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Prints and Drawings 3,652

Creator

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 749
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 396
Unknown artist 224
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 194
Smith, John, 1652–1743 173
Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 158
Watson, James, 1740–1790 146
Faber, John the Younger, ca. 1695–1756 131
McArdell, James, ca. 1729–1765 124
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 120
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 98
Lens, Bernard II, 1659–1725 95
Ward, William, 1766–1826 95
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835 88
Lupton, Thomas Goff, 1791–1873 87
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 77
Say, William, 1768–1834 75
Houston, Richard, ca. 1721–1775 73
Hoppner, John, 1758–1810 72
Short, Frank, Sir, 1857–1945 70
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 69
Fisher, Edward, 1722–1785 67
Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781 65
Earlom, Richard, 1743–1822 64
Lucas, David, 1802–1881 64
Constable, John, 1776–1837 61
Haid, Johann Jacobus, 1704–1767 61
Morland, George, 1763–1804 59
Dickinson, William, 1746–1823 57
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618–1680 56

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 3,644
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 8

Image Use

Free to Use 3,567
Under Certain Circumstances 85

Image Available

available 3,089
unavailable 563

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 1

Classification

Prints 3,652

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 407
Liber Studiorum 176
Subjects from the Liber Studiorum after J.M.W. Turner 53
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 53
The Ports of England 44
English Landscape 23
The Harbours of England 21
English Landscape: Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, from Pictures Painted by John Constable, R.A. 20
Little Liber, or Sequels to the Liber Studiorum 20
Rural Life 12
Twelve Portraits of Race Horses 12
Liber Veritatis 10
The Vicar of Wakefield 9
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 5
Life-Sized Heads 5
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 5
Marine Views 4
Worthies of Britain 4
The Five Senses 3
The Months 3
Il Pastor Fido 2
Kings and Queens of England 2
Kit-Cat Club 2
Poets and Philosophers of England 2
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1
Communia Gaudia (The Wide-Spread Rejoicing at the Siege of Namur) 1
Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene II 1
Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven 1
Houghton Gallery 1
Illustrations to Milton's Paradise Lost 1

Period

18th century 2,044
19th century 967
17th century-18th century 299
17th century 230
18th century-19th century 45
20th century 29
19th century-20th century 5

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint 3,652

laid paper 2,023
wove paper 519
etching (printing process) 382
brown ink 249
stipple engraving 46
line engraving 43
chine collé 36
drypoint 27
hand coloring 21
graphite 13
watercolor 10
color printing 9
aquatint 8
brown wash 7
colored ink 7
card 5
soft-ground etching 5
white chalk 5
gouache 4
progressive proofs 4
chiaroscuro woodcut 3
scraping 3
scratching out 3
Asian paper 2
artist's proof 2
electrotype (process) 2
ink 2
letterpress printing 2
proof before letters 2

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 3,314
frontispiece 3
photomechanical print 2
planographic print 2
portrait 1
relief print 1

Genre

portrait 1,728
genre subject 721
religious and mythological subject 410
landscape 387
marine art 213
architectural subject 207
military art 180
literary theme 169
animal art 151
historical subject 84
figure study 58
cityscape 49
sporting art 40
still life 16
botanical subject 5
abstract art 1
cartographic material 1

Subject Terms

portrait 891
religious and mythological subject 366
genre subject 243
woman 243
man 240
trees 165
curls 145
costume 127
Christianity 122
landscape 116
gaze 105
clouds 104
dress 103
men 99
posing 96
cloak 90
coat 89
child 80
river 77
collar 75
literary theme 75
wig 75
women 73
hat 72
lace 70
boy 69
book 68
wings 68
solemn 66
tree 66

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 75
Europe 75
United Kingdom 74
Suffolk 27
East Bergholt 14
Essex 13
France 10
Scotland 8
Stour 8
Alps 7
Greater London 7
Rome 7
Flatford 6
Italy 6
London 6
Meuse 6
Asia 5
Dedham 5
Egypt 5
Hampstead 5
Arve 4
Bonneville 4
Brougham Castle 4
Cumbria 4
Dartmouth Castle 4
Dedham Vale 4
Eamont 4
English Channel 4
Great Britain 4
Hampstead Heath 4

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 51
Cupid 36
Jesus 26
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 24
The Virgin Mary 24
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 21
Venus 17
saint 16
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 12
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 9
Bacchus 9
Diana 9
Mary Magdalene, Saint (early 1st c. AD – mid-late 1st c. AD) 9
Joseph 8
Juno 8
Mary 8
Susanna 8
God 7
Hebe 7
Pan (god) 7
Spencer (née Beauclerk), Lady Mary (1743–1812), daughter and heir of 1st Baron Vere; wife of Lord Charles Spencer 7
Syrinx, nymph and follower of Artemis 7
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 7
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter 7
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 6
Moses 6
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 6
Psyche 6
Adonis 5
Holofernes 5

Exhibition History

Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 64
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 60
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 44
Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) 37
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
J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27) 21
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 20
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 20
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 19
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) 16
Circa 1701 : Printed Portraits from the Time of Elihu Yale (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-12-19 - 2001-04-01) 15
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 11
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 11
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 10
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 10
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 9
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 9
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) 9
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11) 8
James Ward (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-05-21 - 2004-08-22) 8
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 8
Printing Darkness (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-06-20 - 2025-12-07) 8
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 7
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 7
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 7
Picturesque and Sublime - Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance (Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2018-04-29 - 2018-11-04) 7
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Clark Art Institute, 1996-03-02 - 1996-04-14) 7
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Davison Art Center, 1995-09-01 - 1995-10-28) 7

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1,902
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1,380
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 72
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 52
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 26
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 19
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Archer Gee for History of Art (History of Prints) 17
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth 16
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 13
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 13
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 9
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 9
Yale Center for British Art 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 7
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 5
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown, Yale MA (HON.) 1971 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 3
Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with a gift from Bart and Nini Tiernan 3
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, University Purchase 3
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone 3
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Paul Walter 2
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel and Pearl K. Bell 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeanne K. Welcher 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906 2

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On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Ship in a Storm

ca. 1826
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Paestum

between 1820 and 1826
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

St. Michael's Mount

1820 to 1826
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Gloucester Cathedral

1820 to 1825
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790

The Oyster Woman

1769
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by John Martin, 1789–1854

The Deluge

1828
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790

The Pretty Ballad Singer

1769
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by William Say, 1768–1834

Cupid and Psyche

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Death of the Doe

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Tyger (Sleeping Leopard)

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Paul before Felix Burlesqued

1751
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

The Stork and Aqueduct

between 1813 and 1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

The Deluge

between 1813 and 1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Flounder Fishing, Battersea

between 1813 and 1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Stonehenge at Daybreak

1815 to 1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Sheep-Washing, Windsor

between 1813 and 1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Interior of a Church

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Ben Arthur, Scotland

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Isis

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Bonneville, Savoy

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Mer de Glace, Valley of Chamouni, Savoy

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Hedging and Ditching

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Rivaux Abbey, Yorkshire

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

River Wye

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Winchelsea, Sussex

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Procris and Cephalus

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Peat Bog, Scotland

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

The Mildmay Sea-Piece

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Water Mill

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Near Blair Athol, Scotland

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

Junction of Severn and Wye

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

London from Greenwich

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

Little Devil's Bridge over the Russ above Altdorft, Switzerland

1809
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Ships in a Breeze

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

Mt. St. Gothard

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

The Straw Yard

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

Jason

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

The Castle above the Meadows

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

Basle

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Flint Castle, Vessels Unloading

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

The Woman and Tambourine

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Bridge and Cows

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Near Blair Athol, Scotland

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

Near Blair Athol, Scotland

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

Ploughing, Eton

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Dumbarton Rock

between 1813 and 1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

between 1813 and 1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Aesacus and Hesperie

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

East Gate, Winchelsea, Sussex

1819

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