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FAMILY ACTIVITY Color Our Collection Coloring book plate, after George Stubbs, Zebra, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Grab your crayons, paints, markers, or app, and show us your best color work. Stay true to the original or give our zebra rainbow stripes! Here are a few ideas to help you get started: Download our coloring book plate. Look closely at the artwork from our collections. Find what’s missing between the lines. Use your imagination and get creative. Add things that you don’t already see: animals, flowers, or your favorite person. Be as realistic or as silly as you’d like! How does the mood of the image change when you try different methods? Need an app? Download Adobe Illustrator Draw for Android or iPhone. We’d like to see your work. Share your creations by tagging @yalebritishart or email us at ycba.info@yale.edu. #YCBAdraw DOWNLOAD AND DRAW OBJECT OF THE WEEK An Early Photographer in an Empty Rome With so much of the world, including Italy, under lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, the news is filled with quiet images of usually bustling capitals. The normally tourist-thronged streets and piazzas of Rome now look eerily empty. This imagery is strikingly similar to the nineteenth-century photographs of Italy’s capital by the Scottish-born, but Rome-based, photographer Robert Macpherson (1814–1872). Because of the long exposure times required by mid-century cameras to activate emulsion on a negative, Macpherson frequently set up his shots in the early morning when public places were deserted, like the Piazza of St. Peter’s pictured above. Those pedestrians that may have walked through the scene would register only as a blur or not at all. In the 1860s, when Papal Rome was isolated from the rest of the newly established kingdom of Italy and defended by a French garrison, the city did seem unnaturally vacant. In a series of photographs from 1867 showing the gates of Rome closed and fortified, Macpherson documented this unusual moment in the country’s history. Macpherson’s photographs will be featured in Photographs of Italy and the British Imagination, 1840–1914, a future exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art. LEARN MORE FEATURED VIDEO OPENING PROGRAM Salt and Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860 Revisit a panel discussion about early photography, moderated by Scott Wilcox, former Deputy Director for Collections at the Yale Center for British Art. The panelists include Mark Osterman, Process Historian at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Hope Kingsley, Curator of Education and Collections, Wilson Centre for Photography; and Chitra Ramalingam, Assistant Curator of Photography, Yale Center for British Art. Watch online. ONLINE TOURS APP STOP 601 Introduction to Louis I. Kahn The Center’s mobile app offers users an in-depth audio guide to works in the collection as well as detailed information about our landmark building, designed by Louis I. Kahn. Learn more about our building from award-winning architects and longtime stewards by selecting “search” in the app menu bar, typing in 601, and then pressing “go.” For iOS devices (including iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), download the app to enhance your virtual visit. For all other mobile devices, including Android and desktop computers, visit our web-based app here. CLOSURE NOTICE The Center is closed until further notice As a COVID-19 precaution, the Center is closed until further notice. We are committed to the health, safety, and well-being of our visitors and staff. For updates, please continue to visit our website: britishart.yale.edu.

REFERENCE LIBRARY The Reference Library is closed until further notice. SEARCH ONLINE Search the Center's online collection. MUSEUM SHOP   The Center’s Museum Shop is closed until further notice.

Image credits (top to bottom): Coloring book plate, after George Stubbs, Zebra, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Robert Macpherson, Piazza of St. Peter's, ca. 1860, albumen print on paper mounted to board, Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery; William Henry Fox Talbot, Nelson’s Column Under Construction, Trafalgar Square, April 1844, salted paper print from paper negative, courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography; App stop 601 | Introduction to Louis I. Kahn; The Center is closed until further notice; Reference Library, Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole; Philippe Mercier, The Sense of Sight, 1744 to 1747, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Classic Batchel in red leather, courtesy of the Cambridge Satchel Company Contact: +1 203 432 2800 Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street New Haven, CT  06520 #Yeal Art#fineartmagazine#colorforfun