Skip to main content

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL

COLLECTIONS SEARCH

Search the collections

All
Objects
Artists

Object filters

Collection

Prints and Drawings 1,975

Creator

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 524
Unknown artist 209
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 127
Faber, John the Younger, ca. 1695–1756 63
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 62
Watson, James, 1740–1790 57
Bannerman, Alexander, ca. 1730–1780 56
Chambars, Thomas, ca. 1724–1789 53
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 46
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 46
Fisher, Edward, 1722–1785 45
McArdell, James, ca. 1729–1765 42
Dickinson, William, 1746–1823 40
Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 40
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 36
Dance, George, 1741–1825 31
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 31
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 30
Patch, Thomas, 1725–1782 26
Smith, John, 1652–1743 26
Vertue, George, 1684–1756 26
Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781 25
Dean, John, 1754–1798 24
Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811 23
Houston, Richard, ca. 1721–1775 23
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835 23
Jones, John, ca. 1745–1797 22
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618–1680 22
Hoppner, John, 1758–1810 20
Elstrack, Renold, 1570–1625(?) 19

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 1,975

Image Use

Free to Use 1,876
Under Certain Circumstances 99

Image Available

available 1,750
unavailable 225

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 1,975

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 604
Caricatures by Tommaso Patch 26
Twenty-Five Caricatures (Full-Length) 19
The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits 17
Icones Principum Virorum 15
Baziliologia, a Booke of Kings 14
The Historie and Lives of the Kings of England 11
Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England 11
Twenty-Eight Caricatures (Heads) 7
The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair 6
The Pastorals of Virgil 6
Ulysses 6
The Wrestlers 5
Life-Sized Heads 4
Political Sketches 4
The Five Senses 3
The Queen's Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, &c. by W.M. 3
Athenaeum Portraits 2
Canceled Set 2
Essays on Sculpture 2
Hamlet 2
Kings and Queens of England 2
Kit-Cat Club 2
London 2
Queen Victoria & Prince Albert. 2
The Vicar of Wakefield 2
A Collection of 14 Lithographs, 1952-54 1
A Father's Memoirs of His Child 1
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1768 1
Cases Collect & Report per Sir Francis Moore Chivaler, Serjeant de Ley 1

Period

18th century 1,109
19th century 460
17th century 111
20th century 79
18th century-19th century 68
17th century-18th century 44
19th century-20th century 14
21st century 3

Materials & Techniques

laid paper 1,038
mezzotint 891
wove paper 561
stipple engraving 440
etching (printing process) 435
line engraving 310
chine collé 41
soft-ground etching 41
drypoint 40
aquatint 34
lithography 33
colored ink 17
crayon manner 17
screen printing 17
brown ink 16
card 15
Asian paper 11
Engraving 11
engraving (printing process) 11
woodcut (process) 11
black ink 6
chromolithography 5
hand coloring 5
watercolor 5
color printing 4
photogravure 4
vellum (skin) 4
burnishing (polishing) 3
halftone process 3
lift-ground 3

Height [cm]

From

To

Width [cm]

From

To

Work Type

intaglio print 1,633
planographic print 58
relief print 15
photomechanical print 13
frontispiece 6
ticket 3
collage 1
drawing 1
watercolor 1

Genre

portrait 1,683
religious and mythological subject 153
literary theme 119
military art 109
genre subject 46
historical subject 45
animal art 37
architectural subject 35
landscape 25
marine art 18
figure study 15
abstract art 7
sporting art 5
still life 5
cityscape 4
cartographic material 2
anatomical study 1
botanical subject 1

Subject Terms

portrait 1,975

man 482
woman 217
costume 214
coat 204
collar 203
posing 200
oval 193
artist 189
curls 188
cravat 160
gaze 155
wig 149
religious and mythological subject 148
dress 94
painter 90
solemn 89
lace 82
hat 80
trees 79
buttons 78
robe 75
chair 74
drapery 74
cloak 70
beard 69
nobility 67
profile 66
moustache 62
book 59

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 23
Europe 16
England 13
Asia 12
Bharat 11
India 11
Scotland 8
London 5
City of Westminster 4
Greater London 4
Aberdeenshire 3
Balmoral Castle 3
Italy 3
Pembroke 3
Pembrokeshire 3
Wales 3
Devon 2
France 2
Westminster Abbey 2
Índia 2
Africa 1
Allahabad 1
Allahabad Fort 1
Barton upon Irwell 1
Bourges 1
Bristol 1
Carthage 1
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis 1
Centre 1
Chalees Satoon 1

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 210
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 23
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 15
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 13
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 12
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 11
Cupid 11
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 8
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 7
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter 7
Spencer (née Beauclerk), Lady Mary (1743–1812), daughter and heir of 1st Baron Vere; wife of Lord Charles Spencer 7
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 7
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman 6
Folin, Anaïs 6
Hebe 6
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, baronet (1646–1723), history and portrait painter 6
Northcote, James (1746–1831), artist and author 6
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver 6
Wilton, Joseph (1722–1803), sculptor 6
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 5
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver 5
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect 5
Cosway, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist 5
Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland 5
Gray, Thomas (1716–1771), poet and literary scholar 5
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter 5
Jesus 5
Lincoln, Abraham (12 Feb. 1809–15 Apr. 1865), sixteenth president of the United States 5
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter 5
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman 5

Exhibition History

Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 10
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 10
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 9
Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) 9
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 9
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 9
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) 9
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 7
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 6
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 6
Voices of Scotland (The Grolier Club, 1992-12-17 - 1993-02-20) 6
Circa 1701 : Printed Portraits from the Time of Elihu Yale (Yale University Art Gallery, 2000-12-19 - 2001-04-01) 5
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 5
Colorful Impressions - The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (Yale University Art Gallery, 2008-01-29 - 2008-05-04) 4
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 4
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 4
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 4
Whistler in Paris, London and Venice (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-01-30 - 2015-07-15) 4
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 3
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 3
John Copley 1875-1950 (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-06 - 1990-04-01) 3
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 3
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 3
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 3
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 2
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 2
Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07) 2
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 2
Seeing Double : Portraits, Copies and Exhibitions in 1820s London (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-06-24 - 2010-09-19) 2
The World of Alexander Pope (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-04-08 - 1988-05-29) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1,319
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 400
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 26
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 20
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 17
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 9
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 7
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Anthoine 6
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of John Hay Whitney 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943 4
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952 4
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts 4
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 4
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeanne K. Welcher 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown, Yale MA (HON.) 1971 3
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green 3
Yale Center for British Art 2
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander 2

Language

Archival Collections

Archival Collection Level

Artist filters

Gender

Birth Place

Death Place

Place of Activity

Place of Visit/Tour

Place of baptism

Place of study

Collection: Prints and Drawings
Classification: Prints
Subject Terms: portrait
Per page: 50
Keywords: score desc
Keywords: list

All (1975)
Objects (1975)
Artists (0)

Shows 1 - 50 from 1975 results

Grid

Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Simon Lord Lovat

1746
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard III

1746
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse

1764
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Thomas Hayley, the Disciple of John Flaxman, from a Medallion

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Thomas Hayley the Disciple of John Flaxman, from a Medallion

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Caius Julius Cæsar

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Theocritus

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Octavius Augustus Cæsar

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Rev. John Caspar Lavater

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

From Antique Coins

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Epicurus

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Publius Virgilius Maro

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Daniell, 1769–1837

Portrait Study of Thomas Hearne

1809
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 9-12: Don Ciccio, Mr. Huger, Unidentified, and Mr. Cunningham

1768 to 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 5-8: Barto, Baron Stosch, G. Lockman, and Giovanni

1765 to 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 17-20: Dottore Binozzi, Pandolfo Collins, Mr. Light, and Winingam

1768 to 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Ferdo. Gregori

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Cav. Alticozzi

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Dr. Lambardi

1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

R. Dalton Esqr

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Dr. Merlini

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Dr. Stern alias Tristram Shandy

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Alessandri il Neofito

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Cosimo Fioravanti

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Gio. Torello Leoni

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Raimondo Cocchi

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Cortigiani

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Worlidge, 1700–1766

Self-Portrait

1752
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784

Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

ca. 1777
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784

Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Blyth, 1750–1784

John Hamilton Mortimer

1782
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Mi so Chiamare il Cavre di Taylor

1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Tommaso Patch Autore

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a... [Read more]

1785
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 1-4: Il Carlo, Mr. Piters, Mr. D., and an Unidentified Man

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 13-16: Unidentified, Colonel St. John, Thomas, and L.B

1768 to 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 25-27: Il Dentino, Captain Walcott, Two Unidentified Men

1768 to 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Giusepe. Caramelli

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Plates 21-24: Mr. W., Sir W.W.W., Mr. Apthorp, and Captain Elliott

1768 to 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Benbridge

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Monsr. Clune detto L'Imperatore

1769
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Padri, e Madri mandate i vostri Figlioli

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Tommaso Robinson

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Patch, 1725–1782

Frano. Harwood

1768
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Mary Dawson Turner, 1774–1850

Portrait of Benjamin Robert Haydon

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741

Virgin and Child

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
William Sherwin, 1645–1711

Barbara Duchess of Cleaveland as a Shepherdess

1670
Accessible in the Study Room
Gerard Edelinck, 1640–1707

Édouard Colbert, Marquis de Villacerf

1696
Accessible in the Study Room
unknown artist

Shakespeare
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Say, 1768–1834

Mrs. Siddons

1810

Pagination

Page1
Page2
Page3
…
Next page
Last page

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

Sign up for our e-newsletter

Hours and visitor information
Calendar

Museum Bookshop
Tours
Accessibility

Exhibitions and programs

Now and upcoming
Past exhibitions and programs

Collections

Collections overview
Search the collections
Using the collections
Conservation
Collections departments
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery

Research and learning

Reference Library
Study Room
Research initiatives
Community
K–12 teachers
Colleges and universities
Children and families
Yale community
Residential awards
Internships and Opportunities
Publications

About us

About
Paul Mellon, Founder
Architecture
News and press
Annual Reports
Videos
Get involved
Departments and staff
Job opportunities
Contact us

Privacy and cookies
Accessibility at Yale
Contact us