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Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"
Creator:
Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:
1767
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia
Creator:
Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v
Creator:
George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
ca. 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe Theatre
Creator:
George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1864 to 1865
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 7/8 x 21 7/8 inches (70.8 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
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
"To chase the rolling circle's speed..." (Design 17)
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
The Murder of Banquo
Creator:
George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Falstaff in the Boar's Head
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1807
Materials & Techniques:
Oil with brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé; early engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (34.9 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wolf's Hope
Creator:
Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Creator:
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 1/4 inches (29.8 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Traitor's Gate, Tower of London
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (a)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Boy of Egremond
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (a) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 6 1/4 inches (29.8 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bolton Abbey
Creator:
Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (1) on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (36.8 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Boy of Egremond
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 inches (44.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Loch Lomond
Creator:
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Herbert's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 13/16 inches (44 × 30 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath
Creator:
George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (19 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
St. Herbert's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Traitor's Gate, Tower of London
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 11 inches (44.1 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bolton Abbey
Creator:
Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck or the Land of Stones
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
1786
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

26. Tom Jones

Tom Jones
Creator:
Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection
Tom Jones; The Interview of Tom Jones, and Sophia, after the Reconciliation
Creator:
Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Traitor's Gate, Tower of London
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving, with graphite; touched engraver's proof (b)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 3/8 inches (30.8 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bolton Abbey
Creator:
Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with chine collé; early engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 6 3/4 inches (30.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching; open etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 11 inches (42.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy
Creator:
Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (28.3 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
St. Herbert's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching; open etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (36.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Murder on the Thames
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1839
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (23 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Traitor's Gate, Tower of London
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; 1st state on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 5/16 inches (29.5 × 16 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bolton Abbey
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; 1st state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 5/16 inches (29.5 × 16 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Abbotsford
Creator:
Print made by William Forrest, 1802–1889
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Herbert's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by M. H. Long, active mid-19th century
Date:
1884
Materials & Techniques:
Color lithograph
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Smailholm Tower
Creator:
Print made by William Forrest, 1802–1889
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Ashestiel

Ashestiel
Creator:
Print made by William Richardson, active 1842–1877
Date:
1835
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Creator:
Print made by William Forrest, 1802–1889
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Here Nature List'ning Stood
Creator:
Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 7/16 inches (15.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/8 inches (14.9 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Hamlet in Scotland
Creator:
Print made by Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (28.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 9/16 inches (16.1 × 21.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe
Creator:
Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:
1783
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Wolf's Hope
Creator:
Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lovelace in Prison
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Loch Leven Castle
Creator:
Print made by James Baylis Allen, 1803–1876
Date:
1844
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 × 6 7/8 inches (25.4 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fingal's Cave, Staffa
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; second state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (36.8 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Herbert's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; 1st state on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 7/8 inches (29.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wolf's Hope
Creator:
Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:
1843
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Princes in the Tower
Creator:
William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (27.5 x 22.1 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
Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/16 inches (58.5 x 46.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Design for the Setting of Charles Kean's Production of Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857
Creator:
George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 × 11 inches (20.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund