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Rehearsal of an opera
Creator:
Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:
ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Game of Quadrille
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:
ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)
On View:
Not on view
Selling Guinea Pigs
Creator:
George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:
ca. 1789
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Children Playing with a Hobby Horse
Creator:
Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:
between 1741 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right
Creator:
William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (29.8 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for the Foundlings
Creator:
William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:
ca. 1739
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/8 × 8 3/8 inches (11.1 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Sisters
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches (31.8 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
Design for Wall Paper
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 9 3/4 inches (17.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Foundlings
Creator:
Print made by François M. la Cave, active 1726–1766
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 8 3/8 inches (12.1 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Gossips
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (11.4 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage
Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:
1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite with gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 1/8 inches (38.7 x 48.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Artist Sketching Mlle. de St. Legier as a Shepherdess
Creator:
James Moore, 1762–1799
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 inches (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Hop Kiln
Creator:
George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly texture, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/16 × 8 1/16 inches (15.4 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Olivia Returns to Her Family
Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 21 7/8 inches (43.2 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Characters in the Streets of London
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
1799
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 15 13/16 inches (30.2 x 40.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Lesson Westward - or A Morning Visit to Betsy Cole
Creator:
Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching, hand-colored with gummed gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 9 13/16 inches (34.2 × 25 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lady Elizabeth Keppel and a Servant
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:
1760s
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 24 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (62.2 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Le Ete - Der Sommer
Creator:
Print made by Johann Philip Koch, ca. 1716–1796
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 1/4 inches (40.3 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Rejouissances pour le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue
Creator:
Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/16 x 18 1/4 inches (36.3 x 46.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Pamela, being now in the custody of Mrs. Jenkes, seizes an occasion (as they are walking in the garden) to propose a Correspondence with Mr. Williams in order to contrive an Escape, who agree to hide their letters between two tiles near the Sunflower
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (37.4 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Pamela with the Children and Miss Goodwin to whome she is telling her nursery tales. This last Piece leaves her in full possession of the peaceable fruits of her Virtue long after having surmounted all the difficulties it had been exposed to
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 21 5/16 inches (39.3 x 54.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Sisters Contemplating on Mortality
Creator:
Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
Date:
1770
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 × 14 1/4 inches (50.8 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The South Sea House
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
between 1720 and 1728
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/16 x 19 3/4 inches (36.7 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ladies at Tea
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 7 x 10 5/16 inches (17.8 x 26.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica
Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches (33.4 x 40 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young Ladies
Creator:
Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 7/8 inches (37.3 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ticket to a Concert of Ancient Vocal and Instrumental Music
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 inches (19.1 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ticket to Concert of Ancient Vocal and Instrumental Music
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (18.7 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ticket to a Concert of Ancient Vocal and Instrumental Music
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches (21 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Free Natives of Dominica
Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 1/4 inches (30.2 × 20.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting 1771
Creator:
Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 22in. (47 x 55.9cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica
Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/16 x 19 7/8 inches (33.8 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Admiralty Office
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Date:
1731
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 x 19 3/4 inches (35.5 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Free Natives of Dominica
Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 3/4 x 13 5/16 inches (50.2 x 33.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Playing the Games of Quadrille
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Affectionate Daughter
Creator:
John Eginton, active 1763–1800
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, printed in color on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 7/16 inches (37.9 × 29 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Exhibition of Royal Academy
Creator:
Print made by Pietro Antonio Martini, 1738–1797
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Virtuous Love
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (19.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Daughters of Guercino
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving in red ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 10 13/16 inches (33.1 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
La music touchante
Creator:
Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/16 x 13 11/16 inches (49 x 34.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A School of Girls
Creator:
Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:
1739
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 13 3/8 inches (28.8 x 34 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Heyday! Is This My Daughter Anne!
Creator:
Print made by Francis E. Adams, active ca.1760–1775
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 10 1/16 inches (35.5 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Guitar Player
Creator:
Print made by Gerhard Bockman, 1686–1773
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches (43.1 x 27.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Peasant Family
Creator:
Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:
between 1765 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches (18 x 14 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A School of Girls
Creator:
Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:
1739
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 7/16 inches (27.7 x 39.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Slumbers of Ragotin Interrupted
Creator:
Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 1/8 inches (27.1 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Cotillion Dance
Creator:
Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:
1771
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 9/16 inches (25.5 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. January

January
Creator:
Print made by William Nelson Gardiner, 1766–1814
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching, with watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/16 x 13 1/4 inches (41.4 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Martin's Church
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
between 1731 and 1754
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 3/4 inches (49 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
1768
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 1/16 inches (28.2 x 40.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Roman Lady with a Duenna
Creator:
John Brown, 1749–1787
Date:
between 1775 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, watercolor, and white gouache; verso: gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (25.7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of a Seated Woman
Creator:
Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and gray ink, gray wash, gouache, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Kennington Common
Creator:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gray ink and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (33.7 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The French Lady in London
Creator:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:
ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash black ink and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 inches (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by P. Crotchet, active 1768
Date:
1768
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 3/4 inches (37.3 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 13 1/2 inches (40.1 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection