Genre: portrait / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: historical subject

1. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1590
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 45 × 71 3/4 inches (114.3 × 182.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Robert, Duke of Normandy, in Prison

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 9 1/16 x 7 1/2 inches (23 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Cleopatra

Creator:: Benedetto Gennari, 1633–1715
Date:: between 1674 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 x 41 1/2 inches (124.5 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

5. Cleopatra

Creator:: Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781
Date:: ca. 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 12 x 28 x 11 1/4 inches (30.5 x 71.1 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. John Locke

Creator:: Attributed to John Nost I, before 1660–1711/1712
Date:: ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Lead (on stone base)
Dimensions:: Overall: 29 × 23 × 9 inches (73.7 × 58.4 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

Creator:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882
Date:: ca. 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 7/8 inches (22.9 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Mary, Queen of Scots

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 18 3/8 inches (25.7 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. St. Jerome in his Study

Creator:: Alexander Marshal, active 1651–died 1682
Date:: 1650
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. James II Receiving the Mathematical Scholars of Christ's Hospital

Creator:: Studio of Antonio Verrio, ca. 1639–1707
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on canvas and nailed to wooden strainer
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 × 92 3/4 inches (45.9 × 235.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Wm. Fredk. King of Prussia (Frederick William III)

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 inches (34.3 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

12. Edward Duke of Kent, Father of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: after 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with stipple on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches (27.3 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

13. Frederick William III King of Prussia

Creator:: Print made by Charles James Canton, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Etching hand-colored with watercolor on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 14 3/8 inches (21.9 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

14. George the Third King of Great Britain &c &c &c

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1763-1764
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

15. Silas Deane

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Johnson, 1709–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Manuscripts and Archives Collection, transfer from the Sterling Memorial Library

16. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

Creator:: Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962
Date:: 2011
Materials & Techniques:: Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:: Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund

17. Picasso's Meninas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1973
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, open-bite, lift-ground, aquatint, line engraving, drypoint, and burnishing; artist's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 13/16 x 22 3/8 inches (75.8 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

18. Robert, Duke of Normandy

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk with stumping and graphite on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 5/8 inches (22.9 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (52.7 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. This is NOT the Baron of Oakland, in the Opera of the Haunted Tower

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (40.4 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie

21. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: between 1843 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Iron gall ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (22.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard J. Mammana Jr., Yale MAR 2012, in memory of Cynthia McFarland

22. Sappho

Creator:: attributed to Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (22.9 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wilton

23. The Departure Of The Sons Of Tippoo From The Zenana

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (52.1 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Paul Mellon at Ascot, Seated in a Carriage with the Duke of Kent, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Creator:: Ron Hammond, active 1970s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (19.4 x 26.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

25. James Boswell in the Dress of a Corsican Chief

Creator:: Print made by J. Miller, active 1769–1825
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple on medium, slighly textured, cream aid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (18.4 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

26. Edward, Prince of Wales, Presenting the Captive King John of France and His Sons to His Father Edward the Third After the Battle of Poictiers

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper laid on mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/4 x 19 1/16 inches (38.8 x 48.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume II, July 1894

Creator:: Print made by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872–1898
Date:: 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Photomechanical reproduction on thin, slightly textured, orange wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 x 8 9/16 inches (27.9 x 21.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

28. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume I, April 1894

Creator:: Print made by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872–1898
Date:: 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Photomechanical reproduction on medium, smooth, contemporary glossy paper, laid on contemporary mount made of medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 1/16 x 8 1/2 inches (28.1 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

29. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 11 7/16 inches (37 × 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Constantia

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Theodosius

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (30.7 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 x 30 3/8 inches (55.9 x 77.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Ten Needle-Box Prints

Creator:: Print made by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814–1885
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (10.6 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Royal Academy of Arts

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches (49.2 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, 4th March 1835

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Mann Baynes, 1794–1854
Date:: after 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 inches (37.5 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Younger, 1740–1814
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 54 1/4 inches (50.2 x 137.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches (52.4 x 73.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum

Creator:: Print made by James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 13/16 inches (22.2 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

2. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

3. Robert, Duke of Normandy, in Prison

4. Cleopatra

5. Cleopatra

6. John Locke

7. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

8. Mary, Queen of Scots

9. St. Jerome in his Study

10. James II Receiving the Mathematical Scholars of Christ's Hospital

11. Wm. Fredk. King of Prussia (Frederick William III)

12. Edward Duke of Kent, Father of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

13. Frederick William III King of Prussia

14. George the Third King of Great Britain &c &c &c

15. Silas Deane

16. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

17. Picasso's Meninas

18. Robert, Duke of Normandy

19. Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

20. This is NOT the Baron of Oakland, in the Opera of the Haunted Tower

21. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

22. Sappho

23. The Departure Of The Sons Of Tippoo From The Zenana

24. Paul Mellon at Ascot, Seated in a Carriage with the Duke of Kent, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

25. James Boswell in the Dress of a Corsican Chief

26. Edward, Prince of Wales, Presenting the Captive King John of France and His Sons to His Father Edward the Third After the Battle of Poictiers

27. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume II, July 1894

28. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume I, April 1894

29. Sensibility

30. Constantia

31. Theodosius

32. Life School at the Royal Academy

33. Ten Needle-Box Prints

34. The Royal Academy of Arts

35. The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, 4th March 1835

36. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

37. Life School at the Royal Academy

38. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum