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Prints and Drawings 16,173
Rare Books and Manuscripts 2,763
Paintings and Sculpture 825
Frames 645
Reference Library 90

Creator

Unknown artist 2,286
Romney, George, 1734–1802 1,035
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 957
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 784
Unknown framemaker 630
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 597
Blake, William, 1757–1827 460
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 365
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 354
Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771 342
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 275
Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797 272
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 241
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 224
Heath, James, 1757–1834 208
Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698–1780 196
Moore, James, 1762–1799 196
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 186
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785 179
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779 174
Swinburne, Henry, 1743–1803 174
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 170
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 162
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 158
Robinson, & Co., 1764–1830 147
Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 146
Vivares, Francois, 1709–1780 146
Watson, James, 1740–1790 145
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801 135
Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723 134

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 18,875
Not on view 639
On view 245
Accessible in the Reference Library 90
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 2

Image Use

Free to Use 17,341
Under Certain Circumstances 3,153

Image Available

available 15,563
unavailable 4,931

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 81

Classification

Prints 10,091
Drawings & Watercolors 5,083
Books 2,337
Paintings 772
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 689
Frames 645
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 253
Maps & Atlas (printed) 147
Archives & Manuscripts 121
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 92
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 57
Sculptures 45
Periodicals 28
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 15
Articles & Chapters 9
Ceramics 4
Music (printed) 3
Photographs 2
Visual Materials 2
Dissertations & Theses 1
PrintsVisual Materials 1
Rare Books 1

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 411
Beaumont Album 216
Collection of Sketches by Henry Swinburne 171
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 139
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 138
Italian Sketchbook 130
Young's Night Thoughts 120
A Book of Sundry Prints 114
Two Volumes of 187 Drawings and Manuscripts, Including, 4 Etchings 97
Two Volumes of, 187 Drawings and Manuscripts, Including, 4 Etchings 92
Album of Original Sketches by Sir Joshua Reynolds 76
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 76
London Cries: A Volume of Seventy-Seven Drawings 75
Gay's Fables 72
Arthur Pond's Album 70
Cries of London 61
Drawings after Nature 59
The Poems of Thomas Gray 58
Fifty-five Ornamental Designs 56
Fables by John Gay, Vol. I 54
Picturesque Views with an Historical Account of the Inns of Court in London and Westminster 51
Desseins Originaux des Attitudes Continuée dans L'École des Armes 48
Thoughts on Outline 48
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 45
Album of Drawings of (51) Fishes 44
Fourty-three Studies of Horses and Riders 43
Album of 36 Drawings Selected by Benjamin West, P.R.A. 37
Beaver's Military Punishments 36
Etchings by the Late Richard Gough, Esq. 35
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F 34

Period

18th century 20,494

19th century 176
20th century 103
17th century 41
16th century 18
15th century 8
21st century 5

Materials & Techniques

laid paper 6,620
graphite 4,483
wove paper 2,858
watercolor 2,312
mezzotint 2,045
etching (printing process) 1,924
black ink 1,899
pen 1,344
gray wash 1,324
line engraving 1,306
brown ink 1,278
stipple engraving 969
painting (technique) 770
oil paint 715
gold leaf 651
wood 638
canvas 632
original gilding 604
gouache 522
later gilding 438
oil gilding 416
gray ink 400
brown wash 346
hand coloring 273
water gilding 263
engraving (printing process) 218
aquatint 217
black chalk 189
relief etching 175
color printing 161

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 5,609
intaglio print 5,470
watercolor 3,233
painting 773
frame 645
relief print 410
engraving 387
etching 186
aquatint 142
auction catalog 142
armorial bookplates (provenance) 137
map 123
wood engraving 81
drawing book 78
ticket 78
miniature 74
architectural subject 72
handbooks and manual 46
sculpture 45
annotations (provenance) 41
ephemera 39
frontispiece 35
woodcut 35
atlase 34
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 34
ink drawing 34
early work 33
botanical illustration 27
catalog 26
recreation 23

Genre

portrait 2,612
architectural subject 2,219
genre subject 2,026
landscape 1,785
figure study 1,339
religious and mythological subject 1,044
literary theme 959
animal art 786
cityscape 442
marine art 435
historical subject 320
sporting art 314
military art 308
botanical subject 273
still life 90
cartographic material 24
frontispiece 5
anatomical study 2

Subject Terms

architectural subject 1,865
portrait 1,798
landscape 1,425
trees 1,197
genre subject 1,164
men 1,076
man 1,041
figure study 878
woman 804
women 695
religious and mythological subject 685
costume 571
literary theme 566
animal art 533
clouds 466
hills 459
river 433
buildings 432
children 386
caricature 383
mountains 364
satire 346
cityscape 345
figures 326
ruins 310
Grand Tour 300
horses (animals) 299
text 298
dog (animal) 274
caricatures 272

Subject Period

18th century 187
19th century 47
17th century 26
16th century 7
11th century 2
15th century 2
17th-18th centuries 2
12th century 1
15th and 16th centuries 1
18th centtury 1
Alfred, 871-899 1

Associated Places

England 1,395
United Kingdom 1,130
Europe 898
Great Britain 541
Asia 479
London 456
Italy 435
India 366
Bharat 334
Kent 175
Greater London 155
France 136
Rome 135
Cobham 122
Cobham Hall 121
City of Westminster 110
London (England) 109
Scotland 97
Wales 96
Ireland 94
Thames 86
Lazio 81
Turkey 74
Palace of Westminster 58
Levant 52
Ege kiyilari 44
Leinster 43
Headfort House 42
Kells 42
Roma 41

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 271
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 51
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 34
Cupid 27
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 27
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 22
Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793 20
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 18
saint 17
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 15
The Virgin Mary 15
Venus 14
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 13
Apollo 13
Cordelia (character in King Lear) 12
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model 12
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 12
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 12
Diana 11
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician 11
George III (1738–1820), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 10
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 10
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 9
Hebe 9
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 9
King Lear (character in King Lear) 9
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 9
The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth) 9
Burke, Edmund (1729/30–1797), politician and author 8
George IV (1762–1830), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover 8

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 198
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 187
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 175
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 175
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 117
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 114
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) 109
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 108
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 108
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 100
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 96
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 95
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 90
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 84
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 83
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 80
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 71
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 70
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 64
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 61
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 60
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 59
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 59
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 59
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 58
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 58
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) 57
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) 57
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) 54
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 52

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12,905
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1,442
Yale Center for British Art 783
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 566
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 475
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery 179
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe 105
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 74
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louise Lippincott, Yale BA 1974 70
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 65
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 62
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter 59
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 50
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 49
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 45
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove 42
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 35
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 33
22653444280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 31
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport 30
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection, University Purchase, Everett V. Meeks, Yale BA 1901, Fund 25
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 16
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends 15
22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 14
22709619840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12
Yale Center for British Art, In Memory of John V. McCarthy 11
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 11
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 11
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett 10

Language

English 2,459
French 177
Latin 52
Italian 33
German 30
Dutch 21
Spanish 3
Undetermined 3
Japanese 2
Danish 1
Elamite 1
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 1
Hebrew 1
Multiple languages 1
Portuguese 1
Swedish 1

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Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

A Church in the Trees

ca. 1800
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Reapers

1795
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Water Spaniel

1769
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Margaret Newton (née Coningsby), Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the... [Read more]

ca. 1760
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Two Gentlemen Shooting

ca. 1769
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Self-Portrait

ca. 1759
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Bulls Fighting

1786
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting

1768
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Repose after Shooting

1770
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Zebra

1763
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot

ca. 1767
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Horse Frightened by a Lion

between 1762 and 1768
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket

ca. 1766
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable-Lad

between 1780 and 1784
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel

1778
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C)

between 1768 and 1769
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Mr. Hospey (?)Walker

1783
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Greenland Falcon

1780
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Lion and Lioness

1770
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Studies for or after "The third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt"

late 1750s
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Foxhound

ca. 1760
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Lustre, held by a Groom

ca. 1762
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon... [Read more]

ca. 1765
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Pumpkin with a Stable-lad

1774
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Labourers

1781
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Sleeping Leopard

1777
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Foxhound

ca. 1760
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Lion Attacking a Stag

between 1765 and 1766
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

1786
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Lion Attacking a Horse

1762
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, Later fourth Duke of... [Read more]

1741
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children

1730
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Girl in a Plumed Hat

ca. 1740
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Revd. John Lloyd, DD

1738
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Miss Wood

ca. 1730
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

A Club of Gentlemen

ca. 1730
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Beggar's Opera

1729
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Self-Portrait

ca. 1735
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Mary Hogarth

ca. 1740
On view
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Ann Hogarth

ca. 1740

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