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Prints and Drawings 600

Creator

Unknown artist 242
Sayers, James, 1748–1823 141
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 61
Harvey, Thomas, 1748–1820 33
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 20
Chodowieki, Daniel Nlkolaus, German, 1726–1801 12
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835 12
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 12
Trotter, Thomas, ca. 1750–1803 11
Arnald, George, 1763–1841 9
Heath, James, 1757–1834 9
Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787–1871 9
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740–1812 8
Browne, John, 1741–1801 7
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 6
Boydell, Josiah, 1752–1817 6
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811 6
Freeman, Samuel, 1773–1857 5
Grignion, Charles, 1717–1810 5
Laguerre, Louis, 1663–1721 5
Lewis, Frederick Christian the Elder, 1779–1856 5
Porter, William Warren Rev., 1776–1804 5
Ross, James, 1745–1823 5
Burke, Thomas, 1749–1815 4
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 4
Hamilton, William, 1751–1801 4
Hoppner, John, 1758–1810 4
Plimer, Andrew, 1763–1837 4
Romney, George, 1734–1802 4
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 4

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 600

Image Use

Free to Use 535
Under Certain Circumstances 65

Image Available

available 337
unavailable 263

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 600

Collective Title

Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Thirty-two Etchings of Cattle &c. &c. 33
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 24
Black Bess 8
The Victorious Battles of the Immortal Prince, John Duke of Marlborough 5
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 4
Smirke [Shakespeare] Album 2
Environs of London 1
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 1
The Clerk's Tale from the Canterbury Tales 1
The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster, Brayley and Britton, 1836 1
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales in a Collection of Select Views 1

Period

18th century-19th century 600

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 226
laid paper 225
wove paper 97
stipple engraving 82
line engraving 64
mezzotint 45
colored ink 11
soft-ground etching 6
aquatint 4
chine collé 4
hand coloring 4
gray wash 3
watercolor 3
wood engraving (process) 3
black ink 2
brown ink 2
card 2
color printing 2
crayon manner 2
engraving (printing process) 2
Engraving 1
green wash 1
lithography 1
pen 1
photomechanical reproduction 1
steel engraving 1
varnish 1
white chalk 1
woodcut (process) 1
yellow wash 1

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Work Type

intaglio print 367
relief print 4
watercolor 4
drawing 2
planographic print 2
architectural subject 1
landscape 1

Genre

portrait 93
genre subject 43
landscape 32
literary theme 31
architectural subject 30
religious and mythological subject 16
animal art 14
cityscape 11
military art 11
marine art 4
historical subject 3
sporting art 1
still life 1

Subject Terms

portrait 68
man 34
coat 31
men 26
architectural subject 25
landscape 25
trees 23
hats 22
literary theme 21
genre subject 20
artist 19
illustration 19
woman 19
oval 18
posing 18
boots 17
costume 17
cravat 17
river 16
plays by William Shakespeare 14
cape 13
gesturing 13
swords 13
Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 12
curls 12
animal art 11
clouds 11
collar 11
painter 11
wig 11

Subject Period

Associated Places

Europe 15
United Kingdom 13
England 11
France 3
Germany 3
Bavaria 2
Belgium 2
Blindheim 2
City of Westminster 2
Edinburgh 2
Greater London 2
London 2
Middle East 2
Palmyra 2
Ramillies-Offus 2
Scotland 2
Swabia 2
Syria 2
Wallonia 2
Althorp 1
Asia 1
Athens 1
Banqueting House 1
Bassin de l'Arsenal 1
Brabant 1
Bristol 1
Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire 1
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris 1
City of London 1
Cowdray House 1

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 25
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727–1788), painter and printmaker 3
Obadiah 3
Dr. Slop 2
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 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
Pinto de Sousa Coutinho, Luis, first Viscount Balsemão (1735–1804 ) 2
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 2
Uncle Toby 2
Aikman, William, of Cairnie (1682–1731), portrait painter 1
Artemis 1
Bacon, John (1777–1859), sculptor 1
Baillie, William (1723–1810), art dealer and printmaker, military/naval 1
Bannister, John (1760–1836), actor 1
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver 1
Beadon, Richard (1737–1824), Bishop 1
Britannia 1
Canynges, William (1402–1474), merchant and ecclesiastical benefactor 1
Caxton, William (1415x24–1492), printer, merchant, and diplomat 1
Clio 1
Cockerell, Lady Harriet (nee Rushout; d. 1851) 1
Cooper, William (fl. 1640–1681), clergyman and ejected minister 1
Dundas, Lady Jane, Viscountess Melville (1766–1829) 1
Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817), college president, clergyman, poet, author 1
Edward IV (1442–1483), king of England and lord of Ireland 1
Edward V (1470–1483), king of England and lord of Ireland 1
Elizabeth (c.1437–1492), queen of England, consort of Edward IV 1
Flaxman, John (1755–1826), sculptor 1

Exhibition History

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 2
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 2
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 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
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 1
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) 1
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19) 1
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28) 1
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) 1
James Ward (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-05-21 - 2004-08-22) 1
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 1
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 1
Stubbs & The Horse (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-11-14 - 2005-02-06) 1
Stubbs & The Horse (The National Gallery, London, 2005-06-29 - 2005-09-25) 1
Stubbs & The Horse (The Walters Art Museum, 2005-03-05 - 2005-05-20) 1
The Black Figure in the European Imaginary (Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2017-01-20 - 2017-05-15) 1
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 1
Voices of Scotland (The Grolier Club, 1992-12-17 - 1993-02-20) 1
William Blake (Tokyo) (The National Museum of Western Art, 1990-09-18 - 1990-11-25) 1
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 1
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 474
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 51
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 33
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914 4
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Emerson Tuttle, B.A. 1914 2
Yale Center for British Art 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret in memory of William Ferguson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Dr. Harrison F. Wood 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Lydia Evans Tunnard 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Purchased 1929 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1

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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
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection

1795 to 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Holloway, 1748–1827

Samuel Johnson with other portraits

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Holloway, 1748–1827

Johnson and other portraits

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Carter, 1748–1817

PLATE XXVIII. St Stephen's Chapel, East Front, Westminster

between 1790 and 1802
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Peltro, 1760–1808

View of Newcastle, upon Tyne, in Northumberland

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.1 Turpin Going to Start to York, King Shot

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.8 Death of Glorious Black Bess

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown framemaker

No.4 The Brothers' Gibbet at Gonerly

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.6 The Phantom Horseman

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Charles Warren, 1767–1823

Port of Dieppe, in the Department of the Lower Seine, in France

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803

Samuel Johnson

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

La Fruitiere / Le Tailleur

ca. 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

L'Armurier / Le Pecheur

ca. 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Henry Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.2 Leaping Hornsey Toll Gate

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.3 Edmonton, Hark Away Dick

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.5 Poor Bess Revived

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

No.7 Bess Swimming the Ouse

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Book Illustration of a Medieval Scene

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Scriven, 1775–1841

Nollekens

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Grignion, 1717–1810

James Paine

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857

Sir Robert Ker Porter

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Joshua Reynolds

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857

John Smith

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
John Scott, 1774–1828

George Morland

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by François-Séraphin Delpech, 1778–1825

Louis XV

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812

Deuxième Suite des Figures

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812

Deuxième Suite des Figures

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812

Deuxième Suite des Figures

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812

Deuxième Suite des Figures

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812

Deuxième Suite des Figures

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Night

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
after James Ross, 1745–1823

Remains of Cookhill Nunnery, in the Parish Inkborough

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

St. Matthew's Church, Kennington, Lambeth

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Battle of Taniers, Part Second

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Battle of Ramillies MDCCVI

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francis Patton, active 1740–1770

The City of Dresden

between 1780 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

A View of the Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens

between 1780 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Remains of the Great Temple in Palmira seen from the West.

between 1780 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806

St. Sebastian

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857

Reverend Timothy Dwight, D.D., President of Yale College

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Battle of Blenheim MDCCIV, Part the Second

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of Rotterdam, and the River Maese with Variety of Shipping

between 1780 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of the City of Oporto

between 1780 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

The Entrance into the Temple of the Sun in Palmira from the East

between 1780 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802

A View of the Pont de la Tournelle and Notre Dame Taken From the Arsenal

1802
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Long Look'd for Come at Last for John Bull and His Wife Stark Mad for Joy!!

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Louis Charles Ruotte, 1754–ca. 1806

The West India Flower Girl

undated

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