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An Autumn Landscape with Apple Pickers
Creator:
George Smith, 1714–1776, British
Date:
mid-18th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 3/4 × 25 7/8 inches (42.5 × 65.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Winter Landscape
Creator:
George Smith, 1714–1776, British
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 3/4 × 26 inches (42.5 × 66 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
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
The Choir, Canterbury Cathedral
Creator:
unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:
between 1712 and 1715
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
49 3/4 x 40 7/16 inches (126.4 x 102.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Landscape with Trees and Figures
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:
ca. 1796
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 5/8 inches (32.4 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Seated Figures
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (7.9 x 8.9 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
Classical Composition
Creator:
Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798, British, active in Italy (1744–48 and 1756 on)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (31.1 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Classical Composition
Creator:
Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798, British, active in Italy (1744–48 and 1756 on)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 17 5/8 inches (33.3 × 44.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Wooded Landscape with Figures Round a Cooking Pot
Creator:
Thomas Hand, died 1804, British
Date:
1793
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.5 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Landscape with Lake and Figures on a Rocky Road
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1777
Medium:
Watercolor, pen, brown ink, gray ink, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 14 1/2 inches (22.9 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Wheeled Cart and Figures
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches (5.7 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Group of Figures: A Dogfight
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:
ca. 1785
Medium:
Graphite, brown wash and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (11.1 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Nîmes from the Tour Magne
Creator:
William Marlow, 1740–1813, British
Date:
ca. 1765
Medium:
Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:
1751
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802, British
Date:
ca. 1794
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (10.5 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Place des Victoires, Paris
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1783
Medium:
Watercolor in pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 inches (34.9 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Parisian Street Figures
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
1786
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite with pen and brown ink; verso: watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches (15.9 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bramha and Nursingdara Ghat, Varanasi
Creator:
William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Date:
between 1788 and 1789
Medium:
Gray wash with graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 x 19 inches (29.5 x 48.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Country Lane with Gypsies Resting
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:
between 1760 and 1765
Medium:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite and black chalk; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream prepared wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wooded Landscape with Figures
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:
ca. 1788
Medium:
Black chalk and stumping, with touches of white and red chalk, gray and brown wash, heightened with gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Open Landscape with Horsemen and Covered Cart
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:
between 1780 and 1788
Medium:
Gray and black wash, with traces of black and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 inches (27.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
William Daniell, the Artist's Nephew, Sketching a Ruined Temple at Zafarabad on the Gumti River
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840, British, active in India
Date:
ca. 1785
Medium:
Graphite and red chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches (22.5 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View of Monghyr, Bihar
Creator:
William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Date:
ca. 1788
Medium:
Gray wash with graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 x 28 1/2 inches (48.3 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Design for a Medal: Concordia Victrix
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
ca. 1767
Medium:
Graphite and black chalk, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 11 × 7 7/8 inches (27.9 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Design for an Engraving: Parlement de Paris Reassembling with Figure of Justice
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
1762
Medium:
Graphite and red chalk, incised and squared for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige 19th century laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink border lines
Dimensions:
Mount: 12 x 11 1/16 inches (30.5 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Designs for an Ornamental Cartouche: for the Engraved Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 x 8 11/16 inches (35.6 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Perspective View of Covent Garden
Creator:
John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Medium:
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
Bathing Machine on the Common, near Southsea Castle
Creator:
John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818, British
Date:
1788
Medium:
Watercolor, pen, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (12.1 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Turver's Farm, Wimbish, Essex
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802, British
Date:
ca. 1799
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 16 3/8 inches (30.2 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Two-Decker Running up the Estuary with Figures on the Beach in the Foreground
Creator:
William Anderson, 1757–1837, British
Date:
1790
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 15 3/4 inches (29.8 × 40 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
Landscape with figures walking
Creator:
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Date:
1744
Medium:
Pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 13 3/8 inches (41.3 × 34 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Figures and Boats on the Thames
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 34 7/8 inches (29.8 x 88.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett
Two Figures Seated
Creator:
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 5/16 inches (24.1 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Remains of a Bridge at San-Sien-Wey on the Pei-Ho near Tong-Tcheou, August 15, 1793
Creator:
William Alexander, 1767–1816, British
Date:
1793
Medium:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 x 7 7/8 inches (10.2 x 20 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, British
Date:
ca. 1781
Medium:
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
Man Leading Tow Mules Supporting a Chair, Large Tree in Foreground
Creator:
Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762, British
Date:
1759
Medium:
Etching in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.4 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Five People Praying
Creator:
Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762, British
Date:
1760
Medium:
Etching in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 9/16 x 18 1/4 inches (31.9 x 46.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Opening of the Carnival at Rome
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:
ca. 1781
Medium:
Aquatint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (38.4 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Priory Old House, Thetford
Creator:
Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791, British
Date:
1777
Medium:
Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 9/16in. (23.5 x 37cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove
No cover image available
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
1769
Medium:
Pen in black ink and graphite, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (27 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
ca. 1769
Medium:
Pen and black ink and graphite, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 10 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (27 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection