Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Subject Terms: branch

1. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 93, "Ode for Music."

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

2. North American Lynx

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 6 3/4 inches (22.9 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Warbler: Reed Wren

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Jackdaw

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with gum arabic on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Ferdinand Riding the Waves

Creator:: Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gray wash and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (24.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Falcon: Hen Krestel

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, smooth white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (21 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Owl: Little Owl

Creator:: William Lewin, 1747–1795
Date:: before 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with gum arabic on medium, smooth, white vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 1/2 inches (20.6 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A Magpie

Creator:: John Bewick, 1760–1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 1/4 inches (20.3 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Scops Owl

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (19.7 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Red-Plumed Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea Apoda Raggiana), Southeastern New Guinea

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 × 13 15/16 inches (48.6 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Sheet of Studies of Deer, Figures and Landscape

Creator:: Aaron Edwin Penley, 1807–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 3/8 inches (18.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Flying Squirrel

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 3/4 inches (18.7 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Hermitage at Frascati

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on very thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches (24.4 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Three Toucans

Creator:: James de Carle Sowerby, 1787–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 6 1/2 inches (32.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately think, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 9 11/16 inches (41.9 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Parrot

Creator:: James de Carle Sowerby, 1787–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, blue gouache, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 5 5/8 inches (20.8 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Bird of Paradise and Verso: Sketch of a Flower

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 10 1/4 inches (22.9 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Great Blue Turaco

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (21 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Parrot

Creator:: James de Carle Sowerby, 1787–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 1/4 inches (22.9 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Cockatoo

Creator:: James de Carle Sowerby, 1787–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 1/8 inches (21 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Foliated Branch

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches (20 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. A Parrot

Creator:: James de Carle Sowerby, 1787–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 5 3/4 inches (23.5 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Bird of Paradise

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 10 3/4 inches (21.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Bearded Titmouse

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 8 1/8 inches (33 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A European Goldfinch

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 3/8 inches (21 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Apple, Aafter the Original by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues in the Victoria & Albert Museum [No. 75]

Creator:: Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 6 15/16 inches (22.1 × 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 93, "Ode for Music."

2. North American Lynx

3. Warbler: Reed Wren

4. Jackdaw

5. Ferdinand Riding the Waves

6. Falcon: Hen Krestel

7. Owl: Little Owl

8. A Magpie

9. Scops Owl

10. Red-Plumed Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisea Apoda Raggiana), Southeastern New Guinea

11. Sheet of Studies of Deer, Figures and Landscape

12. Flying Squirrel

13. The Hermitage at Frascati

14. Three Toucans

15. Eurasian Sparrowhawk

16. A Parrot

17. Bird of Paradise and Verso: Sketch of a Flower

18. Great Blue Turaco

19. A Parrot

20. A Cockatoo

21. A Foliated Branch

22. Guinea Parrot

23. A Parrot

24. Bird of Paradise

25. Bearded Titmouse

26. A European Goldfinch

27. Apple, Aafter the Original by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues in the Victoria & Albert Museum [No. 75]