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Prints and Drawings 5,389

Creator

Unknown artist 5,389

Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 111
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 88
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801 82
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 82
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 77
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 69
Malton, Thomas the Younger, 1748–1804 56
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 52
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 51
Pine, John, 1690–1756 48
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 46
Clark, James, 19th century 46
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 44
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 40
Cole, Benjamin, 1697–1783 39
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 39
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1792–1864 37
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 30
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 29
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677 25
Major, Thomas, 1714–1799 25
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 23
Schnebbelie, Robert Bremmel, active 1803–1849 21
Bowles, Thomas, ca. 1712–1767 19
Smith, John, 1652–1743 19
Howlett, Bartholomew, 1767–1827 18
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833 18
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 17
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 17

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 5,389

Image Use

Free to Use 3,623
Under Certain Circumstances 1,766

Image Available

available 3,854
unavailable 1,535

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 5,389

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 56
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 46
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 26
A Book of Sundry Prints 25
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
Twelve Prints, Representing the Surprising Events in the Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 12
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 11
A New Drawing Book principally consisting of Beasts in various Actions 9
Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 9
Views of Bencoolen 8
Black Bess 7
Dogs Drawn from Nature 7
"Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, Westminster", John Topham, 1795 6
The Victorious Battles of the Immortal Prince, John Duke of Marlborough 5
Architectural Remains removed to Farnley, by Walter Fawkes Esqr. from Different Ancient Hall Houses in his Possession 4
English Etchings, A Collection of Thirty-three Original Etchings by English Artists 4
The Rivers of England (River Scenery) 4
Icones Principum Virorum 3
Scotland Delineated 3
The Ports of England 3
Whitaker's 'Loidis and Elmete' 3
"The History of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament at Westminster", Brayley and Britton, 1836 2
A Selection of Facsimiles of Watercolour Drawings by British Artists, 1826-1836 2
Cooke's Rivers of Devon 2
Frank B. Simson, Sport in Eastern Bengal 2
Gay's Fables 2
Marine Views 2
Scott's Poetical Works 2
The Bijou 2
XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines 2

Period

19th century 2,048
18th century 1,863
18th century-19th century 242
17th century 77
19th century-20th century 73
20th century 68
17th century-18th century 63
16th century 29

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 608
laid paper 401
line engraving 383
etching (printing process) 331
mezzotint 224
stipple engraving 115
hand coloring 74
lithography 55
watercolor 49
aquatint 45
steel engraving 27
letterpress printing 24
chromolithography 20
woodcut (process) 19
Engraving 16
graphite 16
wood engraving (process) 13
card 10
chine collé 8
photomechanical reproduction 7
engraving (printing process) 6
halftone process 6
photomechanical processes: planographic 6
colored ink 4
photoengraving 4
photogravure 4
Asian paper 3
drypoint 3
photomechanical processes 3
soft-ground etching 3

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 1,154
planographic print 81
relief print 49
photomechanical print 32
frontispiece 14
ticket 6
watercolor 2
drawing 1
trade card 1

Genre

architectural subject 378
portrait 294
genre subject 250
landscape 149
cityscape 120
religious and mythological subject 75
animal art 73
literary theme 57
military art 57
marine art 55
historical subject 54
figure study 9
sporting art 8
still life 8
cartographic material 6
frontispiece 5
botanical subject 3

Subject Terms

architectural subject 269
portrait 209
cityscape 101
genre subject 101
man 89
men 84
landscape 79
animal art 48
women 46
horses (animals) 43
trees 42
costume 40
religious and mythological subject 36
woman 33
church 32
caricature 31
buildings 26
clouds 26
river 26
satire 25
hills 23
gaze 22
posing 22
boats 21
castle 21
children 21
coat 21
hats 21
leisure 21
marine art 21

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 135
England 120
London 68
Europe 59
City of Westminster 44
Rome 38
Palace of Westminster 36
India 33
Greater London 32
Italy 30
Scotland 19
Lambeth 13
Southwark 13
Vauxhall Gardens 13
St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster 12
France 11
House of Commons 11
Lazio 11
Campania 10
Napoli 10
Westminster Abbey 10
Japan 9
Naples 8
City of London 7
Thames 7
Venice 7
Île-de-France 7
Banqueting House 6
Chiswick 6
Chiswick House 6

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 99
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 7
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 4
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 4
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 4
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 4
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Burnet, Gilbert (1643–1715), Bishop of Salisbury 3
John the Baptist (c. 6 BC–c. AD 36) 3
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul (1577–1640), painter 3
The Virgin Mary 3
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 3
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 2
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563–1639), painter 2
Jesus 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
Mascall, Edward James (1757/8–1832), civil servant 2
Mor, Antonis (born 1512–1516, died ca. 1576), portrait painter 2
Venus 2
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 2
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 1
Adela, Countess of Warenne (12th century) 1
Aeneas 1
Allan, Sir William (1782–1850), painter 1
Apollo 1
Ariadne 1
Artemis 1
Bacchus 1

Exhibition History

Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 14
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 11
The Early Georgian Landscape Garden (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-26) 7
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 5
Fashionable Follies (The Museums at Stony Brook, 1981-11-25 - 1982-01-31) 5
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Clark Art Institute, 1996-03-02 - 1996-04-14) 5
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Davison Art Center, 1995-09-01 - 1995-10-28) 5
Prodigal Son Narratives 1480 - 1980 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1995-04-04 - 1995-07-16) 5
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) 5
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 4
When in Rome - Prints and Photographs, 1550-1900 (Smith College Museum of Art, 2016-09-30 - 2017-01-01) 4
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 3
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 3
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 2
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 2
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 2
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 2
Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30) 2
Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31) 2
Great Fire of London (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1994-01-27 - 1994-04-02) 2
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 2
Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World (Suzhou Museum, 2025-07-26 - 2025-10-31) 2
Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World (The Palace Museum, 2025-04-01 - 2025-06-30) 2
The God of Our Idolatry - Garrick and Shakespeare (The Lewis Walpole Library, 2012-03-12 - 2012-10-02) 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
The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29) 2
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 2
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3,861
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 382
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 254
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 210
Yale Center for British Art 153
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 105
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 52
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 49
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael Zinman 42
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 40
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 27
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 20
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist 15
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 12
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Kenny and Susan Phillips, In Memory of Richard Kressler and Leland Sweet 9
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret in memory of William Ferguson 6
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 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 4
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 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 4
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Alan S. Fortunoff 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Goldfield 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 3

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Accessible in the Study Room
Attributed to Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Plan of Lambeth Palace

1750
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Bartholomew Fair, 1721

ca. 1721
Accessible in the Study Room
S. G. Hughes, active 1832

View of the Intersection Bridge on the line of St. Helen's & Runcorn Gap... [Read more]

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Her Majesty Queen Victoria at the Banquet given by the Corporation of... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

A view of the inside of Westminster Hall

ca. 1700
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
unknown artist

Westminster Hall

ca. 1820
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
unknown artist

Section of the House of Commons as it is at Present

ca. 1800
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 IX: St Stephen's Chapel

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

Plate VIII: St Stephen's Chapel

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

Plate XIII: 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 unknown artist

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

1835
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 unknown artist

Exterior & Interior Views of the Painted Chamber & Old House of Lords

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Henry VII Chapel (Exterior)

ca. 1890
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Figures Seated in front of Piled Hay and Thatched Cottages

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Landscape with Cottage on the Water

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Stanton-Moor Urn

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Jacques Joseph du Guet

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Thatched Cottage on an Island

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780

Handel

ca. 1737
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

William Shakspeare

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Untitled: William Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Shakspeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

William Shakespear
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

William Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Willm. Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Untitled portrait of William Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Untitled: Portrait of William Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Shakspeare (from the Chandos Picture)
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Untitled: Portrait of William Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Shakspere
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

William Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Wm. Shakespeare

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Wm. Shakespeare

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Insult to Injury

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of Campo Vaccino at Rome

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of the Piazza del Popolo in the City of Rome

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of the Piazza Navona in the City of Rome

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

A View of Part of the Royal Gardens at Naples Towards the Sea

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Benjamin Holl, 1808–1884

George Morland

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Joseph Nollekens [Nollikins]

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Alexander Bannerman, ca. 1730–1780

Murray

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

Nollekens

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Benjamin Holl, 1808–1884

Nollekens

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Alexander Bannerman, ca. 1730–1780

Murray

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