Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: books

1. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

Creator:: Attributed to Michael Chuke, 1679–1742
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Bronzed limewood
Dimensions:: Overall: 54 5/16 x 37 13/16 inches (138 x 96 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

Creator:: Attributed to Michael Chuke, 1679–1742
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Bronzed limewood
Dimensions:: Overall: 54 5/16 x 37 13/16 inches (138 x 96 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. Town and Country Magazine, Frontispiece for Vol. X for 1778

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 1/4 inches (16.8 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for Vol. IV, 1772

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 3/4 inches (16.8 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Frontispiece Vol. VII, No. I for 1775 from Town and Country Magazine

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 3 9/16 inches (17 × 9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. St. Peter

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 9 5/8 inches (33 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. 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

8. Allegory of Drawing

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 3/4in. (8.3 x 12.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 × 13 3/4 inches (49.7 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Reverend Beilby Porteus, Lord Bishop of London

Creator:: Charles Picart, c.1780–1837
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 12 7/8 inches (46 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 3/16 inches (38.7 × 28.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. William Robertson

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 inches (53 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 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

14. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (47 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Isaac Watts

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 11/16 inches (23.2 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Day of Judgment

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

17. Hon. James Yorke, Bishop of Ely

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 9/16 inches (52.1 × 37 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. St. Jerome Meditating

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 1/8 inches (17.8 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

19. The Centurion Cornelius

Creator:: Print made by James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 × 28 1/16 inches (61 × 71.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 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

22. Britannia Allegory

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: between 1743 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; verso: letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper (page in book)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (15.8 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

23. Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh

Creator:: Thomas Beard, op. 1728?
Date:: 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/4 inches (36.8 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Dr. George Berkley, Bishop of Cloyne

Creator:: John Brooks, active 1730–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 13/16 inches (35.2 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Reverend Hugh Blair, D.D.

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 15/16 inches (38.7 × 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Lieu't Gover'r Gall-Stone, inspired by Alecto; or The Birth of Minerva

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and stipple engraving, proof before letters
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Virgin

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper laid on modern mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/4 x 11 1/16 inches (38.7 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Frontispiece design for John Fayram's "Eight Views after Nature"

Creator:: John Fayram, op.1713–1743
Date:: ca. 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Pen, black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 7/8 inches (18.1 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Study for a Monument to the Reverend John Clowes

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink with brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (19.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Statoribus Artis

Creator:: Print made by Johann Kenckel, 1688–1722
Date:: between 1708 and 1722
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 × 16 3/4 inches (53.3 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Statoribus Artis

Creator:: Print made by Johann Kenckel, 1688–1722
Date:: between 1708 and 1722
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 inches (46 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Ticket to Concert of Ancient Vocal and Instrumental Music

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 1/2 inches (14.8 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

2. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

3. Town and Country Magazine, Frontispiece for Vol. X for 1778

4. Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for Vol. IV, 1772

5. Frontispiece Vol. VII, No. I for 1775 from Town and Country Magazine

6. St. Peter

7. The Devout

8. Allegory of Drawing

9. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London

10. Reverend Beilby Porteus, Lord Bishop of London

11. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

12. William Robertson

13. Richard Robinson, Bishop of Kildare

14. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

15. Isaac Watts

16. The Day of Judgment

17. Hon. James Yorke, Bishop of Ely

18. St. Jerome Meditating

19. The Centurion Cornelius

20. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

21. St. Jerome in his Study

22. Britannia Allegory

23. Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh

24. Dr. George Berkley, Bishop of Cloyne

25. Reverend Hugh Blair, D.D.

26. Lieu't Gover'r Gall-Stone, inspired by Alecto; or The Birth of Minerva

27. The Virgin

28. Frontispiece design for John Fayram's "Eight Views after Nature"

29. Study for a Monument to the Reverend John Clowes

30. Statoribus Artis

31. Statoribus Artis

32. Ticket to Concert of Ancient Vocal and Instrumental Music