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Prints and Drawings 307
Paintings and Sculpture 121

Creator

Constable, John, 1776–1837 39
Unknown artist 31
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 25
Ward, James, 1769–1859 16
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 12
Haden, Francis Seymour, Sir, 1818–1910 9
Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797 7
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 7
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 6
Briscoe, Arthur John Reginald Trevor, 1873–1943 6
Constable, Lionel, 1828–1887 6
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 6
Wilson, Richard, 1713–1782 6
Arnald, George, 1763–1841 5
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 5
Blake, William, 1757–1827 5
Danby, Francis, 1793–1861 5
Davidson, Bruce, born 1933 5
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802 5
London, Transport, 1937–2004 5
Brooking, Charles, 1723–1759 4
Callow, William, 1812–1908 4
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 4
Fennitzer, George, active 1697–1700 4
Martin, John, 1789–1854 4
McLean, Thomas, 1788–1875 4
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 4
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794 4
Turner, Charles, 1774–1857 4
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797 4

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 306
Not on view 98
On view 24

Image Use

Free to Use 376
Under Certain Circumstances 52

Image Available

available 420
unavailable 8

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 159
Prints 135
Paintings 118
Photographs 6
Posters 6
Ceramics 2
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 1
Painted Objects 1

Collective Title

Beaumont Album 5
Liber Studiorum 4
Political Sketches 3
The Temple of Flora; or Garden of Nature, London: 1799-1812 3
The Tragedy of Macbeth 3
A Curious Herbal, Volume 2, London: 1737 2
For Japaning, Where May Be Had 200 Different Sorts 2
Liber Veritatis 2
The Natural History of the Rare Lepidopterious insects of Georgia, London: 1797. Volume 2 2
The Poems of Thomas Gray 2
Études à l'eau-forte 2
A Voyage Round Great Britain 1
Alfred Crowquill's Grotesque Christmas 1
Brighton, 1839 1
Canceled Set 1
Communia Gaudia (The Wide-Spread Rejoicing at the Siege of Namur) 1
For Children: The Gates of Paradise, Copy E 1
History of Quadrupeds 1
Hortus Nitidissimis Omnem per Annum Superbiens Floribus, Nuremburg: 1768. 1
Illustrations of the Bible 1
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 1
King Lear 1
L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane 1
Original Views of London As It Is, 1842 1
Romeo and Juliet 1
The Four Stages of Cruelty 1
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 1
The Progress of a Midshipman Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead in Seven Plates & Frontispiece 1
The Spoiled Child 1
The Tempest 1

Period

19th century 226
18th century 110
18th century-19th century 38
20th century 37
17th century 7
17th century-18th century 5
19th century-20th century 4
16th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 177
oil paint 119
painting (technique) 119
graphite 114
laid paper 103
watercolor 102
etching (printing process) 79
canvas 69
brown ink 45
black ink 40
mezzotint 37
gouache 31
line engraving 31
pen 29
drypoint 24
hand coloring 22
paper 21
gray wash 19
panel (wood) 18
card 16
lithography 13
board 12
plate tone 11
scratching out 11
aquatint 10
brown wash 10
scraping 10
scraping out 10
black chalk 9
gum 9

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 157
watercolor 120
painting 119
intaglio print 115
planographic print 20
relief print 8
photograph 6
poster 6
frontispiece 2
ticket 2

Genre

landscape 211
genre subject 81
marine art 60
animal art 35
architectural subject 32
literary theme 31
portrait 31
religious and mythological subject 22
still life 22
botanical subject 20
cityscape 16
historical subject 7
figure study 6
abstract art 5
sporting art 5
anatomical study 1
cartographic material 1
military art 1

Subject Terms

science 428

landscape 192
meteorology 167
clouds 126
storm 98
trees 88
men 87
geology 78
genre subject 76
rocks (landforms) 72
marine art 56
mountains 56
botany 51
river 50
sky 48
sea 47
waves (natural events) 46
hills 42
costume 37
boats 36
man 35
portrait 33
woman 33
animal art 32
water 32
architectural subject 31
botanical subject 31
cliffs 31
birds 30
bridge (built work) 30

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 98
Europe 90
England 67
Italy 23
Wales 21
Cymru 17
Greater London 11
Scotland 11
London 8
Napoli 7
Switzerland 7
Vesuvius 7
Campania 6
Kent 6
Thames 6
Asia 5
Devon 5
Hampstead 5
Meuse 5
Wiltshire 5
East Sussex 4
Greece 4
Lazio 4
Tivoli 4
Avon 3
Cumbria 3
English Channel 3
Essex 3
Fleet 3
France 3

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 13
Bacon, John (1777–1859), sculptor 3
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright 3
Milton, John (1608–1674), poet and polemicist 3
The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth) 3
Amelia 2
Apollo 2
Celadon 2
Diana 2
Fothergill, John (1712–1780), physician and naturalist 2
Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 2
Miranda (character in The Tempest) 2
Neptune 2
Niobe 2
Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger] (1759–1806), prime minister 2
Prospero (character in The Tempest) 2
Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC–19 BC), classical Roman poet 2
The Virgin Mary 2
Wood, Sir Charles, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800 - 1885), politician/statesman 2
Abel Drugger (character in The Alchemist) 1
Antigonus (character in The Winter's Tale) 1
Ariel (character in The Tempest) 1
Armstrong, John (1709–1779), physician, author/poet 1
Bacon, Catherine (1735–?) 1
Bacon, Catherine (née Lowther, life dates unknown) 1
Bacon, Charles (1733–1743) 1
Bacon, John (1709–1752) 1
Bacon, John William (1733–1767) of Staward, Styford, and Newton Cap, Governor of Bridewell 1
Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet (1743–1820), naturalist and patron of science 1
Banquo (character in Macbeth) 1

Exhibition History

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) 29
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 28
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 23
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 15
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 15
J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27) 14
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 13
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 13
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 11
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 10
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 10
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 10
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) 10
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) 10
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) 10
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) 10
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) 9
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) 8
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) 8
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) 8
Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09) 8
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 8
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 7
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 7
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16) 7
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02) 7
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) 6
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05) 6
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) 6
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06) 6

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 308
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 37
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961 8
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 4
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 3
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 3
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 3
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends 2
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift 1
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Professor G. Evelyn Hutchinson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Richard L. Purdy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Collection of Doreen Gehry Nelson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Friedman, Yale BA 1975, JD 1978 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson, Ltd. 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Keith C. Marshall, Yale BA 1968 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stanley J. Halle, Yale BA 1912, in memory of His Parents Jacques S. and Hattie S. Halle, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation 1

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Attributed to Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Sunset at Sea after a Storm

ca. 1824
On view
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Harvest Moon

ca. 1833
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hadleigh Castle

1828 to 1829
Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837

Study of Hollyhocks

ca. 1826
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
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1822
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

ca. 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

A Cloud Study, Sunset

ca. 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study, Early Morning, Looking East from Hampstead

1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

A View at Hampstead with Stormy Weather

ca. 1830
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1822
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study with Trees

1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Undergrowth

ca. 1815
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Rushes by a pool

ca. 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Extensive Landscape with Grey Clouds

ca. 1821
John Constable, 1776–1837

Hampstead Heath

ca. 1825
John Constable, 1776–1837

Study of a Cloudy Sky

ca. 1825
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

ca. 1821
On view
John Constable, 1776–1837

Cloud Study

ca. 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Port Ruysdael

exhibited 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Squally Weather

between 1840 and 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore

between 1840 and 1845
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Zagori, Greece

1860
Accessible in the Study Room
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Hope near Bergen

ca. 1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

The Avon Gorge, Looking toward Clifton

ca. 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
attributed to Francis Danby, 1793–1861

Subterranean Pool with Sculptural Torchere

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Francis Danby, 1793–1861

A Lake in Norway

ca. 1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Lonely Tower

1879
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Cypress Grove

between 1880 and 1883
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Cypress Grove

plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Homeward Star

begun ca. 1880
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Lonely Tower

1879
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Homeward Star

etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

The Lonely Tower

1868

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