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Prints and Drawings 274
Paintings and Sculpture 50

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Buckler, John Chessell, 1793–1894 105
Buckler, John FSA, 1770–1851 105
Unknown artist 31
Malton, James, 1761–1803 14
Riou, Stephen, 1720–1780 13
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 8
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796 7
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809 6
Burney, Edward Francis, 1760–1848 5
Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819 5
Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664–1726 5
Angus, William, 1752–1821 4
COPE, Charles, 1782–1827 4
Ellis, William, 1747–1810 4
Havell, Daniel, 1785–1826 4
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832 4
Knyff, Leonard, 1650–1721 4
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 4
Morris, Roger, 1695–1749 4
Sanderson, John, active 1730; died 1774 4
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729 3
Churton, Edward, 1781 or 1782–1855 3
Constable, John, 1776–1837 3
Cox, David, 1783–1859 3
Devis, Arthur, 1711–1787 3
Edridge, Henry, 1769–1821 3
Haden, Francis Seymour, Sir, 1818–1910 3
Hearne, Thomas, 1744–1817 3
Johnson, Joseph, 1738–1809 3
Nash, John, 1752–1835 3

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 274
Not on view 34
On view 16

Image Use

Free to Use 310
Under Certain Circumstances 14

Image Available

available 321
unavailable 3

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 174
Drawings & Watercolors 63
Paintings 49
Prints 36
Photographs 1
Posters 1

Collective Title

Castellated and Domestic Architecture of England and Wales from the 11th Century to the 19th, Vol. 2, Drawn by J. Buckler, F.S.A. & J.C. Buckler for T. L. Parker, Esqr. 105
Piante e Alzate di Diverse Fabbriche 13
The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry in Great Britain and Wales in a Collection of Select Views 4
Views of Windsor Castle 3
Views of the Ruins of the Principal Houses Destroyed During the Riots at Birmingham 3
Vues des ruines des principaux batiments qui ont souffert dans les emeutes de Birmingham 3
A Voyage Round Great Britain 2
Scott's Poetical Works 2
Two Sketches of Headfort House 2
Mansions of England and Wales, Berkshire 1
Manufacturing of Linen 1
Selection from a Sketchbook of London Views 1
The Virtuosi's Museum 1

Period

19th century 191
18th century 91
18th century-19th century 25
17th century 6
17th century-18th century 6
16th century 2
20th century 2

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 186
black ink 164
watercolor 156
graphite 100
laid paper 74
pen 52
painting (technique) 49
oil paint 43
canvas 41
gray wash 40
brown ink 35
etching (printing process) 28
brown wash 15
vellum (paper) 14
line engraving 13
aquatint 11
gray ink 9
gouache 7
pens 7
colored ink 6
drypoint 4
chine collé 3
lithography 3
paper 3
plate tone 3
scraping 3
Asian paper 2
hand coloring 2
stipple engraving 2
Wedgwood ware 1

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Work Type

drawing 236
watercolor 192
painting 50
intaglio print 34
planographic print 4
photograph 1
poster 1

Genre

architectural subject 270
landscape 87
genre subject 35
portrait 9
animal art 6
sporting art 3
cityscape 2
literary theme 2
botanical subject 1
marine art 1
still life 1

Subject Terms

country house 324

architectural subject 269
windows 111
trees 100
landscape 96
mullions 71
chimneys 62
house 53
Elizabethan 42
park (grounds) 42
finials 39
men 39
parapets 35
mansion 34
balustrades 33
garden 32
genre subject 32
river 32
pilasters 31
Jacobean 29
horses (animals) 29
hills 28
Tudor 25
castle 24
columns (architectural elements) 23
statues 23
strapwork 21
path 20
arches 19
clouds 19

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 225
England 215
Europe 173
Greater London 13
Italy 13
Wiltshire 13
Ireland 12
Hertfordshire 11
Kent 11
Staffordshire 11
Northamptonshire 10
Leinster 9
London 9
Derbyshire 8
Burton Agnes 7
Burton Agnes Hall 7
Headfort House 7
Kells 7
Meath 7
North Yorkshire 7
Wales 7
East Riding of Yorkshire 6
Lancashire 6
Lincolnshire 6
Nottinghamshire 6
Surrey 6
Thames 6
Warwickshire 6
Boroughbridge 5
Bristol 5

Associated People

Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664–1726), playwright and architect 5
Atherton, Robert Vernon Gwillym (ca. 1741–1783) 1
Barrett, Thomas (1744–1803), antiquary 1
Chester, Peter (1717/18–1799), army officer and colonial governor 1
Flora 1
Foote, Samuel (bap. 1721, d. 1777), actor and playwright 1
Garrick [née Veigel], Eva Maria [performing name Violette] (1724–1822), dancer, 1
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 1
Gibbs, James (1682–1754), architect 1
Gwillym, Elizabeth (née Atherton, 1721–1763) 1
Gwillym, Jane (life dates unknown) 1
Gwillym, Robert (ca. 1714–1776) 1
Gwillym, Robert (life dates unknown), father of Robert Gwillym (ca. 1714–1776) 1
Gwillym, William (life dates unknown) 1
Locker (née Parry), Lucy ( -1780) 1
Locker, Edward Hawke (1777–1849), hospital administrator and watercolour painter 1
Locker, Elizabeth (b. 1776) 1
Locker, Lucy (b. 1771) 1
Locker, William (1731–1800), Royal Navy Officer 1
Minerva 1
Neptune 1
Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), poet 1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 1
Stanhope, William, first earl of Harrington (1683?–1756), diplomatist and politician 1
Taylor, Brook, mathematician (1685–1731) 1
Venus 1
Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717–1797) 1
Wyatt, James (1746–1813), architect 1

Exhibition History

Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29) 42
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 16
British Architectural Drawings (Yale Center for British Art) (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-04-21 - 1982-05-30) 8
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 8
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 6
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 6
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) 5
The Garden (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1979-05-21 - 1979-08-26) 5
2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 4
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20) 4
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02) 4
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 4
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30) 4
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) 3
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (National Gallery of Scotland, 2009-11-07 - 2010-02-07) 3
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2009-07-25 - 2009-10-18) 3
Picturing Britain - Paul Sandby (1731-1809) - A Bicentenary Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts, 2010-03-13 - 2010-06-13) 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
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 2
Art in Focus : William III (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-04-08 - 2011-07-31) 2
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 2
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 2
Inventing Old Virginia : The Decline and Rise of a Pastoral Ideal (Virginia Historical Society, 2003-02-22 - 2003-06-15) 2
Ireland - Art on a World Stage 1690-1840 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-03-17 - 2015-06-07) 2
Irish Silver (Clark Art Institute, 1984-09-25 - 1984-12-11) 2
Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03) 2
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01) 2
The Anglo-Dutch Garden in the age of William and Mary (Christie's (UK), 1989-01-03 - 1989-02-02) 2

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 296
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 4
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, B.A. 1905 4
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 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove 2
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower 1
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mr. Ernest Hillman, Jr. 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Malkin 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett 1
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1

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John Constable, 1776–1837

Malvern Hall, Warwickshire

1820 to 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

West Lodge, East Bergholt

between 1813 and 1816
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Labourers

1781
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Knowsley Hall

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

Knowsley Hall

ca. 1834
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Knowsley Hall

ca. 1834
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

A Country House

ca. 1834
On view
Jan Siberechts, 1627–ca. 1703

Wollaton Hall and Park, Nottinghamshire

1697
On view
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809

Hackwood Park, Hampshire

undated, exhibited 1764
Peter Casteels, 1684–1749

Domestic cock, hens, and chicks in a park

1730
George Chinnery, 1774–1852

An English Family in Macao

ca. 1835
Henry Barraud, 1811–1874

Children with Horse and Dog

ca. 1836
Henry Bernard Chalon, 1771–1849

The Earl of Shrewsbury's Groom Holding a Hunter

ca. 1800
On view
Perhaps Jan van der Vaart, 1647–1721

Bifrons Park, Kent

between 1695 and 1705
On view
Jan Stevens, died 1722

South Prospect of Hampton Court, Herefordshire

ca. 1705
On view
George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784

Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland

between 1760 and 1762
William Ashford, 1746–1824

Landscape with Haymakers and a Distant View of a Georgian House

ca. 1780
Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755

Pope's Villa, Twickenham

ca. 1755
Henry Pether, active 1828–1865

Upnor Castle, Kent

ca. 1850
On view
unknown artist

Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

ca. 1705
unknown artist

Llannerch, Denbighshire, Wales

ca. 1667
On view
unknown artist

Denham Place, Buckinghamshire

ca. 1695
unknown artist

Calke Hall, Derbyshire, the Seat of Sir Henry Harpur, Bt

ca. 1734
Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755

Orleans House, Twickenham

ca. 1750
On view
Dominic Serres, 1722–1793

Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent

ca. 1779
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787

Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn... [Read more]

1763
unknown artist

The Hermitage

ca. 1772
John Martin, 1789–1854

Kensington Gardens

1815
Charles Hancock, 1802–1877

Gentlemen's Carriages: A Cabriolet

between 1820 and 1830
James Pollard, 1792–1867

The London-Faringdon Coach passing Buckland House, Berkshire

1835
unknown artist

The Billiard Room

ca. 1725
unknown artist

Trentham Park

ca. 1801
Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782

Dinas Bran from Llangollen

1770 to 1771
On view
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787

Robert Gwillym, Elizabeth Gwillym (née Atherton), and Their Family

1745 to 1747
Thomas Whitcombe, ca. 1752–ca. 1824

The Thames at Chelsea

1784
William Ashford, 1746–1824

Mount Kennedy, County Wicklow, Ireland

1785
On view
Leonard Knyff, 1650–1721

Black Game, Rabbits, and Swallows in a Park

ca. 1700
Jan Siberechts, 1627–ca. 1703

A View of Bayhall, Pembury, Kent

ca. 1675
John R. Wildman, active 1823–1839

A Hunting Party in the Grounds of a Country House

1820s-1830s
James Ward, 1769–1859

Cattle at a Pool at Sunrise

1827

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