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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

5. 'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

12. 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

18. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

19. 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

20. 'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

23. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 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, line 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. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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 vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line 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. Dido and Aeneas

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 17 7/8 x 22in. (45.4 x 55.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (44.8 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

Creator:: John Watts, active 1766–1786
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/16 × 14 3/4 inches (51.3 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

46. Shakespeare's Winter Tale Act III Scene III

Creator:: Samuel Middiman, ca. 1750–1831
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/8 × 26 9/16 inches (54.3 × 67.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Queen Katherine's Dream

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and hand-coloring
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 x 20in. (45.4 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Shakespeare's Tempest Act IV Scene I. Prospero's Cell.

Creator:: Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 × 26 9/16 inches (54.6 × 67.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Bellsane and Parcival under the Enchantment of Urma

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/16 × 24 7/8 inches (48.4 × 63.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. As You Like It: Act II, Scene VII: The Seven Ages Man (Third Age)

Creator:: Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches (51.4 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. A Tomb

Creator:: Edward Alfred Goodall, 1819–1908
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Cristina

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. The Tarentella

Creator:: Print made by John Henry Robinson, 1796–1871
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (44.5 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. The Death of Raphael

Creator:: Print made by John Henry Robinson, 1796–1871
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Pilgrim's Return

Creator:: Print made by William Finden, 1787–1852
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Buondelmonte

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 inches (44.8 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. The Sailor

Creator:: William Finden, 1787–1852
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with beige chine-collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/16 inches (44.5 × 30.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. St. Cecilia

Creator:: James Henry Watt, 1799–1867
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Fainasollis, Borbar and Fingal

Creator:: James Parker, 1750–1805
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Line-engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 20 inches (44.5 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Hermitage of Warkworth

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/4 × 30 1/8 inches (54 × 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Mordecai

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 23 5/8 inches (49.2 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

62. The Cottagers

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 × 16 1/4 inches (53.3 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

63. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

64. Resignation

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 3/16 × 16 1/4 inches (56.4 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Samuel Foote

Creator:: John Blackmore, active 1740–1780
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 13 1/4 inches (45.1 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Samuel Dyer

Creator:: Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 1/8 inches (44.8 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. St. Julienne's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, with graphite; touched engraver's proof (a) on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (44.5 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. St. Anne's Hill, No. I

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (b)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 inches (44.8 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. St. Pierre's Cottage

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (a) on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/16 inches (44.5 × 30.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Tornaro

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof (early)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. A Tempest – Voyage of Columbus

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (a) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 9 3/16 inches (37 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Shipbuilding (An Old Oak Dead)

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (37.5 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. St. Anne's Hill, No. II

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (c) on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. St. Pierre's Cottage

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; with graphite and scraping out; touched engraver's proof (b) on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 9/16 × 12 3/16 inches (44.6 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Datur Hora Quieti

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (b) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 9/16 inches (35.9 × 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. King Richard the Second, Act V, Scene II (The Entrance of King Richard & Bolingbroke into London)

Creator:: Print made by Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/8 × 29 1/2 inches (51.1 × 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. The Landing of Columbus

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (b) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 8 1/16 inches (34.6 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The late Mrs Pope as Juliet

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Ghismonda

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 13/16 × 11 11/16 inches (45.2 × 29.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

81. Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James

Creator:: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:: 1875, printed ca.1980
Materials & Techniques:: Gold toned contact print from a collodion wet plate negative on photographic printing-out paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 1/2 × 15 1/4 × 1/2 inches (44.5 × 38.7 × 1.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sondra S. and Gary L. Haller, Yale MA (HON.) 1980

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

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

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

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

5. 'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)

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

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

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

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

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

18. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

19. 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)

20. 'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)

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

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

23. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

39. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

40. 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

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

42. Dido and Aeneas

43. Celadon and Amelia

44. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

45. Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

46. Shakespeare's Winter Tale Act III Scene III

47. Queen Katherine's Dream

48. Shakespeare's Tempest Act IV Scene I. Prospero's Cell.

49. Bellsane and Parcival under the Enchantment of Urma

50. As You Like It: Act II, Scene VII: The Seven Ages Man (Third Age)

51. A Tomb

52. Cristina

53. The Tarentella

54. The Death of Raphael

55. The Pilgrim's Return

56. Buondelmonte

57. The Sailor

58. St. Cecilia

59. Fainasollis, Borbar and Fingal

60. The Hermitage of Warkworth

61. Mordecai

62. The Cottagers

63. Celadon and Amelia

64. Resignation

65. Samuel Foote

66. Samuel Dyer

67. St. Herbert's Chapel

68. St. Julienne's Chapel

69. St. Anne's Hill, No. I

70. St. Pierre's Cottage

71. Tornaro

72. A Tempest – Voyage of Columbus

73. Shipbuilding (An Old Oak Dead)