Period: 18th century / Exhibition History: Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

1. Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper; squared in graphite for transfer
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/8 inches (30.5 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with roulette work, third state
Dimensions:: Plate: 9 7/8 x 13 inches (25.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Sleeping Leopard

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 3/4 inches (25.4 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The First Stage of Cruelty

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches (39.4 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. "Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield..." (Design 109)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. "Cytherea's Day..." (Design 45)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Bard Weaving Edwards Fate (Design 55)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink, graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. View of the East Part of Southwark, Looking Towards Greenwich

Creator:: Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607–1677
Date:: ca. 1638
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and blue-black ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 12 1/8 inches (14.3 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (27.3 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 inches (32.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink and touches of gold paint over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 33 1/4 inches (42.5 x 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, rough, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (28.7 x 42.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/16 × 22 inches (38.9 × 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804
Date:: ca. 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on smooth, medium, cream laid paper laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 x 36 1/8 inches (66.7 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Lady of the Blunt Family

Creator:: George Engleheart, 1753–1829
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (8.9 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. General Stevenson

Creator:: John Smart, 1741–1811
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. View and Plan of the Theater of Hierapolis (now Pamukkale)

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/8 x 14 15/16 inches (54.3 x 38 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Acanthus Sennii Chiov. : finished drawing with added details

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 inches (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

Creator:: Robert Healy, 1743–1771
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 53 1/2 inches (51.4 × 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (38.4 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. King Lear and Cordelia

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with India ink, published state
Dimensions:: Plate: 21 7/8 x 21 5/8 inches (55.6 x 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Celebration on the Thames near Whitehall

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Elder, ca. 1611–1693
Date:: 1685
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite, and gray wash on two joined sheets of medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 17 3/8 inches (28.3 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Warren Hastings on his Arabian Horse

Creator:: George Townly Stubbs, 1748–1815
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor; extensive retouching of design on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper; previously all over mounted to canvas and wood strainer with black and gold residual accretion around edges from eglomise glass
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 x 19 1/4 inches (61 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. John Collins of Devizes

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Rustic Lover

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4 inches (43.2 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk and brown chalk on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Self-Portrait

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784
Date:: between 1771 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches (54 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (21 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/4 × 23 1/2 inches (26 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: ca. 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 12 1/2 inches (46.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Headfort House, Ireland: Elevation of the Eating Parlor

Creator:: Robert Adam, 1728–1792
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 x 24 1/2 inches (45.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Headfort House, Ireland: Elevation of the Eating Parlor

Creator:: Robert Adam, 1728–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 11/16 x 14 9/16 inches (65.2 x 37 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Basilica at Pergamon

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 21 1/4 inches (38.5 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A View of Rome Taken from the Pincio

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite and black crayon on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 15/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.5 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Ambleside

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (23.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Study of a Goat

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: late 1770s
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and stumping, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper, laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (16.8 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Horsemen Colliding

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown, black, and gray ink with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 13/16 inches (29.8 x 47.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches (50 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Lyme Regis, Dorset

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 17 1/16 inches (22.1 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Geographers

Creator:: John Brown, 1749–1787
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (18.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Villa Medici, Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches (34.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Bay Scene in Moonlight

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 7/8 inches (34 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Mountainous Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink, black ink, gray wash, brown wash and pale brown ground on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Wankaka

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 19 3/16 inches (34.8 × 48.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. The Connoisseurs

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red, brown and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. A Worn Out Debauchée

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and yellow and gray-black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (30 x 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (23.8 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Queen Square, London

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Wooded Landscape with Castle

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1785 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and stumping with white chalk on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 12 7/8 inches (26.4 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 x 2 3/8 inches (7.6 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Galleria di Sopra, Albano

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 3/8 x 24 1/2 inches (46.7 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/8 x 2 3/8 inches (7.9 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. The Lake of Albano and Castle Gandolfo

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 25 1/8 inches (44.5 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The Creation of the Heavens

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 10 inches (23.2 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. A Woodland Pool with Rocks and Plants

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black and white chalk, and oil paint, with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, backed with laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 11 3/8 inches (22.9 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Mountain Landscape with Figures, Sheep and Fountain

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1785 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, white wash and black chalk with varnish on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid onto wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (21.6 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Solanum adoense Hochst. ex A. Rich. (Nightshade): finished drawing

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 3/16 inches (40.5 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Fennecus verdus (Fennec)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 3/8 inches (24.8 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Letter to John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Constable, John, 1776–1837
Date:: 1797, between January 16 and March 23
Physical Description:: 1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: circa 1790
Physical Description:: 1 v. (44 leaves, with blanks) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1765-1771 [i.e. 1765-1780]
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ports. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Picturesque views on the river Medway : from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood / by Samuel Ireland, author of "A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France", and of "Picturesque views on the river Thames.".

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:: [5], p. viii, [1], viii-xii, 206, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:: 1797-1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Journal of a tour down the Wye, MDCCLXXXVI.

Creator:: Cooper, Anne, 1763?-1804
Date:: 1786 May 29-June 1
Physical Description:: 1 v. (48 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. James Forbes archive.

Creator:: Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Physical Description:: 75 linear feet (22 volumes)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. A compleat sett of mapps of England and Wales in general, and of each county in particular : accurately projected in a new method and all of them original drawings, most humbly inscribed to His Majesty King George by Francis Negus, Comisioner for Executing the Office of Master of the Horse to His Majesty : drawn and finsh'd by Tho. Badeslade.

Creator:: Badeslade, Thomas
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([58] leaves) : maps ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel

2. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

3. A Sleeping Leopard

4. The First Stage of Cruelty

5. "Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield..." (Design 109)

6. "Cytherea's Day..." (Design 45)

7. The Bard Weaving Edwards Fate (Design 55)

8. View of the East Part of Southwark, Looking Towards Greenwich

9. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

10. The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum

11. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

12. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

13. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

14. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

15. The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi

16. Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral

17. A Lady of the Blunt Family

18. General Stevenson

19. View and Plan of the Theater of Hierapolis (now Pamukkale)

20. Acanthus Sennii Chiov. : finished drawing with added details

21. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

22. Tom Conolly of Castletown Hunting with His Friends

23. The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House

24. King Lear and Cordelia

25. Celebration on the Thames near Whitehall

26. Warren Hastings on his Arabian Horse

27. John Collins of Devizes

28. The Rustic Lover

29. Portrait of a Man

30. Self-Portrait

31. Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare

32. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

33. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

34. Self-Portrait

35. Headfort House, Ireland: Elevation of the Eating Parlor

36. Headfort House, Ireland: Elevation of the Eating Parlor

37. The Basilica at Pergamon

38. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

39. A View of Rome Taken from the Pincio

40. Ambleside

41. Study of a Goat

42. Horsemen Colliding

43. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

44. Lyme Regis, Dorset

45. The Geographers

46. The Villa Medici, Rome

47. Bay Scene in Moonlight

48. Mountainous Landscape

49. Wankaka

50. The Connoisseurs

51. A Worn Out Debauchée

52. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

53. Queen Square, London

54. Wooded Landscape with Castle

55. Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

56. Galleria di Sopra, Albano

57. James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

58. The Lake of Albano and Castle Gandolfo

59. The Creation of the Heavens

60. A Woodland Pool with Rocks and Plants

61. Mountain Landscape with Figures, Sheep and Fountain

62. Solanum adoense Hochst. ex A. Rich. (Nightshade): finished drawing

63. Fennecus verdus (Fennec)

64. Letter to John Thomas Smith.

65. Hints to form the taste & regulate ye judgment in sketching landscape.

66. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts, collected by the late Mr. George Vertue / and now digested and published from his original mss. by Mr. Horace Walpole.

68. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

69. Journal of a tour down the Wye, MDCCLXXXVI.

70. James Forbes archive.