Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: stars

1. Virgin and Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1810 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

Creator:: John Rogers Herbert, 1810–1890
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 13 3/8 x 21 7/8 inches (34 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. The Rock of Salvation

Creator:: Samuel Colman, 1780–1845
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches (61.3 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. The Last Judgement (study)

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1851 and 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 × 12 inches (19.7 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

5. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. "To The Accuser who is The God of This World..." (Plate 19)

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

7. "Then all the Males conjoined into One Male..." (Plate 69)

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

8. "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

9. A Welch Bard (Design 53)

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

10. "And the voices of Bath & Canterbury & York & Edinburgh, Cry..." (Plate 57)

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

11. 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

12. The Serpent who Girds the Earth (Design 77)

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

13. Fame (Design 93)

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

14. A Genius Driving Away "Comus & his midnight-crew..." (Design 95)

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

15. "Rose up against me thundering..." (Plate 8)

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. "Became a Space & an Allegory..." (Plate 85)

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

17. "O Vala! O Jerusalem! do you delight in my groans..." (Plate 21)

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. "And One stood forth from the Divine Family..." (Plate 37)

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

19. "One hair nor particle of dust..." (Plate 14)

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

20. Jerusalem, Tailpiece (Plate 100)

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: 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (26.4 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. "But when they saw Albion fall'n..." (Plate 20)

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

22. "And there was heard a great lamenting in Beulah..."; Chapter 1 Tailpiece (Plate 25)

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

23. "Jerusalem, Chapter 1. Of the Sleep of Ulro!..." (Plate 4)

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

24. "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

25. "Condens'd his Emanations..." (Plate 9)

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

26. '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

27. Night the Third. Narcissa; 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

28. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

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. Air (Plate 6)

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

30. "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

31. Design for a Wall Panel

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid 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, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

Creator:: David Jones, 1895–1974
Date:: ca. 1940
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 x 19 inches (61.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. The Wrath of Elihu

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 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (9.2 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Creation

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 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (14.6 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Behemoth and Leviathan

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 20 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1in. (51.4 x 38.7 x 2.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Creation of the Heavens

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 10 inches (23.2 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Ten Commandments I

Creator:: Print made by Gilbert Spencer, 1892–1979
Date:: 1934
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 1/2 inches (27.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire as 'Cynthia'

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 9/16 × 16 5/16 inches (65 × 41.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Virgin and Child

2. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

3. The Rock of Salvation

4. The Last Judgement (study)

5. The Cypress Grove

6. "To The Accuser who is The God of This World..." (Plate 19)

7. "Then all the Males conjoined into One Male..." (Plate 69)

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

9. A Welch Bard (Design 53)

10. "And the voices of Bath & Canterbury & York & Edinburgh, Cry..." (Plate 57)

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

12. The Serpent who Girds the Earth (Design 77)

13. Fame (Design 93)

14. A Genius Driving Away "Comus & his midnight-crew..." (Design 95)

15. "Rose up against me thundering..." (Plate 8)

16. "Became a Space & an Allegory..." (Plate 85)

17. "O Vala! O Jerusalem! do you delight in my groans..." (Plate 21)

18. "And One stood forth from the Divine Family..." (Plate 37)

19. "One hair nor particle of dust..." (Plate 14)

20. Jerusalem, Tailpiece (Plate 100)

21. "But when they saw Albion fall'n..." (Plate 20)

22. "And there was heard a great lamenting in Beulah..."; Chapter 1 Tailpiece (Plate 25)

23. "Jerusalem, Chapter 1. Of the Sleep of Ulro!..." (Plate 4)

24. "Jerusalem, Chapter 3. But Los, who is the Vehicular Form..." (Plate 53)

25. "Condens'd his Emanations..." (Plate 9)

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

27. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

28. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

29. Air (Plate 6)

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

31. Design for a Wall Panel

32. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

33. The Wrath of Elihu

34. The Creation

35. Behemoth and Leviathan

36. The Creation of the Heavens

37. The Ten Commandments I

38. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire as 'Cynthia'