Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Europe / Subject Terms: costume

1. The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

3. James Caulfeild, fourth Viscount Charlemont (Later first Earl of Charlemont)

Creator:: Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787
Date:: between 1753 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/2 x 29 inches (97.8 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

4. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (34.6 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 1/8 x 43 5/8 inches (117.2 x 110.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 21 × 34 1/2 inches (53.3 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Durham

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 41 inches (50.8 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Lincoln's Inn, the Chapel, and Old Hall, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 3/4 x 49 3/4 inches (88.3 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1790 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (26 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches (55.2 x 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. An Unknown Man, perhaps Charles Goring of Wiston (1744-1829), out Shooting with his Servant

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 45 3/4 x 54 inches (116.2 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. The Duke of Devonshire's Flying Childers

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Princess Amelia Sophia Eleonore of Great Britain

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. The Battle of La Hogue

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1778, retouched 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 3/4 x 96 1/4 inches (164.5 x 244.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

20. The Death of Chatham

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/4 inches (71.4 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Professor Jules David Prown
On View:: Not on view

21. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 18 9/16 inches (31.1 x 47.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. A French Physician with His Retinue Going to Visit His Patients

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 13 3/4 inches (28.1 x 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Here Nature List'ning Stood

Creator:: Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Englishman at Paris, 1767

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 18 7/8 inches (36.7 x 48 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A French Petit Maître and His Valet

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, pasted on medium, moderately textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 1/4 x 11 5/16 inches (41.3 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787

Creator:: Print made by Pietro Antonio Martini, 1738–1797
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 20 9/16 inches (36.9 × 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Paysan des Alpes

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: 1769-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 15/16 inches (24.7 x 20.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Paysanne de la France

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: 1769-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 11/16 inches (24.5 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee

Creator:: Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/16 x 17 13/16 inches (62 x 45.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander

30. The Opening of the Carnival at Rome

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (38.4 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Peaceful Reign of James I

Creator:: Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (31.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Bradwell Lodge in Essex, the Seat of the Revd. Henry Bate Dudley

Creator:: Print made by William Angus, 1752–1821
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 11 3/16 inches (22 x 28.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. A View of Paris

Creator:: Print made by Paul Angier, active 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving hand-colored in watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 18 1/16 inches (31.2 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Obelisk in the Garden at Versailles

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving hand-coloured in watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 18 1/16 inches (31.2 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (23.8 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. 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

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1. The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt

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

3. James Caulfeild, fourth Viscount Charlemont (Later first Earl of Charlemont)

4. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

5. Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire

6. Covent Garden

7. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

8. The Great Fire of London

9. Durham

10. Lincoln's Inn, the Chapel, and Old Hall, London

11. Northumberland House, London

12. A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park)

13. Rochester

14. The Port of London

15. St. Paul's Cathedral

16. An Unknown Man, perhaps Charles Goring of Wiston (1744-1829), out Shooting with his Servant

17. The Duke of Devonshire's Flying Childers

18. Princess Amelia Sophia Eleonore of Great Britain

19. The Battle of La Hogue

20. The Death of Chatham

21. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

22. A French Physician with His Retinue Going to Visit His Patients

23. Here Nature List'ning Stood

24. Englishman at Paris, 1767

25. A French Petit Maître and His Valet

26. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787

27. Paysan des Alpes

28. Paysanne de la France

29. Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee

30. The Opening of the Carnival at Rome

31. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Peaceful Reign of James I

32. Bradwell Lodge in Essex, the Seat of the Revd. Henry Bate Dudley

33. A View of Paris

34. The Obelisk in the Garden at Versailles

35. Vauxhall Gardens

36. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

37. Place des Victoires, Paris