Period: 18th century / Genre: genre subject / Topic subjectplace ss: Greater London

1. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. 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

3. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/4 x 53 inches (109.9 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Scene in a London Street

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 inches (95.3 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 7/8 inches (71.1 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Interior of Westminster Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1714
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/8 x 38 1/2 inches (122.2 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. St. James's Park

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: between 1788 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 19 inches (40.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1790 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (26 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 50 1/4 inches (88.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 21 × 34 1/2 inches (53.3 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/2 x 49 1/4 inches (87.6 x 125.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance

Creator:: John Feary, ca. 1745–1788
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 48 inches (69.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Interior of St. John's Palace, Eltham

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (33.3 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Group of Men on Westminster Pier

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderatelty textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches (9.2 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 14 x 18 5/8 inches (35.6 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. View of Queen Square

Creator:: Engraved by Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 7/16 inches (49.5 × 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Inside View of the Rotunda in Renelagh Gardens with the Company at Breakfast

Creator:: Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Ranelagh House & Gardens with the Rotunda at the Time of the Jubilee Ball

Creator:: Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. An Encampment in St. James Park

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches (30.2 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. 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

28. The West Prospect of the Church and Steeple of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1720 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 7/16 inches (44.9 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Review of Light Horse Volunteers on Wimbledon Common

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 16 5/16 inches (24.9 x 41.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Prospect of St. James's Park

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Chinese House, the Rotunda, & the Company in Masquerade in Renelagh Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/2 × 16 inches (29.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and Queen with the Nobility and others did sit at Dinner on the Day of the Coronation. Also the manner of tghe Champions performing the Ceremony of Challenge whilst the King & c. were at Dinner

A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and Queen with the Nobility and others did sit at Dinner on the Day of the Coronation. Also the manner of tghe Champions performing the Ceremony of Challenge whilst the King & c. were at Dinner

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/8 × 9 inches (28.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A North West View of the Tower of London

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 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

39. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

Creator:: Print made by Paul Angier, active 1749
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 inches (31.4 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

40. 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

41. Night Watchman

Creator:: Print made by John Bogle, 1746–1804
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 11 15/16 inches (45.1 x 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 18 9/16 inches (31.1 x 47.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. 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

44. A View from Richmond Hill Up the River

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 18 1/16 inches (31.6 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. 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

46. Turnips & Carrots ho

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (41.3 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Bequest of Doris M. Brixey

47. 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

48. Clapham

Creator:: Print made by William Ellis, 1747–1810
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (14.6 × 19.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Rehearsal of an opera

2. Rehearsal of an opera

3. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

4. David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

5. St. Paul's Cathedral

6. Scene in a London Street

7. Northumberland House, London

8. Whitehall

9. Arches of Westminster Bridge

10. The Interior of Westminster Abbey

11. St. James's Park

12. A Game of Cricket (The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park)

13. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

14. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

15. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

16. Covent Garden

17. Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box

18. The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

19. One Tree Hill, Greenwich, with London in the Distance

20. Interior of St. John's Palace, Eltham

21. A Group of Men on Westminster Pier

22. Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger

23. View of Queen Square

24. The Inside View of the Rotunda in Renelagh Gardens with the Company at Breakfast

25. Ranelagh House & Gardens with the Rotunda at the Time of the Jubilee Ball

26. An Encampment in St. James Park

27. The South Sea House

28. The West Prospect of the Church and Steeple of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside

29. Review of Light Horse Volunteers on Wimbledon Common

30. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

31. A Prospect of St. James's Park

32. The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park

33. The Chinese House, the Rotunda, & the Company in Masquerade in Renelagh Gardens

34. A Prospect of the Inside of Westminster, Shewing how the King and Queen with the Nobility and others did sit at Dinner on the Day of the Coronation. Also the manner of tghe Champions performing the Ceremony of Challenge whilst the King & c. were at Dinner

35. A North West View of the Tower of London

36. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

37. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

38. The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting 1771

39. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

40. The Admiralty Office

41. Night Watchman

42. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

43. Exhibition of Royal Academy

44. A View from Richmond Hill Up the River

45. St. Martin's Church

46. Turnips & Carrots ho

47. Queen Square, London

48. Clapham