Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: rocks (landforms) - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Horse Frightened by a Lion

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: between 1762 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 41 inches (70.5 × 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Sleeping Leopard

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
Dimensions:: 4 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (10.8 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A Lion Attacking a Horse

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 × 131 inches (243.8 × 332.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Limekiln at Coalbrookdale

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/4 x 47 inches (87 x 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. 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

7. Cavern, near Naples

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1774
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, Bequest of Pamela Askew
On View:: Not on view

8. A View Near Arundel, Sussex, with Ruins by Water

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches (41 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Burial Ground in the South Seas

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (23.5 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1780 to 1781
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

11. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Study of Rocks and Branches

Creator:: George Augustus Wallis, 1770–1847
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (41.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

13. Classical Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: after 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (51.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1795 and 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (56.5 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 7/8 x 35 3/4 inches (70.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

16. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

Creator:: Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (43.8 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Patrick Heatly

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: between 1783 and 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 32 1/4 inches (96.5 x 81.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Thomas Newenham

Creator:: Attributed to Edward Haytley, active 1740–1761
Date:: ca. 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (49.5 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. British Gentlemen in Rome

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/4 × 53 inches (94.6 × 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: ca. 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. Wooded Hilly Landscape

Creator:: Abraham Pether, 1756–1812
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches (62.9 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762
Date:: between 1750 and 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 44 inches (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Wooded Landscape with a Boy and his Dog

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (49.5 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Classical Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785
Date:: 1767 to 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 7/8 x 18 3/16 inches (32.7 x 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

28. Lake Scene

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 30 inches (53.3 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968 in memory of Sophie D. Coe
On View:: Not on view

29. Horses and Cattle by a River

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 9 1/2 inches (35.6 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. The Rope Bridge at Serinagur

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/4 x 40 3/4 inches (81.9 x 103.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. View near Rome

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: between 1754 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches (56.5 x 78.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Landscape with Cattle and Peasant

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches (67.3 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. A View near Matlock, Derbyshire with Figures Working beneath a Wooden Conveyor

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 5/8 x 57 inches (90.5 x 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. William Farington of Shawe Hall, Lancashire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 19 3/8 x 13 1/4 inches (49.2 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. Mountain Valley with Figures and Distant Village

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1773 and 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 58 3/4 inches (121.9 x 149.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Rinaldo and Armida

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/2 × 60 1/4 inches (130.8 × 153 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Thomas Osborne

Creator:: James Cranke, 1707–1780
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 77 3/4 × 56 inches (197.5 × 142.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. Eleanor and Margaret Ross

Creator:: Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840
Date:: between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches (97.8 x 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. A Horse Frightened by a Lioness

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Enamel plaque
Dimensions:: 3 13/16 × 4 11/16 inches (9.7 × 11.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. Three Hunters in a Rocky Landscape

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 1/2 inches (95.3 x 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. An Imaginary Italianate Landscape with Classical Figures and a Waterfall

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 20 7/8 inches (36 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. A Sportsman

Creator:: Edward Haytley, active 1740–1761
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 x 14 3/8 inches (51.8 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. Landscape with Fishermen on a Lake

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 24 3/8 inches (47 x 61.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. A Grey Arab Stallion in a Desert Landscape

Creator:: John Boultbee, 1753–1812
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches (69.2 x 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Horse Frightened by a Lion (Episode A)

Creator:: Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795
Date:: modeled 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Solid blue jasper with white relief, shallow oval
Dimensions:: Image: 10 × 16 inches (25.4 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. A Sleeping Leopard

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 3/4 inches (25.4 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. A Tiger and a Sleeping Leopard

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (24.8 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. The Angler

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 6 1/8 inches (22.9 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A Great Tree

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 15 1/4 inches (25.4 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Landscape with Waterfall

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 3/8 inches (27.6 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Boy Seated beneath a Rock

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on moderately thick slightly textured beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (50.5 x 31.8 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

52. America. A Prophecy, Plate 10, "The Terror Answered...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green-black ink, 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

53. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its Favours Here Are Trials, Not Rewards"

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

54. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 43, "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

55. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 53, "The Bard."

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

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its favours here are trials, not rewards"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Water; Plate 4

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line 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

60. Earth; Plate 5

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line 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

61. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 6, "And none but Bromian . . . . "

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 1, Frontispiece

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

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

64. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

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

65. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 3, "Preludium"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper inlaid to size
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 5/16 inches (38.1 x 54.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Night

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (39.7 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The West India Washer-Women

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 13 1/8 inches (50.4 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: between 1764 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 inches (29.2 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Views in the Levant: The Sacred Cave of Archidamus

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 20 1/16 inches (29.5 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. A New Drawing Book of Variety of Landskips

Creator:: Print made by J. Carwitham, active 1720–1740
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 8 1/8 inches (32.5 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 13 3/4 inches (27.9 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Henry Scott, Third Duke of Buccleugh and Fifth Duke of Queensberry

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 x 14 inches (48.5 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Rough Diamonds

Creator:: Richard Brookes, 1721–1763
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 1/2 inches (14.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Cascade of Buffalora

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (24.1 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. The Three Marys

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink.; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/16 x 8 1/4 inches (41.1 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Cascade at Terni

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (28.6 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. A River by a Rocky Bank with Figures, Possibly in India

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: between 1783 and 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (27 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 3/8 inches (38.1 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. The Humble Rock

Creator:: Coplestone Warre Bampfylde, 1719–1791
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (18.4 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Soldiers and Country Women

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 7 3/8 inches (12.7 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Rocky River Scene with Sepoys

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/4 × 29 3/8 inches (54 × 74.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Three Figures Standing by Rocky Cliffs, Two Horsemen in Distance Left

Creator:: copy after Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk with graphite and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (15.9 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Fanali di Villa Franca

Creator:: Monro School
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 × 7 7/16 inches (12.5 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. A View at Terracina

Creator:: Jacob More, 1740–1793
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper in contemporary laid paper insert with pen and black ink, and gray wash boader
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 x 21 1/2 inches (40.6 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Study of Rocks, near Pencerrig, Wales

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 inches (15.9 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton, Bristol with Hotwell's Spring House in the Distance

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 12 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (31.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Lismore Castle, Ireland

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches (26 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Rocks with Central Cavern Among Trees

Creator:: James Baynes, 1766–1837
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, with traces of grouche and graphite on medium, moderately textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 11/16 × 18 15/16 inches (29.7 × 48.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. An Old Fisherwoman with Two Women Digging for Bait

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (8.6 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Ariadne

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (18.1 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Grotto, Virginia Water

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 13/16in. (20.6 x 27.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Two Men Fighting Before a Woman

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (8.9 x 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Lot and His Family

Creator:: Print made by John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Date:: ca. 1718
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches (28.8 x 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

96. The Lakes of Llanberis - from the Road from Caernarfon Going to Llanberis, Caernarfonshire

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: July 14, 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (13 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. 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

98. The Ascent of Vesuvius

Creator:: Henry Tresham, 1751–1814
Date:: 1785 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 27 5/8 inches (44.8 x 70.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. The Entrance to Wookey Hole, Somerset

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: ca. 1719
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 x 12 9/16in. (20.8 x 31.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Tintagel Castle

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 x 12 inches (24.3 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Horse Frightened by a Lion

2. Sleeping Leopard

3. A Lion Attacking a Horse

4. Limekiln at Coalbrookdale

5. Harlech Castle, from Tygwyn Ferry, Summer's Evening Twilight

6. Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks

7. Cavern, near Naples

8. A View Near Arundel, Sussex, with Ruins by Water

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10. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

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12. Study of Rocks and Branches

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14. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

15. West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex

16. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

17. Patrick Heatly

18. Thomas Newenham

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20. British Gentlemen in Rome

21. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

22. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

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24. Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire

25. Wooded Landscape with a Boy and his Dog

26. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

27. Classical Landscape

28. Lake Scene

29. Horses and Cattle by a River

30. The Rope Bridge at Serinagur

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33. A View near Matlock, Derbyshire with Figures Working beneath a Wooden Conveyor

34. William Farington of Shawe Hall, Lancashire

35. Mountain Valley with Figures and Distant Village

36. Rinaldo and Armida

37. Thomas Osborne

38. Eleanor and Margaret Ross

39. A Horse Frightened by a Lioness

40. Three Hunters in a Rocky Landscape

41. An Imaginary Italianate Landscape with Classical Figures and a Waterfall

42. A Sportsman

43. Landscape with Fishermen on a Lake

44. A Grey Arab Stallion in a Desert Landscape

45. Horse Frightened by a Lion (Episode A)

46. A Sleeping Leopard

47. A Tiger and a Sleeping Leopard

48. The Angler

49. A Great Tree

50. Landscape with Waterfall

51. Boy Seated beneath a Rock

52. America. A Prophecy, Plate 10, "The Terror Answered...."

53. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its Favours Here Are Trials, Not Rewards"

54. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 43, "The Progress of Poesy."

55. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 53, "The Bard."

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its favours here are trials, not rewards"

57. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all"

58. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame"

59. Water; Plate 4

60. Earth; Plate 5

61. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 6, "And none but Bromian . . . . "

62. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 1, Frontispiece

63. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

64. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

65. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 3, "Preludium"

66. View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli

67. Night

68. The West India Washer-Women

69. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

70. Views in the Levant: The Sacred Cave of Archidamus

71. A New Drawing Book of Variety of Landskips

72. Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows

73. Henry Scott, Third Duke of Buccleugh and Fifth Duke of Queensberry

74. Rough Diamonds