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Opening the Fold
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1880
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 9/16 x 12 7/8 inches (26.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Unidentified Subjects
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches (14 x 17.5 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
MacBeth at the Witches' Cave: Second Visit, or Canidia and the Youth, or The Opening of the Ark
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 inches (12.4 x 17.8 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
Birth of Man
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 inches (13.7 x 17.8 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
"Los howld in a dismal stupor..." (Plate 10)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter IV, "Los smitten with astonishment..." (Plate 12)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter IV, "Ages on ages roll'd over him..." (Plate 13)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 16)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"They call'd her Pity, and fled..." (Plate 19)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Title Page, The First Book of Urizen (Plate 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter IV, "From the caverns of his jointed spine..." (Plate 14)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 25)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 28 (Bentley 27)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fettered Urizen Weeping (Plate 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 15 (Bentley 14)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter VII, "Stretch'd for a work of eternity..." (Plate 22)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Los Falls through Fire (Plate 21)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 23 (Bentley 9)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"The Ox in the slaughter house moans..." (Plate 26)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 4 (Bentley 24)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
From a Globe of Blood Rises Enitharmon (Plate 11)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter V, "The globe of life blood trembled..." (Plate 17)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Los with the child Orc and Enitharmon (Plate 18)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter V, "Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided..." (Plate 20)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter VIII, "Of life on his forsaken mountains..." (Plate 24)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter IX, "They lived a period of years..." (Plate 27)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter I, "Lo, a shadow of horror is risen..." (Plate 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter II, "Muster around the bleak desarts..." (Plate 6)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Urizen Swims through Dark Waters (Plate 7)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"In living creations appear'd..." (Plate 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Chapter III, "As the stars are apart from the earth..." (Plate 9)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Jerusalem, Chapter 3. But Los, who is the Vehicular Form..." (Plate 53)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (34.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Hecate

Hecate
Creator:
George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:
1815
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 inches (21.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Ferdinand Riding the Waves
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gray wash and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (24.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with black chalk and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (21.9 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Malvolio Dancing
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Black ink with brown wash and oil on medium, smooth, cream 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
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
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
Illustration for Don Quixote (with figures on a donkey)
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Reunion of the Soul & the Body
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Death's Door
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
MSS Bible Regia
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 1/4 inches (23.2 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Rossi as Othello
Creator:
Print made by Antonin Marie Chatinière, 1828–ca. 1900
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Tinted lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches (25.5 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Joseph Baretti
Creator:
James Hardy, active 1770s
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.9 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (née Hervey), Duchess of Devonshire
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 3/16 inches (23.2 × 18.3 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 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
Sir Richard Steele
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca.1733
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 10 1/2 × 7 3/16 inches (26.7 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Montagu
Creator:
Thomas Cheesman, 1760–1834/35
Date:
1809
Materials & Techniques:
Soft ground etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 11/16 inches (36.5 × 29.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Montagu
Creator:
Thomas Cheesman, 1760–1834/35
Date:
1809
Materials & Techniques:
Soft ground etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (31.4 × 21.9 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
Elizabeth Carter
Creator:
Print made by Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 5/16 inches (33.5 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
George Colman, The Elder
Creator:
Edward Scriven, 1775–1841
Date:
1813
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 13 inches (41.3 × 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Prince Regent, Scene iV
Creator:
Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:
1812
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/16 × 7 inches (11.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Figures in a Cave
Creator:
Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:
1805
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 inches (11.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene Illustration: Milton's 'L'Allegro'
Creator:
Print made by Benjamin Fawcett, 1808–1893
Date:
between 1860 and 1885
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving, printed in color with additional hand-coloring on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 13/16 x 9 3/4 inches (17.3 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Edinburgh from Blackford Hill
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 7/8 × 17 1/4 inches (30.2 × 43.8 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; 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
The Undertakers
Creator:
Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:
1900
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 3/8 inches (17.1 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood
The Plain of Troy
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1832
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving; third state on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/16 inches (28.3 × 20.8 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
The School of Homer, Scio
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé; third state on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (28.9 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Sophia, Constantinople
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; third state on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 7/16 inches (27.3 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ticket for the Benefit of Madame Banti
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 7 5/8 inches (15.2 x 19.4 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
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
Dryburgh Abbey
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: 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (26.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Parnassus and Castalian Spring
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 7/16 inches (24.9 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jack Sheppard's Irons Knocked off in the Stone Hall at Newgate
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: 8 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (21.7 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Scio (Fontana de Melek, Mehmet Pasha)
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé; third state on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.9 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Field of Waterloo from Hougoumont
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé; third state on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (28.9 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1835
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 1/16 inches (21.7 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Audacity of Jack Sheppard
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: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.2 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church
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: 8 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (21.8 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son
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: 8 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches (21 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
"May I be Cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard, "if ever I try to be honest again!"
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: 8 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (21.6 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'
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: 8 9/16 x 7 inches (21.8 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off
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: 8 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (21 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jack Sheppard's Escape from the Cage at Willesden
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: 8 5/8 x 7 3/16 inches (21.9 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Olivia and Maria
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown wash, gouache and oil on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 inches (10.7 x 8.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Creator:
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1599–1641
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 6 7/8 inches (26.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Awakening of Titania
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 inches (11.4 × 17.8 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
Scene from MacBeth: Apparition of Banquo?
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, sllightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 inches (12.1 × 17.8 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
Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James
Creator:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:
1875, printed ca. 1980
Materials & Techniques:
Gold toned printing-out-paper print from a collodion wet plate negative
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 1/8 inches (23.2 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sondra S. and Gary L. Haller, Yale MA (HON.) 1980
Study for the Figure of Gulliver
Creator:
Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:
ca. 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 6 7/8 inches (29.2 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Troilus and Cressida?
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 inches (23.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery
Marion "Polly" Terry as Dora
Creator:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:
1875, printed ca. 1980
Materials & Techniques:
Gold toned printing-out-paper print from a collodion wet plate negative
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 7 inches (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Benson and Richard Benson (1943–2017)
Othello and Desdemona, 'Othello', Act V, Scene II
Creator:
attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:
ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (24.4 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1920
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed in brown ink by Sir Frank Short) on thin, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 15/16 x 10 1/2 inches (17.6 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1926
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed under the supervision of Sir Frank Short, Martin Hardie and Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1926) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 9/16 inches (18.4 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (50.2 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (49.8 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:
1882
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, creme laid paper
Dimensions:
Plate: 9 3/8 × 7 inches (23.8 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Alan S. Fortunoff
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:
1900
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint on thin, slightly textured, beige modern laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (19.1 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood