Materials & Techniques: laid paper / Genre: animal art / Subject Terms: bird

1. The Skylark

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 11/16 inches (20.4 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

2. 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

3. 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

4. Great Indian Bustard

Creator:: James Wales, ca.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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense) perched on Chinese hat plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Head of an Eagle, Facing Left

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk, graphite, pen and gray ink, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/8 inches (16.8 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. A Dead Bird

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/8 x 5 inches (6.7 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

16. Study of a Dead Woodcock and Another Bird

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (18.4 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: Shaykh 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

18. Challow Farm

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 12 3/8 inches (20.3 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

19. Four Friends

Creator:: Print made by Robert Sargent Austin, 1895–1973
Date:: 1946
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches (31.4 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

20. 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

21. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 x 14 inches (24 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Skylark

2. Secretary Bird

3. Gypaetus barbatus (Bearded Vulture)

4. Great Indian Bustard

5. Corvs crassirostris (Thick-Billed Raven)

6. 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

7. Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense) perched on Chinese hat plant (Holmskioldia sanguinea)

8. Guinea Parrot

9. A Stone Curlew

10. Ptarmigan

11. Pied Wagtail and Dragonfly

12. A Yellow Wagtail

13. Brambling

14. Head of an Eagle, Facing Left

15. A Dead Bird

16. Study of a Dead Woodcock and Another Bird

17. Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

18. Challow Farm

19. Four Friends

20. The Cock Sparrow

21. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts