Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: children

1. The Three Graces

Creator:: William Edward Frost, 1810–1877
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 × 28 3/8 inches (92.1 × 72.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts
On View:: Not on view

2. Cymon and Iphigenia

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 32 1/2 inches (61.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches (36 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. The Angel of Mercy

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:: ca. 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 19 inches (59.7 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Study for "The Golden Age"

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 7/8in. (19.1 x 27.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wyld in honor of Paul Mellon

8. A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 16 inches (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Noah's Children Rejoicing

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite; verso: brown wash on medium, slightly textured, creamn wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 5 5/8 inches (12.7 x 14.3 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

10. The Accusation of Susanna

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 1/8 inches (30.5 x 46 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

11. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 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

12. Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium moderately textured beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (32.1 x 52.4 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

13. Mythological Group of Women and Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 16 1/2 inches (26.4 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Accusation of Susanna by the Elders

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 17 1/2 inches (30.5 x 44.5 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

15. "In Great Eternity every particular Form..." (Plate 54)

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

16. "Highgates heights & Hampsteads..." (Plate 84)

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 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

17. "To the Christians..." (Plate 77)

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

18. Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page

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

19. Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd..." (Plate 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. 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

21. "To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face..." (Design 49)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over 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

22. "Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray..." (Design 51)

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

23. Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

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

24. Spring (Plate 26)

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

25. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

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

26. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

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

27. 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

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

28. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

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

29. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

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

30. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

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

31. 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

32. A Widower and Children (Design 35)

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

33. The Divine Image (Plate 12)

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

34. Infant Joy (Plate 14)

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

35. The Little Boy Lost (Plate 20)

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

36. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

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

37. Frontispiece. Albion's Angel (Plate 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Title Page (Plate 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. "I want! I want!" (Plate 11)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. "I found him beneath a Tree" (Plate 3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks..." (Plate 3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 9 inches (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Title Page. America, A Prophecy (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. A Prophecy. "The Guardian Prince of Albion burns in his nightly tent..." (Plate 5)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. 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

48. Frontispiece, "What is Man!" (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. "At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell" (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Alas! (Plate 9)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. III, "But he that loves the lowly, pours his oil upon my head..." (Plate 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 9 inches (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. "Fear & hope are -- Vision" (Plate 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. "Shot from the heights of Enitharmon..." (Plate 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Famine (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. III. "Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed..." (Plate 6)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 9 inches (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. IV. "The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar..." (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 ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 9 inches (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 inches (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The Seven Bishops Going To Trial

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and black, brown, and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (34.3 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

60. Pomona - The Goddess of Orchards

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 13/16 × 10 1/4 inches (35.1 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

61. Sunday Morning, A Cottage Family Going to Church

Creator:: William Nutter, 1754–1802
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, colored on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 25 inches (53 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Romance

Creator:: Print made by Austin, Robert, 1895-1973, 1895–1973
Date:: 1922
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with gouache and graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 inches (38 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

63. A Spanish Good Friday

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 x 13 inches (51 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

64. The Birth of Christ (Luke 2:15)

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: before 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (10.8 x 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

65. Meeting of Jacob and Esau

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof before all letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 23 3/4 inches (52.1 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Bacchus

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 1/16 inches (31.8 × 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. Virgin, Christ Child and St. John

Creator:: Print made by William Vincent, active 1680s
Date:: 1680s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (with letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/16 × 3 1/16 inches (8.4 × 7.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

Creator:: Print made by John Franklin, c.1800–1868
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.8 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Fry Print Collection

69. Putto Holding a Torch

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Fuller, ca. 1620–1672
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 inches (11.4 × 10.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches (29.2 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

71. Bacchus

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 × 4 1/4 inches (13.8 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. Cupids Trying Out a Bow

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 3 13/16 inches (12.4 × 9.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

73. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

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

74. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

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

75. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Charity

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/8 inches (63.7 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Venus Childing Cupid

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 × 12 7/8 inches (43.3 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. 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

78. 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

79. Intemperance

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 20 inches (34.4 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Andromache and Hecuba Weeping over the Ashes of Hector

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 1/16 inches (51 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 3/16 inches (50.4 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Venus Chiding Cupid

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 5/8 × 10 1/8 inches (29.6 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: before 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 3/8 inches (22.3 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, with center cut out on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (8.9 × 13.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. At the Minerva at Rome

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 5 13/16 inches (22.1 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: before 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 5 11/16 inches (22.2 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Job and His Family

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches (8.9 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. The Destruction of Job's Sons

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (13.3 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. The Virgin and Child

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, modrately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 5/8 inches (26 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. 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

91. The Virgin and Child

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 11/16 inches (33.7 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Job and His Daughters

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (9.5 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Murder of the Innocents

Creator:: Print made by John Baptist Jackson, 1701–1780
Materials & Techniques:: Chiaroscuro woodcut
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Collection

94. The Pool of Bethesda

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 22 5/8 inches (49.2 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Sacra Christi Familia

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 inches (33.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

96. Untitled

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 3 7/16 inches (13.3 × 8.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

97. Death of the First Born of Egypt

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and red and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 19 15/16 x 27 15/16 inches (50.6 x 70.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

98. Niobe

Creator:: Figures engraved by William Sharp, 1749–1824
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (22.2 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

100. Flight into Egypt

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink, gray wash, watercolor, black chalk, red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (23.5 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

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1. The Three Graces

2. Cymon and Iphigenia

3. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

4. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

5. The Education of Achilles

6. The Angel of Mercy

7. Study for "The Golden Age"

8. A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames

9. Noah's Children Rejoicing

10. The Accusation of Susanna

11. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

12. Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"

13. Mythological Group of Women and Children

14. The Accusation of Susanna by the Elders

15. "In Great Eternity every particular Form..." (Plate 54)

16. "Highgates heights & Hampsteads..." (Plate 84)

17. "To the Christians..." (Plate 77)

18. Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page

19. Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd..." (Plate 13)

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

21. "To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face..." (Design 49)

22. "Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray..." (Design 51)

23. Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

24. Spring (Plate 26)

25. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

26. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

27. 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

28. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

29. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

30. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

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

32. A Widower and Children (Design 35)

33. The Divine Image (Plate 12)

34. Infant Joy (Plate 14)

35. The Little Boy Lost (Plate 20)

36. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

37. Frontispiece. Albion's Angel (Plate 1)

38. Los with the child Orc and Enitharmon (Plate 18)

39. Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2)

40. Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 25)

41. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Title Page (Plate 1)

42. "I want! I want!" (Plate 11)

43. "I found him beneath a Tree" (Plate 3)

44. Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks..." (Plate 3)

45. Title Page. America, A Prophecy (Plate 2)

46. A Prophecy. "The Guardian Prince of Albion burns in his nightly tent..." (Plate 5)

47. Chapter VII, "Stretch'd for a work of eternity..." (Plate 22)

48. Frontispiece, "What is Man!" (Plate 2)

49. "At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell" (Plate 8)

50. Alas! (Plate 9)

51. III, "But he that loves the lowly, pours his oil upon my head..." (Plate 7)

52. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

53. "Fear & hope are -- Vision" (Plate 15)

54. "Shot from the heights of Enitharmon..." (Plate 17)

55. Famine (Plate 8)

56. III. "Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed..." (Plate 6)

57. IV. "The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar..." (Plate 8)

58. Andromache Mourning the Death of Hector

59. The Seven Bishops Going To Trial

60. Pomona - The Goddess of Orchards

61. Sunday Morning, A Cottage Family Going to Church

62. Romance

63. A Spanish Good Friday

64. The Birth of Christ (Luke 2:15)

65. Meeting of Jacob and Esau

66. Bacchus

67. Virgin, Christ Child and St. John

68. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

69. Putto Holding a Torch

70. Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood

71. Bacchus

72. Cupids Trying Out a Bow

73. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

74. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven