Period: 18th century / Height [cm]: 29 / Subject Terms: genre subject

1. Venetian Fantasy

Creator:: imitator of Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (29.2 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Gate Toward Bursit, Aix-la-Chappelle

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 18 1/2 inches (28.9 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Tom Thumb at Bay

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 13 1/2 inches (28.9 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Man Playing a Harp

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 5/8 inches (18.7 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Studies of Groups of Heads

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (28.6 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Classical Landscape with Travellers, a Dog and House on the left

Creator:: Print made by Jean B. C. Chatelain, 1710–1771
Date:: 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/4 inches (30.5 × 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. The Swain's Amusement

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: between 1748 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/4 inches (36 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Housewife's Employment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 10 3/16 inches (36.3 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Young Male Shearing a Sheep

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 3/16 inches (36.2 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A Girl Spinning Thread

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 10 1/4 inches (36.4 x 26.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Country Lane with Gypsies Resting

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1760 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite and black chalk; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream prepared wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains

Creator:: attributed to Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 15 inches (29.2 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Design for a Frontispiece: Shepherds with Flock

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen in black ink, graphite, and red chalk, incised and squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (28.9 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Drawing for a Frontispiece: "The Toast"

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches (21.3 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The French Lady in London

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash black ink and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 inches (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Chinese House, the Rotunda, & the Company in Masquerade in Renelagh Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/2 × 16 inches (29.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Travelling in France

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1785 and 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 17 1/2 inches (28.7 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano

Creator:: Print made by Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 3/8 inches (32 × 39 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Four Studies of a Hay Cart

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1798 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 8 9/16 inches (28.9 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. La cuisiniere surveillante

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 8 3/8 inches (34.1 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. 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

24. L'Enfant Prodigue reclamant la bonté de son Pere

Creator:: Print made by Johann Elias Haid, 1739–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches (36.5 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. La bonheur du Mariage

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 10 1/16 inches (40.4 x 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Rejouissances pour le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue

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 5/16 x 18 1/4 inches (36.3 x 46.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. La male consequence du celibat

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 10 1/16 inches (40.2 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Sleepy Maid

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 1/4 inches (36.5 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Flute Player

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: between 1765 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 15/16 inches (36 x 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. The Housewife's Employment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/16 x 9 3/16 inches (33.2 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. The Housewife's Employment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (35 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. The Swain's Amusement

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: between 1748 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 9 3/16 inches (33.7 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. A Girl Spinning Thread

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/16 x 9 3/16 inches (33.1 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. The Dairymaid's Occupation

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (33.4 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Lady with Glass

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 9 9/16 inches (33.9 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. Youth Playing Bagpipes

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately thick, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 8 7/8 inches (32.6 × 22.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. The Scytheman's Refreshment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: between 1748 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 inches (32.9 × 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. A School of Girls

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 13 3/8 inches (28.8 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. The Maid in Rural Happiness

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 13 1/4 inches (29.1 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. The Lord of the Vineyard Paying His Labourers

Creator:: Print made by M. A. Picot, 1782–1838
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 7/8 inches (44 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Le depart de l'Enfant Prodigue

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 5/16 x 18 1/16 inches (36.4 x 45.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Men Playing Cards

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: 11 1/2 x 8 7/16 inches (29.2 x 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. La ratisseuse

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 8 3/16 inches (33.4 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1779 to 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and soft-ground etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 1/8 inches (29.2 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Little Missenden Church from the Southeast

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 17 1/8 inches (29 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. A Choral Band

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 16 3/4 inches (29.4 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. Love Me, Love My Cat

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: ca. 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 8 7/8 inches (32.9 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. A School of Boys

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 13 7/16 inches (28.7 x 34.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. La petite marchande de carpe

Creator:: Print made by Franz Carl Heissig, active 1770
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (31.7 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. The Relief

Creator:: William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 × 13 3/8 inches (29 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Englishman at Paris, 1767

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 18 7/8 inches (36.7 x 48 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. The Scytheman's Refreshment

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/4 inches (36.1 x 26.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. A View of the Bridge at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 16 5/8 inches (28.9 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Travellers Resting under Tree, Temple of Minerva, Medici, Rome

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite; squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (29.2 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Plate I: View taken near Scarva in the County of Downe, representing Ploughing, Sowing the Flax Seed and Harrowing

Creator:: William Hincks, 1752–1797
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving with etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 17 1/2 inches (36 x 44.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Travellers by a Clump of Trees in a Rocky Landscape with Stream

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beive wove paper laid in contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 5/16 x 14 5/16 inches (28.8 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Two Monks

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 10 3/16 inches (32.4 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. The Hermit

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Wood, 1720–1763 or 1764
Date:: 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 15 7/8 inches (31.1 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. Chauncey B. TInker, B.A. 1899

59. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Boy Spinning Top

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 inches (33.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Venetian Fantasy

2. Gate Toward Bursit, Aix-la-Chappelle

3. Tom Thumb at Bay

4. Man Playing a Harp

5. Studies of Groups of Heads

6. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

7. Classical Landscape with Travellers, a Dog and House on the left

8. The Swain's Amusement

9. The Housewife's Employment

10. Young Male Shearing a Sheep

11. A Girl Spinning Thread

12. Country Lane with Gypsies Resting

13. Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading an Inscription on a Tombstone beside a Ruined Church, Figures, Donkey, Sheep and Distant Mountains

14. Design for a Frontispiece: Shepherds with Flock

15. Drawing for a Frontispiece: "The Toast"

16. The French Lady in London

17. The Chinese House, the Rotunda, & the Company in Masquerade in Renelagh Gardens

18. Travelling in France

19. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

20. Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano

21. Four Studies of a Hay Cart

22. La cuisiniere surveillante

23. L'Enfant Prodigue dans la plus grande Misere

24. L'Enfant Prodigue reclamant la bonté de son Pere

25. La bonheur du Mariage

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27. La male consequence du celibat

28. Sleepy Maid

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32. The Swain's Amusement

33. A Girl Spinning Thread

34. The Dairymaid's Occupation

35. Lady with Glass

36. Youth Playing Bagpipes

37. The Scytheman's Refreshment

38. A School of Girls

39. The Maid in Rural Happiness

40. The Lord of the Vineyard Paying His Labourers

41. Le depart de l'Enfant Prodigue

42. Men Playing Cards

43. La ratisseuse

44. Wooded Landscape with Two Country Carts and Figures

45. Little Missenden Church from the Southeast

46. A Choral Band

47. Love Me, Love My Cat

48. A School of Boys

49. La petite marchande de carpe

50. The Relief

51. Englishman at Paris, 1767

52. The Scytheman's Refreshment

53. A View of the Bridge at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey

54. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Travellers Resting under Tree, Temple of Minerva, Medici, Rome

55. Plate I: View taken near Scarva in the County of Downe, representing Ploughing, Sowing the Flax Seed and Harrowing

56. Travellers by a Clump of Trees in a Rocky Landscape with Stream

57. Two Monks

58. The Hermit

59. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

60. Boy Spinning Top