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Portrait of Mr. Van Amburgh, As He Appeared with His Animals at the London Theatres
Creator:
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:
Summer 1846 to March 1847
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
69 1/4 x 94 inches (175.9 x 238.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Stage Design for Heart of Midlothian; Deans' Cottage
Creator:
Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840
Date:
ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
11 x 15 1/4 inches (27.9 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Samuel Thomas Russell in Samuel Foote's "The Mayor of Garratt"
Creator:
Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:
between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (62.2 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Rehearsal of an opera
Creator:
Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:
ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 1/4 × 22 3/4 inches (46.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Rehearsal of an opera
Creator:
Marco Ricci, 1676–1729
Date:
ca. 1709
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Scene from 'The Maid of the Mill'
Creator:
John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:
1765
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 5/8 x 25 inches (47.3 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Ballet Scene from "On the Sands"
Creator:
Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:
1910
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Interior View of Westminster Abbey on the Commemoration of Handel, Taken from the Manager's Box
Creator:
Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 3/8 x 40 inches (128 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Trapeze
Creator:
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:
ca. 1920
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/2 x 32 inches (62.2 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Scene in a park, with figures from the Commedia dell'Arte
Creator:
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:
ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches (92.1 x 87.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
"The Indian Emperor" or "The Conquest of Mexico"
Creator:
Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 11/16 x 21 1/2in. (44.9 x 54.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman
Girls Singing
Creator:
Print made by Pieter van den Berge, active 1689–1737
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 10 1/4 inches (35.5 × 26 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Ragged Concert
Creator:
Print made by Richard Brookshaw, 1736–1804
Date:
1770
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 3/16 inches (35.7 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Musician
Creator:
Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:
1764
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 7/16 inches (51.5 x 36.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Cotillion Dance
Creator:
Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:
1771
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 9/16 inches (25.5 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Nautch Dancers
Creator:
Print made by Charles William Cain, 1893–1962
Date:
ca. 1925
Materials & Techniques:
Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 19 1/16 inches (39.3 x 48.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith Zlotsky
A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica
Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/16 x 19 7/8 inches (33.8 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Strephon and Chloe
Creator:
Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:
1801
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 1/16 inches (25.5 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Trio

Trio
Creator:
Print made by John Copley, 1875–1950
Date:
1940
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 x 15 5/8 inches (35.9 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica
Creator:
Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches (33.4 x 40 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Musician
Creator:
Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:
1764
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches (36.9 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Punch

Punch
Creator:
Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:
after 1821
Materials & Techniques:
Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 9/16 inches (22.4 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Four Children on a Stage
Creator:
Adelaide Claxton, 1858–1905
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 9 1/4in. (15.2 x 23.5cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Gypsy Chorus, Granada
Creator:
Sir William Russell Flint, 1880–1969
Date:
1931
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 5/8 inches (27.2 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
A Raree Show
Creator:
William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:
between 1792 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (19.4 × 15.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene from a Play, possibly Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband"
Creator:
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, red chalk and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of a Pianist and Bass Player
Creator:
Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (40.3 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Choral Band
Creator:
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:
ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 9/16 x 16 3/4 inches (29.4 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Burmese Dancers
Creator:
Print made by Charles William Cain, 1893–1962
Date:
between 1920 and 1924
Materials & Techniques:
Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 9/16 x 18 3/4 inches (37 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

30. The Show

The Show
Creator:
Print made by Rowney & Forster, active 1820–1822
Date:
after 1821
Materials & Techniques:
Lithograph with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 1/4 inches (22.3 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Flying at Hendon
Creator:
Tony Sarg, 1880–1942
Date:
1914
Materials & Techniques:
Chromolithograph on board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 38 3/8 x 23 1/2 inches (97.5 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965
Mr. Wilkinson as Michael in Free & Easy
Creator:
Print made by Robert Cooper, active ca. 1800–1836
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 11/16 inches (27.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
Vauxhall Gardens
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:
1774
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 inches (26.9 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection