Period: 18th century / Exhibition History: Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)

1. Westminster Abbey and Bridge

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/8 x 28 inches (92.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, fourth Bt.

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: 1770 to 1771
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 71 x 96 3/8 inches (180.3 x 244.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Soldier with Country Women Selling Ribbons, near a Military Camp

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1788
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

4. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746–55)
Date:: ca. 1754
Medium:: 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

5. St. Augustine's Gate, Canterbury

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1778
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 35 1/4 inches (69.9 x 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Reverend Jemmet Browne at a meet of foxhounds

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1708)
Date:: 1730 to 1732
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (97.8 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: between 1764 and 1765
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches (62.9 x 116.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Haycart Passing a Ruined Abbey

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1745
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Rievaulx Abbey

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1745
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. George I at Newmarket, 4 or 5 October, 1717

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1717
Medium:: 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

11. Cottage on Fire at Night

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1785 and 1793
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 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

14. 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

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

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: ca. 1762
Medium:: 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

16. Landscape with Milkmaid

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. An Imaginary Wooded Village with Drovers and Cattle

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:: between 1771 and 1772
Medium:: Oil and mixed media on paper on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 29 3/8 inches (62.2 x 74.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Landscape with cottage and church

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:: between 1771 and 1772
Medium:: Oil on canvas with some black chalk
Dimensions:: 16 1/4 x 19 7/16 inches (41.3 x 49.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Winter Landscape

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804, British
Date:: 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches (69.9 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784, Irish
Date:: between 1760 and 1762
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 7/8 x 38 1/4 inches (73.3 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Box Hill, Surrey, with Dorking in the distance

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765, British
Date:: 1733
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 11/16 x 53 9/16 inches (90.6 x 136 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Old Walton Bridge

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746–55)
Date:: 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 48 1/8 inches (46 x 122.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 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

24. The Rainbow

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: 1784
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

25. Mountain Valley with Figures and Distant Village

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:: between 1773 and 1777
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 58 3/4 inches (121.9 x 149.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Scene in a London Street

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780, British
Date:: 1770
Medium:: 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

27. Merton College, Oxford

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 x 35 5/8 inches (70.5 x 90.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A View of the Tower of London, Supposed on his Majesty's Birthday

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: 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

29. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813, British
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: 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

30. The Medway at Rochester

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 31 inches (55.2 x 78.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Building of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: ca. 1742
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 47 inches (68.6 x 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Wooded Landscape with a Cottage and Shepherd

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:: 1748 to 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 3/8 inches (43.2 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Old Water Mill

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804, British
Date:: 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/2 x 49 1/8 inches (100.3 x 124.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Thames and the Adelphi

Creator:: Attributed to William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1772
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches (46.4 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746–55)
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: 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

36. Frost on the Thames

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795, British
Date:: 1788 to 1789
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/16 × 48 3/16 inches (76.7 × 122.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746–55)
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: 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

38. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734, Flemish, active in Britain (from ca. 1715)
Date:: ca. 1726
Medium:: 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

39. Snowdon from Capel Curig

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: 1787
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 7/8 x 79 inches (134.3 x 200.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection