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1. The Mountain Torrent

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: between 1820 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 5/16 × 61 inches (99.9 × 154.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. The Montagu Family and an Unknown Attendant

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 29 1/2 inches (53.3 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Chateaux de St. Michael, Bonneville, Savoy

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: exhibited 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Virgin and Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1810 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches (31.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Work in Progress

Creator:: Stanley William Hayter, 1901–1988
Date:: 1936
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and casein on panel
Dimensions:: 66 3/4 x 39 1/2 inches (169.5 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:: Not on view

8. John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

Creator:: Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 45 3/16 x 35 3/4 inches (114.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

Creator:: Nicholas Condy, 1793–1857
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.9 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. An Unknown Man in Black

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 5/16 x 27 15/16 inches (92.2 x 71 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 5/8 inches (47.9 × 62.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (43.8 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. 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

16. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (34.6 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Unknown Boy

Creator:: Willem Wissing, ca. 1656–1687
Date:: ca. 1685
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 81 1/2 x 48 3/4 inches (207 x 123.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Unknown Man, Traditionally Identified as Edward Pierce

Creator:: Isaac Fuller, ca. 1620–1672
Date:: mid-17th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 × 40 inches (124.5 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

19. The Beach

Creator:: Geoffrey Tibble, 1909–1952
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 18 inches (61 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

20. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Pamela Fry

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1911
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 29 9/16 inches (49.5 x 75.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

22. The Story of a Life

Creator:: Sir William Quiller Orchardson, 1832–1910
Date:: 1866
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 60 1/4 inches (94 x 153 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

23. John Eardley Wilmot

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/2 x 58 1/4 inches (105.4 x 148 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. The Deserter's Home

Creator:: Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 40 1/4 inches (76.2 x 102.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

25. The Seven Ages of Man: The Pantaloon, 'As You Like It,' II, vii

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

26. A Family, Probably the Raikes Family

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737
Date:: between 1730 and 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 36 1/8 inches (66 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Foxhunting Scene

Creator:: Benjamin Marshall, 1768–1835
Date:: 1808
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

28. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Letitia Anne Sage (née Hoare), in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 49 inches (67.6 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 1/4 inches (102.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Diana at the Bath

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/2 inches (76.2 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/8 x 50 1/2 inches (104.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

34. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

Creator:: Charles Hunt, 1803–1877
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

35. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

Creator:: Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Date:: 1767 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (59.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

36. Admiral Lord Bridport

Creator:: Lemuel Francis Abbott, ca. 1760–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (44.8 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1724
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 1/4 x 59 inches (241.9 x 149.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (99.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. William Weddell

Creator:: Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787
Date:: between 1765 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 3/8 × 38 1/8 inches (133 × 96.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. The Governess

Creator:: Emily Mary Osborn, 1828–1925
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (34.9 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

42. The Brahmin Committing his Daughter Coraly to the Care of Blandford

Creator:: Thomas Kirk, 1765–1797
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (44.8 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift in Appreciation of Paul Mellon
On View:: Not on view

43. The Kizlar Agha (Chief Black Eunuch, Head Officer of the Palace)

Creator:: Francis Smith, active 1763–1780
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (54.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. Captain Macheath Upbraided by Polly and Lucy in the 'Beggar's Opera', 1826

Creator:: Gilbert Stuart Newton, 1794–1835
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 47 1/2 inches (96.5 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Margaret Callander (née Romer), Lady Callander, and Her Son James Kearney

Creator:: Jean Laurent Mosnier, 1743/44–1808
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 99 3/4 x 66 inches (253.4 x 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson and Spink-Leger Pictures in honor of Brian & Katina Allen
On View:: Not on view

46. General Thomas Gage

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite
Dimensions:: 50 x 39 3/4 inches (127 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

47. Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: Summer 1846 to March 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 69 1/4 x 94 inches (175.9 x 238.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

48. Partridge Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 11 inches (22.9 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

49. Robert Gwillym, Elizabeth Gwillym (née Atherton), and Their Family

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: 1745 to 1747
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

50. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

51. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (76.8 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

52. Planter and his Wife, with a Servant

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

53. West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches (31.1 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

54. Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress

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

55. West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 9 7/8 inches (30.5 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

56. Paetus and Arria

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

57. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

58. The Reverend Thomas Levett and Favourite Dogs, Cock-shooting

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (71.4 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

59. Catherine Howard (née Proctor), Countess of Effingham with Gun and Shooting Dogs

Creator:: George Haugh, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 15 inches (43.8 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

60. Evening

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

61. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: between 1776 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 × 27 7/8 inches (90.2 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

62. Mrs. Bentley

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 7/8 × 27 5/8 inches (91.1 × 70.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

63. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 65 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches (166.4 x 133.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

64. Sir Robert Smyth and Louisa Caroline Isabella Smyth (née Hervey), Lady Smyth with Their Son, Hervey

Creator:: Attributed to Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771
Date:: between 1738 and 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 61 1/4 × 49 1/4 inches (155.6 × 125.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

65. The Severe Steward, or Unfortunate Tenant

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Date:: between 1800 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 50 1/8 inches (102.2 x 127.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

66. An Unknown Man

Creator:: George Beare, 1724/5–1749
Date:: 1746
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

67. An Unknown Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 65 × 54 1/2 inches (165.1 × 138.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

68. Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 × 34 inches (102.2 × 86.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

69. 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

70. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: early 1760s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

71. The revelation of Olivia's betrothal, from "Twelfth Night," Act V, Scene i

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.3 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

72. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

73. The Calmady Children

Creator:: Edward William Wyon, 1811–1885
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Copper electrotype
Dimensions:: Overall: 10 3/4 inches (27.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd.
On View:: Not on view

74. Oberon and Titania

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink with gum over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 8 1/4 inches (15.2 × 20.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with roulette and rocker work, first state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 27 3/8in. (52 x 69.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Learning to Walk

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (26 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Major Thomas Pearson and the Brahman

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (20 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, Yale BA 1938, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

78. Major Thomas Pearson and the Brahman

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (20 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, Yale BA 1938

79. The National Gallery

Creator:: Print made by Stanley Anderson, 1884–1966
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 16 inches (33.3 x 40.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

80. The Fortune Teller

Creator:: Print made by John Henry Amshewitz, 1882–1942
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 13 1/4 inches (27.9 x 33.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. A.S. Yahuda

81. His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: after 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 inches (35.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

82. An Old Hanse Town

Creator:: Print made by Axel Herman Haig, 1835–1921
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 9 1/16 inches (31.6 × 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. The Unlucky Boy

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 inches (51 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (30.2 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. 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

86. 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

87. Chain Pier at Brighton

Creator:: Print made by John Bruce, fl. 1826
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 19 1/4 inches (34.2 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. 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

89. The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 12 5/8 inches (49.7 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. I Will Pay No More Debts of Her Contracting

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/16 x 9 1/2 inches (33.1 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Strephon and Chloe

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 1/16 inches (25.5 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Study of a Lady

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 8 15/16 inches (31.4 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (31.5 × 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Vulcan's Forge

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 5/8 inches (27.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

95. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 9/16 inches (44.2 x 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. View of a Sea Port

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 3/4 inches (27.6 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer

97. View of a Portico by the Side of a River, with Herdsmen and Cattle

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 16 5/16 inches (28 x 41.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Theodore Sizer

98. A French Petit Maître and His Valet

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, pasted on medium, moderately textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 1/4 x 11 5/16 inches (41.3 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Château des Comtes de Flandre, Ghent

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 inches (35.3 x 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. 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

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1. The Mountain Torrent

2. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

3. The Montagu Family and an Unknown Attendant

4. Chateaux de St. Michael, Bonneville, Savoy

5. Virgin and Child

6. Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

7. Work in Progress

8. John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

9. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

10. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

11. An Unknown Man in Black

12. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

13. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

14. Rochester

15. The Great Fire of London

16. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

17. Unknown Boy

18. Unknown Man, Traditionally Identified as Edward Pierce

19. The Beach

20. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

21. Pamela Fry

22. The Story of a Life

23. John Eardley Wilmot

24. The Deserter's Home

25. The Seven Ages of Man: The Pantaloon, 'As You Like It,' II, vii

26. A Family, Probably the Raikes Family

27. Foxhunting Scene

28. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Letitia Anne Sage (née Hoare), in a Balloon

29. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

30. The Death of the Hare

31. Diana at the Bath

32. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

33. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

34. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

35. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

36. Admiral Lord Bridport

37. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

38. Benjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School

39. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

40. William Weddell

41. The Governess

42. The Brahmin Committing his Daughter Coraly to the Care of Blandford

43. The Kizlar Agha (Chief Black Eunuch, Head Officer of the Palace)

44. Captain Macheath Upbraided by Polly and Lucy in the 'Beggar's Opera', 1826

45. Margaret Callander (née Romer), Lady Callander, and Her Son James Kearney

46. General Thomas Gage

47. Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres

48. Partridge Shooting

49. Robert Gwillym, Elizabeth Gwillym (née Atherton), and Their Family

50. The Browne Family

51. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Miss Prue in William Congreve’s “Love for Love”

52. Planter and his Wife, with a Servant

53. West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant

54. Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress

55. West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child

56. Paetus and Arria

57. The Education of Achilles

58. The Reverend Thomas Levett and Favourite Dogs, Cock-shooting

59. Catherine Howard (née Proctor), Countess of Effingham with Gun and Shooting Dogs

60. Evening

61. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

62. Mrs. Bentley

63. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

64. Sir Robert Smyth and Louisa Caroline Isabella Smyth (née Hervey), Lady Smyth with Their Son, Hervey

65. The Severe Steward, or Unfortunate Tenant

66. An Unknown Man

67. An Unknown Man

68. Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene

69. Selling Guinea Pigs

70. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

71. The revelation of Olivia's betrothal, from "Twelfth Night," Act V, Scene i

72. Self-Portrait

73. The Calmady Children

74. Oberon and Titania

75. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven