Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: column (architectural element)

1. A Man Called Mr. Cross

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 11/16 x 24 7/8 inches (75.4 x 63.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord
On View:: Not on view

2. Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child

Creator:: Attributed to John Verelst, ca. 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1719
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 79 1/4 × 92 3/4 inches (201.3 × 235.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Cavendish, eleventh Duke of Devonshire
On View:: Not on view

3. Jean Grant (née Duff), Lady Grant

Creator:: Henry Walton, 1746–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
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

4. Mrs. Wardle

Creator:: Thomas Frye, 1710–1762
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 1/4 x 40 inches (125.1 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

5. A Woman, Previously Thought to Be Anne, Lady Cavendish

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 x 52 inches (116.8 x 132.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bruce McCashin
On View:: Not on view

6. An Unknown Man

Creator:: Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786
Date:: 1764 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/4 x 40 3/8 inches (127.6 x 102.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Cousin of John Gawler of Ramridge House, Weyhill, Hampshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1765
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

8. Sir Roger Burgoyne Riding "Badger"

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 7/8 x 69 inches (124.1 x 175.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Dr. Charles Chauncey, M.D.

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 17 inches (63.5 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. John Broughton

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1767
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

11. Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: between 1754 and 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: between 1776 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 × 27 7/8 inches (90.2 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. 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

14. The Sense of Sight

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

15. Classical Landscape with Figures and Animals: Sunset

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 46 1/2 inches (88.9 x 118.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh

Creator:: Tilly Kettle, 1735–1786
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 40 inches (127 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Reclining Female Figure

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches (11.1 x 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

18. Duke of Dorset (So-called)

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches (52.1 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

19. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 105, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. An Altar at Delos

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/16 x 14 3/4 inches (53.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Caricature of George Bubb Dodington and Sir Thomas Robinson

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (35.9 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Pursuit (Probably a Design for The Tyburn Chronicle)

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 1/8 inches (16.2 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Michael Rysbrack

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1734
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 15/16 inches (35.2 × 25.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Enoch Seeman

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1727
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 inches (35.9 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Spanish Palace at Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 x 12 5/16 inches (23.2 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Comedies

Creator:: Print made by John Hall, 1739–1797
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 9/16 inches (16.9 × 9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

27. Mrs. Montagu

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper set in mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 5/8 x 9 7/16 inches (32 x 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

28. James Paine and his Son

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 × 13 1/8 inches (45.7 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Drawing of a Column from Ekvera

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (38.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Jane, Countess of Harrington, with Her Children, Lord Petersham and Honorable Lincoln Stanhope

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (42.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (36.3 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Lady Rushout and her Children

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 1/2 × 21 5/8 inches (49.5 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: Shepherd Boy and Dog, Part Nativity Window

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 1/16 × 19 1/8 inches (68.7 × 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. John Boydell, Engraver

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, modereately textured, cream laid paper, laid on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches (46.6 x 33.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Joseph Deane Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 9/16 × 15 11/16 inches (52.2 × 39.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Squire's Door

Creator:: Benjamin Duterreau, 1767–1851
Date:: 1790
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Views in the Levant: The Columns of Augustus at Brundisium

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/16 × 10 3/8 inches (41.4 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Griffin and Johnson

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 3/8 inches (46.5 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Details of a Corinthian Order from a Temple at Cnidus

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/8 x 15 inches (54.3 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (21.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Views in the Levant: Street Scene With Domed Roofs, One Dome Surmounted by a Column (Possibly Cairo?)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 9 5/8 inches (30.5 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Man Called Mr. Cross

2. Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child

3. Jean Grant (née Duff), Lady Grant

4. Mrs. Wardle

5. A Woman, Previously Thought to Be Anne, Lady Cavendish

6. An Unknown Man

7. The Cousin of John Gawler of Ramridge House, Weyhill, Hampshire

8. Sir Roger Burgoyne Riding "Badger"

9. Dr. Charles Chauncey, M.D.

10. John Broughton

11. Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck

12. Mrs. Barclay and Her Children

13. Emily and George Mason

14. The Sense of Sight

15. Classical Landscape with Figures and Animals: Sunset

16. Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Oudh

17. Reclining Female Figure

18. Duke of Dorset (So-called)

19. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 105, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

20. An Altar at Delos

21. Caricature of George Bubb Dodington and Sir Thomas Robinson

22. The Pursuit (Probably a Design for The Tyburn Chronicle)

23. Michael Rysbrack

24. Enoch Seeman

25. Spanish Palace at Naples

26. Comedies

27. Mrs. Montagu

28. James Paine and his Son

29. Drawing of a Column from Ekvera

30. Jane, Countess of Harrington, with Her Children, Lord Petersham and Honorable Lincoln Stanhope

31. Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield

32. Lady Rushout and her Children

33. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: Shepherd Boy and Dog, Part Nativity Window

34. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

35. John Boydell, Engraver

36. Joseph Deane Bourke, 3rd Earl of Mayo

37. The Squire's Door

38. Views in the Levant: The Columns of Augustus at Brundisium

39. Griffin and Johnson

40. Details of a Corinthian Order from a Temple at Cnidus

41. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

42. Views in the Levant: Street Scene With Domed Roofs, One Dome Surmounted by a Column (Possibly Cairo?)