Materials & Techniques: laid paper / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: bird

1. Silver Vessel Found near the Temple of Jupiter at Rome

Creator:: Print made by Charles Cameron, 1742–1812
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 1/2 inches (18 × 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Two Women Listening to a Bird, with a Man Holding a Gun

Creator:: Print made by Johann Gottfried Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 17 5/8 inches (34.1 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. La colombe chérie

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (35.3 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Hearing

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 11/16 inches (37.8 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Virgin and Child

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (44.1 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. The Bird Cage

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 11/16 inches (40 × 27.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. The Disaster

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 × 17 3/8 inches (58.4 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 9 1/16 inches (29 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. For Japanning, Plate 1

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (17.4 × 27.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Rustic Lover

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4 inches (43.2 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Secretary Bird

Creator:: Luigi Balugani, 1737–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (14.3 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Corvs crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 inches (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Gypaetus barbatus (Bearded Vulture)

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 9 7/8 inches (30.5 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Great Indian Bustard

Creator:: James Wales, 1746 or 1747–1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (26.7 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Design for a decoration incorporating motifs allusive to the Arts, Arms, and Religion

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches (17.1 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Cock Sparrow

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 9 inches (29.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Design for a portrait of an architect or a painter

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches (17.5 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: Shaikh Zayn-al-Din, active 1777–1782
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 × 29 1/8 inches (54 × 74 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. An Thymelaea foliis obtusis; Anseri Bassano &c: The Great Booby, Plate 86 from the 'Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands', volume I, 2nd edition, London 1754

An Thymelaea foliis obtusis; Anseri Bassano &c: The Great Booby, Plate 86 from the 'Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands', volume I, 2nd edition, London 1754

Creator:: Print made by Mark Catesby, 1682–1749
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint etching and engraving with original hand coloring on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches (36.5 x 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

20. Study

Creator:: Print made by John Chalon, 1738 – 1795
Date:: 1789-1790
Materials & Techniques:: 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

21. Study

Creator:: Print made by John Chalon, 1738 – 1795
Date:: 1789-1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches (8.2 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. A Yellow Wagtail

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (14.3 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Pied Wagtail and Dragonfly

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 8 inches (25.1 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Guinea Parrot

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (27.3 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Ptarmigan

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: ca. 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (27.3 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Stone Curlew

Creator:: George Edwards, 1694–1773
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 11 1/4 inches (25.4 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Brambling

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 6 1/2 inches (17.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense) Perched on Chinese Hat Plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 × 25 1/2 inches (46.4 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Salutation

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (? state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 18 7/8 inches (64.8 × 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Tobias and the Angel

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 13 15/16 inches (46 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. The Bird Cage

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 9/16 x 15 9/16 inches (52.2 x 39.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Silver Vessel Found near the Temple of Jupiter at Rome

2. Two Women Listening to a Bird, with a Man Holding a Gun

3. La colombe chérie

4. Hearing

5. Virgin and Child

6. The Bird Cage

7. The Disaster

8. Hebe

9. For Japanning, Plate 1

10. The Rustic Lover

11. Secretary Bird

12. Corvs crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven)

13. Gypaetus barbatus (Bearded Vulture)

14. Great Indian Bustard

15. Design for a decoration incorporating motifs allusive to the Arts, Arms, and Religion

16. The Cock Sparrow

17. Design for a portrait of an architect or a painter

18. Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

19. An Thymelaea foliis obtusis; Anseri Bassano &c: The Great Booby, Plate 86 from the 'Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands', volume I, 2nd edition, London 1754

20. Study

21. Study

22. A Yellow Wagtail

23. Pied Wagtail and Dragonfly

24. Guinea Parrot

25. Ptarmigan

26. A Stone Curlew

27. Brambling

28. Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense) Perched on Chinese Hat Plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea)

29. The Salutation

30. Tobias and the Angel

31. The Bird Cage