Materials & Techniques: etching (printing process) / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: historical subject

1. Piccadilly Circus

Creator:: Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 21 15/16 inches (40.6 x 55.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. What is Man!, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. For Children. The Gates of Paradise; Title Page (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. I Found Him Beneath a Tree (Plate 3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Air (Plate 6)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Alas! (Plate 9)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Does Thy God O Priest Take such Vengeance as This? (Plate 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening (Plate 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. I Have Said to the Worm, Thou Art My Mother & My Sister (Plate 18)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Water (Plate 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Earth (Plate 5)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Fire (Plate 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Help! Help! (Plate 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Death's Door (Plate 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Fear & Hope Are -- Vision (Plate 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 inches (36.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. A View of the Fire in Covent Garden

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 13 1/8 inches (24.6 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. The Web

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (20.6 x 16.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. And This Was Caesar

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 x 8 1/16 inches (16 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Diavoli Pescatori

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 14 15/16 inches (28.2 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. The City of the Pestilence

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1826 and 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 15 inches (29 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780

Creator:: Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 x 24 7/8in. (48.3 x 63.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Ten Needle-Box Prints

Creator:: Print made by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814–1885
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (10.6 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Views in the Levant: The Sacred Cave of Archidamus

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 20 1/16 inches (29.5 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Great Exhibition: Exterior View from the Southwest

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, surrounded with gold dome-shaped border, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 12 5/8 inches (14.4 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Death of Nelson

Creator:: Print made by James Baylis Allen, 1803–1876
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 3/4 inches (23.5 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780

Creator:: Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, printed in color and hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 1/4in. (47 x 61.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, printed in color and hand-colored
Dimensions:: Image: 16 1/2 x 25in. (41.9 x 63.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, 4th March 1835

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Mann Baynes, 1794–1854
Date:: after 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 inches (37.5 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Glasgow Exhibition: Entrance from the Piazza

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 1/4 inches (28.3 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

33. Glasgow Exhibition: Ireland and Russia

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, beige Asian paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/16 inches (15.9 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

34. Glasgow Exhibition: From the Dome

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 6 7/16 inches (26.5 x 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

35. Killiecrankie

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 7/8 inches (41.3 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches (25.6 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salomon

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 x 4 5/8 inches (9.4 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 3/16 inches (32.7 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 11 7/16 inches (37 × 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Theodosius

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (30.7 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Constantia

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. The Exposition of Cyrus

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 15 1/4 inches (30.3 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. John Howard, Esq. Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Hogg, active 1751
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 1/2 × 24 1/4 inches (49.5 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander

44. The Flight from Belgium

Creator:: William Lee Hankey, 1869–1952
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, soft-ground etching, drypoint, and roulette on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 x 23 1/16 inches (51 x 58.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

45. The Ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 18 5/16 inches (31.6 × 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. A Scene in the New Farce - as Performed at the Royalty Theatre!

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 5/8 inches (24.2 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. Costume of the Reign of King Henry III, 1250

Creator:: Print made by John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches (26 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. William Tell's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 12 inches (43.2 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Killiecrankie

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Killiecrankie

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 11 1/4 inches (43.2 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. William Tell's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (43.8 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the Day before He Was Massacred

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, aquatint, and etching with woodcut on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 7/8 inches (22 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

Creator:: John William Edy, 1760–1820
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 11/16 inches (35.9 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum

Creator:: Print made by James Basire II, 1769–1822
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 13/16 inches (22.2 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Birth of Pyrrhus

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Younger, 1740–1814
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 54 1/4 inches (50.2 x 137.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. A Morning Ride

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 20 3/16 inches (34.7 x 51.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Robert W. Carle

58. The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780

Creator:: Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 x 24 7/8in. (48.3 x 63.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. At Rome

Creator:: Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (14.8 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. At the Villa Aldobrandini at Rome

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches (22.2 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Le Coup de Maitre

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 3/16 inches (26.4 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (31.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. View of the Coronation Procession of George IV

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, proof before letters on smooth, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 22 7/16 inches (34.2 × 57 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 9/16 inches (21.4 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

65. Silas Deane

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Johnson, 1709–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Manuscripts and Archives Collection, transfer from the Sterling Memorial Library

66. The Arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 8 11/16 inches (14.1 × 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

67. Frederick William III King of Prussia

Creator:: Print made by Charles James Canton, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Etching hand-colored with watercolor on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 14 3/8 inches (21.9 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

68. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (14.6 x 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 9/16 inches (10.8 × 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the Recognition. July 19, 1821

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 × 19 3/16 inches (36.6 × 48.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret

71. Earl Rivers Presenting His Book and Caxton, His Printer, to Edward IV

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 9 3/16 inches (30 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee

Creator:: Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/16 x 17 13/16 inches (62 x 45.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander

73. William Tell's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (c) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (43.5 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 7/16 inches (26.4 × 39.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Death of the Great Wolf

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 7/16 inches (34 × 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Lord Sinclair advising King James to Revenge the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Creator:: Print made by Philip Audinet, 1766–1837
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

78. The Duke of Gloucester Accusing Jane Shore of Witchcraft

Creator:: Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

79. The Burning of Archbishop Cranmer

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

80. Alfred in the Danish Camp

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

81. Attempt to Assassinate Prince Edward in Palestine

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

82. Cardinal Wolsey Receiving a Letter Sent by Henry VIII

Creator:: Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

83. Edward V. and The Duke of York, Smothered in the Tower

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

84. Magna Charta Presented to King John

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

85. Queen Margaret Resigning the Duke of York

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Milton, 1742/1743–1827
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

86. The Death of Wat Tyler

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Milton, 1742/1743–1827
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

87. Death of Henry V

Creator:: Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

88. Becket Assassinated

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

89. Death of Henry IV

Creator:: Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

90. The Prince of Wales Brought before Edward IV, after the Battle of Tewkesbury

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

91. Elizabeth Barton, Commonly called The Holy Maid of Kent, Practicing her Impositions

Creator:: Print made by James Neagle, 1760–1822
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

92. Mary Queen of Scots Arrested

Creator:: Print made by William Walker, 1729–1793
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

93. The Young Earl of Richmond before Henry VI

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

94. Lady Elizabeth Grey's Interview with Edward IV

Creator:: Print made by Anker Smith, 1759–1819
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

95. Night from the River

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 12 5/8 inches (44.8 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

96. Death of Bishop Heber

Creator:: Print made by James Sands, active 1813–1846
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 1/2 inches (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

97. The Fall of Tippoo Saib

Creator:: Print made by Walker, active 1850s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (17.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

98. Ireland and Russia

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: 12 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches (32.7 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

99. Evening in Little Russia

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 11/16 x 12 5/8 inches (45 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

100. The Art Gallery

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.2 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

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1. Piccadilly Circus

2. What is Man!, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

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17. Fear & Hope Are -- Vision (Plate 15)

18. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

19. A View of the Fire in Covent Garden

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21. And This Was Caesar

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26. Views in the Levant: The Sacred Cave of Archidamus

27. The Great Exhibition: Exterior View from the Southwest

28. The Death of Nelson

29. The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780

30. The Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin

31. The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, 4th March 1835

32. Glasgow Exhibition: Entrance from the Piazza

33. Glasgow Exhibition: Ireland and Russia

34. Glasgow Exhibition: From the Dome

35. Killiecrankie

36. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

37. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salomon

38. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

39. Sensibility

40. Theodosius

41. Constantia

42. The Exposition of Cyrus

43. John Howard, Esq. Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison

44. The Flight from Belgium

45. The Ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall

46. A Scene in the New Farce - as Performed at the Royalty Theatre!

47. Costume of the Reign of King Henry III, 1250

48. William Tell's Chapel

49. Killiecrankie

50. Killiecrankie

51. William Tell's Chapel

52. The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the Day before He Was Massacred

53. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

54. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum

55. The Birth of Pyrrhus

56. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

57. A Morning Ride

58. The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780

59. At Rome

60. At the Villa Aldobrandini at Rome

61. Le Coup de Maitre

62. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

63. View of the Coronation Procession of George IV

64. Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler

65. Silas Deane

66. The Arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald

67. Frederick William III King of Prussia

68. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

69. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

70. The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the Recognition. July 19, 1821

71. Earl Rivers Presenting His Book and Caxton, His Printer, to Edward IV

72. Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee

73. William Tell's Chapel