Materials & Techniques: etching (printing process) / On-site Access: Accessible in the Study Room / Width [cm]: 33

1. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 12 7/8 inches (26.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 13/16 inches (24 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Fourth Stage of Cruelty: The Reward of Cruelty (Anatomy Theatre)

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 × 12 7/8 inches (39.4 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Beer Street

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/8 × 19 3/8 inches (66.4 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale Univesrity Art Gallery

6. Hudibras Sallying Forth (no. 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (27 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

7. Hudibras Triumphant (no. 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 5/8 inches (26.4 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

8. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with roulette work, third state
Dimensions:: Plate: 9 7/8 x 13 inches (25.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Sheep-Washing, Windsor

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with graphite; touched early proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 7/8 inches (23.2 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Mer de Glace, Valley of Chamouni, Savoy

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 7/8 inches (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Stork and Aqueduct

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 inches (27.3 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Straw Yard

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 inches (24.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. 'The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Church of L'Ery, near Pont-de-l'Arche

Creator:: Print made by John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 19 15/16 inches (35.6 x 50.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

61. Florizel and Perdita

Creator:: Print made by Lumb Stocks, 1812–1892
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 13 1/8 inches (27.3 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914

62. Who'll Have a Crown - Now's Your Time

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (27.3 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell

63. Do you want any Matches?

Creator:: Anthony Cardon, 1772–1813
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/8 inches (43.2 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Sweet China Oranges, Sweet China!

Creator:: Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 x 13 1/2 inches (43.5 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Two bunches a penny Primroses, two bunches a penny

Creator:: Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (43.5 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Milk Below Maids

Creator:: Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 1/2 inches (43.2 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. New Mackrel

Creator:: Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 13 3/8 inches (43.8 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Round and Sound Five Pence a Pund Duke Cherry's

Creator:: Anthony Cardon, 1772–1813
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches (42.9 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Knives, Sissors and Razors to Grind

Creator:: Giovanni Vendramini, 1769–1839
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches (42.9 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Fresh gathered Peas. Young Hastings

Creator:: Giovanni Vendramini, 1769–1839
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (43.8 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Strawberries's Scarlet Strawberries

Creator:: Giovanni Vendramini, 1769–1839
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches (43.8 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Old Chair to Mend

Creator:: Giovanni Vendramini, 1769–1839
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches (43.8 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Hot Spice Gingerbread, Smoking Hot

Creator:: Giovanni Vendramini, 1769–1839
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (43.8 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Turnips and Carrots

Creator:: Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (46.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Henry VII's Shrine

Creator:: Print made by Herbert Railton, 1857–1910
Date:: ca. 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on smooth, moderately thick, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 13 1/8 inches (25.4 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Battersea Reach

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, printed from canceled plate on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 12 7/8 inches (25.4 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

77. A Child on a Couch, No. 1

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: between 1873 and 1875
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, printed from canceled plate on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 7/8 inches (24.8 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

78. A Lecture on Gadding

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving, and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/16 x 15 1/16 inches (46.9 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Lillebonne, Château

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; early engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 7/8 inches (22.2 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Landscape with Five Figures Bathing

Creator:: Print made by Charles Knapton, 1700–1760
Date:: 1732 to 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Etching printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 7/8in. (23.2 x 32.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Landscape with Lake and Herd of Deer

Creator:: Print made by Charles Knapton, 1700–1760
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chiaroscuro woodcut on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 12 7/8in. (20.6 x 32.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. The Golden Stairs

Creator:: Print made by Felix Jasinski, 1862 - 1901
Date:: 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 1/8 × 13 inches (71.4 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund

83. Panama Hat

Creator:: David Hockney, born 1937
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 13 inches (41.3 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,, Transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery, Estate of Richard Brown Baker

84. Morenta

Creator:: Print made by Herbert A. Freeth, 1912–1986
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Etching in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 12 15/16 inches (25.2 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden

85. The Section of the Design of a Triangular House by Theodore Jacobsen Esqr.

Creator:: Paul Fourdrinier, 1698–1758
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 1/4 inches (27.7 x 41.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Study for ‘Atlas Procession'

Creator:: Print made by William Kentridge, born 1955
Date:: 2000
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with sugarlift, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving, with added watercolor on Stielers Hand-Atlas page mounted on Vélin d'Arches Blanc 280 gsm white wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 23 × 19 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (58.4 × 50.2 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Arlene Warmbrunn Saxonhouse, Yale PhD, Political Science, 1972; and Gary Saxonhouse, Yale BA 1964, Yale PhD, Economics, 1971; and their family

87. A Sunny Day

Creator:: Print made by Joseph C. Bentley, 1809–1851
Date:: ca. 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (24.8 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

88. Turnips & Carrots ho

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (44.8 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. "This is fairy gold, boy, and will prove so"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (42.7 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

90. Vol. 6, Plate XXIX

Creator:: Print made by G.F. Storm, active mid–19th century
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 7/8 × 15 1/8 inches (55.6 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Hot Spice Gingerbread, Smoking Hot!

Creator:: Print made by Giovanni Vendramini, 1769–1839
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 7/8 inches (40.6 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Entrance from the Piazza

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 9/16 x 12 13/16 inches (44.6 x 32.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

93. Out of Court. Auspicium Melioris Devi

Creator:: Print made by Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson

94. The New Petty Coat Administration

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: ca. 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson

95. A Change in the Head of Affairs

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: ca. 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 17 1/4 inches (28.9 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson

96. A Mistake

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 5/8 × 16 1/2 inches (32.1 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Godfrey Pearlson

97. James Graham Marquess of Montrose

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 12 13/16 inches (53.5 × 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

98. Francis Earl of Bedford

Creator:: Print made by George Vertue, 1684–1756
Date:: 1737
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 12 13/16 inches (53.5 × 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

99. William Russell, Earl of Bedford

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 12 7/8 inches (53.5 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

100. George Lord Digby Earl of Bristol

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 12 7/8 inches (53.5 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

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1. Opening the Fold

2. The Sepulchre

3. The Homeward Star

4. The Fourth Stage of Cruelty: The Reward of Cruelty (Anatomy Theatre)

5. Beer Street

6. Hudibras Sallying Forth (no. 2)

7. Hudibras Triumphant (no. 4)

8. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

9. Sheep-Washing, Windsor

10. Mer de Glace, Valley of Chamouni, Savoy

11. The Stork and Aqueduct

12. The Straw Yard

13. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

14. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

15. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

16. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

17. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

18. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

19. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

20. 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)

21. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

22. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

23. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

24. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

25. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

26. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

27. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

28. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

29. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

30. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

31. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

32. Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality; Title Page

33. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

34. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

35. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

36. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

37. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

38. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

39. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

40. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

41. 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)

42. 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)

43. 'The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)

44. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

45. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

46. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

47. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

48. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

49. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

50. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

51. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

52. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

53. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

54. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

55. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

56. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

57. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

58. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

59. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

60. Church of L'Ery, near Pont-de-l'Arche

61. Florizel and Perdita

62. Who'll Have a Crown - Now's Your Time

63. Do you want any Matches?

64. Sweet China Oranges, Sweet China!

65. Two bunches a penny Primroses, two bunches a penny

66. Milk Below Maids

67. New Mackrel

68. Round and Sound Five Pence a Pund Duke Cherry's

69. Knives, Sissors and Razors to Grind

70. Fresh gathered Peas. Young Hastings

71. Strawberries's Scarlet Strawberries

72. Old Chair to Mend

73. Hot Spice Gingerbread, Smoking Hot