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Prints and Drawings 1,197
Archives 38
Rare Books and Manuscripts 29
Reference Library 25
Paintings and Sculpture 12

Creator

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 1,301

Watson, James, 1740–1790 104
Unknown artist 96
McArdell, James, ca. 1729–1765 73
Smith, John Raphael, 1752–1812 56
Fisher, Edward, 1722–1785 51
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 45
Dickinson, William, 1746–1823 40
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 39
Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781 39
Jones, John, ca. 1745–1797 36
Houston, Richard, ca. 1721–1775 31
Dean, John, 1754–1798 24
Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811 23
Facius, George Siegmund, 1750–1804 23
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835 23
Purcell, Richard, active 1746–1766 19
Grozer, Joseph, ca. 1755–1798 18
Hodges, Charles Howard, 1764–1837 17
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 17
Finlayson, John, 1730–1776 16
Marchi, Giuseppe Filippo Liberati, ca. 1735–1808 14
Holl, William II, 1807–1871 13
Doughty, William, 1757–1782 12
Spilsbury, John, 1730–1795 12
Cook, Thomas, 1744–1818 11
Trotter, Thomas, ca. 1750–1803 11
Watson, Caroline, 1760–1814 10
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 9
Facius, Johann Gotlieb, 1750–after 1802 9

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 1,263
Accessible in the Reference Library 25
Not on view 7
On view 5
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 1

Image Use

Free to Use 1,181
Under Certain Circumstances 120

Image Available

available 988
unavailable 313

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 1,099
Drawings & Watercolors 93
Books 52
Archives and Manuscripts 38
Paintings 11
Photographs 4
Archives & Manuscripts 2
Print-printing-plates 1
Sculptures 1

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 353
Album of Original Sketches by Sir Joshua Reynolds 78
The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits 9
Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven 1
Macklin's British Poets 1
Portraits of Ladies in Mezzotint 1

Period

18th century 957
19th century 172
18th century-19th century 23
20th century 19
19th century-20th century 4
17th century-18th century 2
21st century 2
unknown period 1

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint 749
laid paper 685
stipple engraving 136
wove paper 113
etching (printing process) 63
brown ink 53
pen 51
graphite 41
line engraving 40
aquatint 15
black chalk 12
painting (technique) 11
oil paint 10
canvas 9
chine collé 9
engraving (printing process) 6
brown wash 5
red chalk 5
charcoal 3
black ink 2
blue chalk 2
gelatin silver process 2
silk (textile) 2
soft-ground etching 2
watercolor 2
white chalk 2
color printing 1
electrotyping 1
gouache 1
gray wash 1

Height [cm]

From

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Width [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 846
drawing 88
painting 11
photograph 4
watercolor 3
commonplace book 2
binders' stamps (binding) 1
booksellers' stamps (provenance) 1
correspondence 1
diarie 1
engravings (prints) 1
mezzotints (prints) 1
notebook 1
pictorial cloth bindings (binding) 1
portrait 1
publishers' advertisement 1
records and correspondence 1
sculpture 1

Genre

portrait 822
religious and mythological subject 88
figure study 83
literary theme 60
genre subject 53
animal art 48
military art 39
architectural subject 19
historical subject 9
landscape 8
marine art 6
sporting art 3
cityscape 2

Subject Terms

portrait 545
woman 102
figure study 81
religious and mythological subject 75
man 70
curls 48
posing 43
Description and travel 38
Painting, European 38
costume 38
child 37
clouds 37
gaze 37
trees 37
wig 36
coat 35
dress 34
Art. 29
solemn 28
sash 27
sketch 27
collar 26
boy 24
lace 24
cravat 23
robe 22
buttons 21
drapery 21
landscape 21
pearls 19

Subject Period

Associated Places

Netherlands 43
Antwerp (Belgium) 39
Belgium 39
Brussels (Belgium) 39
Germany 39
Paris (France) 39
Rotterdam (Netherlands) 39
Europe 6
United Kingdom 5
Flanders 4
Pembroke 3
Pembrokeshire 3
Rome 3
Wales 3
Scotland 2
Asia 1
Bharat 1
Cambridge (England) 1
Carthage 1
Egypt 1
England 1
Great Britain 1
India 1
Ireland 1
Italy 1
Leinster 1
Nile 1
Orkney 1
Tunis 1

Associated People

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 35
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 22
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 19
Cupid 12
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 12
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 11
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 9
Spencer (née Beauclerk), Lady Mary (1743–1812), daughter and heir of 1st Baron Vere; wife of Lord Charles Spencer 7
Du Fresnoy, Charles Alphonse, 1611–1665 5
Hebe 5
Johnson, William, d. 1779 5
Herbert, Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery (1737–1831) 4
Herbert, George Augustus, 11th Earl of Pembroke and 8th Earl of Montgomery (1759–1827), politician/statesman, military/naval 4
Herbert, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke and 7th Earl of Montgomery (1734–1794), military/naval 4
Jansen, Hendrik, 1741-1812 4
Jesus 4
Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess 4
O'Brien, Mary, 3rd Countess of Orkney (1755–1831) 4
Robertson, William (1721–1793), cleric/religious official, academic/intellectual 4
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 4
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 4
Zeus 4
Abington, Frances Barton, 1737-1815 3
Bacchus 3
Bacon, John, 1740-1799 3
Bampfylde (née Moore), Lady Catherine (1754–1832), Wife of Sir Charles Bampfylde; mother of 1st Lord Poltimore 3
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 3
Beaumont, George Howland, Sir, 1753-1827 3
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 3
Burke, Jane Mary Nugent, 1734-1812 3

Exhibition History

Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 20
Rembrandt in Eighteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, 1983-10-19 - 1983-12-30) 12
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 5
Rubenism (Bell Art Gallery, 1975-01-30 - 1975-02-23) 4
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 4
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 3
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 3
Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07) 3
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) 3
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 3
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 3
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 3
"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10) 2
American Colonial Portraits (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1987-10-09 - 1988-01-10) 2
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 2
Image of America During the Revolution (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1976-07-01 - 1976-09-30) 2
Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-01) 2
Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005-05-21 - 2005-09-18) 2
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 2
Sir Joshua Reynolds - experiments in paint (The Wallace Collection, London, 2015-03-12 - 2015-06-07) 2
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 2
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 2
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 1
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 1
Art in Focus : William III (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-04-08 - 2011-07-31) 1
Benjamin West : Fidelia and Speranza (Timken Museum of Art, 2004-11-05 - 2005-02-27) 1
Caught in the Act - Portraits of Women in the Eighteenth Century (National Portrait Gallery, 2011-10-20 - 2012-01-08) 1
Citizens and Kings, Portraiture in the Age of David and Goya - 1770-1830 (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2006-10-02 - 2007-01-09) 1
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 1
Crown to Couture (Kensington Palace, 2023-04-05 - 2023-10-29) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 637
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 350
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 172
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 6
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 5
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 2
22612477600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22612477630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22666769520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22682976140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22826757860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 1
22836297640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles 1
22946080050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Frederick W. Hilles, Yale BA 1922, transfer from the Yale University Library 1
22961164200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22961235780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22964587290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 1
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd. 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918 1
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 1

Language

English 50
French 2
Italian 2

Archival Collections

Joshua Reynolds Archive 38

Archival Collection Level

object 37
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Anker Smith, 1759–1819

Samuel Johnson

1802
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
R. Page, active 1816–1825

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Graves, 1798–1873

Johnson and other portraits
Accessible in the Study Room
William Camden Edwards, 1777–1855

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857

Samuel Johnson

1820
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Samuel Johnson

1806
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
James Neagle, 1760–1822

Samuel Johnson

1805
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Edward Wellmore, active 1835

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
John Edwards, 1763–1812

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Samuel Johnson

1785
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Josey, 1840/41–1906

Samuel Johnson

ca. 1880
Accessible in the Study Room
John Edwards, 1763–1812

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
George H. Every, 1837–1910

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1866
Accessible in the Study Room
John Maurer, active 1713–1761

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Accessible in the Study Room
John Scott, 1774–1828

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1877
Accessible in the Study Room
George H. Every, 1837–1910

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1866
Accessible in the Study Room
William Bond, active 1772–1831, died 1842

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Joshua Reynolds

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
T. W. Hunt, 19th century

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Accessible in the Study Room
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804

One of a set of engravings of the West Window of The Chapel New College,... [Read more]

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
James Posselwhite, 1798–1884

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Edwards, 1738–1806

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P. R. A

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
William Ridley, 1764–1838

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804

Fortitude

1782
Accessible in the Study Room
William Doughty, 1757–1782

Samuel Johnson

1779
Accessible in the Study Room
William Doughty, 1757–1782

Samuel Johnson

1779
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Samuel Johnson

1785
Accessible in the Study Room
James Watson, 1740–1790

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808

Dr. Goldsmith
Accessible in the Study Room
James Hardy, active 1770s

Edmund Burke, Esq
Accessible in the Study Room
Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808

Dr. Goldsmith
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Townley, 1746–c.1800

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Mrs. Siddons
Accessible in the Study Room
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Mrs. Lenox

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836

David Garrick, Esq

1779
Accessible in the Study Room
Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808

Dr. Goldsmith

1770
Accessible in the Study Room
George Murray, died 1822

Dr. Johnson's Sermons

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Henry Hoppner Meyer, ca. 1782–1847

Samuel Johnson

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
George Murray, died 1822

Dr. Johnson's Sermons

1819
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
John Hall, 1739–1797

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William Henry Worthington, ca. 1790–active 1839

Samuel Johnson

1825
Accessible in the Study Room
William Thomas Fry, 1789–1843

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Dr. Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Brown, active 1839–1869

Dr. Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Wellmore, active 1835

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835

Dr. Johnson

1835
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Samuel Johnson

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
James Fittler, 1758–1835

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
R. Page, active 1816–1825

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Cooper, active ca. 1800–1836

Samuel Johnson

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
William Thomas Fry, 1789–1843

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William John Alais, active 1877–1894

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Philip Audinet, 1766–1837

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Dr. Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Samuel Johnson

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
John Hall, 1739–1797

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
John Hall, 1739–1797

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
John Hall, 1739–1797

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Josey, 1840/41–1906

Samuel Johnson

1880
Accessible in the Study Room
R. Page, active 1816–1825

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Richard Josey, 1840/41–1906

Samuel Johnson

1880
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
John Spilsbury, 1730–1795

Giuseppi Marchi
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

John Dunning

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836

David Garrick, Esq

1779
Accessible in the Study Room
William Say, 1768–1834

The Society of Dilettanti

between 1800 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

[Samuel] Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William Thomas Fry, 1789–1843

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
William Holl II, 1807–1871

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803

Samuel Johnson

1781
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Townley, 1746–c.1800

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1777
Accessible in the Study Room
William Dickinson, 1746–1823

Dr. Peirrcy

1775
Accessible in the Study Room
William Thomas Fry, 1789–1843

Samuel Johnson
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert Cooper, active ca. 1800–1836

Samuel Johnson

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Medardus Thoenert, 1754–1814

Angelica Kauffmann
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Shury, active 1812

Sir William Chambers
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Cochran, active 1825–1854

Sir William Jones

ca. 1832
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812

Emma Hart as Bacchante

1784
Accessible in the Study Room
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792

Original Sketches by Sir Joshua Reynolds

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906

Study after Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Cornet Nehemiah Winter, 11th Dragoons

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