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A Limekiln, Possibly at Briton Ferry in South Wales
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
ca. 1795-96
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673
Creator:
Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:
ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
44 3/4 x 72 1/2 inches (113.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
1749
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 71 inches (101.6 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Shipping off Dover
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
1738
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with a Shepherd
Creator:
Charles Towne, 1763–1840
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/2 × 32 1/4 inches (62.2 × 81.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A View of the Tower of London, Supposed on his Majesty's Birthday
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
1771
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 3/4 x 76 inches (101 x 193 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Ludlow Castle with Dinham Weir, from the South-West
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
1765 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 3/8 x 42 13/16 inches (72.1 x 108.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Great Fire of London
Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (24.4 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Dead Soldier
Creator:
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:
ca. 1789
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Vesuvius from Posillipo
Creator:
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
25 x 33 inches (63.5 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Colonel Donald MacLeod of St. Kilda
Creator:
John Opie, 1761–1807
Date:
ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 1/8 x 48 1/4 inches (127.3 x 122.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness
Creator:
Isaac Sailmaker, ca. 1633–1721
Date:
between 1707 and 1708
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Action off the Cape of Good Hope
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches (66.7 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Action off the Cape of Good Hope
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/4 x 37 1/4 inches (66.7 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:
between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (44.5 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717
Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:
ca. 1717
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 1/8 x 67 1/16 inches (127.3 x 170.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:
11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Caernarfon Castle
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:
ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/2 x 41 5/16 inches (64.8 x 104.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Ship on Fire at Night
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
ca. 1756
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Leeward Islands Carib family outside a Hut
Creator:
Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (30.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Battle of La Hogue
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
1778, retouched 1806
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
64 3/4 x 96 1/4 inches (164.5 x 244.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
The Earl of Sandwich Refusing to Abandon His Ship During the Battle of Solebay
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Frame: 88 x 73 inches (223.5 x 185.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. W. Hutton and J. S. Cogswell
On View:
Not on view
Coastal Landscape with a Ferry Boat
Creator:
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, 1756–1811
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 × 21 1/8 inches (43.2 × 53.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Capture of the "Marquis d'Antin" and the "Louis Erasme"
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
between 1745 and 1755
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Henry Portman Seymour
Creator:
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723
Date:
1714
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
49 x 39 inches (124.5 x 99.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view

27. Hymen

Hymen
Creator:
William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:
ca. 1748
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (49.5 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Famine (Plate 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest..." (Design 61)
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
A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 16 inches (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Witches' Cavern
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
between 1792 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 3/16 inches (14.3 x 23.3 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
Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 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, to the Yale University Art Gallery
At Steyning - Sussex
Creator:
John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 9 1/8 inches (14.9 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inside of Castle Gate, Taunton, Somerset
Creator:
John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:
1752
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/8 × 8 inches (12.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Iron Forge on the River Kent, Westmorland
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches (27.3 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton, Bristol with Hotwell's Spring House in the Distance
Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 12 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (31.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
London Cries: All Fire and No Smoke
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (19.7 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Unloading Pit Props at Coalbrookdale
Creator:
Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:
after 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (21.6 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Seven Bishops Going To Trial
Creator:
Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and black, brown, and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (34.3 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Bridgenorth
Creator:
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving, with letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (44.5 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Chepstow

Chepstow
Creator:
Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 inches (22.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795
Creator:
John William Edy, 1760–1820
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 11/16 inches (35.9 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780
Creator:
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving and etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 19 x 24 7/8in. (48.3 x 63.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin
Creator:
Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving, printed in color and hand-colored
Dimensions:
Image: 16 1/2 x 25in. (41.9 x 63.5cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
House & Trees
Creator:
James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gray wash over graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 12 1/2 inches (19.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
Outbuildings with figures
Creator:
James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gray wash over graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 12 1/2 inches (19.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
Bridgenorth
Creator:
Print made by James Walker, 1748–1808
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; 1st published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 7/8 inches (19.1 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Forest
Creator:
John Browne Walworth, active 1800
Date:
1800
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
The Representation of the Dealer of a Squardon of Spanish Ships
Creator:
Daniel Lerpiniere, c.1745–1785
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780
Creator:
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving, printed in color and hand-colored
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 1/4in. (47 x 61.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Plate I: View taken near Scarva in the County of Downe, representing Ploughing, Sowing the Flax Seed and Harrowing
Creator:
William Hincks, 1752–1797
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving with etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/16 x 17 1/2 inches (36 x 44.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fort St. George
Creator:
Print made by Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Date:
1736
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/8 × 23 3/4 inches (46 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, near Plymouth
Creator:
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1756
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 28 13/16 inches (56 × 73.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Figures on a Street
Creator:
James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gray wash over graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 x 12 1/2in. (19.5 x 31.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
River Wharf / Figure Sketching in a Lane
Creator:
James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite / watercolor and gray wash over graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 x 12 1/2in. (19.5 x 31.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
Gentlemen Punting
Creator:
James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gray wash over graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 x 12 1/2in. (19.5 x 31.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
Putney on Fulham
Creator:
James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:
1770s
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gray wash, and graphite; verso: watercolor, gray wash, and pen and ink over graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 12 1/2 inches (19.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
Creator:
Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches (50.2 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sun Under a Cloud
Creator:
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/16 x 21 9/16 inches (38.3 x 54.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Donnybrook Fair, 1782
Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Black ink with watercolor on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 21 1/2 inches (32.1 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy
Creator:
Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (38 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Sigismonda
Creator:
Print made by John Blackmore, active 1740–1780
Date:
between 1769 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (42.8 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Engineer
Creator:
Print made by Butler Clowes, active 1768, died 1782
Date:
ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 10 3/8 inches (36.4 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy
Creator:
Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 11/16 x 12 1/4 inches (42.4 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Engineer
Creator:
Print made by Butler Clowes, active 1768, died 1782
Date:
ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 1/16 inches (35.2 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Chepstow

Chepstow
Creator:
Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; 1st published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Boy Lighting a Candle
Creator:
Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:
1751
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 8 7/8 inches (32.8 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Vestal Virgin
Creator:
Print made by William Humphrey, 1745–1810
Date:
1770
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 9/16 × 11 13/16 inches (42.1 × 30 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Night

Night
Creator:
Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:
1756
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (39.7 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Postiglione Germanico
Creator:
Print made by Charles Bretherton, ca. 1760–1783
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (27.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Evening

Evening
Creator:
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 1/4 inches (37.9 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Night and a Ship on Fire
Creator:
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 7/16 inches (37.9 x 54.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A View of the Fire in Covent Garden
Creator:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:
1769
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 11/16 × 13 1/8 inches (24.6 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
St. Mary le Strand
Creator:
Sutton Nicholls, active 1725
Date:
1731-1748
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780
Creator:
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions:
Plate: 19 x 24 7/8in. (48.3 x 63.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Dido
Creator:
Joseph Grozer, ca. 1755–1798
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 9/16 inches (49.8 × 59.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lot and His Family
Creator:
Print made by John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Date:
ca. 1718
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches (28.8 x 38.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
From the Palace at Portici, September 7
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
At the Villa at Portici, August 30
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (17.1 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ships Firing
Creator:
Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite with black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 × 10 3/8 inches (15.2 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Romans Polite to Strangers
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 5/16 inches (38.4 x 56.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Boscawen and Sheerness Privateers
Creator:
Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/8 x 20 9/16 inches (37.1 x 52.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Macarony Brothers
Creator:
Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 x 8 3/16 inches (27.9 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. A Calm

A Calm
Creator:
Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:
1754
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving, hand colored with watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/16 x 21 1/8 inches (38.9 x 53.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Dartmouth Castle
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:
Mount: 19 3/4 x 28 1/8 inches (50.2 x 71.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
L'Antiquaire
Creator:
Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 1/16 inches (42.9 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Potus Calidæ Theiæ
Creator:
Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/16 x 19 1/4 inches (38.9 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Battle at La Hogue
Creator:
William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:
1781
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 1/16 inches (50.2 × 63.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Bath: The North Parade
Creator:
Print made by John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand colored with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 13/16 inches (27.5 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Social Friends
Creator:
Print made by John Greenwood, 1727–1792
Date:
1768
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 7/16 inches (40 x 29 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Battle of Culloden, near Inverness in Scotland...
Creator:
unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:
Plate: 7 × 10 3/4 inches (17.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe
Creator:
Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:
1783
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
The Battle of Newmark in Silesia;...
Creator:
unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Squadron of Ships in a calm where of one, A. presents the Stern, another B. the Head
Creator:
Print made by William Henry Toms, ca. 1700–ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18in. (31.8 x 45.7cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Night & a Ship on fire
Creator:
Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
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
A Sea Engagement between the English and Algerines
Creator:
Print made by Paul Fourdrinier, 1698–1758
Date:
ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 18 inches (31 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 8 15/16 x 12 9/16 inches (22.7 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a conference at a Council Fire Near his Camp on the Banks of Muskingum in America, in October 1764, 1765
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
between 1765 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and black ink with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (25.2 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent
Creator:
Robert Cleveley, 1747–1809
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite and black ink on medium, moderately thick, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 x 8in. (10.5 x 20.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection