Collection: Prints and Drawings / Exhibition History: The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

1. Human Figure, Posterior View (Finished Study for an Unpublished Plate)

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1795 to 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with traces of well-defined platemarks along margins
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/8 x 16 inches (54.3 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Human Skeleton, Lateral View (Close to the Final Study for Table III But Differs in Detail)

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: Between 1795 and 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 x 16 inches (54.6 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Fowl Body, Lateral View (Highly Finished Study for an Unpublished Table; Shows the Last Stage in Dissection)

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1795 and 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper with traces of well-defined platemarks along margins
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 inches (54 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Tiger Body, Lateral View (Finished Drawing for Unpublished Table; Shows the Third Stage in Dissection)

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1795 to 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 21 1/4 inches (40.6 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Human Figure, Anterior View, Undissected (Finished Study for Table VI)

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1795 to 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 inches (54 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper; squared in graphite for transfer
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/8 inches (30.5 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The First Stage of Cruelty

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches (39.4 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Study of a Female Nude

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (26 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Saint Augustine's Gate, Canterbury

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches (34.3 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Howard Visiting a Prison

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: between 1790 and 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Black and gray wash with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches (31.8 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

11. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 12 inches (49.5 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Self-Portrait

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784
Date:: between 1771 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches (54 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman (African Wild Banana): finished drawing

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: 1765-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (31.8 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Head of a Young Woman

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk and brown chalk on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Sketch of a Half-Facade for a Royal Palace, Hyde Park, London

Creator:: Sir John Soane, 1753–1837
Date:: ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (8.9 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. John Collins of Devizes

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Kings Weston, Bristol: Entrance Front Elevation

Creator:: Sir John Vanbrugh, 1664–1726
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 18 5/8 inches (36.8 × 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink and touches of gold paint over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 33 1/4 inches (42.5 x 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/16 × 22 inches (38.9 × 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, rough, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (28.7 x 42.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A View of Rome Taken from the Pincio

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite and black crayon on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 15/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.5 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Garden Front

Creator:: Colen Campbell, 1676–1729
Date:: between 1718 and 1729
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and wash within triple-ruled border on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 20 13/16 inches (35.2 x 52.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Design for a Wall of the Chapel of Revealed Religion

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in gray and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (29.2 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Sir. Hans Sloane

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 5/16 inches (15.1 × 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: ca. 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 12 1/2 inches (46.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 inches (32.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. St. James' Park, Summer

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 23 1/2 inches (44.1 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Octagonal Temple at Shotover Park, Oxfordshire: Plan, Section and Elevation

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches (28.6 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Design for an Unidentified Town House: Elevation and Plan

Creator:: James Gibbs, 1682–1754
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/4 x 14 9/16 inches (47.6 x 37 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

Creator:: Henry Holland, 1745–1806
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over pen and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 15/16 x 28 1/4 inches (35.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Hilly Landscape with Figures Approaching a Bridge

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, on contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, James W. and Mary C. Fosburgh Collection

37. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 inches (17.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 inches (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Portrait of a Divine

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: after 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Men of War Lying off Sheerness

Creator:: John Harris, 1770–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 21 1/4 inches (41.3 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (27.3 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The North Terrace, Looking East

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (38.4 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Portrait of a Boy

Creator:: George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:: August 3, 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (24.4 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 10 1/8 inches (32.7 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. A Hoy and a Lugger with other Shipping on a Calm Sea

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (33.3 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (38.4 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. British Troops Disembarking

Creator:: Dirk Langendyck, 1748–1805
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 7/8 inches (23.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Chapel of the Greyfriars Monastery, Winchester

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 11 1/8 inches (22.9 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. View of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, with Shipping

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 26 1/4 inches (23.8 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Headfort House, Ireland: Elevation of the Eating Parlor

Creator:: Robert Adam, 1728–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 25 5/8 inches (36.8 × 65.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Headfort House, Ireland: Section of the Staircase

Creator:: Robert Adam, 1728–1792
Date:: 1771 or 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, pen and black and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (54 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Study for Captain William George Fairfax for the Painting "The Victory of Lord Duncan"

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and red chalk, squared for transfer on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches (31.4 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Study for the Central Group in the "Death of Earl of Chatham"

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Black and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (26.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Sketch for "The Conversion of St. Paul" for the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1709 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk on thin, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (24.1 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Nymphs Bathing in a Wooded Glade

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:: ca. 1765-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/4 inches (30.5 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/4 × 23 1/2 inches (26 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Louis François Roubiliac

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper, mounted to canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Prospero Summoning Ariel

Creator:: William Young Ottley, 1771–1836
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, white chalk, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (31.6 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Lady Grace Burnaby

Creator:: George Engleheart, 1753–1829
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (5.4 x 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. A Lady of the Blunt Family

Creator:: George Engleheart, 1753–1829
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (8.9 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. The Reverand Dr. John Harris

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: 1707
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches (8.3 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. General Stevenson

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. The Great Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper on contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 15 3/16 inches (20.6 × 38.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Design for Ceiling Walls and Staircase

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches (38.7 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Pont-y-Pair on the River Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, Denbigh

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, blue wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches (34.3 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum

Creator:: Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, 1748–1810
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 x 29 1/8 inches (53 x 74 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Tassisudon

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and gouache on very thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (51.8 × 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Donnybrook Fair, 1782

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with watercolor on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 21 1/2 inches (32.1 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Stromboli

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/8 x 14 15/16 inches (54.3 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Skating in St. James' Park

Creator:: John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 27 7/8 inches (32.4 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804
Date:: ca. 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on smooth, medium, cream laid paper laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 x 36 1/8 inches (66.7 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Mary and Nathaniel Jefferys

Creator:: Andrew Plimer, 1763–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (8.9 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Major General Sir Barry Close

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches (7.9 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Sarsden House and Gardens, Oxfordshire: Bird's-eye View

Creator:: Humphry Repton, 1752–1818
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches (24.1 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Hinton St. George, Somerset: View of the Saloon

Creator:: Sir John Soane, 1753–1837
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black and brown ink and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 15/16 inches (23.5 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. A View of Boxhill from Norbury Park, Surrey

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 39 1/8 inches (30.8 × 99.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

82. Roman Sketchbook

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Sketchbook with sketches in graphite, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, black wash, gouache and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, bound in vellum
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 5/8 inches (19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. The South View of Berwick Upon Tweed

Creator:: Samuel Buck, 1696–1779
Date:: ca. 1743-1745
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 31 7/8 inches (31.1 x 81 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

84. Richard Cooper the Elder

Creator:: John Donaldson, 1737–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (26 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

85. The Members of a Corinthian Temple in Ruins at Ephesus

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/16 x 15 3/16 inches (54.2 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 5/16 inches (38.1 x 54.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Illustration to the Iliad

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: between 1760 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (23.5 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

88. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: Abraham Daniel, died 1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Frame: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 x 1/4 inches (6.7 x 5.4 x 0.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Italian Sketchbook, Studies from Florence and Rome, begun 1787

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Sketchbook; graphite, pen and black ink and gray wash on bound in vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 inches (21.9 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Figures by a stream with cattle watering

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 20 inches (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

92. Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache heightened with gold on vellum
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 1/4 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (43.8 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

93. The Connoisseurs

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red, brown and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Admiral Vernon's Monument in Westminster Abbey

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: ca. 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 11/16 x 6 13/16in. (29.7 x 17.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. A Drawing of a Part for the Map of the Moon

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 inches (20.3 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Italian sketchbook

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches (28.3 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Sketchbook of Portrait Studies

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: 1760s
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bound in carta fiorentina
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (22.2 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Place des Victoires, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor in pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 inches (34.9 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

99. Tremal Naig's Choultry, Madura

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 19 3/8 × 25 15/16 inches (49.2 × 65.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

100. Study of a Classical Female Figure

Creator:: John Opie, 1761–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite; verso: watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (35.9 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert B. Simon

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1. Human Figure, Posterior View (Finished Study for an Unpublished Plate)

2. Human Skeleton, Lateral View (Close to the Final Study for Table III But Differs in Detail)

3. Fowl Body, Lateral View (Highly Finished Study for an Unpublished Table; Shows the Last Stage in Dissection)

4. Tiger Body, Lateral View (Finished Drawing for Unpublished Table; Shows the Third Stage in Dissection)

5. Human Figure, Anterior View, Undissected (Finished Study for Table VI)

6. Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

7. The First Stage of Cruelty

8. Study of a Female Nude

9. Saint Augustine's Gate, Canterbury

10. Howard Visiting a Prison

11. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."

12. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

13. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

14. Self-Portrait

15. Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman (African Wild Banana): finished drawing

16. Head of a Young Woman

17. Portrait of a Man

18. Sketch of a Half-Facade for a Royal Palace, Hyde Park, London

19. John Collins of Devizes

20. Kings Weston, Bristol: Entrance Front Elevation

21. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

22. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

23. The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi

24. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

25. A View of Rome Taken from the Pincio

26. Lowther House, Westmorland: Elevation of the Garden Front

27. Design for a Wall of the Chapel of Revealed Religion

28. Sir. Hans Sloane

29. Self-Portrait

30. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

31. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

32. St. James' Park, Summer

33. Octagonal Temple at Shotover Park, Oxfordshire: Plan, Section and Elevation

34. Design for an Unidentified Town House: Elevation and Plan

35. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

36. Hilly Landscape with Figures Approaching a Bridge

37. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

38. Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector

39. Portrait of a Divine

40. Men of War Lying off Sheerness

41. The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum

42. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

43. The North Terrace, Looking East

44. Portrait of a Boy

45. Margaret Nicholson Attempting to Assassinate His Majesty, George III, at the Garden Entrance of St. James's Palace, 2nd August 1786

46. A Hoy and a Lugger with other Shipping on a Calm Sea

47. The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House

48. British Troops Disembarking

49. The Chapel of the Greyfriars Monastery, Winchester

50. View of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, with Shipping

51. Headfort House, Ireland: Elevation of the Eating Parlor

52. Headfort House, Ireland: Section of the Staircase

53. Study for Captain William George Fairfax for the Painting "The Victory of Lord Duncan"

54. Study for the Central Group in the "Death of Earl of Chatham"

55. Sketch for "The Conversion of St. Paul" for the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral

56. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

57. Nymphs Bathing in a Wooded Glade

58. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

59. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

60. Louis François Roubiliac

61. Prospero Summoning Ariel

62. Lady Grace Burnaby

63. A Lady of the Blunt Family

64. The Reverand Dr. John Harris

65. General Stevenson

66. The Great Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury

67. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

68. Design for Ceiling Walls and Staircase

69. Pont-y-Pair on the River Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, Denbigh

70. Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum

71. Tassisudon

72. Donnybrook Fair, 1782

73. Stromboli

74. Skating in St. James' Park