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Prints and Drawings
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
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Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779
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Blyth, Robert, 1750–1784
4
Doughty, William, 1757–1782
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Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781
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Dickinson, William, 1746–1823
3
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
3
Downman, John, 1750–1824
2
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
2
Laurie, Robert, 1755?–1836
2
Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811
1
Earlom, Richard, 1743–1822
1
Fisher, Edward, 1722–1785
1
Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
1
Gardner, Daniel, 1750–1805
1
Hudson, Thomas, 1707–1779
1
Nixon, James, c.1741–1812
1
Sartorius, Francis, 1734–1804
1
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
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Sherwin, Charles, c. 1764–1794
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1764
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1747
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1803
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1732
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1748
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1826
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1831
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1850
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1944
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Prints
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Paintings
4
Creator Gender
male
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unknown
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Collective Title
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
4
Period
18th century
29
18th century-19th century
3
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
22
mezzotint
15
etching (printing process)
7
oil paint
5
painting (technique)
4
wove paper
4
canvas
3
watercolor
3
graphite
2
stipple engraving
2
black basalt
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black chalk
1
black ink
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brown ink
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copper
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gouache
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intaglio print
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drawing
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painting
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watercolor
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low relief
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medallion
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planographic print
1
sculpture
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Genre
portrait
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literary theme
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historical subject
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genre subject
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landscape
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military art
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sporting art
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man
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oval
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costume
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trees
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woman
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beard
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coat
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moustache
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pearls
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wig
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lilies
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pansy
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pedestal
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posing
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turban
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Ottoman
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actress
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aga
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Associated Places
Italy
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Napoli
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Posillipo
1
Associated People
Bampfylde (née Moore), Lady Catherine (1754–1832), Wife of Sir Charles Bampfylde; mother of 1st Lord Poltimore
3
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
3
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
3
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), author and lexicographer
2
Robert [called Robert Curthose], duke of Normandy (b. in or after 1050, d. 1134), prince and crusader
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Silenus
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Abelard, Peter (1079–1142), medieval French scholastic philosopher
1
Barrington, Samuel (1729–1800), naval officer
1
Boswell, James (1740–1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson
1
Boswell, James (1778–1822), barrister and literary scholar
1
Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie [Peggie] (1738?–1789)
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Boswell, Sir Alexander, first baronet (1775–1822), poet and politician
1
Casamajor, Mary (nee Grant)
1
Corbet, John
1
Hartley, Elizabeth (1750/51–1824), actress
1
Keppel, Augustus, Viscount Keppel (1725–1786), naval officer and politician
1
Kynaston, John (1728–1783), author and literary scholar
1
Leighton, Robert
1
Mason, William (1725–1797), religious official, poet and garden designer
1
Monsey, Messenger (1693–1788), physician
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Exhibition History
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
2
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
2
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17)
1
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
1
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
1
Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination (Tate Britain, 2006-02-15 - 2006-05-01)
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Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28)
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Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
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Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29)
1
Romance and Reality (Wildenstein) (Wildenstein & Company, Inc., 1978-09-22 - 1978-12-07)
1
Sir Joshua Reynolds - experiments in paint (The Wallace Collection, London, 2015-03-12 - 2015-06-07)
1
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
1
The Noble Horse (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, 1998-04-04 - 1998-05-28)
1
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
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Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
10
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman and Frances Carey in Memory of Diana Vincent-Daviss
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Knapp
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth
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Yale Center for British Art, The Osborn Collection, Beinecke Library
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Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert
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Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Frank Altschul, Yale BA 1908, Yale PhD (HON.) 1967
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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus
1779
Not on view
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Mary Robinson (née Darby)
ca. 1784
Not on view
3
John Downman, 1750–1824
Robert, Duke of Normandy, in Prison
1779
Not on view
4
Thomas Stringer, 1722–1790
John Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their Horses and Hounds
1779
Not on view
5
Charles Sherwin, c. 1764–1794
Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney
undated
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Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley) as St. Cecilia
1779
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Studies from the Bust of Samuel Johnson
undated
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John Webber, 1752–1793
A Man of the Sandwich Islands
ca. 1784
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Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795
Samuel Johnson
ca. 1784
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Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
An Aga of the Janizaries
1779
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Valentine Green, 1739–1813
John Hamilton Mortimer, Esq
1779
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Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Silenus
1779
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Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
An Aga of the Janizaries
1779
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Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Silenus
1779
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Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Lady Bampfylde
1779
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Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836
David Garrick, Esq
1779
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Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Catherine, Lady Bampfylde
1779
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Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Catherine, Lady Bampfylde
1779
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Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Samuel Barrington
1779
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Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Miss Sarah Campbell
1779
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Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836
David Garrick, Esq
1779
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Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
The Rev. William Mason, M. A
1779
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Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley
1779
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Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Peter Abelard (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
1779
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Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
Samuel Johnson, L. L. D
1779
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Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
The Honorable Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue
1779
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Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
Miss Mary Palmer
1779
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John Downman, 1750–1824
Robert, Duke of Normandy
1779
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Dr. Messenger Monsey of Chelsea Hospital, 1693-1788
undated
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
James Boswell and His Family
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John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
David Garrick, Esq
1779
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Daniel Gardner, 1750–1805
Mrs. Justinian Casamajor and Eight of her Children
1779