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Paintings and Sculpture
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Prints and Drawings
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Creator
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
2
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
2
Unknown artist
2
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
2
Allan, David, 1744–1796
1
Barret, George, 1732–1784
1
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
1
Collet, John, ca. 1725–1780
1
Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811
1
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1739–1808
1
Hardy, James, active 1770s
1
Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787
1
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779
1
Moser, Mary, 1744–1819
1
Nollekens, Joseph, 1737–1823
1
Ryland, William Wynne, 1732–1783
1
Stuart, Gilbert, 1755–1828
1
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1797
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1717
37
1789
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1762
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1799
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1795
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1790
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1749
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1775
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1719
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1754
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1779
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1794
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1771
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1772
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1740
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1785
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1770
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1792
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1765
14
1773
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1776
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1782
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1791
14
1760
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1793
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1787
12
1769
11
1753
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1774
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1777
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1783
10
1786
10
1750
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1755
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1763
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1788
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1798
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1730
8
1764
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1796
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1735
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1744
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1746
7
1752
7
1781
7
1700
6
1729
6
1731
6
1741
6
1742
6
1743
6
1766
6
1767
6
1784
6
1720
5
1759
5
1710
4
1715
4
1732
4
1736
4
1737
4
1747
4
1748
4
1751
4
1757
4
1761
4
1701
3
1725
3
1727
3
1733
3
1756
3
1768
3
1778
3
1800
3
1695
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1705
2
1709
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1712
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1714
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1722
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1723
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1728
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1758
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1706
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1713
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1716
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1718
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1721
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1724
1
1726
1
1734
1
On-site Access
Not on view
11
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
4
Image Use
Free to Use
15
Image Available
Available
15
Classification
Paintings
9
Prints
3
Sculptures
2
Drawings & Watercolors
1
Creator Gender
male
14
unknown
2
female
1
Collective Title
Othello
1
Period
18th century
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Materials & Techniques
painting (technique)
9
canvas
6
oil paint
6
laid paper
4
stipple engraving
2
terracotta
2
black chalk
1
etching (printing process)
1
graphite
1
mezzotint
1
pastel
1
white chalk
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Unknown
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Work Type
painting
9
intaglio print
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sculpture
2
statuette
2
drawing
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Genre
portrait
10
religious and mythological subject
2
cityscape
1
genre subject
1
landscape
1
literary theme
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Subject Terms
man
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portrait
10
costume
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oval
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white (color)
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artist
2
black
2
chair
2
curls
2
landscape
2
religious and mythological subject
2
solemn
2
tree
2
wig
2
Greek
1
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, play by William Shakespeare
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actor
1
attack
1
banker
1
baskets
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Associated Places
England
1
Greater London
1
London
1
United Kingdom
1
Associated People
Apollo
1
Barclay, David (1729–1809), banker and brewer
1
Baretti, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio (1719–1789), writer
1
Gainsborough, Humphrey (bap. 1718, d. 1776), Independent minister and engineer
1
Henderson, John (bap. 1747, d. 1785), British actor and draftsman
1
Iago (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
1
Locke, John (1632–1704), philosopher
1
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
1
Strahan, William (1715–1785), printer and publisher
1
Townshend, Charles (1725–1767), politician
1
Uvedale, Samuel
1
Exhibition History
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
3
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)
2
Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24)
1
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)
1
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)
1
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
1
Gainsborough's Family (Gainsborough's House, 1988-06-11 - 1988-09-18)
1
Gainsborough's Family Album (National Portrait Gallery, 2018-11-22 - 2019-02-03)
1
Gainsborough's Family Album (Princeton University Art Museum, 2019-02-23 - 2019-06-05)
1
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)
1
The Life and Times of John Joseph Merlin (Kenwood House, 1985-07-18 - 1985-08-31)
1
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
14
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
1
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Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Portrait of a Man, Possibly Mr. Barclay
ca. 1775
Not on view
2
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Mr. Bentley
ca .1775
Not on view
3
George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Morning: Landscape with Cattle
ca. 1775
Not on view
4
John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Scene in a London Street
1770
Not on view
5
Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787
William Strahan
ca. 1775
Not on view
6
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
The Rev. Samuel Uvedale
1770 to 1774
Not on view
7
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
The Rev. Humphry Gainsborough
between 1770 and 1774
Not on view
8
Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Man attacking a monster
between 1770 and 1780
Not on view
9
Attributed to David Allan, 1744–1796
Joseph Nollekens
between 1770 and 1771
Not on view
10
Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823
Adonis
1770s
Not on view
11
unknown artist
John Locke
ca. 1775
Not on view
12
Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Henry Reveley
1770
13
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
John Henderson as Iago
before 1786
14
John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
The Right Honorable Charles Townsend, Esquire, Late Chancellor of the Exchequer
1770
15
James Hardy, active 1770s
Joseph Baretti, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy
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