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Prints and Drawings 171

Creator

Unknown artist 44
Basire, James, 1769–1822 17
Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874 12
Stothard, Charles Alfred, 1786–1821 11
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 11
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 9
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833 9
Basire, James, 1730–1802 8
Mackenzie, Frederick, 1788–1854 7
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1792–1864 7
Topham, John, 1746–1803 7
Wyatt, Philip William, 1777–1835 6
Carter, John, 1748–1817 5
Day, & Co., 1824–1913 4
Gladwin, George, active 1820s–1830s 4
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789–1850 4
Maurer, John, active 1713–1761 4
Melville, Henry, active 1826–1841 4
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 3
Bowles, Thomas, ca. 1712–1767 3
Capon, William, 1757–1827 3
Carpenter, James, active 1808–1843 3
Clarke, T., 1799–1839 3
Heath, Charles, 1785–1848 3
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677 3
Jones, & Co., active 1822–1850 3
Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806–1871 3
Roffe, R.C., active in London 1806–1835 3
Thompson, James Robert, active 1807–1843 3
Wale, Samuel, 1721–1786 3

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 171

Image Use

Free to Use 160
Under Certain Circumstances 11

Image Available

available 164
unavailable 7

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 171

Collective Title

"Vetusta Monumenta", Society of Antiquaries of London, 1747-1906 12
"Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster", John Topham, 1795 7
"The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster", Brayley and Britton, 1836 6
The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster, Brayley and Britton, 1836 5
"Antiquities of Westminster; the Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c.", J. T. Smith, 1807. 4
Antiquities of Westminster; the Old Palace; St. Stephen's Chapel, (now the House of Commons) &c. &c., J. T. Smith, 1807. 4
Vetusta Monumenta 3
"A Brief Account of Westminster Abbey ", WJ Loftie, 1894. 2
"Metropolitan Improvements, or, London in the Nineteenth Century", T.H. Shepherd, 1834. 2
Beauties of England and Wales 2
Original Views of London As It Is, 1842 2
"Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain", vol. 5, John Britton, 1827 1
"History of Westminster Abbey", R. Ackermann, 1871. 1
"London and its Environs Described", R. and J. Dodsley, volume I, 1761. 1
"Select Views of London and its Environs", James Storer, 1804. 1
"The Beauties of England and Wales", by John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1801-1815. 1
"Views of Ancient Buildings" by John Carter, vol. V (1791) 1
'Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster', John Topham 1
Baxter's "Gems of the Great Exhibition" 1
Gems of the Great Exhibition 1
Gentleman's Magazine 1
Metropolitan Improvements: London in the Nineteenth Century 1
The Beauties of England and Wales, John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1801-1815 1
To Althea, from Prison 1
Views in London and Its Vicinity, 1826-34 1
“Ancient Architecture of England”, John Carter, 1795-1814. 1
“The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster”, Brayley and Britton, 1836. 1

Period

19th century 118
18th century 41
20th century 4
19th century-20th century 3
17th century 2
18th century-19th century 2
17th century-18th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 128
line engraving 88
etching (printing process) 54
laid paper 20
lithography 19
hand coloring 16
aquatint 7
drypoint 6
graphite 6
stipple engraving 5
card 4
Asian paper 3
chine collé 3
colored ink 2
mezzotint 2
woodcut (process) 2
black ink 1
brown ink 1
engraving (printing process) 1
pens 1
plate tone 1
tinting 1
watercolor 1

Height [cm]

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Width [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 139
planographic print 17
relief print 2
ticket 2

Genre

architectural subject 157
cityscape 19
genre subject 17
historical subject 11
religious and mythological subject 11
landscape 6
marine art 3
animal art 2
literary theme 2
portrait 2
still life 1

Subject Terms

architectural subject 157
church 42
men 34
women 31
cityscape 18
genre subject 17
exterior view 16
buildings 15
children 15
interior view 14
architecture 13
costume 13
park (grounds) 12
religious and mythological subject 12
historical subject 11
trees 11
arches 10
hats 10
coats 9
dresses 9
river 9
clouds 8
columns 8
horses (animals) 8
pillars 8
boats 7
columns (architectural elements) 7
ruins 7
bridge (built work) 6
city 6

Subject Period

Associated Places

City of Westminster 171

England 168
United Kingdom 168
London 159
Palace of Westminster 116
Greater London 54
St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster 36
House of Commons 33
Westminster Abbey 27
Europe 14
House of Lords 8
Thames 8
Westminster Hall 7
Hyde Park 6
Somerset House 4
St. James's Park 4
Waterloo Bridge 4
Whitehall 4
Buckingham Palace 3
Green Park 3
St Martin-in-the-Fields 3
St. Margaret's, Westminster 3
York House, Strand 3
Banqueting House 2
Crystal Palace 2
Dean's Yard 2
Marylebone 2
Royal Academy 2
St. Martin's Church 2
The Regent's Park 2

Associated People

George IV 2
James VI and I (1566–1625), king of Scotland, England, and Ireland 2
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 2
St. Cecilia as patroness of music 2
St. Cecilia making music and/or singing 2
interior view 2
saint 2
the virgin martyr Cecilia of Rome; possible attributes: falcon, musical instruments, organ, wreath of roses and lilies 2
Achilles 1
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 1
Althea 1
Bay, Jean-Baptiste de (1802–1862), sculptor 1
Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England] (1375?–1447), bishop of Winchester and cardinal 1
Bertini, Giuseppe (1825–1898), painter 1
Bottom (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream) 1
Boydell, John (1720–1804), engraver and printseller 1
Brougham, Henry Peter, first Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), lord chancellor 1
Cordelia (character in King Lear) 1
Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York] (1466–1503), queen of England, consort of Henry VII 1
Fool (character in King Lear) 1
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria (1830–1916) 1
Frederick William III (Friedrich Wilhelm III) (1770–1840), king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840 1
Fuseli, Henry [formerly Johann Heinrich Füssli] (1741–1825), painter and writer 1
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 1
Hemming, John (d. 1809), physician 1
Henry VI (1421–1471), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine 1
Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England and lord of Ireland 1
King Lear (character in King Lear) 1
Northcote, James (1746–1831), artist and author 1
Puck (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream) 1

Exhibition History

Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 1
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 1
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 1
First Academies - Benjamin West and the Founding of the RA and PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2018-03-09 - 2018-06-03) 1
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 1
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 1
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 1
The Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection at Yale (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2014-06-21 - 2014-08-16) 1
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 158
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 4
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elliot Wilcox 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Emerson Tuttle in memory of Theodore Sizer, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952 1
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1

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Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Hall, active early 19th century

A South View of Westminster, from Mill-bank; Where the King's Scholars-Pond... [Read more]

1808
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Part of Westminster

ca. 1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833

Ceiling of the Star Chamber

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Elevations and Plans of the Court of Kings Bench

ca. 1827
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Day & Co., 1824–1913

Chimney piece, Star Chamber, Westminster

ca. 1845
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

A view of the inside of Westminster Hall

ca. 1700
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Day & Co., 1824–1913

Chimney piece, Star Chamber, Leasowe Castle, formerly in the King's Palace,... [Read more]

ca. 1845
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by B. Winkles, active 1830–1840

Longitudinal Section of Westminster Hall

ca. 1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833

Eight Illustrations of Westminster

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Andrew Picken, 1815–1845

St. Stephen's Chapel, Speaker's House, & c. From the River as Before the Fire on... [Read more]

ca. 1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833

Four Illustrations of Westminster

1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Basire II, 1769–1822

South West view of St. Stephen's Chapel Westminster, Restored 1800

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

St. Stephen's Chapel, Speaker's House, &c. from the River

ca. 1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833

Cotton Garden, Westminster

1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Francis Starling, active first half 19th century

Plan of the Crypt, or Chapel of St. Mary in the Vaults, and of the Cloisters

1843
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Section of the House of Commons as it is at Present

ca. 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Gladwin, active 1820s–1830s

Plate XXV: Section of St. Stephen's chapel and crypt. As fitted up for the House of... [Read more]

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

House of Commons Restored Giving Additional Sitting Room for 100 Members

ca. 1800
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 James Sands, active 1813–1846

The Lower Lobby, House of Commons

1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Part of the Front of the Vestibule

1843
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by T. Clarke, 1799–1839

Plate XXVIII: Window of the Crypt of St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Basire, 1730–1802

Plate IX: St Stephen's Chapel

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Basire, 1730–1802

Plate X: St Stephen's Chapel

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Basire, 1730–1802

Plate XII: St Stephen's Chapel

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Le Keux, 1783–1846

Compartment on One Side, St Stephen's Chapel

1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by T. Clarke, 1799–1839

Plate XXII: Chantry Chapels, Section of West Entrance and Elevation of the East... [Read more]

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Plate XXXII: Longitudinal Section through the Chantry Chapel and Cloister,... [Read more]

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas A. Woolnoth, 1785–1857

Plate III: Crypt under St Stephen's Chapel

ca. 1836
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Entrance of the House of Lords with the Office of Ordnance

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Mann Baynes, 1794–1854

The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and... [Read more]

after 1835
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834

Part of Waterloo Bridge with the Shot Tower, &c

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Ticket to Westminster Abbey

before 1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by R. F. Cahusac, active 1830

Athenaeum

1830
Accessible in the Study Room
George Gladwin, active 1820s–1830s

York House: Longitudinal Section from North to South

1827
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Ticket to Westminster Abbey

before 1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Bonnor, ca. 1740–ca. 1812

St. Martin's Church Westminster

1810
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

The Inside View of King Henry VII Chappel, in Westminster Abby
Accessible in the Study Room
John Maurer, active 1713–1761

A Perspective of ye Royal Palace of Somerset next ye River

1742
Accessible in the Study Room
John Boydell, 1720–1804

St. Clement Danes

1751
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767

The Inside of St. Martin's Church in the Fields
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and... [Read more]
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Plate I. Memorials of the Commissioners for Improving Westminster, 1811

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838

The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the... [Read more]

1822
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

View of the Coronation Procession of George IV

ca. 1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Charles J. Hullmandel, 1789–1850

View of Palace Yard on the day of the Coronation of His Majesty George IV

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

A Plan of Part of the Ancient City of Westminster, from College Street to... [Read more]

printed 1740, drawn ca. 1760
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Basire II, 1769–1822

Plan of the Ancient Palace of Westminster by the late Mr. William Capon,... [Read more]

1828
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Westminster Hall

ca. 1850

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