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The Bellman
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Bellman
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/16 x 16 7/8 inches (28.4 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Homeward Star
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
begun ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lonely Tower
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (26.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lonely Tower
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/16 inches (26.1 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Standing Figure, Probably for Lady Macbeth
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (16.5 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery
Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Frontispiece (Plate 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Title Page, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Plate 2)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"And none but Bromian can hear my lamentations..." (Plate 6)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Visions. "Enslav'd, the Daughters of Albion weep..." (Plate 4)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"But when the morn arose, her lamentation renewd..." (Plate 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"In happy copulation; if in evening mild, wearied with work..." (Plate 10)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Los with the child Orc and Enitharmon (Plate 18)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Preludium. "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2b)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in pale brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"The Ox in the slaughter house moans..." (Plate 23)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 11)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 25)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter V, "The globe of life blood trembled..." (Plate 17)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Such visions have appeared to me..."; Chapter 2 Frontispiece (Plate 26)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (26.4 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1799
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 16 9/16 inches (31.2 × 42 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Portia and Bassanio
Creator:
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:
ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (16.5 x 13 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 3 inches (10.5 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Viola and Olivia
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 3/8 inches (16.7 x 11.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Feste, as Sir Topas, addressing Malvolio
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache and oil, partly varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 5/16 inches (16.7 x 11 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (16.5 x 11.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration
Creator:
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 3 15/16 inches (17 × 10 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Hotspur and the Plotters at Bangor
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 5 inches (16.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. L'Allegro

L'Allegro
Creator:
Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 7/8 inches (16.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Lysander Awakening to See Helena
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (16.5 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban with Prospero's Magic Wardrobe
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (16.8 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Head of a Man with a Beard and Long Hair in the Wind
Creator:
Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with black ink and brown wash, verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (16.8 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene Illustration: Milton's 'L'Allegro'
Creator:
Print made by Benjamin Fawcett, 1808–1893
Date:
between 1860 and 1885
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving, printed in color with additional hand-coloring on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 13/16 x 9 3/4 inches (17.3 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Comedies

Comedies
Creator:
Print made by John Hall, 1739–1797
Date:
ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 9/16 inches (16.9 × 9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Shakespeare Illustration: "Henry VIII"
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
Abbotsford
Creator:
Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:
1834, reprinted 1851
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 3/4 inches (16.8 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Fatal Bellman
Creator:
Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 13/16 x 5 3/8 inches (17.3 x 13.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Jonathan Wild Discovers Darrell in the Loft
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1835
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 11/16 inches (24.2 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, lightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3in. (11.4 x 7.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Awakening of Titania
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 inches (17.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 2, Scene 3
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (17.1 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 1, Scene 2
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing
Dimensions:
Mount: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 1
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 15/16 inches (14 × 20.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 3
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 3/4 inches (16.7 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857 - Act 4, Scene 2
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on slightly textured, medium, gray wove paper laid down on contemporary laid paper mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 1/16 inches (14.3 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary mount paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (16.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 4, Scene 1
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 inches (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 4
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, laid down on contemporary laid paper mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 7/8 inches (14.3 × 20 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Macbeth and the Witch
Creator:
George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Hamlet and the Ghost
Creator:
George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 5/16 inches (17.4 x 21.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund