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1. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: 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

2. The Family of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu and an Attendant

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: between 1730 and 1735
Medium:: 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

3. An Unknown Man in Black

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:: 1735
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771, Italian, active in Britain (from ca. 1736)
Date:: 1753
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Medium:: 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

6. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: 1785
Medium:: 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

7. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751, British, active in America (from 1728)
Date:: 1726
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: John Smibert, 1688–1751, British, active in America (from 1728)
Date:: 1724
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: 1767
Medium:: 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

11. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1735
Medium:: 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

12. The Death of the Hare

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1735
Medium:: 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

13. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: 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

14. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: 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

15. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804, British
Date:: 1799
Medium:: 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

16. Kisler Aga, Chief of the Black Eunuchs and First Keeper of the Serraglio

Creator:: Francis Smith, active 1763–1780, British
Date:: between 1763 and 1779
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Kirk, 1765–1797, Irish
Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: 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

18. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

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

19. William Weddell

Creator:: Pompeo Batoni, 1708–1787, Italian
Date:: between 1765 and 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 3/8 x 38 1/8 inches (133 x 96.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Margaret Callander and Her Son James Kearney

Creator:: Jean Laurent Mosnier, 1743/44–1808, French, active in Britain (1790–96)
Date:: 1795
Medium:: 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

21. 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

22. Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: 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

23. Sir Robert and Lady Smyth with Their Son, Hervey

Creator:: Attributed to Andrea Soldi, 1703–1771, Italian, active in Britain (from ca. 1736)
Date:: between 1738 and 1739
Medium:: 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

24. Selling Guinea Pigs

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804, British
Date:: ca. 1789
Medium:: 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

25. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: early 1760s
Medium:: 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

26. 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, British
Date:: 1792
Medium:: 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

27. Evening

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1799
Medium:: 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

28. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: between 1776 and 1777
Medium:: 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

29. Mrs. Bentley

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: 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

30. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806, Irish
Date:: ca. 1772
Medium:: 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

31. Paetus and Arria

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1766
Medium:: 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

32. An Unknown Man

Creator:: George Beare, active 1738–1749, British
Date:: 1746
Medium:: 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

33. Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: 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

35. Planter and his Wife, with a Servant

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: 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

38. An Unknown Man

Creator:: Michael Dahl, 1656–1743, Swedish, active in Britain (from 1682)
Date:: ca. 1720
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Medium:: 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

40. Admiral Lord Bridport

Creator:: Lemuel Francis Abbott, ca. 1760–1802, British
Date:: ca. 1795
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775, Irish
Date:: 1767 to 1769
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748, Flemish, active in Britain (1708; from 1733)
Date:: ca. 1745
Medium:: 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

43. General Thomas Gage

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815, American, active in Britain (from 1776)
Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: 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

44. The Countess of Effingham with Gun and Shooting Dogs

Creator:: George Haugh, 1756–1827, British
Date:: 1787
Medium:: 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

45. Group portrait, probably of the Raikes family

Creator:: Gawen Hamilton, ca. 1697–1737, British
Date:: between 1730 and 1732
Medium:: 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

46. Robert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family

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

47. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1788
Medium:: 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

48. Learning to Walk

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

49. Night

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804, British
Date:: 1756
Medium:: 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

50. The Damnation of Obadiah

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: 1773
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 15 11/16 inches (30.6 x 39.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. A Modern Spread Eagle

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (26.3 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

Creator:: Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789
Date:: ca. 1787
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 × 13 1/4 inches (48.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Gate Toward Bursit, Aix-la-Chappelle

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 18 1/2 inches (28.9 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Brighton Town and Church

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Watercolor with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 × 18 13/16 inches (30 × 47.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a Balloon, June 20, 1785

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/8 x 6 11/16 inches (13 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Melville and Naomi Stone

57. 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, French (active in London)
Date:: 1749
Medium:: 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

58. Portrait study of John Inigo Richards, R.A.

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810, British
Date:: ca. 1771
Medium:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 5 15/16 inches (14 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Head of a Man with a Beard and Long Hair in the Wind

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Graphite with black ink and brown wash, verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (16.8 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Study for Captain William George Fairfax for the Painting "The Victory of Lord Duncan"

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815, American, active in Britain (from 1776)
Date:: ca. 1798
Medium:: Black chalk, white chalk, and red chalk, squared for transfer on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches (31.4 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816, British
Date:: 1795
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. A Lecture on Gadding

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1789
Medium:: Etching, stipple engraving, and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/16 x 15 1/16 inches (46.9 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. P. Monamy

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 1/4 inches (30.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Charles Christian Reisen

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: 1762
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 3/16 inches (30.5 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Charles Christian Reisen

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: 1762
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 11/16 inches (28 x 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Michael Rysbrack

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: 1734
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 15/16 inches (35.2 × 25.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Enoch Seeman

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (30.2 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Enoch Seeman

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.3 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Godfrey Schalcken

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches (29.9 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Peter Tillemans

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.2 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Sir Godfrey Kneller

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: 1735
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 12 inches (45.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Sir Balthazar Gerbier

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Line engraving and stiplle engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 13/16 inches (29.5 × 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Study

Creator:: Print made by John Chalon, 1738 – 1795
Date:: 1789-1790
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 9/16 x 2 11/16 inches (9.1 x 6.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Study

Creator:: Print made by John Chalon, 1738 – 1795
Date:: 1789-1790
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/16 x 2 5/8 inches (7.7 x 6.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Haweswater, Westmoreland

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804, British
Date:: ca. 1795
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30 x 44.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

Creator:: Joseph Farington, (landscape), 1747–1821, British
Date:: 1796
Medium:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (47 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

77. A View of Campo Vaccino at Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (24.8 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. The Palace of Mont Alto at Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches (23.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1745
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 3/8 inches (37.5 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. A View of the Piazza Navona in the City of Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 x 12 3/8 inches (22.8 x 31.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. A View of the Piazza del Popolo in the City of Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (24.2 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Spanish Palace at Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 x 12 5/16 inches (23.2 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. A View of Part of the Royal Gardens at Naples Towards the Sea

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches (24.4 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. A View of the Sea from the Palace of the Vice Roy at Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (Dubois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches (24.1 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. P. Monamy

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.3 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Godfrey Schalcken

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 x 7 1/8 inches (22.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Horatio Gentileschi and Edward Mascall

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 1/4 inches (25 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Sir Balthazar Gerbier

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 1/4 inches (29.8 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Study

Creator:: Print made by John Chalon, 1738 – 1795
Date:: 1789-1790
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 6 9/16 inches (12.7 x 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Morgan Offending the Delicate Organs of Captain Wiffle

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, gray wash, brown wash, pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (18.7 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. John Edwin and Mrs. Mary Wells as Lingo and Cowslip in "The Agreeable Surprise"

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:: 1787
Medium:: Watercolor with gouache, black chalk and stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/16 x 12 5/8 inches (41.4 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: 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

93. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: 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

94. His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: after 1730
Medium:: 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

95. View of a Sea Port

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1774
Medium:: 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

96. Henry Cornelius Vroom

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (30.2 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Edward, Prince of Wales, Presenting the Captive King John of France and His Sons to His Father Edward the Third After the Battle of Poictiers

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1788
Medium:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper laid on mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/4 x 19 1/16 inches (38.8 x 48.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Le paysan paresseux

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750, German
Date:: early 1750s
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (41.2 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

99. Courtship for Money

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 7/16 inches (36.2 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

100. Susanna and the Elders

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1769
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 14 3/16 inches (45.9 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

2. The Family of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu and an Attendant

3. An Unknown Man in Black

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

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

6. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

7. Sir John Rushout, Bt.

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

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

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

11. Lord Portmore Watching Racehorses at Exercise on Newmarket Heath

12. The Death of the Hare

13. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

14. The Great Fire of London

15. Rochester

16. Kisler Aga, Chief of the Black Eunuchs and First Keeper of the Serraglio

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

18. Vegetable Seller, Covent Garden

19. William Weddell

20. Margaret Callander and Her Son James Kearney

21. The Browne Family

22. Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve

23. Sir Robert and Lady Smyth with Their Son, Hervey

24. Selling Guinea Pigs

25. Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother

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

27. Evening

28. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

29. Mrs. Bentley

30. The Education of Achilles

31. Paetus and Arria

32. An Unknown Man

33. Free West Indian Creoles in Elegant Dress

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

35. Planter and his Wife, with a Servant

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

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

38. An Unknown Man

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

40. Admiral Lord Bridport

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

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

43. General Thomas Gage

44. The Countess of Effingham with Gun and Shooting Dogs

45. Group portrait, probably of the Raikes family

46. Robert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family

47. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

48. Learning to Walk

49. Night

50. The Damnation of Obadiah

51. A Modern Spread Eagle

52. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

53. Gate Toward Bursit, Aix-la-Chappelle

54. Brighton Town and Church

55. Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a Balloon, June 20, 1785

56. The Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

57. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

58. Portrait study of John Inigo Richards, R.A.

59. Head of a Man with a Beard and Long Hair in the Wind

60. Study for Captain William George Fairfax for the Painting "The Victory of Lord Duncan"

61. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

62. A Lecture on Gadding

63. P. Monamy

64. Charles Christian Reisen

65. Charles Christian Reisen

66. Michael Rysbrack

67. Enoch Seeman

68. Enoch Seeman

69. Godfrey Schalcken

70. Peter Tillemans

71. Sir Godfrey Kneller

72. Sir Balthazar Gerbier

73. Study

74. Study