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Prints and Drawings 6,370

Creator

Unknown artist 1,534
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 308
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 244
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 182
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 144
Sayers, James, 1748–1823 141
The, Paragon Press 140
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 137
Laporte, John, 1761–1839 135
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836 134
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 120
Vivares, Francois, 1709–1780 117
Major, Thomas, 1714–1799 110
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 104
Currie, Ken, born 1960 99
King, Simon, born 1951 98
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 73
Le, Clerc Sebastien, 1676–1763 72
Guercino, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591–1666 66
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 66
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 61
Hardie, Martin, 1875–1952 58
Short, Frank, Sir, 1857–1945 57
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 56
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698–1780 53
Blake, William, 1757–1827 51
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 48
Clark, James, 19th century 48
Lane, Richard James, 1800–1872 47
Pine, John, 1690–1756 47

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Accessible in the Study Room 6,369
On view 1

Image Use

Free to Use 3,989
Under Certain Circumstances 2,381

Image Available

unavailable 6,370

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Classification

Prints 6,370

Collective Title

A Book of Sundry Prints 219
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 212
Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 130
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 46
Subjects from the Liber Studiorum after J.M.W. Turner 40
Twelve Views in Scotland, Delineated by a Lady, in the Polyautographic Art of Drawing Upon Stone 40
Regola delli Cinque Ordini d'Architettura 35
English Etchings, A Collection of Thirty-three Original Etchings by English Artists 33
Etchings by the Late Richard Gough, Esq. 33
Thirty-two Etchings of Cattle &c. &c. 33
XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines 30
The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair 29
Libro d'Antonio Labacco Appartente a l'Architettura 23
The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits 19
Kilometre Theatre and Seven Other Seminal Architectural Projects 18
Scenographia Americana 18
Beaver's Military Punishments 17
Venetian Views 17
Lithographs by Contemporary Artists, Vol I 14
Fourteen Works 1982 - 89 13
Illustrations to Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling 13
The Life of George Romney 13
Cries of London 12
Libro de Diversi Trophei Militari, Cavati da gli Antichi 12
Loop 12
Portraits 12
Portraits of the Twelve Caesars 12
Ten Etchings 12
Twelve Original Views in Italy 12

Period

19th century 2,106
18th century 1,493
20th century 1,120
16th century 300
18th century-19th century 263
17th century 99
19th century-20th century 89
17th century-18th century 27
21st century 11
16th century-17th century 8

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 1,173
laid paper 1,107
wove paper 1,052
mezzotint 563
line engraving 375
drypoint 208
screen printing 178
aquatint 157
stipple engraving 144
hand coloring 134
lithography 114
watercolor 113
linocut 102
color printing 58
brown ink 49
chine collé 44
color lithography 41
graphite 40
woodcut (process) 38
artist's proof 29
gouache 26
carborundum print 24
wood engraving (process) 23
Asian paper 21
colored ink 21
letterpress printing 21
lift-ground 20
steel engraving 19
chromolithography 17
white chalk 16

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 2,437
planographic print 370
relief print 192
photomechanical print 21
frontispiece 18
ticket 10
drawing 9
collage 6
watercolor 6
landscape 5
digital print 3
photograph 3
architectural subject 2

Genre

architectural subject 832
landscape 515
portrait 494
genre subject 464
abstract art 253
cityscape 184
religious and mythological subject 176
literary theme 139
marine art 127
historical subject 111
military art 102
animal art 77
figure study 26
still life 18
botanical subject 13
cartographic material 13
sporting art 12
frontispiece 5
anatomical study 2

Subject Terms

portrait 225
architectural subject 199
genre subject 138
landscape 129
religious and mythological subject 102
trees 98
abstract art 78
man 72
woman 71
men 60
literary theme 53
river 49
women 46
clouds 45
children 41
tree 41
animal art 36
cityscape 33
costume 33
hills 32
buildings 29
grass 29
cathedral 26
child 26
hats 26
walking 26
hat 25
mountains 25
sitting 25
marine art 24

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 62
Europe 55
England 51
Switzerland 44
Italy 27
Scotland 22
Greater London 13
London 12
Rome 12
Ireland 10
France 9
Japan 9
Banqueting House 8
Barbados 7
City of Westminster 7
Highland 6
Campania 5
City of London 5
Lambeth 5
Southwark 5
Alps 4
Antrim 4
Asia 4
Napoli 4
Perugia 4
Shewa 4
Spain 4
Thames 4
Vauxhall Gardens 4
East Bergholt 3

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 104
Burdett, Sir Francis, fifth baronet (1770–1844), politician 10
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 10
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 10
Pan (god) 9
Syrinx, nymph and follower of Artemis 9
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 8
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 7
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 7
Cobbett, William (1763–1835), political writer and farmer 6
Grenville, George Nugent-Temple-, first marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813), British politician 6
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron Grenville (1759–1834), politician 6
Jenkinson, Robert Banks, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), prime minister 6
Addington, Henry, first Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844), prime minister 5
Canning, George (1770–1827), British prime minister and parodist 5
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 5
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), politician/statesman 5
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 5
Tierney, George (1761–1830), British politician 5
Tooke, John Horne [formerly John Horne] (1736–1812), radical and philologist 5
Whitbread, Samuel II (1764–1815), British politician 5
Grenville, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-, first duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839), British politician 4
Howard, Charles (1746–1815), eleventh Duke of Norfolk, politician 4
Jervis, John, First Earl of St Vincent (1735–1823), British naval officer 4
Stewart, Robert, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess Londonderry (1759–1822), Chief Secretary for Ireland 4
Abbot, Charles (1757–1829), first Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House of Commons (1802–1817) 3
Apollo 3
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, third Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British politician and head of Whig party (1782) 3
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet 3
Cupid 3

Exhibition History

Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 37
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 27
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 22
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 19
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 19
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 16
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 16
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 11
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
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 11
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 10
Head to Toe: Impressing the Body (Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999-11-06 - 1999-12-17) 9
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 9
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Flowers Galleries, 2011-01-26 - ) 8
The Independent Eye: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-09-16 - 2011-01-02) 8
Circa 1701 : Printed Portraits from the Time of Elihu Yale (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-12-19 - 2001-04-01) 7
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 7
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) 7
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 7
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 6
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 5
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 5
Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10) 5
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 5
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14) 5
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31) 5
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 4
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 4
James Ward (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-05-21 - 2004-08-22) 4

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3,657
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 543
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 315
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 196
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 177
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 101
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 96
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 84
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 80
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 60
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 57
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 53
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Alan S. Fortunoff 49
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 40
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 39
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 38
Yale Center for British Art 37
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael Zinman 37
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 36
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection 35
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 20
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elinor Appleton 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Israel Family 17
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj 15
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift 14
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Charles Booth-Clibborn 14
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood 13

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Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Two Goblets and Mug

1967
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Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

Pisa (vertical)

1967
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Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Horse Dealers (Ward's Repository, No.1)

1919
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Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

Horse Dealers at the Barbican (Barbican No. 2)

1921
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Skylark

1850
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Christmas

1850
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Early Ploughman

1874
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Skylark

1850
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Skylark

1850
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Christmas

1877
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Christmas

1850
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Early Ploughman

begun before 1861
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Early Ploughman

begun before 1861
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Early Ploughman

etching begun before 1861; impression printed in 1926
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Morning of Life

1860-1861
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Opening the Fold

plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1920
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Opening the Fold

plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1926
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Willow

1850
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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Weary Ploughman

1858
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

False Perspective Exemplified

1799
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Invasion, Plate 1: France

1756
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Invasion, Plate 2: England

1756
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 1

1732
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 2

1732
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 3

1732
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 4

1732
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 6

1732
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Emerald Vessel

1723
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Four Heads from the Raphael Cartoons at Hampton Court

1781
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Paul before Felix

1752
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Stage-Coach, or A Country Inn Yard

1747
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

After

1736
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Fustigatio

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Shameful Discharge

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Fustium Admonitio

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Taking Away the Military Belt or Girdle

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Issued Barley Instead of Wheat

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Simon Lord Lovat

1746
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Rake's Progress, Plate 8: In Bedlam

1735
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Harlot's Progress, Plate 5

1732
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Paul before Felix Burlesqued

1751
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Midnight Modern Conversation

1733
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Before

1736
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Tail Piece, or The Bathos

1764
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Decimation

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Crucifixion, etc

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Beheading

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Dismemberment, etc

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Breaking the Legs

1725
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Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Cutting off the Nose

1725

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