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John Henderson as Falstaff
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Gray ink and gray wash with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.3 x 31.7 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
Scene from Quentin Durward
Creator:
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene from a Play, possibly Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband"
Creator:
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, red chalk and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher
Creator:
Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759
Creator:
Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:
1811
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 21 x 14 13/16 inches (53.4 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Antony and Cleopatra," Act III, Scene XI
Creator:
Georg Goldberg, 1830–1894
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches (28.2 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Scene from "The Abbot"
Creator:
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, Fund
Gadshill
Creator:
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Color printed mezzotint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/16 x 12 3/16 inches (41.5 x 31 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Abington
Creator:
Print made by Elizabeth Judkins, active 1772–1775
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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's Prophecy, the Last Act by One in the Tempest, or the Jack Daws in Borrowed Feathers (from: Caricature, vol. 3)
Creator:
Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 17in. (25.4 x 43.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
after 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Mr. Wilkinson as Michael in Free & Easy
Creator:
Print made by Robert Cooper, active ca. 1800–1836
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 11/16 inches (27.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip
Creator:
Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789
Date:
ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 × 13 1/4 inches (48.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ophelia: There Is Rue for You and Here's Some for Me
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 7/8 inches (28.7 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Tempest", Act I, Scene I
Creator:
Benjamin Smith, 1775–1833
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 × 25 7/8 inches (50.8 × 65.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)
Creator:
James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Date:
between 1768 and 1786
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 5/8 inches (36.8 × 27 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Roxalana in "The Sultan"
Creator:
John Keyse Sherwin, c.1751–1790
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 9/16 inches (24.4 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton)
Creator:
James Wilson, c.1735–c.1786
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 3/8 inches (15.1 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Frances Abington, (née Barton)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1814
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 5 13/16 inches (23.2 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Tempest, Act I Sc. 3
Creator:
Print made by William Sharp, 1749–1824
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Mrs. Abington
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 3/4 inches (19.7 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger
Creator:
Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 14 x 18 5/8 inches (35.6 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Caliban, from The Tempest
Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:
1775
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Abington
Creator:
James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 24 3/8 × 15 1/16 inches (61.9 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Scene in "The Recruiting Officer"
Creator:
Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:
ca. 1739
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/16 inches (24.7 x 33.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"
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: 10 7/8 × 13 inches (27.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
David Garrick, Esq.
Creator:
Print made by John Hall, 1739–1797
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 3 7/16 inches (15.9 × 8.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

29. Juliet

Juliet
Creator:
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 x 14 1/8 inches (53.4 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Abington as 'Roxana'
Creator:
Print made by John Keyse Sherwin, c.1751–1790
Date:
ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint with stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 1/2 inches (43.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Abington
Creator:
Print made by Elizabeth Judkins, active 1772–1775
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/16 × 11 3/8 inches (38.9 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Miss Ann Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne
Creator:
Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (40.3 x 30.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Abington as 'the Comic Muse'
Creator:
Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:
ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 26 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (66.7 × 47 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Miss Eliza Farren
Creator:
Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 9/16 inches (31.5 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Abington As Thalia
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and line engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches (27.7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Tempest, Act V, Scene I
Creator:
Print made by Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 24 3/4 × 18 7/8 inches (62.9 × 47.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Foote and Mr. Weston in the Characters of the President and Dr. Last
Creator:
Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:
1769
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches (46 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione
Creator:
Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:
1781
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 24 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (61.9 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"
Creator:
Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"
Creator:
Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:
1766
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 19 7/8 inches (43.2 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet
Creator:
Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ophelia: There's Rue for You, and Here's Some for Me
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 x 8 9/16 inches (27.9 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of John Moody as Foigard
Creator:
Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808
Date:
between 1769 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (52.1 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas King and Sophia Baddely in "The Clandestine Marriage"
Creator:
Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches (47.6 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Abington as Thalia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, with hand colored ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 inches (23.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for a Stage Set: a Fortress with Cannon and Buildings
Creator:
Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (19.1 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Abington as Thalia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving printed in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 9/16 × 8 1/4 inches (26.8 × 21 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Scene from the Tempest
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (14 × 16.8 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
A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with drawn border
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (41.3 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Two Ladies Standing in Conversation, Presumably a Scene from a Play
Creator:
George Dance, 1741–1825
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 x 15 1/16 inches (31.4 x 38.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Edwin and Mrs. Mary Wells as Lingo and Cowslip in "The Agreeable Surprise"
Creator:
John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache, black chalk and stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/16 x 12 5/8 inches (41.4 x 32 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Theatrical Figures About a Throne
Creator:
Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 × 23 3/4 inches (48.3 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.9cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth
No cover image available
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 17 7/8 inches (40 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:
ca.1769
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 7/8 × 16 inches (65.7 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:
1803
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection