Exhibition History: Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) / Image Use: Free to Use

1. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: ca. 1695
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches (32.1 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Ships and Militia by a Rocky Shore

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Elder, ca. 1611–1693, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: ca. 1680
Medium:: Pen and ink on prepared canvas
Dimensions:: 25 5/8 x 38 7/16 inches (65.1 x 97.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Grand Vizier giving Audience to the English Ambassador

Creator:: Francis Smith, active 1763–1780, British
Date:: ca. 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 5/8 x 26 1/2 inches (49.8 x 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: ca. 1700
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 3/4 x 72 1/2 inches (113.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie

Creator:: Paul van Somer, ca. 1576–1621, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1616)
Date:: ca. 1619
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 81 x 48 1/2 inches (205.7 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich

Creator:: Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680, Dutch, active in England (from 1643)
Date:: 1660 to 1665
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 87 7/8 x 51 1/2 inches (223.2 x 130.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Creator:: Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:: between 1715 and 1720
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/8 x 27 1/4 inches (89.2 x 69.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 1/8 inches (20.3 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. North Porch of the Erectheion, Athens

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867, British
Date:: ca. 1804
Medium:: Gray wash, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 inches (30.2 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Temple of Hephaestus

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867, British
Date:: 1802-1804
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 17 1/4 inches (29.2 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Top Panel: Plan, Column Details; Bottom Panel: View of a Ruined Theater, Probably that at Miletus

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Gray wash with gray and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 15 inches (54 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Locust

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770, Italian
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (22.5 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Date:: between 1764 and 1766
Medium:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 inches (29.2 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Otostegia tomentosa: outline sketch of flowering stem with details of flowers and leaf

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770, Italian
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (30.2 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. "Arch of Marcus Aurelius at Tripoli "

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
Date:: ca. 1766
Medium:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured,cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 25 3/4 inches (48.9 × 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Elevation of Pedestal Entableature of the Arch at Tripoli

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches (64.8 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Unidentified Fish

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 16 inches (30.6 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Travellers in Turkey

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 20 3/8 inches (16.5 × 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Banditti of Kurdistan Assisting Georgians in Surprising and Carrying off Circassian Women

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871, British
Date:: 1827
Medium:: Graphite and brown wash, squared and numbered for transfer on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/2 × 32 5/8 inches (57.2 × 82.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Jerboa

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: Pen and black ink, watercolor, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (29.8 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Coffee-House Characters, or Hints to the Readers of Newspapers: The Private Declaimer

Creator:: George Moutard Woodward, ca. 1760–1809, British
Date:: 1808
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. An Elephant and a Camel

Creator:: Wenceslaus Hollar, 1607–1677, Bohemian
Date:: 1663
Medium:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 8 3/8in. (14.9 x 21.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Columns in the Island of Aegina, Temple of Venus

Creator:: John Foster, ca. 1787–1846, British
Date:: 1813
Medium:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (42.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Wellesley Arabian

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857, British
Date:: ca. 1810
Medium:: Mezzotint, proof before letters
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 1/4 x 22 5/8in. (48.9 x 57.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevation of the Doric Entablature and Roof Section

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black and red ink, graphite and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 13/16 inches (31.8 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: View of the Interior

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on moderately textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 19 1/2 inches (29.8 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Oil, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, lightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3in. (11.4 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Hand colored engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Oil and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 3 inches (10.5 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights', with Two Male Figures Standing

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Oil and graphite on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Woman Taking Coffee

Creator:: Print made by Louis Marin Bonnet, 1736–1793, French
Date:: ca. 1774
Medium:: Crayon manner, colored, heightened with gold on moderately thick, textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 inches (31.8 × 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Dilettanti Society

Creator:: Print made by William Say, 1768–1834, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Mezzotint (proof before letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 × 18 inches (61.6 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. The Dilettanti Society

Creator:: Print made by Charles Turner, 1774–1857, British
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Medium:: Mezzotint (proof before titles) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/8 × 20 1/8 inches (70.2 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with female figure reclining at left)

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Oil and black ink on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/8 inches (11.4 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Repose in Egypt

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806, Irish
Date:: ca. 1776
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 9/16 inches (20.6 x 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Royal Exchange

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1798
Medium:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815, British
Date:: 1798
Medium:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14in. (24.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Arch of Hadrian

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867, British
Date:: ca. 1804
Medium:: Gray wash, brown wash, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 × 8 5/8 inches (29.1 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Ruines à Troye

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 21 9/16 inches (37.6 x 54.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The King’s Bagnio

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1686
Medium:: Broadside
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7in. (27.9 x 17.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Near Mourad Pasha

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Watercolor on medium, textuted, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (13.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Aleppo - January 1836.

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1836
Medium:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/8 inches (17.1 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Aleppo

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1835-1836
Medium:: Watercolor; on verso, graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/8 × 9 inches (10.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Man With a Pipe

Creator:: Robert Cockburn, 1812–1836
Date:: 1835-1836
Medium:: Watercolor on thick, textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 × 14 inches (45.7 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Miletus

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 18 1/2in. (27.9 x 47cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

2. Ships and Militia by a Rocky Shore

3. The Grand Vizier giving Audience to the English Ambassador

4. A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

5. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

6. Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie

7. Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich

8. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

9. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

10. North Porch of the Erectheion, Athens

11. Temple of Hephaestus

12. Top Panel: Plan, Column Details; Bottom Panel: View of a Ruined Theater, Probably that at Miletus

13. Locust

14. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

15. Otostegia tomentosa: outline sketch of flowering stem with details of flowers and leaf

16. "Arch of Marcus Aurelius at Tripoli "

17. Elevation of Pedestal Entableature of the Arch at Tripoli

18. Unidentified Fish

19. Travellers in Turkey

20. Banditti of Kurdistan Assisting Georgians in Surprising and Carrying off Circassian Women

21. Jerboa

22. Coffee-House Characters, or Hints to the Readers of Newspapers: The Private Declaimer

23. An Elephant and a Camel

24. Columns in the Island of Aegina, Temple of Venus

25. The Wellesley Arabian

26. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevation of the Doric Entablature and Roof Section

27. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: View of the Interior

28. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)

29. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

30. Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]

31. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights', with Two Male Figures Standing

32. The Woman Taking Coffee

33. The Dilettanti Society

34. The Dilettanti Society

35. Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with female figure reclining at left)

36. Repose in Egypt

37. The Royal Exchange

38. Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt

39. Arch of Hadrian

40. Ruines à Troye

41. The King’s Bagnio

42. Near Mourad Pasha

43. Aleppo - January 1836.

44. Aleppo

45. Man With a Pipe

46. Miletus