Period: 18th century / Genre: genre subject / Subject Terms: flowers (plants)

1. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Girl with a Bouquet of Flowers

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (23.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (31.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Noon

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Morning

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/16 x 48 inches (91.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Gateway of Lancaster Castle

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 7 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (19.4 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. London Cries: Flowers

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and gray ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Queen Square, London

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. View of Queen Square

Creator:: Engraved by Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 7/16 inches (49.5 × 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Musician

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches (36.9 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. The Musician

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 7/16 inches (51.5 x 36.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. La resignation

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 13/16 x 15 1/4 inches (47.8 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. L'Enfant Prodigue dans la plus grande Misere

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 18 inches (36.2 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Rhetorica. Die Redekunst.

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 7/16 inches (41.9 x 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. La colombe chérie

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (35.3 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. The Flower Girl

Creator:: Print made by John Young, 1755–1825
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (42.9 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches (42.8 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. 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

20. A Peasant Family

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: between 1765 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches (18 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. La galante fille

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 11/16 x 15 9/16 inches (47.4 x 39.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. La fille doux

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 inches (32 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Two Bunches of Penny Primroses, Two Bunches a Penny

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 1/4 inches (42.9 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 3/8 inches (41.8 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Lady Time Present and Lady Time Past

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (42.2 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. A French Petit Maître and His Valet

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, pasted on medium, moderately textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 1/4 x 11 5/16 inches (41.3 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Lady's Maid Soaping Linen

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 13/16 × 9 13/16 inches (35.1 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 1/16 inches (28.2 x 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Flower Girl

Creator:: John Young, 1755–1825
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches (41 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. 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

31. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 10 11/16 inches (41 x 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther

Creator:: William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 × 13 1/2 inches (40.1 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Sense of Smell

2. Girl with a Bouquet of Flowers

3. A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color

4. Noon

5. Morning

6. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

7. The Gateway of Lancaster Castle

8. London Cries: Flowers

9. Queen Square, London

10. View of Queen Square

11. The Musician

12. The Musician

13. La resignation

14. L'Enfant Prodigue dans la plus grande Misere

15. Rhetorica. Die Redekunst.

16. La colombe chérie

17. The Flower Girl

18. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

19. The Old Beau in an Extasy

20. A Peasant Family

21. La galante fille

22. La fille doux

23. Two Bunches of Penny Primroses, Two Bunches a Penny

24. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

25. Lady Time Present and Lady Time Past

26. A French Petit Maître and His Valet

27. Lady's Maid Soaping Linen

28. The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery

29. The Flower Girl

30. Credulity

31. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

32. Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther