Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: sleeping

1. Jacob's Dream

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (163.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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. "In thunders ends the voice. Then Albions Angel wrathful burnt..." (Plate 9)

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

4. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

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

5. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

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

6. "O'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heav'n..." (Design 59)

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

7. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

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

8. Virgin and Child

Creator:: Print made by Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 1/16 inches (35.6 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: between 1690 and 1699
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 inches (24.1 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/16 inches (24.9 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 1/16 inches (24.9 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

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: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Tristis Mea est Anima Usque ad Mortem / My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.3 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. King Lyncus Turned Into a Lynx by Ceres

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: between 1675 and 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 17 7/16 inches (35.2 × 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 20 3/8 inches (38.6 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 13 1/2 inches (25.9 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Endymion and Diana

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/16 inches (22.5 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Intemperance

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
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

19. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (second state) on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 21 1/4 inches (49.8 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Guardian Angels

Creator:: Print made by Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (second state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (54.6 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. The Sleeping Nymph

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (only state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 11/16 × 24 13/16 inches (52.5 × 63 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Cupid's Tent

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Beckett, 1652/3–1719
Date:: 1680s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 5/16 inches (24 × 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Peter Delivered out of Prison by an Angel

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 11/16 inches (22.2 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Cleone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (32.7 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 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

26. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 18 5/8 inches (49.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: ca. 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pastel on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/8 x 19 inches (70.2 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund

28. The Council Chamber

Creator:: After Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: 1892
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 33 1/4 inches (42.5 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund

29. The Garden Court

Creator:: After Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: 1892
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 30 1/2 inches (41.9 × 77.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund

30. The Rose Bower

Creator:: After Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: 1892
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 30 3/4 inches (41.9 × 78.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund

31. The Briar Wood

Creator:: After Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: 1892
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 32 3/4 inches (41.9 × 83.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund

32. Paul Before Felix

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (42.5 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

33. First proof of Arnold Fawcus's facsimile of Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job

Creator:: Published by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Collotype with hand coloring in watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 1/4 inches (14 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Elkanah, Hannah and Samuel

Creator:: Print made by George Graham, active 1786–1813
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof without letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 × 25 5/8 inches (52.7 × 65.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Paul Before Felix

Creator:: Print made by Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (42.5 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

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1. Jacob's Dream

2. Cymon and Iphigenia

3. "In thunders ends the voice. Then Albions Angel wrathful burnt..." (Plate 9)

4. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

5. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

6. "O'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heav'n..." (Design 59)

7. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

8. Virgin and Child

9. Cupid and Psyche

10. Cupid and Psyche

11. Cupid and Psyche

12. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

13. Tristis Mea est Anima Usque ad Mortem / My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death

14. King Lyncus Turned Into a Lynx by Ceres

15. Cupid and Psyche

16. Cupid and Psyche

17. Endymion and Diana

18. Intemperance

19. Cupid and Psyche

20. Guardian Angels

21. The Sleeping Nymph

22. Cupid's Tent

23. Peter Delivered out of Prison by an Angel

24. Cleone

25. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

26. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

27. Cupid and Psyche

28. The Council Chamber

29. The Garden Court

30. The Rose Bower

31. The Briar Wood

32. Paul Before Felix

33. First proof of Arnold Fawcus's facsimile of Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job

34. Elkanah, Hannah and Samuel

35. Paul Before Felix