Height [cm]: 17 / Associated People: Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet

1. Standing Figure, Probably for Lady Macbeth

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (16.5 x 9.8 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, to the Yale University Art Gallery

2. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 16 9/16 inches (31.2 × 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

3. Viola and Olivia

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 3/8 inches (16.7 x 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Feste, as Sir Topas, addressing Malvolio

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache and oil, partly varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 5/16 inches (16.7 x 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (16.5 x 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Hotspur and the Plotters at Bangor

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 5 inches (16.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Scene from Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 9/16 inches (16.7 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Untitled: Cupid

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/2 x 3in. (14 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Untitled: Cesar Passing the Rubicon

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/2 x 5in. (16.5 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Bachanalia Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 × 3 1/2 inches (12.7 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Eastnor Castle

Creator:: Print made by James Charles Armytage, 1802–1897
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving with chine collé on smooth, thin, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 5/16 × 6 3/4 inches (11 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. William Sommers, King Henry VIII's Jester

Creator:: Print made by R. Clamp, fl.1789–1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Colored stipple engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 inches (16.5 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Shakespear Chair

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, tone left on plate
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/2 x 1 1/2in. (16.5 x 3.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Lysander Awakening to See Helena

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (16.5 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban with Prospero's Magic Wardrobe

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (16.8 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Head of a Man with a Beard and Long Hair in the Wind

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with black ink and brown wash, verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (16.8 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Fancy Sketch, to the Memory of Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Image: 6 3/4 x 9 7/8in. (17.1 x 25.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Shakespeare Writing

Creator:: Albert Henry Payne, 1812–1902
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/2 x 4 11/16in. (16.5 x 11.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Shakespeare Illustration: "Henry VIII"

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

20. The Fatal Bellman

Creator:: Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 x 5 3/8 inches (17.3 x 13.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Romeo

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 4 3/4in. (17.1 x 12.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. W. Shakspeare

Creator:: Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4in. (16.5 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Title Page, The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare, Printed Complete, with Dr. Samuel Johnson's Preface and Notes

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 × 4 1/2 inches (18.6 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Untitled portrait of William Shakespeare

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 6 3/4in. (26 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. William Shakspeare

Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 7/16in. (16.5 x 11.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Shakespeare

Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and etching on laid paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 11/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.9 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Shakspeare

Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 3 3/8 x 2 13/16in. (8.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. William Shakespeare

Creator:: William Holl II, 1807–1871
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/2 x 4in. (11.4 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Shakspeare

Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 3 3/8 x 2 13/16in. (8.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. William Shakespeare

Creator:: George Vertue, 1684–1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/8 x 3 7/8in. (15.6 x 9.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. William Shakespeare

Creator:: George Vertue, 1684–1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/8 x 3 7/8in. (15.6 x 9.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Shakespeare

Creator:: Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 3 3/4in. (16.5 x 9.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. William Shakespeare

Creator:: George Vertue, 1684–1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on laid paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/8 x 3 7/8in. (15.6 x 9.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Shakespeare. and his natal house

Creator:: W. Read, active 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 1/8 inches (16.5 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Shakespear

Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 inches (16.8 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. William Shakspere

Creator:: Johann Heinrich Lips, 1758–1817
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/4 x 2 13/16in. (13.3 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. William Shakspeare

Materials & Techniques:: Steel engraving on wove paper laid down on heavy wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 4 inches (17.3 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Awakening of Titania

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 inches (17.1 × 25.4 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

39. Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 2, Scene 3

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (17.1 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Design for setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 1, Scene 2

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing
Dimensions:: Mount: 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

41. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 1

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 15/16 inches (14 × 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 3

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 3/4 inches (16.7 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857 - Act 4, Scene 2

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on slightly textured, medium, gray wove paper laid down on contemporary laid paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 1/16 inches (14.3 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary mount paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (16.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 4, Scene 1

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
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 Fund

46. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 5, Scene 4

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, laid down on contemporary laid paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 7/8 inches (14.3 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. Macbeth and the Witch

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. Hamlet and the Ghost

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 5/16 inches (17.4 x 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. Shakespeare's Birthplace, Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 15 9/16 inches (25.2 x 39.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. Standing Figure, Probably for Lady Macbeth

2. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

3. Viola and Olivia

4. Feste, as Sir Topas, addressing Malvolio

5. Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught

6. Hotspur and the Plotters at Bangor

7. Scene from Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet

8. Untitled: Cupid

9. Untitled: Cesar Passing the Rubicon

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18. Shakespeare Writing

19. Shakespeare Illustration: "Henry VIII"

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49. Shakespeare's Birthplace, Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon