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1. Mr. Hobson of Markfield and Family

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches (10.8 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Mary Constable Reading

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 3 5/8 inches (15.6 x 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Lamb (Plate 18)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Infant Joy (Plate 28)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness, and to me..." (Design 107)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Beginning of Poesy. The Blind Begging Bard (Design 41)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. "Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age..." (Design 5)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Lamb (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. "Of the Mundane Shell which froze..." (Plate 64)

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: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. '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

12. Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. VI. "The desires & perceptions of man untaught..." (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. "Therefore God becomes as we are..." (Plate 9)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

Creator:: Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789-1794
Materials & Techniques:: Bound volume of relief etchings printed in dark-brown ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

17. Couple Examining a Book

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (19.7 x 16.5 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

18. St. Jerome in his Study

Creator:: Alexander Marshal, active 1651–died 1682
Date:: 1650
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 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

19. Corps de Garde (Barbarians Defeated by a Book)

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 × 8 7/8 inches (31 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Spoiled Child, Scene VI

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 19 5/8 inches (38.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Three Seated Ladies

Creator:: Louis Philippe Boitard, active 1734–1760
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pens, brown ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/8 inches (13 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Solitude, The Reading Magdalene

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 10 1/8 inches (17.8 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

23. Sophy Steadman Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Author Reading from a Manuscript to Four Ladies

Creator:: Matthew Haughton, 1768–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink; the figures cut out in silhouette and pasted down on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 9 inches (10.2 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Portrait Study of Martha, Lady Hayter

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 3/4 inches (19.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Inattention

Creator:: Thomas Heaphy, 1775–1835
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink, sponging, and gum over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/8 x 19 3/4 inches (64.5 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Figures and Animals in a Vineyard

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with gum over graphite, with scratching out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (41.9 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Lady Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Study for a Girl Reading

Creator:: William Mulready, 1786–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 inches (11.7 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Sketch for "Reading the Will"

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: before 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, mounted in moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/4 × 10 inches (21 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Girl Reading a Book

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 3/4 inches (27 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Undergraduate's Room

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown-gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 9/16 inches (12.1 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Stiggings Day by Day

Creator:: Leonard Raven-Hill, 1867–1942
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with white gouache on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 × 10 5/8 inches (21.4 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of James T. Babb

34. Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. She Never Told Her Love, But Sat Like Patience on a Monument

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown wash and gouache and oil on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches (13 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Summer Room in the Artist's House at Patna

Creator:: Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with pinpricks on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 13 1/2 inches (17.8 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Winter Room in the Artist's House at Patna

Creator:: Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (19.7 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Spoiled Child, Scene II

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 3/8 inches (39.1 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Garden of Thomas Sandby's House at Englefield Green near Windsor

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches (29.5 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Study for "Reading the Will"

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gray ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 5 5/8 inches (10.2 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A man resting

Creator:: Thomas Richardson Jr., 1813–1890
Date:: 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (11.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. S. Johannes

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: early 1750s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 x 14 inches (51 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Hooded Man Reading

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 8 3/16 inches (32.5 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. An Old Woman Reading

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 9/16 x 13 11/16 inches (47.2 x 34.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. The Dutch School

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Beckett, 1652/3–1719
Date:: between 1683 and 1688
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 10 1/4 inches (34.4 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. 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

47. Sta. Maria Magdelena

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paaper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/8 inches (36.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. Virgin and Child

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (44.1 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. Man Reading

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 8 inches (20.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Seated Figure Reading

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 8 inches (23.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

51. The Devout

Creator:: Print made by John Simon, 1675–1751
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 7/16 inches (37.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Devotion in Such Looks Does Gracefull Shine, and Forces Us to Own Her Pow'r Divine...

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 10 1/16 inches (34.9 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. The Visionary

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 9/16 x 11 1/8 inches (42 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

54. Sunshine of Love

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches (44.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 11 7/16 inches (37.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

56. The Dutch School

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (25.1 × 19 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. S. Jacobus

Creator:: Print made by Elias Nessenthaler, 1664–1714
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 9 3/16 inches (34.3 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. David Hume

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/2 inches (17.9 × 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

59. St. Catherine Reading

Creator:: Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Color mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 7/8 × 19 3/8 inches (58.1 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. 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

61. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches (42.8 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

62. A School of Boys

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 13 7/16 inches (28.7 x 34.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

63. Peter Abelard (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 9 13/16 inches (32.2 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

64. Lucilia

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 7 13/16 inches (26.5 x 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

65. Burchell Reading the Ballad

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 10 1/16 inches (36.5 x 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Reading Lesson at a Dame School

Creator:: Elias Martin, 1739–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 x 9 11/16in. (18.3 x 24.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. La fille doux

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 inches (32 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. S. Matthaeus

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: early 1750s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/16 x 14 1/16 inches (51.2 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Portrait of Two Men, One Playing Recorder

Creator:: Print made by Johann Lorenz Haid, 1702–1750
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 14 5/16 inches (52 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70. La petite musicienne

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (39 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

71. Ornatus Corporis et Animi

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (39.7 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. Medicus Alchemista

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 19 7/16 inches (38.5 x 49.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

73. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 3/8 inches (41.8 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

74. L'Antiquitee respectable

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 11 15/16 inches (41 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. La mère prudente

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 × 7 15/16 inches (32.3 × 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

76. Study for "Reading from Torah"

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 7/8 inches (25.4 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

77. The Third Volume

Creator:: Print made by Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 4in. (9.5 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

78. Spanish Student

Creator:: Print made by John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige Japan paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 12 11/16 inches (45.7 x 32.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. 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: 2 7/8 x 2 5/16 inches (7.3 x 5.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

80. John's Coffee House

Creator:: Print made by Callender, active mid–18th century
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 4 7/8 inches (8.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

81. Repose in Egypt

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 9/16 inches (20.6 x 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Repose in Egypt

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 3/8 inches (20.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Untitled (one of three)

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/16 x 2 5/8 inches (5.2 x 6.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

84. The Letter

Creator:: Print made by Austin, Robert, 1895-1973, 1895–1973
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (25.2 x 20.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

85. Young Woman Reading to a Small Child

Creator:: William Lee Hankey, 1869–1952
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (27.7 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald and Willi Holden

86. Young Ladies

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 7/8 inches (37.3 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Elderly Couple on a Park Bench, with Two Men Beyond

Creator:: Print made by Robert Barnes, 1840–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 1/4 x 8 1/16 inches (15.9 x 20.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Girl Reading a Picture Book

Creator:: Print made by Robert Barnes, 1840–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches (19.1 x 14.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Joseph Baretti, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

Creator:: James Hardy, active 1770s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches (29.5 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

90. 'Henry IV, Part I,' Act II, Scene IV

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/16 x 2 3/8 inches (10.3 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

91. The Religion of Europe: Professed and Practiced

Creator:: Print made by Gregory, Collins and Reynolds, active 1843
Date:: ca. 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving and color printed woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 inches (27.3 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. A Lady Reading

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (12.1 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

93. By the Heath

Creator:: Print made by Robert Barnes, 1840–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream card mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 15/16 x 8 inches (17.6 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. By the Sea

Creator:: Print made by Alfred W. Cooper, active 1850–1901
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 x 6 5/8 inches (12.5 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1779 to 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching in gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 9/16 inches (30.2 × 39.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Miss-Ann-Thropy

Creator:: Print made by Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 11/16 inches (35.3 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Richard Robinson, Bishop of Kildare

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (41.3 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Mrs. Fitzherbert

Creator:: Print made by John Condé, 1765–1794
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving with etched border on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 11 7/8 inches (40.6 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 10 11/16 inches (41 x 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. The Country Artist

Creator:: James Smetham, 1821–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 3 3/16 inches (12.2 × 8.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Mr. Hobson of Markfield and Family

2. Mary Constable Reading

3. Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)

4. The Lamb (Plate 18)

5. Infant Joy (Plate 28)

6. The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness, and to me..." (Design 107)

7. The Beginning of Poesy. The Blind Begging Bard (Design 41)

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

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13. VI. "The desires & perceptions of man untaught..." (Plate 8)

14. "Therefore God becomes as we are..." (Plate 9)

15. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

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

17. Couple Examining a Book

18. St. Jerome in his Study

19. Corps de Garde (Barbarians Defeated by a Book)

20. The Spoiled Child, Scene VI

21. Three Seated Ladies

22. Solitude, The Reading Magdalene

23. Sophy Steadman Reading

24. Author Reading from a Manuscript to Four Ladies

25. Portrait Study of Martha, Lady Hayter

26. Inattention

27. Figures and Animals in a Vineyard

28. A Lady Reading

29. Study for a Girl Reading

30. Sketch for "Reading the Will"

31. Girl Reading a Book

32. The Undergraduate's Room

33. Stiggings Day by Day

34. Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

35. She Never Told Her Love, But Sat Like Patience on a Monument

36. The Summer Room in the Artist's House at Patna

37. The Winter Room in the Artist's House at Patna

38. The Spoiled Child, Scene II

39. The Garden of Thomas Sandby's House at Englefield Green near Windsor

40. Study for "Reading the Will"

41. A man resting

42. S. Johannes

43. Hooded Man Reading

44. An Old Woman Reading

45. The Dutch School

46. Theodosius

47. Sta. Maria Magdelena

48. Virgin and Child

49. Man Reading

50. Seated Figure Reading

51. The Devout

52. Devotion in Such Looks Does Gracefull Shine, and Forces Us to Own Her Pow'r Divine...

53. The Visionary

54. Sunshine of Love

55. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

56. The Dutch School

57. S. Jacobus

58. David Hume

59. St. Catherine Reading

60. Constantia

61. Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade

62. A School of Boys

63. Peter Abelard (1079-1142), French scholastic philosopher

64. Lucilia

65. Burchell Reading the Ballad

66. Reading Lesson at a Dame School

67. La fille doux

68. S. Matthaeus

69. Portrait of Two Men, One Playing Recorder

70. La petite musicienne

71. Ornatus Corporis et Animi

72. Medicus Alchemista

73. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

74. L'Antiquitee respectable