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1. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1880 and 1883
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 3/8 inches (25.3 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

2. The Sepulchre

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

3. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera and pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 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

5. Eight Groups of Designs for Gothic holy Objects

Creator:: Print made by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (25.1 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Job's Sacrifice

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches (12.1 x 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Design for Polychromatic Decoration of a Church

Creator:: George Edmund Street, 1824–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 6 1/4 inches (25.7 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Design for Love's Labour's Lost

Creator:: Thomas Grieve, 1799–1882
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, graphite, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and collage on three layerd sheets of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (16.5 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Notre Dame, Dinant [Belgian Set: No. 8]

Creator:: Print made by Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1907
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (39.7 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

10. Designs for a Gothic Church Altar and Organ

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 17 3/4 inches (30.5 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Window in St. Dunstan's in the West, London

Creator:: Print made by J. Blore
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand-coloring on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches (21.9 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. St. Mark's, No. 3

Creator:: Print made by Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on very thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 inches (31.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

13. William Henry West Betty

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (64.8 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Designs for Altar and Processional Crosses

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thin, smooth, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 3/8 inches (26.4 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Design for a Stained Glass Window

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on thin, smooth, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 8 inches (17.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Sketch of the Interior of a Gothic Church

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and graphite on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Interior of a Church

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 10 1/2 inches (34.6 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. An Altar at Delos

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/16 x 14 3/4 inches (53.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 2 9/16 inches (9.4 × 6.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 1st state ) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/4 × 15 inches (60.3 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Saint Stephen's, Walbrook

Creator:: Print made by John Bluck, active 1791–1831
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (23.9 x 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

22. Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex: The Chapel

Creator:: James Lambert of Lewes, 1725–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor within triple-ruled and wash border on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/4 x 18 5/8 inches (64.1 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Incantation Scene

Creator:: Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 23 5/8 inches (50.2 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Interior of Milan Cathedral

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (49.6 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Blessing of the Suez Canal, November 16, 1869

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: after 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches (27.6 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Nuns Praying at Altar of a Church

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 9/16 inches (34.3 × 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Untitled (one of three)

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, with white gouache and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 x 2 7/16 inches (9.7 x 6.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Morning Prayer

Creator:: Print made by Charles West Cope, 1811–1890
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 3/4 inches (15.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. St. Laumer-Blois

Creator:: Print made by Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1903
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 1/8 inches (35.6 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

30. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches (50.2 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Design for a Chapel at Enfield: Transverse Sections, East and West End

Creator:: Lewis Vulliamy, 1791–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 18 7/16 inches (31.6 x 46.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Sacrifice at Lystra

Creator:: George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving with aquatint and red color woodcut on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (13.4 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Sacrifice at Lystra

Creator:: George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, stipple engraving and color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches (11.5 x 18.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Brahmins at a Toolsee Altar

Creator:: Print made by Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/8 x 6 5/16 inches (24.5 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Sacrifice at Lystra

Creator:: George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, stipple engraving and color woodcut on cream card mounted on contemporary cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 15/16 x 7 7/8 inches (17.7 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. The Duomo at Brescia, Interior

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 1/8 inches (25.2 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Procession in a Church

Creator:: James Pattison Cockburn, 1779–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gouache and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (10.8 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Figures by a Tomb

Creator:: James Pattison Cockburn, 1779–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gouache and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (10.5 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Nave Looking towards High Altar, Westminster Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (10.8 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

41. Interior of the Church of the Gesù, Rome

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 25 1/4 inches (52.1 × 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

42. Design for an Altar

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 14 1/2 inches (23.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Romanus sum Civis

Creator:: Joseph Goupy, 1689–1769
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 17 1/2 inches (39.7 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Countess Talbot

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 15 1/4 inches (63.8 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. The Sacrifice of Isaac

Creator:: Print made by Robert Robinson, active 1674–1706
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 inches (24.8 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. The Sepulchre

2. The Sepulchre

3. Abraham and Isaac

4. Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar

5. Eight Groups of Designs for Gothic holy Objects

6. Job's Sacrifice

7. Design for Polychromatic Decoration of a Church

8. Design for Love's Labour's Lost

9. Notre Dame, Dinant [Belgian Set: No. 8]

10. Designs for a Gothic Church Altar and Organ

11. Window in St. Dunstan's in the West, London

12. St. Mark's, No. 3

13. William Henry West Betty

14. Designs for Altar and Processional Crosses

15. Design for a Stained Glass Window

16. Sketch of the Interior of a Gothic Church

17. Interior of a Church

18. An Altar at Delos

19. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

20. Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

21. Saint Stephen's, Walbrook

22. Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex: The Chapel

23. Incantation Scene

24. Interior of Milan Cathedral

25. The Blessing of the Suez Canal, November 16, 1869

26. Nuns Praying at Altar of a Church

27. Untitled (one of three)

28. Morning Prayer

29. St. Laumer-Blois

30. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

31. Design for a Chapel at Enfield: Transverse Sections, East and West End

32. The Sacrifice at Lystra

33. The Sacrifice at Lystra

34. Brahmins at a Toolsee Altar

35. The Sacrifice at Lystra

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

37. The Duomo at Brescia, Interior

38. Procession in a Church

39. Figures by a Tomb

40. Nave Looking towards High Altar, Westminster Abbey

41. Interior of the Church of the Gesù, Rome

42. Design for an Altar

43. Romanus sum Civis

44. Countess Talbot

45. The Sacrifice of Isaac