Collection: Prints and Drawings / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: painting (visual work)

1. Connubial Happiness

Creator:: Print made by E. J. Dumée, active 1790
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/16 × 17 1/2 inches (56 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. The Old Beau in an Extasy

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches (38.7 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. William Dodd, L. L. D.

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: between 1775 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 3 15/16 inches (17.1 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

4. John Hamilton Mortimer, Esq.

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 15/16 × 12 7/8 inches (45.5 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Le jeu de dames

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 9 13/16 inches (39.4 x 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. George Stubbs: A Sketch

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 5 9/16 inches (19.4 × 14.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Pamela is represented in this first Piece, writing in her late Lady's dressing room, her History being known only by her letters. She is here surprised by Mr. B. who improves this occasion to further his designs

Pamela is represented in this first Piece, writing in her late Lady's dressing room, her History being known only by her letters. She is here surprised by Mr. B. who improves this occasion to further his designs

Creator:: L. Truchy, 1721–1764
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 3/4 x 14 13/16in. (29.8 x 37.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches (52.4 x 73.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Royal Academy of Arts

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches (49.2 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esqr. R. A.

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 9/16 inches (20.6 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Hamlet Winstanley

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 15/16 inches (34.6 × 25.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. P. Monamy

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 1/4 inches (30.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. P. Monamy

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.3 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. An Underground Shrine with Two Figures Kneeling before a Pieta

Creator:: Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches (16.5 x 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Scene from a Play, possibly Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 x 30 3/8 inches (55.9 x 77.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Lecture on Gadding

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving, and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/16 x 15 1/16 inches (46.9 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Sacrifice

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 3/4 inches (33 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Sir Godfrey Kneller

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 12 inches (45.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Philippe Mercier

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, yellow-cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 7/8 inches (31.1 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Pamela with the Children and Miss Goodwin to whome she is telling her nursery tales. This last Piece leaves her in full possession of the peaceable fruits of her Virtue long after having surmounted all the difficulties it had been exposed to

Pamela with the Children and Miss Goodwin to whome she is telling her nursery tales. This last Piece leaves her in full possession of the peaceable fruits of her Virtue long after having surmounted all the difficulties it had been exposed to

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 21 5/16 inches (39.3 x 54.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association

23. Key to Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (25.7 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Connoisseurs

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red, brown and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Portrait of Sofonisba Angusciola Pittrice

Creator:: Print made by William Baillie, 1723–1810
Date:: between 1761 and 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (36.9 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Goodfriend in memory of Milton S. Goodfriend, M.D., transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

26. The Memorial of Lord Darnley

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on vellum wrapped around panel
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 18 1/4 inches (28.6 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

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1. Connubial Happiness

2. The Old Beau in an Extasy

3. William Dodd, L. L. D.

4. John Hamilton Mortimer, Esq.

5. Le jeu de dames

6. George Stubbs: A Sketch

7. Pamela is represented in this first Piece, writing in her late Lady's dressing room, her History being known only by her letters. She is here surprised by Mr. B. who improves this occasion to further his designs

8. Life School at the Royal Academy

9. The Royal Academy of Arts

10. Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esqr. R. A.

11. Hamlet Winstanley

12. P. Monamy

13. P. Monamy

14. An Underground Shrine with Two Figures Kneeling before a Pieta

15. Scene from a Play, possibly Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband"

16. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

17. Life School at the Royal Academy

18. A Lecture on Gadding

19. The Sacrifice

20. Sir Godfrey Kneller

21. Philippe Mercier

22. Pamela with the Children and Miss Goodwin to whome she is telling her nursery tales. This last Piece leaves her in full possession of the peaceable fruits of her Virtue long after having surmounted all the difficulties it had been exposed to

23. Key to Life School at the Royal Academy

24. The Connoisseurs

25. Portrait of Sofonisba Angusciola Pittrice

26. The Memorial of Lord Darnley