Skip to splash images
Yale Center for British Art Home Page
<< YCBA Home
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
<< YCBA Home
Welcome to YCBA Collections Online
The museum is closed for building conservation. We regret that we are unable to accept orders for new collections photography until January 2025.
    Search Options:
Search in
Simple Search
All Fields
Title
Creator
Subject Terms
Call Number
Search Provenance
Fielded
search for
Search
YCBA Collections Search
Toggle facets
Refine your search
Collection
Prints and Drawings
8
Rare Books and Manuscripts
6
Paintings and Sculpture
1
Creator
Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
2
Bates, Lydia, active 1784
1
Bedfordshire (England)
1
Boydell, John, 1720–1804
1
Christie and Ansell (London, England)
1
Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
1
Collings, Samuel, active 1784–1795
1
Day, William, 1764–1807
1
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779
1
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
1
Pine, Robert Edge, 1730–1788
1
Pouncey, Benjamin Thomas, active 1772–1799
1
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
1
Smith, John, 1749–1831
1
Watson, Caroline, 1760–1814
1
Whitcombe, Thomas, 1763–after 1824
1
Date
1785
107
1791
63
1795
56
1790
53
1792
47
1798
40
1797
38
1793
37
1740
33
1794
33
1770
32
1799
32
1789
31
1775
30
1754
25
1761
23
1755
22
1776
22
1700
21
1767
20
1788
20
1773
19
1786
18
1745
16
1762
16
1780
16
1746
15
1778
15
1784
[remove]
15
1796
15
1751
14
1765
14
1787
14
1717
12
1760
11
1768
11
1783
11
1720
10
1757
10
1782
10
1715
9
1736
9
1771
9
1779
9
1730
8
1732
8
1748
8
1752
8
1753
8
1764
8
1772
8
1728
7
1750
7
1758
7
1777
7
1800
7
1712
6
1747
6
1749
6
1759
6
1781
6
1731
5
1739
5
1756
5
1763
5
1769
5
1774
5
1710
4
1737
4
1738
4
1742
4
1766
4
1721
3
1733
3
1743
3
1695
2
1701
2
1704
2
1705
2
1706
2
1707
2
1708
2
1709
2
1714
2
1723
2
1724
2
1725
2
1726
2
1727
2
1729
2
1735
2
1806
2
1810
2
1588
1
1594
1
1613
1
1618
1
1619
1
1633
1
1677
1
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
14
Not on view
1
Image Use
Free to Use
9
Under Certain Circumstances
6
Image Available
Available
9
Unavailable
6
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
6
Books
3
Prints
3
Archives & Manuscripts
1
Paintings
1
Periodicals
1
Creator Gender
male
9
unknown
6
female
2
Period
18th century
[remove]
15
Materials & Techniques
laid paper
6
graphite
5
watercolor
5
black ink
2
brown ink
2
etching (printing process)
2
pens
2
wove paper
2
canvas
1
gray ink
1
gray wash
1
oil paint
1
painting (technique)
1
pen
1
stipple engraving
1
Height [cm]
Height [cm] range begin
–
Height [cm] range end
Current results range from
12
to
78
Unknown
6
Width [cm]
Width [cm] range begin
–
Width [cm] range end
Current results range from
18
to
153
Unknown
6
Work Type
drawing
6
watercolor
6
intaglio print
2
account book
1
auction catalog
1
engraving
1
painting
1
periodical
1
Genre
genre subject
4
landscape
4
architectural subject
2
figure study
1
historical subject
1
marine art
1
sporting art
1
Subject Terms
men
5
genre subject
4
landscape
3
women
3
architectural subject
2
bridge (built work)
2
buildings
2
cityscape
2
clouds
2
dogs (animals)
2
mountains
2
river
2
trees
2
Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
1
Art -- History -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
1
Art -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
1
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
1
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
1
Artists -- Biography -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
1
Caricatures and cartoons -- England -- Early works to 1800.
1
more
Subject Terms
»
Subject Period
18th century
1
Associated Places
England
[remove]
15
United Kingdom
8
Europe
6
London
3
Derbyshire
2
Bath
1
Bath and Northeast Somerset
1
Bedfordshire
1
Buckinghamshire
1
Chelsea
1
Farningham
1
Greater London
1
Islington
1
Kent
1
Little Missenden
1
Matlock
1
Matlock Bath
1
North Parade
1
Parish of Little Missenden
1
Stratford-upon-Avon
1
more
Associated Places
»
Associated People
Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
1
Daniell, Thomas (1749–1840), landscape painter and printmaker
1
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright
1
Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess
1
Roubiliac, Louis François (1702–1762), sculptor
1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
1
Exhibition History
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
1
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
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
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
1
Language
English
6
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Date
1784
Remove constraint Date: 1784
Period
18th century
Remove constraint Period: 18th century
Associated Places
England
Remove constraint Associated Places: England
1
-
15
of
15
Sort by collection
collection
relevance
artist (A-Z)
date
title (A-Z)
Number of results to display per page
100 per page
100
per page
50
per page
15
per page
View results as:
List
Masonry
Search Results
1
Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824
The Thames at Chelsea
1784
Not on view
2
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Matlock High Tor
1784
3
Benjamin Thomas Pouncey, active 1772–1799
Farningham, Kent
1784
4
Humphry Repton, 1752–1818
North Parade, Bath
1784
5
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Little Missenden Church from the Southeast
1784
6
Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee
1784
7
Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Cricket played by the Gentlemens Club, Whiteconduit House
1784
8
Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Manning the Navy
undated
9
William Day, 1764–1807
Matlock Baths, Derbyshire
ca. 1789
10
Bedfordshire (England)
A copy of the poll for knights of the shire for the county of Bedford
[1784]
11
The artist's repository and drawing magazine,
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]-MDCCXCIV [1794]
12
Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Account book
1784 January 1-December 31
13
Dighton, Robert, 1752–1814
Nature displayed in 12 prints of humorous & satirical subjects, with a variety of whimsical characers
published as the Act directs, 2 Sep. 1784
14
Christie and Ansell (London, England)
A catalogue of a most capital, valuable collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures
[1784]
15
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ..
1784