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Prints and Drawings 30,431

Creator

Unknown artist 5,368
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 3,106
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 1,340
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 1,098
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 906
Ward, Leslie Matthew ("Spy"), 1851–1922 792
Blake, William, 1757–1827 653
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 467
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 431
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 410
The, Paragon Press 343
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 322
Miller, William, 1796–1882 293
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 290
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 276
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 250
Heath, James, 1757–1834 239
Pellegrini, Carlo ("Ape" and "Singe"), 1839–1889 238
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 235
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 225
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 209
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 209
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 204
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698–1780 204
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 192
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 188
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 187
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857 178
Sayers, James, 1748–1823 178
Smith, John, 1652–1743 178

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 30,431

Image Use

Free to Use 25,573
Under Certain Circumstances 4,858

Image Available

available 24,065
unavailable 6,366

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 7

Classification

Prints 30,431

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 197
Icones Principum Virorum 185
Scott's Prose Works 156
Rogers's Poems 155
Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 138
Scott's Poetical Works 121
Young's Night Thoughts 120
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 117
Rivers of France 112
Rogers's Italy 103
The Life of Christ 89
Subjects from the Liber Studiorum after J.M.W. Turner 88
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 86
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 82
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
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 70
The Keepsake 68
Illustrations of The Book of Job 67
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 66
Byron's Life and Works 63

Period

19th century 13,254
18th century 9,961
20th century 3,031
17th century 711
18th century-19th century 599
16th century 461
17th century-18th century 361
19th century-20th century 277
21st century 156
16th century-17th century 14
20th century-21st century 3

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 7,117
etching (printing process) 6,339
laid paper 5,372
line engraving 4,374
mezzotint 3,644
stipple engraving 1,590
drypoint 854
aquatint 851
watercolor 748
chine collé 664
hand coloring 659
lithography 611
engraving (printing process) 501
brown ink 358
screen printing 312
color printing 283
relief etching 219
soft-ground etching 216
black ink 194
colored ink 184
woodcut (process) 167
wood engraving (process) 165
plate tone 130
photogravure 122
Asian paper 120
graphite 117
letterpress printing 117
linocut 112
card 87
Engraving 77

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Work Type

intaglio print 15,164
planographic print 1,158
relief print 918
watercolor 332
photomechanical print 188
drawing 177
ticket 78
frontispiece 67
photograph 31
digital print 26
collage 17
landscape 6
architectural subject 4
cityscape 1
portrait 1
religious and mythological subject 1
trade card 1

Genre

architectural subject 3,900
landscape 3,636
portrait 3,412
genre subject 2,707
literary theme 1,739
marine art 1,540
religious and mythological subject 1,538
cityscape 1,362
animal art 724
military art 644
historical subject 603
abstract art 575
figure study 398
sporting art 195
botanical subject 156
still life 143
cartographic material 48
anatomical study 7
frontispiece 5

Subject Terms

portrait 1,975
architectural subject 1,688
genre subject 1,292
river 1,229
landscape 1,105
men 1,103
trees 1,042
religious and mythological subject 1,007
man 999
cityscape 750
woman 708
literary theme 703
women 687
costume 575
landscape (representation) 561
marine art 550
clouds 530
satire 515
caricature 460
church 450
buildings 380
children 370
castle 361
animal art 323
coat 323
hats 318
caricatures 315
hills 312
text 309
sea 270

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 1,380
England 1,259
Europe 1,106
France 528
London 348
Seine 297
Asia 291
Italy 235
Scotland 226
India 211
Bharat 208
Greater London 203
City of Westminster 171
Île-de-France 147
Palace of Westminster 118
Thames 117
Paris 104
Loire 100
Rome 96
English Channel 88
Devon 71
Lazio 66
Germany 60
Switzerland 59
Kent 58
North Yorkshire 52
Cornwall 51
Suffolk 51
Wales 48
Durham 45

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 681
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 54
Cupid 46
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 42
Jesus 35
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 31
The Virgin Mary 31
Venus 26
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 24
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 22
Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 21
saint 20
Bacchus 18
Jack Sheppard 17
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 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
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 14
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 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
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 12
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 11
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 11
God 11
Mercury 11
Pan (god) 11

Exhibition History

The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 193
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 163
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 156
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 156
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 143
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) 131
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 119
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 90
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 73
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 69
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 60
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 59
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 57
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 51
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 48
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 47
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 47
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 46
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
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 43
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 43
Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) 37
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 37
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 34
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
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 32

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 19,254
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 2,665
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1,625
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 1,145
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 559
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 474
Yale Center for British Art 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 305
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 225
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 153
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 140
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 119
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 102
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 99
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 97
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 96
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 94
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972, and Theodore C. and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Yale MCP 1964 91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 88
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 83
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 82
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 80
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 80
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 74
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 62
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 61
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 60
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 59
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 54

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Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

The Schoolroom

1938
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

An Unwritten Novel

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

A Haunted House

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

The String Quartet

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

A Society

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Basket of Flowers

ca. 1954
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Dahlias

1918
Accessible in the Study Room
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Woman in an Armchair

ca. 1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Two Bottles and Glass

1967 (1973)
Accessible in the Study Room
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Still Life: Jug & Glass

1948
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Cow Nylgha [aka] Reedback Feeding

1928
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Upsides
Accessible in the Study Room
John R. Skeaping, 1901–1980

Double Handful
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Found!

1898-1899
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Flying Pack

1898-1899
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Horse Mart (Barbican No. 1)

1920
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

A London Church

1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Crocks

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Huntsman and Hounds

1898-1899
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Meet

1898-1899
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Who-o-p!

1898-1899
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

A London Church

1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Sale at Ward's Repository (Wards No. 2)

1921
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 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 Rising Moon

1857
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 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

Harvest under a Crescent Moon

ca. 1826
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 Herdsman's Cottage

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 Bellman

1879
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 Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
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

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

Opening the Fold

1880
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

Moeris and Galatea

1880-1883
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 Willow

1850
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 Sleeping Shepherd

1857
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 Morning of Life

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

The Bellman

1879

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