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Prints and Drawings 725
Paintings and Sculpture 58
Rare Books and Manuscripts 20
Archives 7

Creator

Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797 178
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 116
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 51
Unknown artist 45
Hakewill, James, 1778–1843 29
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 23
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782 23
Brabazon, Hercules Brabazon, 1821–1906 21
Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758–1838 21
Bowles, & Carver, 1763–1830 20
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 20
MacPherson, Robert, 1814–1872 18
Miller, William, 1796–1882 16
Smith, John, 1749–1831 16
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 15
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780 13
Bowles, John, 1701–1779 12
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 12
Murray, John, founded 1768 11
Austin, Robert, 1895–1973 10
Bowles, Thomas, ca. 1712–1767 10
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802 10
Foster, Myles Birket, 1825–1899 9
Jones, Thomas, 1742–1803 9
Labruzzi, Carlo, 1748–1817 9
Pye, John, 1782–1874 9
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797 9
Affleck, Andrew Fairbairn, 1874/7–1936 8
Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713–1770 8
Gore, Charles, 1729–1807 8

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 752
Not on view 46
On view 12

Image Use

Free to Use 753
Under Certain Circumstances 57

Image Available

available 810

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 467
Prints 208
Paintings 58
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 27
Photographs 23
Books 12
Archives and Manuscripts 7
Archives & Manuscripts 4
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 2
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 2

Collective Title

Beaumont Album 154
A Picturesque Tour of Italy 28
Rogers's Italy 18
[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" 18
Piante e Alzate di Diverse Fabbriche 13
The Keepsake 13
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 12
Rogers's Poems 8
Byron's Life and Works 7
North Italian Set 7
Six Venice Etchings 7
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 7
Scott's Prose Works 4
A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804 3
Little Liber, or Sequels to the Liber Studiorum 2
The Turner Gallery 2
Venice Set 2
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 1
Cahier de six sujets 1
Dr. Broadley's Poems 1
Drawing made in Italy and Asia Minor during Grand Tour 1
Fourteen Vases from the Antique 1
Italian Sketchbook 1
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 1
Romeo and Juliet 1
Twelve Original Views in Italy 1
Views Drawn from Nature in the Neighborhood of Rome and Abruzzo etc. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. In the Years 1786 to 1790 1

Period

18th century 375
19th century 296
18th century-19th century 47
20th century 44
19th century-20th century 24
16th century 8
17th century 8
17th century-18th century 1

Materials & Techniques

graphite 430
laid paper 361
wove paper 312
watercolor 194
etching (printing process) 145
pen 113
brown ink 104
line engraving 97
varnish 85
black ink 64
painting (technique) 58
oil paint 56
gray wash 55
gouache 50
canvas 47
brown wash 46
chine collé 38
black chalk 26
drypoint 24
gray ink 22
albumen process 20
engraving (printing process) 15
white gouache 15
vellum (paper) 14
Asian paper 13
white chalk 11
blue wash 9
card 9
aquatint 8
ground (material) 7

Height [cm]

From

To

Width [cm]

From

To

Work Type

drawing 491
watercolor 267
intaglio print 181
painting 58
photograph 26
engraving 5
aquatint 4
relief print 3
sketchbook 3
ink drawing 2
map 2
planographic print 2
albumen print 1
architectural drawing 1
armorial bookplates (provenance) 1
booksellers' labels (provenance) 1
botanical illustration 1
cameos (sculptures) 1
casts (sculpture) 1
chromolithograph 1
diagram 1
diarie 1
drawings (visual works) 1
engravings (prints) 1
etching 1
graphite drawing 1
graphoscope 1
lithograph 1
lithotint 1
manuscripts, renaissance 1

Genre

landscape 415
architectural subject 353
cityscape 208
marine art 84
genre subject 72
literary theme 15
religious and mythological subject 12
animal art 11
historical subject 9
portrait 8
figure study 7
military art 6
still life 6
botanical subject 4
sporting art 3
abstract art 1
cartographic material 1

Subject Terms

landscape 369
architectural subject 322
trees 257
Grand Tour 219
buildings 216
cityscape 198
mountains 154
hills 153
river 86
arches 79
ruins 76
men 73
boats 71
clouds 70
marine art 68
genre subject 66
church 63
rocks (landforms) 63
lake 62
sea 54
cliffs 53
bridge (built work) 50
figures 45
women 44
water 42
domes 41
architecture 39
sky 39
costume 38
landscape (representation) 38

Subject Period

19th century 1

Associated Places

Italy 810

Europe 425
Lazio 156
Rome 142
Roma 81
Venice 78
Veneto 65
Campania 50
Venezia 48
Napoli 38
Naples 34
Tivoli 33
Florence 27
Grand Canal 25
Arno 22
Toscana 21
Campagna 20
Colosseum 18
Tiber 18
Salerno 17
Firenze 15
Piedmont 15
Portici 15
Vesuvius 15
Vietri sul Mare 15
Alps 14
Albano, Lago 13
Frosinone 13
Genoa 13
Switzerland 13

Associated People

Hercules 3
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 3
Caulfeild, James, first earl of Charlemont (1728–1799), politician 2
Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt, 1730-1799 2
Jupiter 2
Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824 2
Leighton, Charlotte, d. 1928 2
Leighton, Frances Christina, d. 1930 2
Madonna 2
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 2
saints 2
Aeneas 1
Alexandra (1844–1925), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and empress of India, consort of Edward VII 1
Balthasar (character in Romeo and Juliet) 1
Brudenell-Bruce, Thomas (1729–1814), 1st Earl of Ailesbury 1
Calzoni, Francesco, -1817 1
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Prince (1831–1917) 1
Cowper, George Nassau Clavering, third Earl Cowper (1738–1789), art collector and patron 1
Edward VII (1841–1910), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and emperor of India 1
Estcourt, Thomas Grimston Bucknall, 1775–1853 1
Fellows, Charles, Sir, 1799–1860 1
Forbes, James, 1749–1819 1
Foscari, Francesco (1373–1457), doge of Venice 1
Friar Laurence (character in Romeo and Juliet) 1
Gazzola, Félix, 1698–1780 1
Giotto, 1266?-1337 1
Gore, Charles (1759–1807), British marine artist 1
Gore, Elizabeth 1
Gore, Emilie 1
Gore, Hannah Anne (ca. 1758–1826) 1

Exhibition History

Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 53
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 49
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) 37
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 19
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 12
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 12
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 12
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 12
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 12
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 11
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 11
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01) 10
J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27) 8
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) 7
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) 7
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) 7
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 7
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 7
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (National Museum Wales, 1983-01-29 - 1983-03-20) 7
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Britain, 1982-11-03 - 1983-01-02) 7
Richard Wilson - The Landscape of Reaction (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-04-20 - 1983-06-19) 7
Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (National Museum Wales, 2003-05-21 - 2003-08-10) 7
Thomas Jones (1742-1803) (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2003-08-22 - 2003-10-26) 7
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 6
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29) 6
British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27) 6
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) 6
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 6
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) 6
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 6

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 592
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 37
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 32
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 30
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 23
Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 15
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 10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Siff Erenberg 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Chapin, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 3
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Geoffrey and Renée Hartman 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum 2
22609484170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22609484190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22621875680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22628719060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22636055700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22666767790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 1
22682142510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22728276550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22742243260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22757401500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22768181370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22768304610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22776502840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22843402050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22843402070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22881076870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1

Language

English 14
Italian 3
French 2

Archival Collections

Edward Lear archive 3
Mary Leighton Collection 3
Joshua Reynolds Archive 1

Archival Collection Level

object 7

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

between 1814 and 1815
On view
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Between Olavano and Civitella

1842
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome

1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Rome from San Spirito

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Italian Hill Town

after 1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Bright Cloud

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Cypresses at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Streets of the Tombs, Pompeii

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Catania, Sicily

ca. 1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Catania, Sicily

ca. 1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Rome from Monte Mario

ca. 1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil and the Cascades

ca. 1794–97
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Venice, The Mouth of the Grand Canal

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Villa in a Valley near Vietri sul Mare

ca. 1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Villa Salviati on the Arno

between 1796 and 1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Sir William Hamilton's Villa

ca. 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Santa Lucia, A Convent near Caserta

ca. 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

From the Isola Borromena, Lago Maggiore

ca. 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Villa d'Este

ca. 1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Vesuvius in Eruption

ca. 1818–20
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Albenga

1864
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

La Cava, 20 July 1838

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

La Cava

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Genezzano, 17 May 1838

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Segni, 6 October 1838

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Campagna di Roma

1843
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Isola di Sora, 31 Mar. 1842

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

S. Pietro Degli Agostiniani. Leonessa

1844
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Reggio, 26 July 1847

1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Reggio

1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

La Cava, 19 July 1838

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Albogasio

1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Corpo di Cava, 28 June 1838

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Sorrento, 2 August 1838

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Sorrento

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Leonessa, 3 October 1844

1844
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Pettenasco, Lago d'Orta, 4:20 pm, 2 June 1867 (224)

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Campagna of Rome from Villa Mattei, from Views in Rome and its Environs, 1841

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

St. Giulio, Orta, 26 September 1837

1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Balgrate. 14. October. 1837

1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Turin, Italy

after 1872
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Siracusa, 12. June 1847

1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Catania

1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

A Study of Ferns, Civitella

1842
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Pettenasco, Lago d'Orta, 4:00 pm, 2 June 1867 (221)

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Pettenasco, Lago d'Orta

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Pettenasco, Lago d'Orta

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

View near Palermo

1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

The Capo Sant' Angelo, Amalfi

ca. 1885
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

The Pontine Marshes above Terracina

ca. 1880

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