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1. Portrait of an Unknown Boy

Creator:: Willem Wissing, ca. 1656–1687, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1676)
Date:: ca. 1685
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 81 1/2 x 48 3/4 inches (207 x 123.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 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

3. Major Thomas Pearson and the Brahman

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (20 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, Yale BA 1938, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

4. Major Thomas Pearson and the Brahman

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (20 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, Yale BA 1938

5. Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda

Creator:: Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844, British
Date:: ca. 1840
Medium:: Graphite with black chalk and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (21.9 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. 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

7. Classical Study with Numerous Nude Figures

Creator:: Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565–1617, French, active in Britain
Date:: undated
Medium:: Blue wash and graphite with pen and blue ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 5 11/16 inches (7.9 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Classical Study of Three Figures

Creator:: Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565–1617, French, active in Britain
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and brown wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 × 4 1/8 inches (6.8 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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

10. 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

11. Man standing on seashore - Hierro

Creator:: Alfred Diston, active 1818–1829
Date:: after 1826
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. 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

13. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 15/16 inches (20.3 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

14. Fish Porter in a Straw Hat

Creator:: George Chambers, 1803–1840, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 inches (25.7 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Two Women

Creator:: George Augustus Sala, 1828–1895, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 5 inches (11.4 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

16. Standing Lady

Creator:: George Augustus Sala, 1828–1895, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 2 3/16 inches (11.1 × 5.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

17. A Venetian Courtesan

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: 1739
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 x 9 5/16 inches (33.8 x 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. A Shepherdess

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/16 x 11 1/8 inches (40.8 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Study for the Figure of St. Paul

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 8 1/8 inches (27.9 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

20. Study for the Figure of Grammateus

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (13.3 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

21. Study of a Lady

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 8 15/16 inches (31.4 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Two Figures

Creator:: Print made by John Copley, 1875–1950, British
Date:: 1950
Medium:: Etching with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 9 5/16 inches (39.3 x 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Portrait of an Unknown Boy

2. Learning to Walk

3. Major Thomas Pearson and the Brahman

4. Major Thomas Pearson and the Brahman

5. Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda

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

7. Classical Study with Numerous Nude Figures

8. Classical Study of Three Figures

9. Study

10. Study

11. Man standing on seashore - Hierro

12. Study

13. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

14. Fish Porter in a Straw Hat

15. Two Women

16. Standing Lady

17. A Venetian Courtesan

18. A Shepherdess

19. Study for the Figure of St. Paul

20. Study for the Figure of Grammateus

21. Study of a Lady

22. Two Figures