On-site Access: Not on view / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: rocks (landforms)

1. Horse Frightened by a Lion

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: between 1762 and 1768
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 41 inches (70.5 × 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Sleeping Leopard

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1777
Medium:: Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
Dimensions:: 4 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (10.8 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Lion Attacking a Horse

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1762
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 × 131 inches (243.8 × 332.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Limekiln at Coalbrookdale

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: 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

5. Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1799
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/4 x 47 inches (87 x 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 72 inches (127 × 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Cavern, near Naples

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1774
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew

8. A View Near Arundel, Sussex, with Ruins by Water

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776, British
Date:: mid-18th century
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches (41 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Burial Ground in the South Seas

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793, British
Date:: ca. 1777
Medium:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (23.5 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1780 to 1781
Medium:: 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

11. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Study of Rocks and Branches

Creator:: George Augustus Wallis, 1770–1847, British
Date:: ca. 1795
Medium:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (41.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Classical Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:: after 1725
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (51.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1795 and 1796
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (56.5 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 7/8 x 35 3/4 inches (70.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

Creator:: Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824, British
Date:: 1788
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (43.8 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Patrick Heatly

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: between 1783 and 1787
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 32 1/4 inches (96.5 x 81.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Thomas Newenham

Creator:: Attributed to Edward Haytley, active 1740–1761, British
Date:: ca. 1749
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (49.5 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1778
Medium:: 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

20. British Gentlemen in Rome

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/4 × 53 inches (94.6 × 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British
Date:: 1769
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:: ca. 1703
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Wooded Hilly Landscape

Creator:: Abraham Pether, 1756–1812, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches (62.9 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729)
Date:: between 1750 and 1762
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 44 inches (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Wooded Landscape with a Boy and his Dog

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784, Irish
Date:: ca. 1770
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (49.5 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Classical Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785, British
Date:: 1767 to 1771
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 7/8 x 18 3/16 inches (32.7 x 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Lake Scene

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1790
Medium:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 30 inches (53.3 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968 in memory of Sophie D. Coe

29. Horses and Cattle by a River

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784, Irish
Date:: 1777
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 9 1/2 inches (35.6 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Rope Bridge at Serinagur

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840, British, active in India
Date:: ca. 1800
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/4 x 40 3/4 inches (81.9 x 103.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. View near Rome

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811, British
Date:: between 1754 and 1765
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches (56.5 x 78.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Landscape with Cattle and Peasant

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: ca. 1781
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches (67.3 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. A View near Matlock, Derbyshire with Figures Working beneath a Wooden Conveyor

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 5/8 x 57 inches (90.5 x 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection