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1. Corfu from Ascension

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sophie and Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
On View:: Not on view

2. Alexander Pope

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 33 inches (99.1 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Samuel Butler

Creator:: Gilbert Soest, ca. 1600–1681
Date:: ca. 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Death of Chatterton

Creator:: Henry Wallis, 1830–1916
Date:: ca. 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 15/16 x 11 7/8 inches (22.7 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. James Thomson (1700-1748)

Creator:: Stephen Slaughter, 1697–1765
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches (77.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Alexander Pope Profile, Crowned with Ivy

Creator:: Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723
Date:: ca. 1721
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 23 inches (71.8 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Margaret Wimsatt in memory of William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr.
On View:: Not on view

7. Mary Robinson (née Darby)

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 7/8 × 28 1/4 inches (93.7 × 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons

Creator:: Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches (77.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. 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

10. Pope's Villa, Twickenham

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/16 x 32 1/8 inches (44 x 81.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and collage on panel
Dimensions:: 21 9/16 x 11 3/4 inches (54.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

12. The Bard

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. William Congreve

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Pearwood
Dimensions:: Overall: 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (16.5 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Alexander Pope

Creator:: Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762
Date:: 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 24 3/4 x 17 x 9 inches (62.9 x 43.2 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of the British art historian Basil Taylor (1922–1975)
On View:: Not on view

15. William Hayley

Creator:: Thomas Alphonso Hayley, 1780–1800
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches (10.8 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Gift of Charles Ryskamp
On View:: Not on view

16. Oliver Goldsmith

Creator:: John Henry Foley, 1818–1874
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 39 x 15 x 13 inches (99.1 x 38.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brian P. Burns
On View:: Not on view

17. 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

18. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 inches (19.8 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

19. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Poet

Creator:: John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 7 5/8 inches (25.4 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.7 x 29.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (38.2 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/16 inches (36 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.1 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Robert Burns

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, published state
Dimensions:: Plate: 20 1/2 x 16 7/16in. (52.1 x 41.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. James Beattie, LL.D.

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 1/8 inches (19.8 × 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches (40.1 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

28. William Butler Yeats, Poet (1865-1939)

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961
Date:: 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (29.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts

29. William Drummond of Hawthorne

Creator:: Richard Gaywood, active 1650–1680
Date:: 1654
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 1/16 inches (19.9 × 12.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

30. Anne Killigrew

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: ca. 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (26.3 × 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Samuel Johnson

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (26 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Portrait of William Blake

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 1/8 inches (17.8 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. John Armstrong, M.D.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: between 1760 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches (43 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (37.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Henry More

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691
Date:: 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 7 5/16 inches (33 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. William L. Harkness

36. Mr. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 inches (15 × 10.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by Charles Heath, 1785–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 3/16 inches (18.4 × 13.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. William Drummond of Hawthornden

Creator:: John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (39 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

40. Lovelace in Prison

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Alexander Pope, Profile

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack

42. A Grub Street Poet

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black, gray, and brown ink with gray wash over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 1/16 inches (24.8 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

Creator:: Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962
Date:: 2011
Materials & Techniques:: Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:: Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund

44. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: between 1843 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Iron gall ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (22.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard J. Mammana Jr., Yale MAR 2012, in memory of Cynthia McFarland

45. Joan Murray

Creator:: Bill Jay, 1940–2009
Date:: 2004
Materials & Techniques:: Digital Ink jet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

46. Design for a Frontispiece: Bust of a Roman Man

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and graphite, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (19.1 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Designs for an Ornamental Cartouche: for the Engraved Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 8 11/16 inches (35.6 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Sappho

Creator:: attributed to Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (22.9 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wilton

49. Reverend William Mason

Creator:: Robert Cooper, active ca. 1800–1836
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 9/16 inches (17.1 × 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Reverend. William Mason

Creator:: Edward Scriven, 1775–1841
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 12 11/16 inches (38.7 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Mary Robinson

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 13/16 inches (44.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 9 15/16 inches (34.2 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

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1. Corfu from Ascension

2. Alexander Pope

3. Samuel Butler

4. The Death of Chatterton

5. James Thomson (1700-1748)

6. Alexander Pope Profile, Crowned with Ivy

7. Mary Robinson (née Darby)

8. Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons

9. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

10. Pope's Villa, Twickenham

11. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

12. The Bard

13. William Congreve

14. Alexander Pope

15. William Hayley

16. Oliver Goldsmith

17. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

18. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

19. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

20. The Poet

21. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

22. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

23. Edwin

24. Edwin

25. Robert Burns

26. James Beattie, LL.D.

27. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

28. William Butler Yeats, Poet (1865-1939)

29. William Drummond of Hawthorne

30. Anne Killigrew

31. Samuel Johnson

32. Portrait of William Blake

33. John Armstrong, M.D.

34. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

35. Henry More

36. Mr. Thomas Gray

37. Thomas Gray

38. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

39. William Drummond of Hawthornden

40. Lovelace in Prison

41. Alexander Pope, Profile

42. A Grub Street Poet

43. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

44. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

45. Joan Murray

46. Design for a Frontispiece: Bust of a Roman Man

47. Designs for an Ornamental Cartouche: for the Engraved Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)

48. Sappho

49. Reverend William Mason

50. Reverend. William Mason

51. Mary Robinson

52. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)