Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: moon - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

Creator:: Benjamin Wilson, 1721–1788
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 54 5/8 x 72 1/2 inches (138.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. Cottage on Fire at Night

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1785 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Night

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (44.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. 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

6. A Lake by Moonlight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1780 to 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 29 3/4 inches (62.2 × 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 55 inches (121.9 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Matlock Tor by Moonlight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1777 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Blacksmith's Shop

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/2 x 41 inches (128.3 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

11. The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751, printed 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 x 19 1/4 inches (63.2 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell

12. Tail Piece, or the Bathos

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (31.4 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

13. I Want! I Want! (Plate 11)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd..." (Plate 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief and white-line etching, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Descent of Odin, An Ode; Title Page

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

16. "Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright... Where willowy Camus lingers with delight!..." (Design 97)

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

17. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (30.2 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Adoration of the Shepherds, From the Nativity Scene

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 15/16 × 18 1/8 inches (68.4 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Eclipse of the Sun as it Will Appear at London on July 14, 1748

Creator:: Print made by J. Walker, active ca. 1748
Date:: 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Das Schachspiel

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 × 16 1/4 inches (32.2 × 41.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Boy Lighting a Candle

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 8 7/8 inches (32.8 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. 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

23. David Garrick as Sir John Brute in Act IV, the Drunken Scene, in Vanburgh's 'The Provok'd Wife'

Creator:: John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches (47.3 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Monmouth of 64 Guns, taking the Foudroyant a French Man of War of 84 Guns on the 28th of Feb. 1758 in the Mediterranean,....

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand colored ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 21 1/16 inches (37.1 x 53.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Sophia, Honour, and the Chambermaid

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (39.7 x 27.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

26. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Moonlight

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 3/4 x 21 3/8 inches (37.5 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Diligence and Dissipation: The Modest Girl in her Bed Chamber (Plate 4)

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, open letter proofs
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 20 13/16in. (46 x 52.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. An Eclipse in Harvest Time

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 5/16 inches (16.4 × 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Music by Moonlight

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1782 or 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches (28.9 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, aquatint, black chalk, white chalk, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 12 3/4 inches (25.5 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. The Eclipse at an End - and Political Tilting Discovered

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13in. (22.5 x 33cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. A Drawing of a Part for the Map of the Moon

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 inches (20.3 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Bay Scene in Moonlight

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 7/8 inches (34 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Indians Astonished at the Eclipse of the Moon foretold by Columbus

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn

36. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire as 'Cynthia'

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 9/16 × 16 5/16 inches (65 × 41.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Elizabeth (née Dashwood) Montague, With Her Son, George Montague, Viscount Mandeville

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 16 11/16 inches (64.8 × 42.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Great Fire of London

2. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

3. Cottage on Fire at Night

4. Night

5. Corfe Castle, Dorset

6. A Lake by Moonlight

7. William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

8. Matlock Tor by Moonlight

9. The Blacksmith's Shop

10. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

11. The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder

12. Tail Piece, or the Bathos

13. I Want! I Want! (Plate 11)

14. Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd..." (Plate 13)

15. The Descent of Odin, An Ode; Title Page

16. "Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright... Where willowy Camus lingers with delight!..." (Design 97)

17. Moonlight

18. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Adoration of the Shepherds, From the Nativity Scene

19. The Eclipse of the Sun as it Will Appear at London on July 14, 1748

20. Das Schachspiel

21. Boy Lighting a Candle

22. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

23. David Garrick as Sir John Brute in Act IV, the Drunken Scene, in Vanburgh's 'The Provok'd Wife'

24. The Monmouth of 64 Guns, taking the Foudroyant a French Man of War of 84 Guns on the 28th of Feb. 1758 in the Mediterranean,....

25. Sophia, Honour, and the Chambermaid

26. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

27. Moonlight

28. Diligence and Dissipation: The Modest Girl in her Bed Chamber (Plate 4)

29. An Eclipse in Harvest Time

30. Music by Moonlight

31. A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool

32. The Eclipse at an End - and Political Tilting Discovered

33. A Drawing of a Part for the Map of the Moon

34. Bay Scene in Moonlight

35. The Indians Astonished at the Eclipse of the Moon foretold by Columbus

36. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire as 'Cynthia'

37. Elizabeth (née Dashwood) Montague, With Her Son, George Montague, Viscount Mandeville