 2005-08-15) 12
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 11
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) 9
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 9
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 9
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 9
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 8
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 8

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3,369
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 470
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 357
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 356
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 223
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 103
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 98
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 88
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 80
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 73
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 59
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 55
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 55
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 48
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 48
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 44
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, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 40
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 28
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Ruth and Walter Loria 27
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943 24
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 23
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 22
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 22
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania 21
Yale Center for British Art, Laura and James Duncan, Yale BA 1975, and Friends of British Art Fund, in honor of Gillian Forrester 20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Marla Price 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist 16

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On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Weary Ploughman

1858
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by John Martin, 1789–1854

The Deluge

1828
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Constable, 1776–1837

The Ruins of Netley Abbey

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Vine

1852
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Vine

1852
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Morning of Life

1860-1861
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 Bellman

1879
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Opening the Fold

1880
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Early Ploughman

begun before 1861
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Lonely Tower

1879
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Sepulchre

between 1880 and 1883
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Cypress Grove

between 1880 and 1883
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
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
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Willow

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

The Sleeping Shepherd

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

Moeris and Galatea

1880-1883
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Bellman

1879
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Christmas

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

The Bellman

1879
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 Cypress Grove

plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
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 Homeward Star

begun ca. 1880
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 Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Lonely Tower

1879
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

Opening the Fold

1880
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Moeris and Galatea

plate etched between 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Sepulchre

etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Sleeping Shepherd

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

The Vine

1852
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Morning of Life

1860-1861
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Vine

1852
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 Sleeping Shepherd

1857
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

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

A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

1777
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Labourers

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Invasion, Plate 2: England

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Chairing the Members

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Industry and Idleness, Plate 11: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Foundlings

1833
Accessible in the Study Room
after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Country Inn Yard

1833

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