Materials & Techniques: graphite / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: science

1. Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (29.8 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Landscape with Waterfall

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 3/8 inches (27.6 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over 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

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: 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

5. Design for an Ornamental Cartouche: Samuel Garth

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 x 2 15/16 inches (6.8 x 7.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 inches (31.1 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 3/8 inches (38.1 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Ascent of Vesuvius

Creator:: Henry Tresham, 1751–1814
Date:: 1785 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 27 5/8 inches (44.8 x 70.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Distress

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790 to 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and red ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/16 inches (31 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (14 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Prospero and Miranda

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Behind Middlesex Hospital

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (16.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Near Chiavenna

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 1/2in. (38.1 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. In the Via Mala, Between Coire and Splugen

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 5/8 inches (38.1 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. View of the Rhydaer

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (29.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. On the Banks of the Lago di Como

Creator:: Monro School
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (35.9 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. A Waterfall

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (22.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches (21.7 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Maniac

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 13/16 x 8 13/16 inches (19.8 x 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 × 18 1/8 inches (63.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/16 × 17 5/16 inches (64.6 × 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Purple Heron

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 11/16 × 26 9/16 inches (52.5 × 67.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. An Egyptian Vulture

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 9/16 × 26 7/16 inches (52.2 × 67.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Fields in Foreground, Town and Volcanic Mountains

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 22 1/4 inches (35.6 × 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right

2. Landscape with Waterfall

3. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy."

5. Design for an Ornamental Cartouche: Samuel Garth

6. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

7. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

8. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

9. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

10. Rochester, Kent: from the North

11. The Ascent of Vesuvius

12. Distress

13. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

14. Prospero and Miranda

15. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

16. Behind Middlesex Hospital

17. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

18. Near Chiavenna

19. In the Via Mala, Between Coire and Splugen

20. View of the Rhydaer

21. On the Banks of the Lago di Como

22. A Waterfall

23. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

24. Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin

25. The Maniac

26. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

27. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

28. The Purple Heron

29. An Egyptian Vulture

30. Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22

31. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Fields in Foreground, Town and Volcanic Mountains