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Prints and Drawings
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Paintings and Sculpture
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
18
Watson, Thomas, 1743–1781
6
Dickinson, William, 1746–1823
5
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779
5
Blyth, Robert, 1750–1784
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Doughty, William, 1757–1782
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Green, Valentine, 1739–1813
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Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
3
Downman, John, 1750–1824
2
Laurie, Robert, 1755?–1836
2
Dean, John, 1754–1798
1
Dixon, John, ca. 1740–1811
1
Earlom, Richard, 1743–1822
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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
Romney, George, 1734–1802
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Sartorius, Francis, 1734–1804
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1804
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1757
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1747
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1753
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1803
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1970
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1732
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On-site Access
Accessible in the Study Room
36
Not on view
3
On view
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Free to Use
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32
Unavailable
8
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Prints
30
Drawings & Watercolors
5
Paintings
4
Creator Gender
male
40
unknown
1
Collective Title
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
10
Period
18th century
36
18th century-19th century
3
19th century-20th century
1
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
30
mezzotint
23
etching (printing process)
7
oil paint
5
painting (technique)
4
wove paper
4
canvas
3
watercolor
3
graphite
2
stipple engraving
2
black basalt
1
black chalk
1
black ink
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1
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
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sculpture
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portrait
39
literary theme
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historical 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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woman
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pearls
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trees
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beard
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coat
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moustache
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posing
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wig
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book
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collar
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curls
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gaze
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lilies
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pansy
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pedestal
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Associated Places
Italy
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Napoli
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Posillipo
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Associated People
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
4
Bampfylde (née Moore), Lady Catherine (1754–1832), Wife of Sir Charles Bampfylde; mother of 1st Lord Poltimore
3
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
3
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), author and lexicographer
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Robert [called Robert Curthose], duke of Normandy (b. in or after 1050, d. 1134), prince and crusader
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Silenus
2
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)
1
Boswell, Sir Alexander, first baronet (1775–1822), poet and politician
1
Casamajor, Mary (nee Grant)
1
Corbet, John
1
Day [Ramus], Lady Benedetta (d.1811)
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
Laud, William (1573–1645), archbishop of Canterbury
1
Leighton, Robert
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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)
1
In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)
1
Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28)
1
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
1
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)
1
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
22
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
12
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
1
Yale Center for British Art, The Osborn Collection, Beinecke Library
1
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert
1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Frank Altschul, Yale BA 1908, Yale PhD (HON.) 1967
1
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Mary Robinson (née Darby)
ca. 1784
On view
2
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus
1779
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
Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Samuel Barrington
1779
6
Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Miss Sarah Campbell
1779
7
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
An Aga of the Janizaries
1779
10
Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Silenus
1779
11
Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Silenus
1779
12
Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795
Samuel Johnson Portrait Medallion
ca. 1784; cast between 1891 and 1908
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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 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 Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Peter Abelard (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher
1779
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Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
Miss Mary Palmer
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 William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley
1779
21
Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley) as St. Cecilia
1779
22
John Webber, 1752–1793
A Man of the Sandwich Islands
ca. 1784
23
Charles Sherwin, c. 1764–1794
Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney
undated
24
Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Lady Bampfylde
1779
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John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Studies from the Bust of Samuel Johnson
undated
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Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836
David Garrick, Esq
1779
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Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836
David Garrick, Esq
1779
28
John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
James Boswell and His Family
undated
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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 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
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Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Lady Jane Halliday
1779
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after James Watson, 1740–1790
Archbishop Laud
1779
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Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Miss Benedetta Ramus
1779
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Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
David Garrick
1779
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William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Diana Viscountess Crosbie
1779
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John Dean, 1754–1798
Lady Mary Kent
1779
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John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Right Honorable Anthony Malone
1779
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Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Lady Louisa (née Tollemache) Manners, 7th Countess of Dysart
1779