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The Sense of Smell
Creator:
Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716)
Date:
1744 to 1747
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Allegory of Trade
Creator:
John Theodore Heins, 1697–1756, German, active in Britain (from 1720)
Date:
1743
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 54 inches (74.9 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Health and Wealth
Creator:
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:
1932 to 1935
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 26 inches (76.2 x 66 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum

4. Old Age

Old Age
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 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
Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 11/16 x 15 5/8 inches (32.2 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Rather a Dangerous Kind of Hug
Creator:
Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:
1847
Medium:
Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 5/16 inches (31 x 44 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
An Allegory of America Carrying the Cap of Liberty
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and black ink, graphite, and red chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 1/16 inches (8.3 × 5.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Mausoleum
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 x 8 11/16 inches (12.7 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Death Turned Pilot
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
between 1815 and 1816
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (14.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Family of Children
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 5/16 x 7 1/4 inches (11 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Time and Death and Goody Barton
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/16 x 8 3/8 inches (13.2 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Death and the Debauchee
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
between 1814 and 1816
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/16 x 8 1/2 inches (13.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Six Venice Etchings, Title Page
Creator:
Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:
undated
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (32.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Porta della Carta
Creator:
Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:
undated
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 7/8 inches (46.5 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.
Creator:
Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:
undated
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 3/8 inches (41.8 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Allegory of Painting and Literature
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 inches (21 × 17.8 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