Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: branch

1. A Woman and her Child, Probably Olive Sharpe (née Cartwright) and her son John

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A Mallard, Black Bird and Tree Sparrow

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 28 inches (55.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 1/16 inches (29.8 x 43.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 3/16 inches (16.3 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 11 9/16 inches (21.5 x 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 10, "I Mans perceptions are not bounded . . . . " (Bentley b3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

8. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 2, Frontispiece, "What is Man!"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Landscape with Tower and Approaching Storm

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brown ink, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 1/4 x 7 9/16 inches (13.4 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Spot-backed antshrike

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/4 inches (22.5 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Bird

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 7/8 inches (23.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. A Magpie in a Tree

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 inches (26.4 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Two Birds on a Branch

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 1/8 inches (20.6 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. 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

35. 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

36. Where the Bee Sucks. The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, Ariel on a Hammock of Convolvulus

Creator:: Print made by Henry J. Townsend, 1810–1890
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 5 5/8 inches (10.2 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Antshrike

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 9 1/2 inches (30.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 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

39. 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

40. A Bird

Creator:: William Swainson, 1789–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 3/8in. (23.2 x 18.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Parrot

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 inches (19.7 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. The Nightingale (tail piece)

Creator:: Print made by Alfred W. Cooper, active 1850–1901
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 7 5/16 inches (17.8 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1852 or 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, laid on dome-shaped gold paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/8 x 13 1/16 inches (21.2 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Cleone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (32.7 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Woman and her Child, Probably Olive Sharpe (née Cartwright) and her son John

2. A Mallard, Black Bird and Tree Sparrow

3. The Weary Ploughman

4. The Weary Ploughman

5. The Weary Ploughman

6. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 10, "I Mans perceptions are not bounded . . . . " (Bentley b3)

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

8. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

9. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 2, Frontispiece, "What is Man!"

10. North American Lynx

11. Warbler: Reed Wren

12. Jackdaw

13. Ferdinand Riding the Waves

14. Falcon: Hen Krestel

15. Owl: Little Owl

16. A Magpie

17. Scops Owl

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

19. Sheet of Studies of Deer, Figures and Landscape

20. Flying Squirrel

21. Landscape with Tower and Approaching Storm

22. The Hermitage at Frascati

23. Three Toucans

24. Eurasian Sparrowhawk

25. A Parrot

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

27. Spot-backed antshrike

28. A Bird

29. Great Blue Turaco

30. A Parrot

31. A Cockatoo

32. A Magpie in a Tree

33. Two Birds on a Branch

34. A Foliated Branch

35. Guinea Parrot

36. Where the Bee Sucks. The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, Ariel on a Hammock of Convolvulus

37. Antshrike

38. A Parrot

39. Bird of Paradise

40. A Bird

41. A Parrot

42. Bearded Titmouse

43. A European Goldfinch

44. The Cock Sparrow

45. The Nightingale (tail piece)

46. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

47. Cleone