Collection: Prints and Drawings / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: peasant

1. Inimitable Mr. James Moss

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 7 1/4 inches (24.6 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Paysan des Alpes

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: 1769-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 15/16 inches (24.7 x 20.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Peasant of Mount Erix

Creator:: Henry Tresham, 1751–1814
Date:: between 1783 and 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and graphite; verso: pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (24.1 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Swain's Amusement

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: between 1748 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/4 inches (36 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Housewife's Employment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 10 3/16 inches (36.3 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Young Male Shearing a Sheep

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 3/16 inches (36.2 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains

Creator:: attributed to Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 15 inches (29.2 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Man Walking Using a Long Staff

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 3 13/16 inches (14.2 × 9.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Man with a Stick, Seen From Behind

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 3 13/16 inches (14.2 × 9.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Beggar

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 3 5/8 inches (17.5 x 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Portrait of a Boy with a Basket

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 × 10 13/16 inches (39.2 × 27.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Le paysan paresseux

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: early 1750s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (41.2 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (38 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 11/16 x 12 1/4 inches (42.4 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Mary Dickinson as the Country Girl

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 9 3/16 inches (29.3 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. The Housewife's Employment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/16 x 9 3/16 inches (33.2 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. The Housewife's Employment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (35 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. The Swain's Amusement

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: between 1748 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 9 3/16 inches (33.7 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. The Dairymaid's Occupation

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (33.4 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Portrait of a Boy with a Basket

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (39.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. La petite marchande de carpe

Creator:: Print made by Franz Carl Heissig, active 1770
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (31.7 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Boy Seated at a Table

Creator:: Print made by Gottlieb Heiss, 1684–1740
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 × 12 7/16 inches (42.7 × 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Paysanne de la France

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: 1769-1770
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 11/16 inches (24.5 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Englishman at Paris, 1767

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 18 7/8 inches (36.7 x 48 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Warwick Castle

Creator:: Print made by James Fittler, 1758–1835
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 12 5/16 inches (24.6 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Man, a horse and two dogs, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book..of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 6)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches (30.2 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Credulity

Creator:: Print made by Anthony Cardon, 1772–1813
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed etching and stipple engraving, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 × 9 5/16 inches (30 × 23.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Affectionate Daughter

Creator:: John Eginton, active 1763–1800
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, printed in color on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 7/16 inches (37.9 × 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Man Chopping Wood

Creator:: Print made by Jean B. C. Chatelain, 1710–1771
Date:: 1737
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 x 8 3/4 inches (14.1 x 22.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Seven and a man, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

Creator:: Print made by George Bickham the Elder, 1683/4–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (30.2 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (47 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Phoebe Hoppner as a Flower Girl

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 x 13 3/8 inches (41.7 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Inimitable Mr. James Moss

2. Paysan des Alpes

3. A Peasant of Mount Erix

4. The Swain's Amusement

5. The Housewife's Employment

6. Young Male Shearing a Sheep

7. Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains

8. Man Walking Using a Long Staff

9. Man with a Stick, Seen From Behind

10. A Beggar

11. Portrait of a Boy with a Basket

12. Le paysan paresseux

13. Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy

14. Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy

15. Mary Dickinson as the Country Girl

16. The Housewife's Employment

17. The Housewife's Employment

18. The Swain's Amusement

19. The Dairymaid's Occupation

20. Portrait of a Boy with a Basket

21. La petite marchande de carpe

22. Boy Seated at a Table

23. Paysanne de la France

24. Englishman at Paris, 1767

25. Warwick Castle

26. A Man, a horse and two dogs, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book..of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 6)

27. Credulity

28. The Affectionate Daughter

29. Man Chopping Wood

30. Seven and a man, a Pl. for 'A New Drawing Book...of Beasts in Various Actions' (1 of 9)

31. Cupid in the Character of a Link Boy

32. Phoebe Hoppner as a Flower Girl