Materials & Techniques: line engraving / Collection: Prints and Drawings / Subject Terms: religious and mythological subject

1. Tail Piece, or the Bathos

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (31.4 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

2. 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

3. Paul Before Felix Burlesqued

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving and mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (26 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

4. 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 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

5. "My son! my Son!" (Plate 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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. "Help! Help!" (Plate 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

8. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

9. "Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?" (Plate 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

11. "The Traveller hasteth in the Evening" (Plate 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

12. Death's Door (Plate 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

13. "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother & my sister" (Plate 18)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

14. "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 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

15. "What is Man!"; Frontispiece (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

16. "He meets his Saviour in the Grave..." (Plate 20)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

18. Water (Plate 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

19. Earth (Plate 5)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

20. Air (Plate 6)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

21. Fire (Plate 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

22. "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 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

23. Alas! (Plate 9)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

25. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

32. 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

33. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

34. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

36. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

38. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

39. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

40. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

42. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

43. 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

44. 'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

46. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

47. 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

48. 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

49. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

50. 'The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

51. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

53. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

54. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

55. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

56. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

57. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

58. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

63. 'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, 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

65. Job's Comforters

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving with chine-collé; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Head of St. John Baptist on a Charger

Creator:: Print made by Theodore Casper von Furstenberg, ca. 1615–1675
Date:: ca. 1656
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (35.9 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. The Betrayal of Christ

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691
Date:: 1653
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 8 inches (24.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Lot and His Family

Creator:: Print made by John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Date:: ca. 1718
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches (28.8 x 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Bookplate: The Spalding Gentlemen's Society

Creator:: Print made by George Vertue, 1684–1756
Date:: 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engravng on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 11/16 inches (13 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70. 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

71. A Mythological Battle

Creator:: George C. Finden, 1811–1885
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 19 15/16 inches (34.8 x 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Thomas Cranmer

Creator:: Pieter S. van der Gunst, 1659–c. 1724
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 7 5/16 inches (30.3 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 3/16 inches (32.7 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Peaceful Reign of James I

Creator:: Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (31.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 18 5/16 inches (31.6 × 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester

Creator:: Print made by James Basire, 1730–1802
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 8 1/4 inches (32.9 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Mercury and Argus

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (a) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/4 × 19 inches (74.3 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Mercury and Argus

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 33 × 25 1/4 inches (83.8 × 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Mercury and Argus

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; second state on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/2 × 22 3/4 inches (74.9 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Dido and Aeneas; The Morning of the Chase

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, with graphite and chine collé; touched engraver's proof (a) on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/8 × 28 1/8 inches (53.7 × 71.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Mercury and Argus

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; fourth state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 5/8 × 22 1/2 inches (75.2 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Mercury and Herse

Creator:: Print made by John Cousen, 1804–1880
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 1/2 × 23 inches (69.9 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Reverend Beilby Porteus, Lord Bishop of London

Creator:: Charles Picart, c.1780–1837
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 12 7/8 inches (46 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Johannes Potter, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis

Creator:: George Vertue, 1684–1756
Date:: 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 3/4 inches (41.8 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Mrs. Quarrington as St. Agnes

Creator:: Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (49.2 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. William Robertson

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 3/4 inches (18.4 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph

Creator:: Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 3/8 inches (22.5 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Isaac Watts

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 11/16 inches (23.2 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Florence, from the Chiesa al Monte

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 17 3/8 inches (30.5 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. The Satyrs

Creator:: Stephen Frederick Gooden, 1892–1955
Date:: 1937
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 10 3/16 inches (32.2 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell

91. Aubertus Miræus

Creator:: Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (27 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Isabella Clara Eugenia

Creator:: Print made by Lucas Vorsterman I, 1595–1675
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 12 3/4 inches (41.8 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Ferdinandus Austriacus

Creator:: Print made by Pieter de Jode II, ca. 1606–1674
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 7/16 × 11 inches (36.7 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Ferdinandus Austriacus

Creator:: Print made by John Paine, 1623–1700
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (38.3 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Reverend Hugh Blair, D.D.

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 15/16 inches (38.7 × 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Cæsar Alexander Scaglia

Creator:: Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 15/16 × 11 1/16 inches (37.9 × 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Cæsar Alexander Scaglia

Creator:: Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving (3rd state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/8 × 11 inches (38.4 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Cæsar Alexander Scaglia

Creator:: Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 9/16 × 11 inches (34.4 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Cæsar Alexander Scaglia

Creator:: Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 5/8 × 10 15/16 inches (34.6 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Carolus Scribanius

Creator:: Print made by Peeter Clouwet, 1629–1670
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 3/4 × 11 inches (37.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Tail Piece, or the Bathos

2. Paul Before Felix

3. Paul Before Felix Burlesqued

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

5. "My son! my Son!" (Plate 10)

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

7. "Help! Help!" (Plate 12)

8. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

9. "Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?" (Plate 14)

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

11. "The Traveller hasteth in the Evening" (Plate 16)

12. Death's Door (Plate 17)

13. "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother & my sister" (Plate 18)

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

15. "What is Man!"; Frontispiece (Plate 2)

16. "He meets his Saviour in the Grave..." (Plate 20)

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

18. Water (Plate 4)

19. Earth (Plate 5)

20. Air (Plate 6)

21. Fire (Plate 7)

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

23. Alas! (Plate 9)

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

25. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

26. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

27. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

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

29. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

30. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

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

32. 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)

33. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

34. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

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

36. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

37. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

38. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

39. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

40. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

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

42. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

43. 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)

44. 'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)

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

46. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

47. 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)

48. 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)

49. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

50. 'The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)

51. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

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

53. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

54. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

55. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

56. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

57. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

58. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

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

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

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

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

63. 'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)

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

65. Job's Comforters

66. Head of St. John Baptist on a Charger

67. The Betrayal of Christ

68. Lot and His Family

69. Bookplate: The Spalding Gentlemen's Society

70. Intemperance

71. A Mythological Battle

72. Thomas Cranmer

73. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland