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1. 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

2. Corfe Castle, Dorset

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810, British
Date:: 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/8 x 18 inches (33.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. English Ships Running before a Gale

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: before 1759
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Landscape with a Rainbow

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1793 and 1794
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 39 5/16 inches (69.9 × 99.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Duncan Robinson, Director, Yale Center for British Art (1981–1995)

6. Sir William Elford, Bart.

Creator:: James Northcote, 1746–1831, British
Date:: 1782
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

7. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1723)
Date:: 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: between 1747 and 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Coach in a Thunderstorm

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: ca. 1795
Medium:: Oil on millboard (attached to stretcher); verso: oil sketch
Dimensions:: 16 3/4 x 24 inches (42.5 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1799
Medium:: Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (21 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 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

14. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1797
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804, British
Date:: 1753
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 3/16 inches (39.6 x 53.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gum and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 inches (31.1 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Distress

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: 1790 to 1795
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and brown and red ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/16 inches (31 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Prospero and Miranda

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: ca. 1781
Medium:: Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: ca. 1781
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802, British
Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches (21.7 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Admiral George Edgcumbe, first Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 10 7/8 inches (38.6 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (50.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Shipwreck

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1745
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Ship in Distress

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 7/8 x 21 13/16 inches (37.8 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked

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: 11 1/8 x 16 15/16 inches (28.2 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer

30. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815, British
Date:: 1795
Medium:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815, British
Date:: 1791
Medium:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/4 inches (24.9 × 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Ships in Distress

Creator:: Richard Bernard Godfrey, 1728–op.1794, British
Date:: 1796
Medium:: Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 16 11/16 inches (30.8 x 42.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Fishery

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1768
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 11/16 inches (46.4 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 9/16 x 9 5/8 inches (47.1 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Three Marys Going to the Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches (46.9 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

2. Corfe Castle, Dorset

3. The Fishery

4. English Ships Running before a Gale

5. Landscape with a Rainbow

6. Sir William Elford, Bart.

7. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

8. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

9. Coach in a Thunderstorm

10. The Rainbow

11. Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii

12. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

13. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

14. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."

15. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"

16. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy."

17. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

18. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

19. Rochester, Kent: from the North

20. Distress

21. Prospero and Miranda

22. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

23. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

24. Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin

25. Admiral George Edgcumbe, first Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

26. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

27. Shipwreck

28. A Ship in Distress

29. Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked

30. Presages of the Millenium

31. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

32. Ships in Distress

33. The Fishery

34. Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre

35. The Three Marys Going to the Sepulchre

36. Celadon and Amelia

37. Celadon and Amelia