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Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks
Creator:
William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 × 72 inches (127 × 182.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Corfe Castle, Dorset
Creator:
John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:
1764
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/8 x 18 inches (33.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Fishery
Creator:
Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775
Date:
ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
English Ships Running before a Gale
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
before 1759
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with a Rainbow
Creator:
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:
between 1793 and 1794
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 1/2 × 39 5/16 inches (69.9 × 99.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Duncan Robinson, Director, Yale Center for British Art (1981–1995)
On View:
Not on view
Sir William Elford, Bart.
Creator:
James Northcote, 1746–1831
Date:
1782
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
Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia
Creator:
Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:
1755
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Ship wrecked on a rocky coast
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
between 1747 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Coach in a Thunderstorm
Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on millboard (attached to stretcher); verso: oil sketch
Dimensions:
16 3/4 x 24 inches (42.5 x 61 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Rainbow
Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:
1784
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
Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:
8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (21 x 26 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
The Destruction of the Children of Niobe
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:
1760
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Destruction of Niobe's Children
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink over 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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy."
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
The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios
Creator:
Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 3/16 inches (39.6 x 53.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield
Creator:
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gum and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 inches (31.1 x 41 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Rochester, Kent: from the North
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Distress

Distress
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
1790 to 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown and red ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/16 inches (31 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Prospero and Miranda
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Antigonus Disposing of Perdita
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:
Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:
ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches (21.7 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Admiral George Edgcumbe, first Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Creator:
Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:
1760
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/16 × 10 7/8 inches (38.6 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel
Creator:
Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:
1759
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (50.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Shipwreck

Shipwreck
Creator:
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Ship in Distress
Creator:
Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 13/16 inches (37.8 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked
Creator:
Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:
1774
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 15/16 inches (28.2 x 43 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer
Presages of the Millenium
Creator:
James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)
Creator:
James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/4 inches (24.9 × 35 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ships in Distress
Creator:
Richard Bernard Godfrey, 1728–op.1794
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 x 16 11/16 inches (30.8 x 42.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Fishery
Creator:
Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:
1768
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 11/16 inches (46.4 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre
Creator:
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 9/16 x 9 5/8 inches (47.1 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Three Marys Going to the Sepulchre
Creator:
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches (46.9 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:
1766
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection