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Prints and Drawings 51,004
Reference Library 38,750
Rare Books and Manuscripts 20,346
Archives 10,773
Paintings and Sculpture 2,460
Frames 1,786

Creator

Unknown artist 5,952
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 3,267
Unknown framemaker 1,726
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 1,077
Romney, George, 1734–1802 1,067
Blake, William, 1757–1827 925
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 871
Forbes, James, 1749–1819 812
Ward, Leslie Matthew 'Spy', 1851–1922 775
Smith, Charles Hamilton, 1776–1859 750
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 737
Simpson, William, 1823–1899 645
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 593
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 581
Jay, Bill, 1940–2009 527
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 524
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 520
Hastings, Thomas Capt., 1778–1854 520
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 477
Daniell, William, 1769–1837 435
Smirke the Younger, Robert, Sir, 1781–1867 433
Kenna, Michael, born 1953 419
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 410
Stothard, Thomas, 1755–1834 396
Morley, Lewis, 1925–2013 392
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989 345
The, Paragon Press 343
Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834 341
Gilpin, Sawrey, 1733–1807 335
Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771 330

Date

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 81,990
Accessible in the Reference Library 38,750
Not on view 2,080
On view 469
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 44

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 76,830
Free to Use 48,117

Image Available

unavailable 77,066
available 47,881

Provenance

New Additions

2024 - 2025 343

Classification

Books 52,246
Prints 27,290
Drawings & Watercolors 18,007
Archives and Manuscripts 10,773
Photographs 2,985
Paintings 2,174
Frames 1,786
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 1,746
Articles & Chapters 1,622
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 1,226
Archives & Manuscripts 777
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 756
Periodicals 669
Maps & Atlas (printed) 508
Posters 332
Videos 289
Sculptures 254
Music (printed) 247
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures 202
Brass Rubbings 163
Computer Files 151
Postcards 138
Visual Materials 73
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 44
Dissertations & Theses 23
Ceramics 18
Musical Sound Recordings 7
Print-printing-plates 6
Painted Objects 5
Manuscripts 3

Collective Title

Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 602
A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804 425
Picturesque Views in England and Wales 389
The Environs of London 320
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae 308
Photographers Photographed 301
Beaumont Album 216
Album of Drawings for Book Illustrations 214
Turner's Annual Tour- The Seine 208
Liber Studiorum 197
Sketches, Volume IV: Drawings of Isle of Wight, Hampshire and Devon 189
Collection of Sketches by Henry Swinburne 186
Icones Principum Virorum 185
Scenes from the Life of Christ 180
Studies of, 167 Drawings, and 1 Print, for Oil Paintings, by Benjamin R. Haydon 166
Monumental Brass Rubbings 163
Scott's Prose Works 157
Rogers's Poems 155
Sketches, Vol. 6: 152 Drawings of Isle of Wight, Canterbury, and Hampstead, etc. 153
Rowlandson's Sketches: Album of 150 Drawings 150
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 147
Collection of 141 Caricatures 141
Prints by Notable Dilettanti 141
Prints in Imitation of Drawings 139
Drawings for the Atlas Pocket Books, Volume 1 137
Italian Sketchbook 130
Young's Night Thoughts 120
England / Scotland 1960 119
Scott's Poetical Works 119
A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl 117

Period

19th century 36,634
20th century 34,787
18th century 19,230
21st century 15,678
18th century-19th century 4,458
17th century 1,431
19th century-20th century 785
16th century 698
17th century-18th century 491
15th century 328
20th century-21st century 40
16th century-17th century 25
unknown period 22
14th century 2
13th century 1

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 20,543
graphite 15,060
laid paper 11,671
watercolor 9,312
etching (printing process) 6,223
black ink 5,122
brown ink 4,479
line engraving 4,265
pen 4,187
mezzotint 3,385
gray wash 2,451
gouache 2,320
painting (technique) 2,157
oil paint 2,017
wood 1,768
gelatin silver process 1,674
gold leaf 1,628
photographic paper 1,587
canvas 1,560
stipple engraving 1,494
brown wash 1,208
gray ink 1,036
original gilding 963
black chalk 956
water gilding 934
aquatint 837
drypoint 826
oil gilding 705
compo 686
lithography 669

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 19,362
intaglio print 14,826
watercolor 11,256
photograph 3,115
painting 2,172
wood engraving 1,874
frame 1,786
engraving 1,491
planographic print 1,387
lithograph 1,344
exhibition catalog 1,289
relief print 1,239
ephemera 1,237
aquatint 1,153
auction catalog 1,105
artists' book 900
chromolithograph 691
photomechanical print 630
etching 621
history 596
digital print 552
map 476
woodcut 460
catalog 422
armorial bookplates (provenance) 399
accordion fold format (binding) 337
recreation 335
poster 333
advertisement 322
private press books (publishing) 315

Genre

architectural subject 10,808
landscape 10,312
genre subject 6,347
portrait 6,222
figure study 2,955
marine art 2,616
religious and mythological subject 2,486
animal art 2,421
cityscape 2,408
literary theme 2,244
abstract art 1,243
sporting art 1,179
historical subject 921
military art 884
botanical subject 495
still life 484
cartographic material 165
anatomical study 40
frontispiece 5
drawing 1
intaglio print 1

Subject Terms

architectural subject 7,502
landscape 6,146
portrait 4,549
genre subject 4,058
trees 3,812
men 3,178
man 2,642
Artists 2,564
river 2,414
figure study 2,074
Art, British 1,994
woman 1,966
animal art 1,960
women 1,798
religious and mythological subject 1,765
cityscape 1,498
costume 1,369
clouds 1,346
buildings 1,305
marine art 1,269
Art museums 1,260
church 1,230
hills 1,181
Advertising 1,163
Commercial art 1,163
Design 1,163
literary theme 1,159
horses (animals) 1,158
Painters 1,151
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,078

Subject Period

19th century 4,905
20th century 3,628
18th century 1,731
20th Century 1,066
17th century 699
21st century 342
16th century 275
1849-1861 106
1850-1900 106
1789-1820 102
1795-1872 63
Frontier Wars, 1811-1878 63
15th century 59
1824-1899 29
17th-18th centuries 25
15th and 16th centuries 20
11th century 15
1854-1862 14
12th century 8
14th century 6
Geschichte 4
13th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 3
To 500 3
18th-19th centuries 2
19th-20th centuries 2
58 B.C.-511 A.D 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2

Associated Places

Great Britain 13,676
England 11,988
United Kingdom 4,788
Europe 4,310
London 3,934
United States 2,300
Italy 2,278
Scotland 2,188
London (England) 1,775
Wales 1,607
France 1,364
Greater London 740
India 717
Ireland 634
Africa 423
Egypt 387
City of Westminster 384
Asia 382
Kent 374
Seine 337
Germany 326
Thames 314
Switzerland 304
Rome 274
South Africa 254
Australia 240
Palace of Westminster 240
Paris 238
China 237
Edinburgh (Scotland) 212

Associated People

Yale Center for British Art 2,473
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 1,167
Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. 1,163
Ray, Man, 1890-1976 1,163
East India Company 1,010
Forbes, James, 1749-1819 1,010
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 753
Mellon, Paul 710
Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974 589
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 499
Art on the Underground (Program) 476
London Regional Transport (Agency) 476
London Underground Limited 476
Transport for London (Organization) 476
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905 456
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888 453
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896 449
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 448
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 431
Roberts, David, 1796-1864 430
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 426
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910 418
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888 415
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897 414
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903 414
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880 412
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855 412
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860 411
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863 411
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865 411

Exhibition History

In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 373
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 285
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 280
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 221
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 221
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 215
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 210
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 200
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 197
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 194
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 190
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17) 189
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) 184
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 184
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) 157
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 157
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) 157
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 148
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) 139
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 134
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 130
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 128
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30) 128
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 123
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 122
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 121
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) 119
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 118
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 115
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 115

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 34,783
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 3,772
Yale Center for British Art 2,073
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 1,563
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 1,389
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Michael H. LeWitt, Peter A. LeWitt, and Erwin Strasmick 1,141
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 555
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 475
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 439
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy 392
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 382
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 355
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 256
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 211
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972 180
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter 180
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery 179
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 164
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Townsend Rich 163
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Howe 154
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 145
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 144
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 135
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist 135
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 132
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe 124
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman) 123
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 122
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro 117
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 106

Language

English 55,276
French 948
German 666
Latin 417
Italian 280
Dutch 100
No linguistic content 90
Spanish 89
Undetermined 61
Japanese 46
Russian 29
Multiple languages 20
Welsh 20
Swedish 17
Portuguese 15
English, Middle (1100-1500) 10
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 10
Polish 9
Danish 8
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 8
Chinese 7
Hebrew 6
Efik 5
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 5
Low German 4
Norwegian 4
Estonian 3
Scots 3
Dakota 2
Greek, Modern (1453- ) 2

Archival Collections

Edward McKnight Kauffer photographic negatives 1,163
James Forbes archive 1,011
Yale Center for British Art Communications and Marketing Department records 838
Roger W. Moss Collection of Manuscript, Original Art and Printed Material by and about Richard Shirley Smith 570
Yale Center for British Art printed materials 529
British transportation ephemera collection 476
Clare Leighton collection 447
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens 440
Letters to Richard Redgrave 410
John Baskett papers 318
Edgar Hockley collection 294
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Publications 257
Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence 234
Collection of historic photographs and negatives of the Yale Center for British Art 205
Fred Mallender Collection of British Commonwealth postage stamps 198
Yale Center for British Art Publications 196
Patrick Noon papers 187
"Conserving the Yale Center for British Art" film recordings by Zach Bjork 163
Cathy Courtney collection of artists' books ephemera 148
Collection of Mellon Family and Yale Center for British Art-related Publications 148
Miles & Edwards and Charles Hindley & Sons correspondence 146
Keith Marshall collection of photographs 141
Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey 139
Whyte Family Correspondence 130
Clayton family papers 125
John McHale archive 116
Edwin Augustus Porcher Collection 106
Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray 102
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant letters to Kenneth Clark and Jane Clark 95
Rowe collection of botanical specimens 94

Archival Level

object 10,655
collection 118

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On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Kehinde Wiley, born 1977

Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite

2017
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828

Beached Vessels and a Wagon near Trouville

ca. 1825
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket

ca. 1766
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Self-Portrait

ca. 1759
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Labourers

1781
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Mr. Hospey (?)Walker

1783
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon... [Read more]

ca. 1765
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Greenland Falcon

1780
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Pumpkin with a Stable-lad

1774
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Foxhound

ca. 1760
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Horse Attacked by a Lion (Episode C)

between 1768 and 1769
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel

1778
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Lustre, held by a Groom

ca. 1762
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Sleeping Leopard

1777
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Studies for or after "The third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt"

late 1750s
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Lion and Lioness

1770
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Foxhound

ca. 1760
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Lion Attacking a Horse

1762
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Reapers

1795
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Water Spaniel

1769
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Margaret Newton (née Coningsby), Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the... [Read more]

ca. 1760
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound

1800
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

1786
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable-Lad

between 1780 and 1784
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Bulls Fighting

1786
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Lion Attacking a Stag

between 1765 and 1766
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Horse Frightened by a Lion

between 1762 and 1768
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting

1768
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Two Gentlemen Shooting

ca. 1769
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot

ca. 1767
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

A Repose after Shooting

1770
On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Zebra

1763
Accessible in the Study Room
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

1773 January 29
Accessible in the Study Room
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1766
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition... [Read more]

[1802]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

The anatomy of the horse

1853
On view
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling

1879
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Kinchinjunga

1877
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome

1840

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