Period: 18th century / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: books and man

1. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (99.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Tobias Smollet

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 3/4 x 40 inches (126.4 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. An Unknown Man

Creator:: Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786
Date:: 1764 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/4 x 40 3/8 inches (127.6 x 102.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. John Quick as Tony Allspice

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 × 15 inches (56.5 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Sir Robert Chambers

Creator:: Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 × 28 5/8 inches (106.7 × 72.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Thomas Graham

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 25 inches (78.7 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Henry Bellenden

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: ca. 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 49 inches (106.7 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

Creator:: Attributed to Michael Chuke, 1679–1742
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Bronzed limewood
Dimensions:: Overall: 54 5/16 x 37 13/16 inches (138 x 96 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

9. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 15, "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

10. William Robertson, D.D.

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/16 inches (50.5 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. William Robert Fitzgerald, Second Duke of Leinster

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 14 1/16 inches (50.4 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. William Hogarth

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 7 7/8 inches (26.5 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Sacrifice

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 3/4 inches (33 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 1/16 inches (28.2 x 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Dr. George Berkley, Bishop of Cloyne

Creator:: John Brooks, active 1730–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 13/16 inches (35.2 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Virtuous Love

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (19.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Earl of Mansfield

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on silk, mounted on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/16 x 15 9/16 inches (53.5 x 39.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A School of Girls

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 13 3/8 inches (28.8 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Ornatus Corporis et Animi

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (39.7 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Isaac Watts

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 11/16 inches (23.2 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. William Robertson

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 inches (53 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Richard Robinson, Bishop of Kildare

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (41.3 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (47 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 3/16 inches (38.7 × 28.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. William Dodd, L. L. D.

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: between 1775 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 3 15/16 inches (17.1 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

26. Sir John Hawkins

Creator:: Print made by R. Clamp, fl.1789–1798
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 5 5/16 inches (18 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

27. Theodosius

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (30.7 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. A School of Boys

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 13 7/16 inches (28.7 x 34.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. A School of Girls

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 7/16 inches (27.7 x 39.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Medicus Alchemista

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 19 7/16 inches (38.5 x 49.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. 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

32. Philippe Mercier

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, yellow-cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 7/8 inches (31.1 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Britannia Allegory

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: between 1743 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; verso: letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper (page in book)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (15.8 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

34. Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh

Creator:: Thomas Beard, op. 1728?
Date:: 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/4 inches (36.8 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. John Boydell, Engraver

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, modereately textured, cream laid paper, laid on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches (46.6 x 33.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Prospero and Miranda

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

2. Tobias Smollet

3. An Unknown Man

4. John Quick as Tony Allspice

5. Sir Robert Chambers

6. Thomas Graham

7. Henry Bellenden

8. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

9. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 15, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

10. William Robertson, D.D.

11. William Robert Fitzgerald, Second Duke of Leinster

12. William Hogarth

13. The Sacrifice

14. The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery

15. Dr. George Berkley, Bishop of Cloyne

16. Virtuous Love

17. The Earl of Mansfield

18. A School of Girls

19. Ornatus Corporis et Animi

20. Isaac Watts

21. William Robertson

22. Richard Robinson, Bishop of Kildare

23. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

24. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

25. William Dodd, L. L. D.

26. Sir John Hawkins

27. Theodosius

28. A School of Boys

29. A School of Girls

30. Medicus Alchemista

31. Richard Cooper the Elder

32. Philippe Mercier

33. Britannia Allegory

34. Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh

35. John Boydell, Engraver

36. Prospero and Miranda