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Prints and Drawings 9,937
Paintings and Sculpture 570

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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 1,921
Smith, Charles Hamilton, 1776–1859 630
Unknown artist 539
Hastings, Thomas Capt., 1778–1854 459
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 408
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 389
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 251
Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797 198
Constable, John, 1776–1837 182
Miller, William, 1796–1882 173
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 166
Smirke the Younger, Robert, Sir, 1781–1867 140
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 130
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840 127
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876–1938 121
Swinburne, Henry, 1743–1803 121
Short, Frank, Sir, 1857–1945 115
Haden, Francis Seymour, Sir, 1818–1910 110
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 106
Willmore, James Tibbits, 1800–1863 102
Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855 90
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802 88
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 84
Smith, William R., active 1819–1851 83
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 82
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 79
Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819 79
Cotman, John Sell, 1782–1842 73
Ward, James, 1769–1859 73
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 72

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 9,933
Not on view 497
On view 73
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 4

Image Use

Free to Use 9,025
Under Certain Circumstances 1,482

Image Available

available 8,891
unavailable 1,616

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 73

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 5,324
Prints 3,640
Photographs 703
Paintings 570
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 92
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 66
Posters 41
Painted Objects 1

Collective Title

Picturesque Views in England and Wales 263
Sketches, Volume IV: Drawings of Isle of Wight, Hampshire and Devon 173
Liber Studiorum 150
Beaumont Album 144
A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804 140
Collection of Sketches by Henry Swinburne 121
Sketches, Vol. 6: 152 Drawings of Isle of Wight, Canterbury, and Hampstead, etc. 112
Scott's Poetical Works 109
Turner's Annual Tour- The Seine 102
A Voyage Round Great Britain 92
Sketches, Vol. 7: Drawings of Devon, Wales, Lakes, etc. 92
Views of France, Volume II 92
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 91
Scott's Prose Works 83
Views of England and Wales, Volume I 82
Views of France, Volume I 81
Views of Northern Europe, Volume II 78
Views of England and Wales, Volume II 74
Whitaker's History of Richmondshire 73
Views of Spain, Volume II 72
Arthur Pond's Album 70
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 69
Views of Spain, Volume I 69
Views of Northern Europe, Volume I 68
Rogers's Poems 66
Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Bible 64
A Series of Sketches of Cottages, Landscapes, Trees, Bridges, Waterfalls, Ruins, Castles, Boats, &c., by F. Calvert, Sixty Plates 60
Ratcliffe Power Station 57
Rogers's Italy 54
[One from a volume of 66] "Views Drawn from Nature in the Neighborhood of Rome and Abruzzo etc. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. In the Years 1786 to 1790" 52

Period

19th century 6,158
18th century 1,785
20th century 1,116
18th century-19th century 982
19th century-20th century 162
21st century 145
17th century 33
17th century-18th century 33
20th century-21st century 9
unknown period 3

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 5,838
graphite 4,470
watercolor 3,181
laid paper 2,210
etching (printing process) 1,851
brown ink 1,342
line engraving 1,280
pen 1,195
black ink 816
gray wash 647
gouache 572
painting (technique) 570
oil paint 542
photographic paper 511
gelatin silver process 480
mezzotint 387
drypoint 367
brown wash 359
canvas 348
gray ink 316
chine collé 314
toning (photography) 308
lithography 250
black chalk 199
engraving (printing process) 161
white gouache 161
aquatint 159
scratching out 154
hand coloring 134
plate tone 107

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 5,306
watercolor 3,803
intaglio print 3,193
photograph 718
painting 571
planographic print 319
relief print 168
photomechanical print 73
architectural subject 72
poster 39
digital print 34
collage 5
frontispiece 4
lantern slide 2
cigar box 1
letter box 1
sketchbook 1

Genre

landscape 10,507

architectural subject 3,215
genre subject 890
marine art 795
cityscape 694
literary theme 338
sporting art 309
animal art 280
religious and mythological subject 256
military art 106
figure study 105
historical subject 91
botanical subject 48
portrait 47
abstract art 37
cartographic material 14
still life 12

Subject Terms

landscape 5,689
trees 2,495
architectural subject 1,832
river 1,565
hills 980
mountains 876
men 750
clouds 681
genre subject 657
rocks (landforms) 608
water 559
buildings 555
castle 518
landscape (representation) 500
boats 490
sky 484
figures 406
marine art 395
cityscape 389
cliffs 375
ruins 372
lake 369
horses (animals) 359
road 340
bridge (built work) 338
sea 319
man 314
path 303
women 299
church 289

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 1,891
Europe 1,623
England 1,568
Asia 446
Italy 435
France 321
India 316
Bharat 297
Scotland 268
Africa 232
Wales 213
Egypt 174
Nile 170
London 143
Greater London 130
Cymru 124
Thames 124
Kent 122
Seine 122
Devon 112
Ireland 89
Lazio 78
Suffolk 74
North Yorkshire 71
Nubia 71
Surrey 70
Cornwall 67
English Channel 67
Cumbria 63
Rome 61

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 23
Calvert, Edward (English painter and printmaker, 1799–1883) 10
Bacchus 6
Mercury 6
Apollo 5
Cephalus 5
Diana 5
Procris 5
Argus 4
Actaeon 3
Aesacus 3
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Glaucus 3
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 3
Milton, John (1608–1674), poet and polemicist 3
Scylla 3
Venus 3
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 3
Cupid 2
Herse, figure in Greek mythology, daughter of Cecrops, sister to Aglauros and Pandrosos 2
Hesperie 2
Joshua 2
Juliet (character in Romeo and Juliet) 2
Niobe 2
Pan (god) 2
Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC–19 BC), classical Roman poet 2
Rispah 2
Sibyl of Cumae 2
Syrinx, nymph and follower of Artemis 2
Adam 1

Exhibition History

Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) 139
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 137
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 111
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 106
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) 96
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 90
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 76
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 75
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 73
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 62
Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09) 61
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 61
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 60
John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) 59
Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 51
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 50
J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27) 48
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 47
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) 43
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) 43
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) 43
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) 43
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) 43
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) 43
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 41
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 41
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 41
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 41
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 41
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 41

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 7,488
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 499
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 300
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 289
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 202
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter 114
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 89
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane 85
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 74
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louise Lippincott, Yale BA 1974 70
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 60
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 58
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 54
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 50
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe 48
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 41
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 41
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 39
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914 35
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Daniel Bell 33
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W 30
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935 27
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 25
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 22
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 21
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 19
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 18
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, B.A. 1905 18
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 17
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Archer Gee for History of Art (History of Prints) 17

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On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Weary Ploughman

1858
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Paestum

between 1820 and 1826
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Gloucester Cathedral

1820 to 1825
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

St. Michael's Mount

1820 to 1826
Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961

Snow at Charleston

ca. 1950
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Painter's Holiday

ca. 1844
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Landscape near Clifton

1822 to 1823
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Boat Building near Dinan, Brittany

ca. 1838
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

End of Lake Geneva

1835
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

ca. 1843
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Hampstead Heath, Sunset

ca. 1845
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Mountain Torrent

between 1820 and 1830
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge

between 1816 and 1818
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

A View across the Artist's Garden from his House at Exmouth, Devonshire

mid-19th century
Attributed to Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Sunset at Sea after a Storm

ca. 1824
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge at Sunset

ca. 1850
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

July 15 1949 (St Ives harbour)

1949
Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982

1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

1947
Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925

The Ford

1918 to 1919
On view
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Harvest Moon

ca. 1833
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Sketch from Nature in Sion Park

1819
John Constable, 1776–1837

Dedham Lock

between 1819 and 1820
John Constable, 1776–1837

Extensive Landscape with Grey Clouds

ca. 1821
Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

Summer - Evening Landscape

ca. 1825
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hampstead Heath

between 1820 and 1830
John Constable, 1776–1837

Malvern Hall, Warwickshire

1820 to 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning after a Stormy Night

1829
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

ca. 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Ploughing Scene in Suffolk

1824 to 1825
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Stratford Mill

1819 to 1820
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

ca. 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Stormy Sea, Brighton

ca. 1828
John Constable, 1776–1837

East Bergholt

ca. 1813
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1822
John Constable, 1776–1837

Lane near Dedham

1802
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hove Beach

1824 to 1828
John Constable, 1776–1837

Bardon Hill, Coleorton Hall

ca. 1823
John Constable, 1776–1837

Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill

ca. 1820
John Constable, 1776–1837

Fen Lane, East Bergholt

ca. 1811
John Constable, 1776–1837

Rushes by a pool

ca. 1821

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