Period: 18th century / Height [cm]: 18 / Subject Terms: genre subject

1. The Practical Joke

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 x 11 inches (17.8 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A French Physician with His Retinue Going to Visit His Patients

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 13 3/4 inches (28.1 x 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Judgment of Paris

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 8 3/8 inches (18.2 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Postiglione Germanico

Creator:: Print made by Charles Bretherton, ca. 1760–1783
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (27.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Gate at Blenheim

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 10 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches (26.4 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 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

7. Bucks of the First Head

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and black, and gray-brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 8 11/16 inches (18.1 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A Jack in Office

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 9 11/16 inches (35.7 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Two Jeyties

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Navgire Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: between 1790 and 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 9 3/8 inches (17.8 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. London Cries: "Black Heart Cherries..."

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 5 5/8 inches (17.8 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. London Cries: Fun upon Fun

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (18.1 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. London Cries: Boy with a Donkey

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 5 5/8 inches (17.8 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Haymaking

Creator:: Heinrich W. Schweickhardt, 1746–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 12 9/16 inches (17.8 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Rider on a Horse, Rearing to Left

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 3/4 × 9 3/8 inches (24.8 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Edgar's Tower at Worcester

Creator:: Print made by M. Coote, ca. 1758/62–1801
Date:: before 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches (19.4 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 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

17. A View of Campo Vaccino at Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (24.8 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A View of the Piazza of St. John de Lateran, of the Cardinals College, and of the Holy Stairs in the City of Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/16 x 12 5/8 inches (23 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A View of the Piazza Navona in the City of Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 x 12 3/8 inches (22.8 x 31.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A View of the Piazza del Popolo in the City of Rome

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (24.2 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 15/16 x 12 9/16 inches (22.7 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Wooded Landscape with Figures Round a Cooking Pot

Creator:: Thomas Hand, died 1804
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.5 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Ruins of the College of Lincluden, Near Dumfries

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 inches (18.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 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

25. The Ruins of Leiston Abbey

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 9 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches (24.8 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Woman and Child Holding a Doll

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash, gouache and pen and brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 3 7/8 inches (17.8 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Conversation Piece

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 5/8 inches (18.4 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Conversation on a Country Road

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (18.1 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. London Cries: Last Dying Speech and Confession

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 5 5/8 inches (17.5 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Market Square, Bury St. Edmunds

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 inches (17.5 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Three Soldiers in Armour Sitting on Stone Blocks

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (17.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. For Japanning, Plate 6

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (17.5 × 27.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Archibald Rutherford, 1743–1779
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, brown wash, gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches (18.4 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. An Artist Sketching, possibly Paul Sandby

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Cotes, 1726–1770
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 13 1/4 × 10 11/16 × 13/16 inches (33.6 × 27.2 × 2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Modern Grace...The Ballet of Alonzo e Cara

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/8 x 11 3/8 inches (25.1 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Ladies at Tea

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 x 10 5/16 inches (17.8 x 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Polite Amusement of Brute Beasts at the Lyceum

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 8 3/4 inches (17.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Geographers

Creator:: John Brown, 1749–1787
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (18.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Natives of Cochin Playing Shuttlecock in China

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1792 to 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (17.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1792 to 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 9/16 x 9 11/16 inches (19.2 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Design for a Frontispiece: Allegorical Landscape

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink, border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (39.1 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Design for a Coin: Chambre de Commerce de Picardie

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 × 7 5/8 inches (27.9 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Design for an Engraving: Figures in an Interior

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk, incised for transfer on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/2 × 11 inches (39.4 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Design for a Medal: Figure of the Virgin

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 x 7 3/4 inches (27.9 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Design for a Coin: Queis Tutum Faciant Iter

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 x 7 3/4 inches (27.9 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Practical Joke

2. A French Physician with His Retinue Going to Visit His Patients

3. The Judgment of Paris

4. Postiglione Germanico

5. The Gate at Blenheim

6. A Peasant Family

7. Bucks of the First Head

8. A Jack in Office

9. Two Jeyties

10. London Cries: "Black Heart Cherries..."

11. London Cries: Fun upon Fun

12. London Cries: Boy with a Donkey

13. Haymaking

14. Rider on a Horse, Rearing to Left

15. Edgar's Tower at Worcester

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

17. A View of Campo Vaccino at Rome

18. A View of the Piazza of St. John de Lateran, of the Cardinals College, and of the Holy Stairs in the City of Rome

19. A View of the Piazza Navona in the City of Rome

20. A View of the Piazza del Popolo in the City of Rome

21. A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

22. Wooded Landscape with Figures Round a Cooking Pot

23. The Ruins of the College of Lincluden, Near Dumfries

24. The Gateway of Lancaster Castle

25. The Ruins of Leiston Abbey

26. Woman and Child Holding a Doll

27. Conversation Piece

28. Conversation on a Country Road

29. London Cries: Last Dying Speech and Confession

30. The Market Square, Bury St. Edmunds

31. Three Soldiers in Armour Sitting on Stone Blocks

32. For Japanning, Plate 6

33. Portrait of a Man

34. An Artist Sketching, possibly Paul Sandby

35. Modern Grace...The Ballet of Alonzo e Cara

36. Ladies at Tea

37. Polite Amusement of Brute Beasts at the Lyceum

38. The Geographers

39. Natives of Cochin Playing Shuttlecock in China

40. View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain

41. View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature

42. Design for a Frontispiece: Allegorical Landscape

43. Design for a Coin: Chambre de Commerce de Picardie

44. Design for an Engraving: Figures in an Interior

45. Design for a Medal: Figure of the Virgin

46. Design for a Coin: Queis Tutum Faciant Iter