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Prints and Drawings 24,222
Rare Books and Manuscripts 211

Creator

Unknown artist 3,823
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 2,972
Vanity, Fair, 1868–1914 1,274
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 856
Ward, Leslie Matthew ("Spy"), 1851–1922 785
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 724
Blake, William, 1757–1827 680
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 370
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 363
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 319
Miller, William, 1796–1882 287
Van Dyck, Anthony, Sir, 1599–1641 263
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 259
Pellegrini, Carlo ("Ape" and "Singe"), 1839–1889 237
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811 232
Heath, James, 1757–1834 230
The, Paragon Press 203
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 201
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 201
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 196
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 194
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 188
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 181
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857 176
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 170
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779 163
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 162
Pond, Arthur, ca. 1705–1758 159
Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 159
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785 158

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To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 24,430
On view 3

Image Use

Free to Use 21,833
Under Certain Circumstances 2,600

Image Available

available 24,433

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 24,433

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 474
Picturesque Views in England and Wales 387
Turner's Annual Tour- The Seine 207
Liber Studiorum 195
Icones Principum Virorum 177
Scott's Prose Works 155
Rogers's Poems 154
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 138
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 136
Young's Night Thoughts 120
Scott's Poetical Works 119
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 115
Rivers of France 112
Rogers's Italy 102
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 100
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 96
The Life of Christ 89
Jake and Dinos' Disasters of War 85
Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Bible 77
Album of Prints after Old Master Drawings 75
Whitaker's History of Richmondshire 74
Campbell's Poetical Works 72
Gay's Fables 70
Arthur Pond's Album 69
Illustrations of The Book of Job 69
The Keepsake 68
Byron's Life and Works 63
Michelangelo's Capella Sistina 63
A Picturesque Tour of Italy 62
A Series of Sketches of Cottages, Landscapes, Trees, Bridges, Waterfalls, Ruins, Castles, Boats, &c., by F. Calvert, Sixty Plates 60

Period

19th century 11,367
18th century 8,616
20th century 1,930
17th century 616
18th century-19th century 343
17th century-18th century 333
19th century-20th century 188
16th century 161
21st century 148
16th century-17th century 6
20th century-21st century 3

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 6,163
etching (printing process) 5,396
laid paper 4,403
line engraving 4,130
mezzotint 3,089
stipple engraving 1,448
watercolor 737
aquatint 699
drypoint 648
chine collé 616
hand coloring 563
engraving (printing process) 496
lithography 492
brown ink 309
relief etching 280
color printing 250
black ink 228
soft-ground etching 202
colored ink 163
wood engraving (process) 140
screen printing 134
woodcut (process) 129
plate tone 122
photogravure 120
chiaroscuro woodcut 109
Asian paper 99
letterpress printing 96
card 82
graphite 78
Engraving 63

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Work Type

intaglio print 12,924
relief print 854
planographic print 782
watercolor 398
drawing 213
photomechanical print 175
ephemera 135
architectural subject 71
ticket 71
cut-paper work 64
botanical illustration 59
frontispiece 54
valentine 54
embossed paper 48
lithograph 41
advertisement 40
scrap 36
chromolithograph 34
engraving 30
photograph 28
trade cards (advertising) 27
digital print 23
aquatint 18
panorama 17
cupid 13
view 12
collage 11
trade card 11
etching 10
woodcut 10

Genre

landscape 3,258
architectural subject 3,124
portrait 2,922
genre subject 2,252
literary theme 1,648
religious and mythological subject 1,472
marine art 1,416
cityscape 1,183
animal art 643
military art 543
historical subject 517
figure study 441
abstract art 323
sporting art 182
botanical subject 143
still life 126
cartographic material 36
anatomical study 5

Subject Terms

portrait 1,750
architectural subject 1,489
river 1,180
genre subject 1,157
men 1,079
landscape 977
trees 969
religious and mythological subject 943
man 934
cityscape 717
literary theme 685
women 677
woman 646
landscape (representation) 559
costume 542
marine art 526
satire 505
clouds 498
caricature 437
church 435
text 359
children 353
buildings 351
castle 339
caricatures 314
coat 310
hats 292
animal art 288
hills 285
historical subject 259

Subject Period

19th century 86
18th century 7
17th century 2
20th century 2

Associated Places

United Kingdom 1,318
England 1,225
Europe 1,051
France 521
London 341
Seine 295
Scotland 209
Italy 208
India 206
South Asia 205
Greater London 190
City of Westminster 164
Île-de-France 146
Great Britain 119
Palace of Westminster 117
Thames 113
Paris 103
Loire 100
English Channel 88
Rome 84
Devon 70
North America 70
Lazio 63
Germany 61
Kent 58
Cornwall 51
North Yorkshire 49
Suffolk 48
Wales 48
Durham 45

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 577
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 51
Cupid 44
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 35
Jesus 32
The Virgin Mary 29
Venus 26
Fox, Charles James (1749–1806), politician 25
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 22
Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 21
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 21
saint 20
Jack Sheppard 17
Bacchus 16
Dyck, Sir Anthony Van (1599–1641), painter and etcher 15
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 15
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 14
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 14
Mary 13
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 12
Paul, the Apostle, St. (c. AD 5–c. AD 67) 11
Bentinck, Lord George (1802–1848), politician/statesman, athlete/sportsman 10
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811), British politician and lawyer 10
Mercury 10
Peter, the Apostle, St. (ca. 1 BC - ca. 68 AD) 10
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 10
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 9
Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton (bap. 1765, d. 1815), social celebrity and artist's model 9
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652), architect and theatre designer 9
Juno 9

Exhibition History

The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 226
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 199
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 199
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 176
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 156
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 133
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 99
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 79
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 78
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 67
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 53
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 52
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 46
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 43
Fancy Pieces - Genre Mezzotints by Robert Robinson & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1994-11-19 - 1995-01-29) 41
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 41
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) 41
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) 41
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) 41
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 38
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 38
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 36
Darkness Into Light - The Early Mezzotint (Yale University Art Gallery, 1976-02-03 - 1976-04-11) 36
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 34
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 33
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 32
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 32
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 31
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) 28
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 28

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15,682
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 2,125
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1,310
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 1,085
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 384
Yale Center for British Art 319
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 278
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 221
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 207
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 149
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 122
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 116
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 93
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972, and Theodore C. and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Yale MCP 1964 91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 84
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 82
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louise Lippincott, Yale BA 1974 69
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 63
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 57
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 56
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 49
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 48
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 42
Yale Center for British Art, The Edwin M. Herr, Yale PhD 1884, Memorial Collection; Gift of Mrs. Herr, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 42
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Prof. William H. Dunham Jr. 42
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 41
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden 38
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 38
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 34
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 29

Language

English 202
French 5
German 2

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Edward Radclyffe, 1809–1863

The Mansion at the Deepdene. Seat of Henry Thomas Hope, Esq

1845
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Barber, ca. 1768–1843

Deep-Dene, South Front - Surrey

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
M. J. Starling, active 1830

Interior of the Hall at the Deepdene

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
William Wallis, 1794– active 1830

Deep-Dene. East or Carriage Front, Surrey

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
Christian von Mechel, 1737–1817

Welgelegen: Vue de la Facade de la Maison de Campagne nommee Welgelegen au Bois de... [Read more]

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
William H. Hoogkamer, 1790–1864

Welgelegen:Vue du Pavillon de Harlem prise du Bois

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Mary Dawson Turner, 1774–1850

Portrait of Benjamin Robert Haydon

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766

Lady Fenoulhet
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Worlidge, 1700–1766

Self-Portrait

1752
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Yoshijiro Urushibara, Japanese, 1888–1953

Sheet of Figure Studies after Brangwyn

1940
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789

Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

ca. 1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Rhinoceros of Africa

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Nisser Werk

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Nisser Tokoor

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Abba Gumba

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Sheregrig

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Bee Cuckoo

1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Abou Hannes

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Arab of Loheia, Tribe Beni Koreish

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

Rachamah

1790
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Section of the Canja

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Statue of a Man

ca. 1804
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Painting in the Sepulchres of Thebes

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

No. 1 - A Table of Hieroglyphics found at Axum

1771-1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Painting in Fresco in the Sepulchres of Thebes

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Arab Shekh, Tribe Beni Koreish

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Obelisk at Axum

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Examples of Ceremonial Dress of Soldiers

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Rochester

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Rochester

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853

Chepstow

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Bridgenorth

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Peterborough

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Nottingham

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Ely

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Chester

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Peterborough

1796
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Walker, active 1792–1803

Flint, from Park-Gate

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Carlisle

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853

Birmingham

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Wakefield

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Hampton Court Palace, Herefordshire

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Westminster Bridge

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Sheffield

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853

Chelsea Hospital

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by J. Widnell, Active 1795

Matlock

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808

Elgin Cathedral, Morayshire

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Tagg, died 1809

Oxford

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Tagg, died 1809

Flint

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Rothwell, ca. 1742–1807

Swansea

1795

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