Period: 18th century / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: painting (visual work)

1. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas laid to board
Dimensions:: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 inches (71.4 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Rehearsal of an opera

Creator:: Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:: ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Mr. and Mrs. Hill

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1750 and 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. An Unknown Man in a Library

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1740 and 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 38 1/2 inches (78.7 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The John Bacon Family

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1742 and 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 51 5/8 inches (76.2 x 131.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. A Caricature Group

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 x 42 inches (83.8 x 106.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

Creator:: Joseph Francis Nollekens, 1702–1748
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches (35.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

Creator:: Charles Philips, 1708–1747
Date:: 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 49 3/4 inches (102.2 x 126.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Emily and George Mason

Creator:: Arthur William Devis, 1762–1822
Date:: between 1794 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/2 × 39 inches (108 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: between 1759 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (72.4 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1745 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 x 56 inches (111.8 x 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Thomas Graham

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 25 inches (78.7 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Portrait of a landscape painter, possibly George Lambert

Creator:: Giles Hussey, 1710–1788
Date:: between 1740 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 × 29 inches (92.1 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. A Dinner Conversation

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: between 1735 and 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Charles Catton the elder RA, 1728–1798
Date:: ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches (90.8 x 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 37 7/8 inches (94 x 96.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and Giacobbe Cervetto

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 76 x 64 3/4 inches (193 x 164.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. Sir Godfrey Kneller

Creator:: 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Hamlet Winstanley

Creator:: 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

35. 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

36. Le jeu de dames

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with etching 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

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1. David Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Benjamin Hoadly's "The Suspicious Husband"

2. Rehearsal of an opera

3. Rehearsal of an opera

4. Mr. and Mrs. Hill

5. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

6. David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return"

7. An Unknown Man in a Library

8. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

9. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

10. The John Bacon Family

11. A Caricature Group

12. Children at Play, Probably the Artist's Son Jacobus and Daughter Maria Joanna Sophia

13. Tea Party at Lord Harrington's House, St. James's

14. Emily and George Mason

15. Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti

16. Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist

17. Thomas Graham

18. Portrait of a landscape painter, possibly George Lambert

19. A Dinner Conversation

20. Self-Portrait

21. John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant

22. Self-Portrait with His Daughter Maria Theresa, James Cervetto, and Giacobbe Cervetto

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

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

25. A Lecture on Gadding

26. The Sacrifice

27. The Connoisseurs

28. P. Monamy

29. Sir Godfrey Kneller

30. Philippe Mercier

31. P. Monamy

32. 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

33. Key to Life School at the Royal Academy

34. Hamlet Winstanley

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

36. Le jeu de dames

37. William Dodd, L. L. D.

38. The Old Beau in an Extasy

39. 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

40. Connubial Happiness

41. John Hamilton Mortimer, Esq.

42. Life School at the Royal Academy

43. George Stubbs: A Sketch

44. The Royal Academy of Arts

45. Life School at the Royal Academy