Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Subject Terms: Classical

1. James Grant of Grant, John Mytton, the Hon. Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 5/8 × 48 3/4 inches (98.1 × 123.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. An Imaginary Italianate Landscape with Classical Figures and a Waterfall

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 20 7/8 inches (36 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Aeneas and the Sibyl

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Colosseum

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/8 × 20 1/4 inches (39.1 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/8 × 20 1/4 inches (39.1 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. A Landscape with Distant Classical Ruins, a Bridge, Figures, and Cattle

Creator:: William Smith, 1707–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 3/4 inches (71.1 × 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 17 3/4 inches (35.6 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Dance

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. St. Paul before Agrippa

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches (81.9 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Classical Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: after 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (51.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Classical Landscape: Morning

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Classical Landscape: Evening

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Corporal of Horse

Creator:: Sir Alfred J. Munnings, 1878–1959
Date:: ca. 1927
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. An Unknown Woman with a Book

Creator:: Bartholomew Dandridge, baptized 1691–died in or after 1754
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 7/8 × 16 1/2 inches (53 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. The Death of Lucretia

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: 1763 to 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 104 inches (213.4 x 264.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and gum arabic on London board: a high-quality pasteboard sheet made of Whatman's finest drawing paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 27 7/8 inches (51.4 x 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Design after a Greek Vase

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 27 3/8 × 19 7/16 inches (69.5 × 49.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Drawings of Classical Ornament (A Volume)

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820
Date:: 1771-1772
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Laocoon And His Sons Wrestling With Two Snakes

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Design after a Greek Vase

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 26 1/4 × 19 9/16 inches (66.7 × 49.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Design after a Greek Vase

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 27 1/16 × 20 11/16 inches (68.7 × 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Classical Landscape with Figures

Creator:: Francis Oliver Finch, 1802–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 12 inches (17.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

Creator:: Henry Holland, 1745–1806
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over pen and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 15/16 x 28 1/4 inches (35.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Banishment of Aristides

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 7 5/8 inches (20 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Five Classical Heads

Creator:: Inigo Jones, 1573–1652
Date:: between 1630 and 1639
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (8.3 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Classical Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Monro, 1802–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream card mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/8 × 21 1/2 inches (35.9 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Britannia in Distress

Creator:: Anthony Walker, 1726–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (32.1 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. No. 5 interior part of the 2nd temple seen from the North Side

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 11/16 x 12 1/16 inches (37.3 x 30.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. No. 2 Elevation of the Front of the first temple fronting the sea

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 11 1/8 inches (33 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. No. 6 Temple of Neptune the King, View and Elevation of the 2nd temple - seen from the east

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 5/8 inches (37.9 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Paestum: No. 4 View of the Interior part of the 2nd temple from the east front

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (34.3 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (39.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Study of Two Headless Classical Statues

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (25.1 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Study of classical scultpure of Laocoon

Creator:: Giles Hussey, 1710–1788
Date:: between 1730 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream tracing paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 1/4in. (31.4 x 23.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Classic Composition

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 9/16 inches (15.4 x 11.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

Creator:: John Sanderson, active 1730; died 1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 13/16 inches (10.2 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. A Doorway in the Acropolis, Athens

Creator:: William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache on thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (42.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Classical Figures Drawing

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 5 3/4 inches (13 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Classical Study

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 17 7/16 inches (28.6 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. 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

41. Design after a Greek Vase

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 27 9/16 × 20 3/8 inches (70 × 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Classical Composition

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (14.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Fantasy of a Classical City with Triumphal Column

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 7 inches (12.4 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Landscape with Classical Building at Left

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: between 1745 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, prepared with orange wash
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 7 11/16in. (12.7 x 19.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Rocky Landscape with Classical Buildings

Creator:: James Deacon, c. 1728–1750
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid 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

46. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Study of a Classical Figure

Creator:: Alfred Stevens, 1817–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on wove paper, with gold paper corners laid on
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 29 inches (53.5 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Arcadian Landscape with Shepherds

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 7 11/16 inches (12.7 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Classical Church, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Parish Church, Front and Partial Right View, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (28.6 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Two Women and a Child

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (21 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. The Death of Mark Antony

Creator:: Print made by Jean Marie Delatre, 1746–1840
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 12 1/4 inches (37.2 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. James Grant of Grant, John Mytton, the Hon. Thomas Robinson, and Thomas Wynne

2. An Imaginary Italianate Landscape with Classical Figures and a Waterfall

3. Aeneas and the Sibyl

4. The Colosseum

5. Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

6. A Landscape with Distant Classical Ruins, a Bridge, Figures, and Cattle

7. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

8. The Dance

9. St. Paul before Agrippa

10. Classical Landscape

11. Classical Landscape: Morning

12. Classical Landscape: Evening

13. The Corporal of Horse

14. An Unknown Woman with a Book

15. The Death of Lucretia

16. The Lonely Tower

17. Design after a Greek Vase

18. Drawings of Classical Ornament (A Volume)

19. Laocoon And His Sons Wrestling With Two Snakes

20. Design after a Greek Vase

21. Design after a Greek Vase

22. Classical Landscape with Figures

23. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

24. The Banishment of Aristides

25. Five Classical Heads

26. Classical Landscape

27. Britannia in Distress

28. No. 5 interior part of the 2nd temple seen from the North Side

29. No. 2 Elevation of the Front of the first temple fronting the sea

30. No. 6 Temple of Neptune the King, View and Elevation of the 2nd temple - seen from the east

31. Paestum: No. 4 View of the Interior part of the 2nd temple from the east front

32. Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

33. Study of Two Headless Classical Statues

34. Study of classical scultpure of Laocoon

35. Classic Composition

36. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

37. A Doorway in the Acropolis, Athens

38. Classical Figures Drawing

39. Classical Study

40. A Lecture on Gadding

41. Design after a Greek Vase

42. Classical Composition

43. Fantasy of a Classical City with Triumphal Column

44. Landscape with Classical Building at Left

45. Rocky Landscape with Classical Buildings

46. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

47. Study of a Classical Figure

48. Arcadian Landscape with Shepherds

49. Classical Church, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire

50. Parish Church, Front and Partial Right View, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire

51. Two Women and a Child

52. The Death of Mark Antony