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Corfu from Ascension
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:
ca. 1860
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sophie and Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
Mrs. Robinson
Creator:
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, British
Date:
ca. 1784
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 7/8 × 28 1/4 inches (93.7 × 71.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Alexander Pope Profile, Crowned with Ivy
Creator:
Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:
ca. 1721
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 1/4 x 23 inches (71.8 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Margaret Wimsatt in memory of William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr.
Alexander Pope
Creator:
Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745, British
Date:
1738
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
39 x 33 inches (99.1 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
James Thomson (1700-1748)
Creator:
Stephen Slaughter, 1697–1765, British
Date:
1736
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches (77.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Chatterton
Creator:
Henry Wallis, 1830–1916, British
Date:
ca. 1856
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
8 15/16 x 11 7/8 inches (22.7 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Samuel Butler
Creator:
Gilbert Soest, ca. 1600–1681, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1657)
Date:
ca. 1675
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Bard
Creator:
John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:
ca. 1817
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke
Creator:
Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:
1915
Medium:
Oil and collage on panel
Dimensions:
21 9/16 x 11 3/4 inches (54.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Pope's Villa, Twickenham
Creator:
Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755, British
Date:
ca. 1755
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 5/16 x 32 1/8 inches (44 x 81.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons
Creator:
Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839, British
Date:
1794
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches (77.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
William Congreve
Creator:
Unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:
ca. 1715
Medium:
Pearwood
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (16.5 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Alexander Pope
Creator:
Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762, French, active in Britain (from 1730)
Date:
1741
Medium:
Marble
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 3/4 x 17 x 9 inches (62.9 x 43.2 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of the British art historian Basil Taylor (1922–1975)
Oliver Goldsmith
Creator:
John Henry Foley, 1818–1874, Irish
Date:
1863
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 39 x 15 x 13 inches (99.1 x 38.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brian P. Burns
William Hayley
Creator:
Thomas Alphonso Hayley, 1780–1800, British
Date:
1795
Medium:
Terracotta
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches (10.8 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The Gift of Charles Ryskamp
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
Roslin Castle, Midlothian
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Alexander Pope, Profile
Creator:
Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745, British
Date:
1738
Medium:
Etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 11.4cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack
Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)
Creator:
Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962, British
Date:
2011
Medium:
Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:
Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund
Anne Killigrew
Creator:
Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690, Dutch
Date:
ca. 1680
Medium:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (26.3 × 18.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Joan Murray
Creator:
Bill Jay, 1940–2009, British
Date:
2004
Medium:
Digital Ink jet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
Design for a Frontispiece: Bust of a Roman Man
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Red chalk and graphite, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (19.1 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Designs for an Ornamental Cartouche: for the Engraved Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)
Creator:
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 x 8 11/16 inches (35.6 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Gathering at Fulham Palace
Creator:
George Richmond, 1809–1896, British
Date:
between 1843 and 1845
Medium:
Iron gall ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (22.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard J. Mammana Jr., Yale MAR 2012, in memory of Cynthia McFarland

26. Sappho

Sappho
Creator:
attributed to Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838, British
Date:
1826
Medium:
Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (22.9 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wilton
A Grub Street Poet
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and black, gray, and brown ink with gray wash over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 1/16 inches (24.8 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Henry More
Creator:
Print made by William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691, British
Date:
1675
Medium:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 x 7 5/16 inches (33 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. William L. Harkness
William Butler Yeats, Poet (1865-1939)
Creator:
Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:
1919
Medium:
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (29.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts
Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer
Creator:
Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:
between 1690 and 1703
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches (40.1 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
William Drummond of Hawthornden
Creator:
John Finlayson, 1730–1776, British
Date:
1766
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (39 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
John Armstrong, M.D.
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
between 1760 and 1780
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches (43 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Laurence Sterne, A.M.
Creator:
Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1760
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (37.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of William Blake
Creator:
John Flaxman, 1755–1826, British
Date:
ca. 1804
Medium:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 8 1/8 inches (17.8 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
William Drummond of Hawthorne
Creator:
Richard Gaywood, active 1650–1680
Date:
1654
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 1/16 inches (19.9 × 12.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi
Creator:
Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857, British
Date:
1835
Medium:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 inches (19.8 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

37. Edwin

Edwin
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1776
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.1 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. The Poet

The Poet
Creator:
John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 × 7 5/8 inches (25.4 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Laurence Sterne, A.M.
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1760
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (38.2 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Edwin

Edwin
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1776
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/16 inches (36 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Laurence Sterne, A.M.
Creator:
Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1760
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.7 x 29.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Gray
Creator:
Print made by Charles Heath, 1785–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 3/16 inches (18.4 × 13.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Robert Burns
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887, British
Date:
1830
Medium:
Mezzotint, published state
Dimensions:
Plate: 20 1/2 x 16 7/16in. (52.1 x 41.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Thomas Gray
Creator:
Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 inches (15 × 10.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'
Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:
1775
Medium:
Etching, published state
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
James Beattie, LL.D.
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812, French
Date:
1805
Medium:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 1/8 inches (19.8 × 23.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lovelace in Prison
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:
1788
Medium:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Samuel Johnson
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:
1785
Medium:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (26 x 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection