Creator Gender: male / Subject Terms: allegory - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Peace Embracing Plenty

Creator:: Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640
Date:: between 1633 and 1634
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches (62.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. 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

3. John Eardley Wilmot

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/2 x 58 1/4 inches (105.4 x 148 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Three Graces

Creator:: William Edward Frost, 1810–1877
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 × 28 3/8 inches (92.1 × 72.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts
On View:: Not on view

5. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Aeneas and the Sibyl

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 39 1/2 inches (127 × 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1590
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 45 × 71 3/4 inches (114.3 × 182.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Hope

Creator:: George Frederic Watts, 1817–1904
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 26 × 19 inches (66 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Claire and Albert J. Zuckerman, Yale School of Drama MFA 1961, DFA 1962
On View:: Not on view

11. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 38 1/2 inches (78.7 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. The Cave of Despair

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1718
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Allegory of Trade

Creator:: John Theodore Heins, 1697–1756
Date:: 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 54 inches (74.9 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Health and Wealth

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1932 to 1935
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 26 inches (76.2 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum
On View:: Not on view

16. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Sea, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. The Apotheosis of Nelson

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/2 x 29 inches (100.3 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches (36 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Allegory of Fortune

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

Creator:: Attributed to Michael Chuke, 1679–1742
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Bronzed limewood
Dimensions:: Overall: 54 5/16 x 37 13/16 inches (138 x 96 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

21. Old Age

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 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

22. Birth of Man

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 inches (13.7 x 17.8 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

23. Allegory of Sea Trades

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (9.2 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Allegory of Drawing

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 3/4in. (8.3 x 12.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 5in. (7.9 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Preparatory Study for the decoration "Equestrian Portrait of George I"

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 12 3/8 inches (28.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Design for a decoration incorporating motifs allusive to the Arts, Arms, and Religion

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches (17.1 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Nature unveils herself to the infant Shakespeare: Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III.1

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 inches (29.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Britannia in Distress

Creator:: Anthony Walker, 1726–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (32.1 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Allegory of Steam

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 5in. (9.8 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Design for a Medal: Britannia Ruling the Waves

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 × 7 3/4 inches (27.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Greatheart's Battle with Grim

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 4 inches (12.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 15 5/8 inches (32.2 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Sir Godfrey Kneller

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 12 inches (45.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Rather a Dangerous Kind of Hug

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 5/16 inches (31 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Another Saint Sebastian, Shot at by Cruel Archers

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 17 9/16 inches (30.5 x 44.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave

Creator:: Francis Cleyn, 1582–1658
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Design for an Engraving: Parlement de Paris Reassembling with Figure of Justice

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk, incised and squared for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige 19th century laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 x 11 1/16 inches (30.5 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. An Allegory of America Carrying the Cap of Liberty

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and red chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 1/16 inches (8.3 × 5.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Mausoleum

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 8 11/16 inches (12.7 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Death Turned Pilot

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1815 and 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (14.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Family of Children

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 7 1/4 inches (11 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Telemachus and Mentor

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches (30.8 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (31 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 15/16 inches (20.3 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

47. Time and Death and Goody Barton

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 8 3/8 inches (13.2 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Death and the Debauchee

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1814 and 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 8 1/2 inches (13.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Britannia Allegory

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: between 1743 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; verso: letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper (page in book)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (15.8 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

50. Hope Nursing Love

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/8 inches (50.5 × 35.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Six Venice Etchings, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (32.7 x 23 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

52. Porta della Carta

Creator:: Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 7/8 inches (46.5 x 32.7 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

53. Epiphany

Creator:: Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938
Date:: 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; 2nd state on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 7 1/4 inches (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

54. Allegory for Spring

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 11 1/8 inches (12.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

55. Allegory for Fall

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper mounted to moderately thick, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 11in. (12.7 x 27.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

56. Geography

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 3/8 inches (41.8 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans

Creator:: John Bacon, 1740–1799
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 4 inches (18.1 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Allegorical Female Figure: holding a flaming torch

Creator:: John Bacon, 1740–1799
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 3 inches (17.8 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Allegory of Painting and Literature

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 inches (21 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

61. Erato and Pan

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 4 7/8 inches (9.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

62. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Temperance

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/16 inches (63.7 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Justice

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/16 inches (63.7 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Faith

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. The Web

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (20.6 x 16.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. Diavoli Pescatori

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 14 15/16 inches (28.2 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. The Triumph of Britannia

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. The Fishery

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 11/16 inches (46.4 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. 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

71. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Prudence

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 18 1/8 inches (62.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. 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

73. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Charity

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/8 inches (63.7 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. And Ah! Let Pity Turn Her Dewy Eyes...

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 9/16 inches (35.7 x 26.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Mrs. Elizabeth Billington as St. Cecilia

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 16 3/4 inches (65.1 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Peace Embracing Plenty

2. The Rock of Salvation

3. John Eardley Wilmot

4. The Three Graces

5. The Sense of Smell

6. The Fishery

7. Aeneas and the Sibyl

8. Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore

9. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

10. Hope

11. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

12. The Cave of Despair

13. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

14. Allegory of Trade

15. Health and Wealth

16. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Sea, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

17. The Apotheosis of Nelson

18. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

19. Allegory of Fortune

20. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

21. Old Age

22. Birth of Man

23. Allegory of Sea Trades

24. Allegory of Drawing

25. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

26. Preparatory Study for the decoration "Equestrian Portrait of George I"

27. Design for a decoration incorporating motifs allusive to the Arts, Arms, and Religion

28. Nature unveils herself to the infant Shakespeare: Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III.1

29. Britannia in Distress

30. Allegory of Steam

31. Design for a Medal: Britannia Ruling the Waves

32. Greatheart's Battle with Grim

33. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

34. Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant

35. Sir Godfrey Kneller

36. Rather a Dangerous Kind of Hug

37. Another Saint Sebastian, Shot at by Cruel Archers

38. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave

39. Design for an Engraving: Parlement de Paris Reassembling with Figure of Justice

40. An Allegory of America Carrying the Cap of Liberty

41. The Mausoleum

42. Death Turned Pilot

43. The Family of Children

44. Telemachus and Mentor

45. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

46. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

47. Time and Death and Goody Barton

48. Death and the Debauchee

49. Britannia Allegory

50. Hope Nursing Love

51. Six Venice Etchings, Title Page

52. Porta della Carta

53. Epiphany

54. Allegory for Spring

55. Allegory for Fall

56. Geography

57. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

58. Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans

59. Allegorical Female Figure: holding a flaming torch

60. Allegory of Painting and Literature

61. Erato and Pan

62. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

63. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Temperance

64. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Justice

65. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Faith

66. The Web

67. Diavoli Pescatori

68. The Triumph of Britannia

69. The Fishery

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

71. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Prudence

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

73. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Charity

74. And Ah! Let Pity Turn Her Dewy Eyes...