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Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning after a Stormy Night
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
1829
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 × 64 3/4 inches (121.9 × 164.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Staffa, Fingal's Cave
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:
1831 to 1832
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 3/4 x 47 3/4 inches (90.8 x 121.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shipwreck
Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 16 inches (31.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cloud Study
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
1821
Medium:
Oil on paper laid on board
Dimensions:
9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (24.8 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hadleigh Castle
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
1828 to 1829
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
7 7/8 × 9 7/16 inches (20 × 24 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Calais Jetty, France
Creator:
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828, British
Date:
ca. 1824
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
11 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches (29.8 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1879
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
47 1/8 x 72 inches (119.7 x 182.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
The Marble Rocks — Nerbudda Jubbolpore
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1882
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 9 1/2 inches (38.1 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel
Creator:
Tobias Stranover, 1684–after 1735, German, active in Britain
Date:
between 1710 and 1724
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
44 1/2 x 62 1/2 inches (113 x 158.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Ornithologist, Possibly John Latham
Creator:
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 1775–1862, British
Date:
1802
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
58 x 58 inches (147.3 x 147.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hop Pickers Outside a Cottage
Creator:
George Smith, 1714–1776, British
Date:
mid-18th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 × 24 7/8 inches (43.2 × 63.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Castlefairn
Creator:
James Paterson, 1854–1932, British
Date:
between 1890 and 1895
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 3/4 × 30 inches (45.1 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
Black Game, Rabbits, and Swallows in a Park
Creator:
Leonard Knyff, 1650–1721, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1681)
Date:
ca. 1700
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 56 inches (90.2 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Landscape with Distant Mountains
Creator:
Adriaen van Diest, 1655–1704, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:
ca. 1698
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
33 1/8 × 32 inches (84.1 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Rievaulx Abbey
Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:
ca. 1745
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 x 22 inches (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Preparing for the Hunt
Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
Date:
ca. 1745
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Windham Quin of Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland
Creator:
Stephen Slaughter, 1697–1765, British
Date:
ca. 1745
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 1/8 x 50 5/8 inches (101.9 x 128.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Shepherd Boy on a Hillside
Creator:
William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862, British
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (18.4 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Indian Landscape with Figures near a Stream
Creator:
Attributed to William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 1/2 x 45 inches (80 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Hawking Party
Creator:
Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1664)
Date:
ca. 1690
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 27 inches (52.1 x 68.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On the Kennet, Reading
Creator:
William Havell, 1782–1857, British, active in India (1820–26)
Date:
1807
Medium:
Oil on card
Dimensions:
4 5/8 x 8 9/16 inches (11.7 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex
Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:
between 1773 and 1774
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 7/8 x 35 3/4 inches (70.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Heron Hawking below Stirling Castle
Creator:
Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1664)
Date:
ca. 1690
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/2 × 24 1/8 inches (62.2 × 61.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Birds
Creator:
unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
11 x 20 inches (27.9 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Machine and Birds
Creator:
Prunella Clough, 1919–1999, British
Date:
1958
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 1/2 x 40 inches (67.3 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
Eagles are Attracted by Disaster
Creator:
Steven Campbell, 1953–2007, British
Date:
1983
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
111 x 108 inches (281.9 x 274.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, transfer from the Harvard Art Museums
Going to the Hayfield
Creator:
David Cox, 1783–1859, British
Date:
1853
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
10 x 13 1/4 inches (25.4 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jane Thornaugh (née Jackson), Lady Thornaugh
Creator:
William Larkin, ca. 1580–1619, British
Date:
1617
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 44 3/4 × 33 inches (113.7 × 83.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Morecambe Sands
Creator:
Unknown artist
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monique Goldstrom in honor of Michael Goldstrom's role "Hersh" in "Modern Orthodox" by Daniel Goldfarb at Long Wharf Theatre
Domestic cock, hens, and chicks in a park
Creator:
Peter Casteels, 1684–1749, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1708)
Date:
1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
49 3/4 x 39 3/4 inches (126.4 x 101 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Fishing Boats on the Banks of Inland Waters
Creator:
George Chambers, 1803–1840, British
Date:
1831
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches (34.3 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Port on a Stormy Day
Creator:
George Chambers, 1803–1840, British
Date:
1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch
Creator:
Attributed to David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:
ca. 1769
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
54 1/2 x 38 3/4 inches (138.4 x 98.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Country House in a River Landscape, Previously Identified as Oatlands
Creator:
unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:
ca. 1805
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
34 1/2 x 45 1/2 inches (87.6 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Royal Yacht Becalmed at Anchor
Creator:
Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:
between 1710 and 1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/8 x 45 1/2 inches (76.5 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Gillingham on the Medway
Creator:
William James Muller, 1812–1845, British
Date:
1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 × 26 1/4 inches (34.3 × 66.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ducks and Other Birds about a Stream in an Italianate Landscape
Creator:
Francis Barlow, 1622–1704, British
Date:
1671
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 x 64 3/8 inches (121.9 x 163.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Traveller and a Shepherd in a Landscape
Creator:
Edmund Bristow, 1787–1876, British
Date:
ca. 1825
Medium:
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions:
4 x 3 1/4 inches (10.2 x 8.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pheasant Shooting
Creator:
Samuel John Egbert Jones, active 1820–1845, British
Date:
mid-19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 x 12 1/8 inches (25.4 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jay, Green Woodpecker, Pigeons, and Redstart
Creator:
Francis Barlow, 1622–1704, British
Date:
ca. 1658
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 1/8 inches (76.2 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Day's Sport
Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:
1826
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 1/2 x 51 1/4 inches (100.3 x 130.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Woodcock at Dusk
Creator:
Francis Barlow, 1622–1704, British
Date:
ca. 1686
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches (43.8 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Moorhen's Haunt
Creator:
Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888, British
Date:
1846
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
8 x 12 inches (20.3 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Kitchen Scene
Creator:
John Atkinson, active 1770–1775, British
Date:
1771
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 3/8 x 25 inches (77.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Macaw, Ducks, Parrots and Other Birds in a Landscape
Creator:
Jacob Bogdani, 1658–1724, Hungarian, active in Britain (from 1688)
Date:
between 1708 and 1710
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
56 x 82 inches (142.2 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Caravanserai at Mylasa in Asia Minor
Creator:
Richard Dadd, 1817–1886, British
Date:
1845
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
8 3/8 x 12 inches (21.3 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower
Creator:
John Brett, 1831–1902, British
Date:
1887
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 30 inches (38.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Cottage by a country lane
Creator:
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, 1779–1844, British
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
12 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (32.7 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam
Creator:
Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867, British
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 x 48 inches (78.7 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig
Creator:
William Clark, 1803–1883, British
Date:
1836
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt
Creator:
John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British
Date:
1876
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
24 1/2 x 29 1/4 inches (62.2 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The English Brig 'Norval' before the Wind
Creator:
William Clark, 1803–1883, British
Date:
1833
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 7/8 x 29 5/8 inches (50.5 x 75.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Peacocks, Doves, Turkeys, Chickens and Ducks by a Classical Ruin
Creator:
Marmaduke Cradock, 1660–1716, British
Date:
ca. 1700
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (41.9 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Mallard, Black Bird and Tree Sparrow
Creator:
unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:
ca. 1700
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 3/4 x 28 inches (55.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Peacock, peahen, parrots, canary, and other birds in a park
Creator:
Jacob Bogdani, 1658–1724, Hungarian, active in Britain (from 1688)
Date:
between 1708 and 1710
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
65 3/4 x 54 inches (167 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Opposite my House at Barnes
Creator:
Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880, British
Date:
1862
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
11 15/16 x 18 15/16 inches (30.3 x 48.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Winter Landscape
Creator:
George Smith, 1714–1776, British
Date:
ca. 1770
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
11 7/8 x 16 3/4 inches (30.2 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pheasant Shooting
Creator:
George Morland, 1763–1804, British
Date:
ca. 1790
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 7/8 x 20 1/2 inches (40.3 x 52.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Theophilus Levett and a Favorite Hunter
Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:
1817
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 1/4 x 51 1/4 inches (99.7 x 130.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Favourites, the Property of H.R.H. Prince George of Cambridge
Creator:
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873, British
Date:
1834 to 1835
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 49 1/2 inches (101.6 x 125.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Studies of a Fox, a Barn Owl, a Peahen, and the Head of a Young Man
Creator:
Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849, Swiss, active in Britain (from 1800)
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 1/2 x 18 5/8 inches (49.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Grouse Shooting
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:
ca. 1825
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 x 11 inches (22.9 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll
Creator:
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, British
Date:
ca. 1760
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
94 x 58 inches (238.8 x 147.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Partridge Shooting
Creator:
Edward Duncan, 1803–1882, British
Date:
1830
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina
Creator:
Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962, British
Date:
2017
Medium:
Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax-printed cotton textile, birdcage, birds, leather, and globe
Dimensions:
Overall: 97 × 51 × 27 inches (246.4 × 129.5 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk, the Director's Discretionary Fund, and the Friends of British Art Fund
The Great Divide (Beautiful Zameen)
Creator:
Jagdeep Raina, born 1991, Canadian
Date:
2022
Medium:
Embroidered tapestry, phulkari border
Dimensions:
Overall: 76 × 27 inches (193 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
The Avon Gorge, Looking toward Clifton
Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:
ca. 1820
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (48.9 x 73 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sunset over a River Landscape
Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:
early 1840s
Medium:
Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches (31.2 x 44.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ruin of St. Botolph's Priory, Colchester
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
ca. 1809
Medium:
Black and brown chalk over graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches (43.5 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Ruins of Netley Abbey
Creator:
Print made by John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:
1826
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/16 inches (30.7 x 44 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Homeward Star
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches (16.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Homeward Star
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
begun ca. 1880
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Homeward Star
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Homeward Star
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Opening the Fold
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1880
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 9/16 x 12 7/8 inches (26.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1857
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 9/16 inches (30 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1857
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 x 4 1/16 inches (12.2 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Early Ploughman
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
begun before 1861
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (30.2 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1857
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/16 x 7 inches (21.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Opening the Fold
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1880
Medium:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (20.2 x 27 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
On the Washburn
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 15 3/8 inches (27.3 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Dead Sea, 16 and 17 April 1858
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
April 16 and 17, 1858
Medium:
Pen and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches (36.8 x 55.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Opposite Abu Girgeh
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1867
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 1 13/16 x 7 5/16 inches (4.6 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

86. El Ousta

El Ousta
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1854
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink and red ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches (9.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942
Negadeh, 1:45 pm, 17 January 1867 (190)
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
1867
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and gray and green chalk and gouache, over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (9.2 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Venice, the Doge's Palace
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 10 inches (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection
Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 17
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1821
Medium:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The longest night though longer far, would fail"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Shepherd, from Songs of Innocence
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1795
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."
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
America. A Prophecy, Plate 13, "Fiery the Angels Rose...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1793
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 6, "IV None could have . . . ." (Bentley a7)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1788
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
America. A Prophecy, Plate 15, "What Time the Thirteen Governors...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1793
Medium:
Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 48, "These were his last words...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1804 to 1820
Medium:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 61, "Behold: in the Visions of Elohim Jehovah...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1804 to 1820
Medium:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its Favours Here Are Trials, Not Rewards"
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
Songs of Innocence, Plate 14, "Infant Joy" (Bentley 25)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789
Medium:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 54, "In Great Eternity...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1804 to 1820
Medium:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection