Medium: gouache / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Subject Terms: bird

1. Warbler: Reed Wren

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795, British
Date:: before 1790
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Jackdaw

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795, British
Date:: before 1790
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with gum arabic on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Falcon: Hen Krestel

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795, British
Date:: before 1790
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, smooth white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (21 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Hoopoe: Common Hoopoe

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795, British
Date:: before 1790
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 5/8 inches (21 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Roller: Garrulous Roller

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795, British
Date:: before 1790
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with gum arabic on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Red-Plumed Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea Apoda Raggiana), Southeastern New Guinea

Creator:: John Collet, (?), ca. 1725–1780, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 × 13 15/16 inches (48.6 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. A Crane

Creator:: William Hayes, active 1775–1794, British
Date:: 1791
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (43.5 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Corvs crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 inches (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Design for a Park Gateway

Creator:: Edward Blore, 1787–1879, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 × 15 1/16 inches (27.8 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Bird

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 7/8 inches (23.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A European Goldfinch in a Snare

Creator:: P. Brown, c. 1760–1791
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (21.6 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Eurasian skylark

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 inches (16.5 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Eurasian skylark

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/8 inches (16.8 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Listener

Creator:: Conroy Ronald Maddox, 1912–2005, British
Date:: 1953
Medium:: Gouache on very thick, smooth, cream wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (24.8 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

15. A Hoopoe on a Branch

Creator:: Workshop of Tulsi Das Nimbark
Date:: 2009
Medium:: Gouache on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (23.5 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Holly Shaffer

16. Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense) perched on Chinese hat plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea)

Creator:: Unknown artist, probably Indian
Date:: ca. 1770
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 × 25 1/2 inches (46.4 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Guinea Parrot

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773, British
Date:: 1736
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (27.3 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Ptarmigan

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773, British
Date:: ca. 1738
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (27.3 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Pied Wagtail and Dragonfly

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 8 inches (25.1 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Yellow Wagtail

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (14.3 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Kingfisher

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 5 3/4 inches (15.2 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Brambling

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 6 1/2 inches (17.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Passing of 1880

Creator:: Thomas Danby, 1818–1886, British
Date:: ca. 1880
Medium:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping out on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19in. (31.4 x 48.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Bearded Titmouse

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 8 1/8 inches (33 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A European Goldfinch

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 3/8 inches (21 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A European Goldfinch in a Snare

Creator:: P. Brown, c. 1760–1791
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (22.2 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Cock Sparrow

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 9 inches (29.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Owl

Creator:: Print made by Graham Sutherland, 1903–1980, British
Date:: 1968
Medium:: Lithograph with gouache, watercolor, ink, wash, charcoal, chalk pastel and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/4 x 19 9/16 inches (65.4 x 49.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. On the Fench

Creator:: David Simson, 1803–1874, British
Date:: between 1861 and 1863
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 8 13/16in. (35.5 x 22.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. On the Fench

Creator:: David Simson, 1803–1874, British
Date:: between 1861 and 1863
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 7/8in. (22.6 x 35.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Ben Venue - Loch Achray

Creator:: David Simson, 1803–1874, British
Date:: between 1861 and 1863
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 1/8in. (24.5 x 33.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Warbler: Reed Wren

2. Jackdaw

3. Falcon: Hen Krestel

4. Hoopoe: Common Hoopoe

5. Roller: Garrulous Roller

6. Red-Plumed Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea Apoda Raggiana), Southeastern New Guinea

7. A Crane

8. Corvs crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven)

9. Design for a Park Gateway

10. A Bird

11. A European Goldfinch in a Snare

12. Eurasian skylark

13. Eurasian skylark

14. Listener

15. A Hoopoe on a Branch

16. Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense) perched on Chinese hat plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea)

17. Guinea Parrot

18. Ptarmigan

19. Pied Wagtail and Dragonfly

20. A Yellow Wagtail

21. A Kingfisher

22. Brambling

23. The Passing of 1880

24. Bearded Titmouse

25. A European Goldfinch

26. A European Goldfinch in a Snare

27. The Cock Sparrow

28. Owl

29. On the Fench

30. On the Fench

31. Ben Venue - Loch Achray