Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Greater London and London / Subject Terms: genre subject

1. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
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

2. 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

3. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. 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

6. The Interior of Westminster Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1714
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/8 x 38 1/2 inches (122.2 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. 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

8. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 7/8 inches (71.1 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. 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

12. 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

13. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 50 1/4 inches (88.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Scene in a London Street

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 inches (95.3 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 14 x 18 5/8 inches (35.6 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. An Encampment in St. James Park

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches (30.2 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Group of Men on Westminster Pier

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderatelty textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches (9.2 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The South Sea House

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1720 and 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 19 3/4 inches (36.7 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The West Prospect of the Church and Steeple of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1720 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 7/16 inches (44.9 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. St. Martin's Church

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1731 and 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 3/4 inches (49 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Admiralty Office

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 19 3/4 inches (35.5 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Night Watchman

Creator:: Print made by John Bogle, 1746–1804
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 11 15/16 inches (45.1 x 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and Queen with the Nobility and others did sit at Dinner on the Day of the Coronation. Also the manner of tghe Champions performing the Ceremony of Challenge whilst the King & c. were at Dinner

A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and Queen with the Nobility and others did sit at Dinner on the Day of the Coronation. Also the manner of tghe Champions performing the Ceremony of Challenge whilst the King & c. were at Dinner

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/8 × 9 inches (28.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Inthronization of their Majesties also a View of the West End of the Choir of St. Peters in Westminster, and of the manner of Placing and Seating the Company in that Part of the Choir

The Inthronization of their Majesties also a View of the West End of the Choir of St. Peters in Westminster, and of the manner of Placing and Seating the Company in that Part of the Choir

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (28.3 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting 1771

Creator:: Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 22in. (47 x 55.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Exhibition of Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Pietro Antonio Martini, 1738–1797
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

Creator:: Print made by Paul Angier, active 1749
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 inches (31.4 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

31. Turnips & Carrots ho

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (41.3 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Bequest of Doris M. Brixey

32. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. A Prospect of St. James's Park

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

2. St. Paul's Cathedral

3. Rehearsal of an opera

4. Rehearsal of an opera

5. Covent Garden

6. The Interior of Westminster Abbey

7. Northumberland House, London

8. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

9. Arches of Westminster Bridge

10. Whitehall

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

12. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

13. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

14. Scene in a London Street

15. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

16. Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger

17. An Encampment in St. James Park

18. A Group of Men on Westminster Pier

19. The South Sea House

20. The West Prospect of the Church and Steeple of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside

21. St. Martin's Church

22. The Admiralty Office

23. Night Watchman

24. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

25. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

26. A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and Queen with the Nobility and others did sit at Dinner on the Day of the Coronation. Also the manner of tghe Champions performing the Ceremony of Challenge whilst the King & c. were at Dinner

27. The Inthronization of their Majesties also a View of the West End of the Choir of St. Peters in Westminster, and of the manner of Placing and Seating the Company in that Part of the Choir

28. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting 1771

29. Exhibition of Royal Academy

30. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

31. Turnips & Carrots ho

32. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

33. A Prospect of St. James's Park

34. The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park