Collection: Prints and Drawings / Genre: literary theme / Width [cm]: 51

1. Pity

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Color printed monotype, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and varnish on moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (41.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Fainasollis, Borbar and Fingal

Creator:: James Parker, 1750–1805
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Line-engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 20 inches (44.5 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Fall of Agandecca

Creator:: Print made by James Parker, 1750–1805
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/8 × 30 1/8 inches (53.7 × 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. King Lear and Cordelia, Act V, Scene 10

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint; touched with india ink
Dimensions:: Plate: 21 7/8 x 20 1/8in. (55.6 x 51.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 1st state ) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 19 7/8 inches (41.6 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. The Huguenot: Eve of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Oldham Barlow, 1824–1889
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving, and mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/4 × 20 1/8 inches (74.3 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Queen Katherine's Dream - "Henry VIII"

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 20in. (43.2 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Mrs. Siddons, in the Character of the Tragic Muse

Creator:: Print made by Francis Haward, 1759–1797
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, etching and stipple engraving (first state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 × 20 inches (71.1 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Cymon and Iphigenia

Creator:: Print made by Francis Haward, 1759–1797
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving (second state) on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 20 1/4 inches (48.9 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. The Hermitage of Warkworth

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/4 × 30 1/8 inches (54 × 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. King Henry VI, Part I: Act II, Scene V, A Room in the Tower (The Death of Mortimer)

Creator:: Print made by Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, etching, and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 3/8 × 20 1/16 inches (74.6 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Henry VI, Part III: Act I, Scene III, A Field of Battle betwixt Sandal Castle . . .

Creator:: Print made by Charles Gauthier Playter, died 1809
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, etching, and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 1/2 × 20 1/8 inches (72.4 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Interview of Tom Jones and Sophia, After the Reconciliation.

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Colored stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 × 20 inches (42.7 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 19 7/8 inches (43.2 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Richard III: Act IV, Scene III, Tower of London

Creator:: Print made by William Skelton, 1763–1848
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 3/8 × 20 1/8 inches (74.6 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Queen Katherine's Dream

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and hand-coloring
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 x 20in. (45.4 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Pamela Swooning, after having discovered Mr. B. in the closet, He (frighted) endeavouring to recover her, Mrs. Jervis wringing her hands, and screaming

Pamela Swooning, after having discovered Mr. B. in the closet, He (frighted) endeavouring to recover her, Mrs. Jervis wringing her hands, and screaming

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 20 1/16 inches (38.3 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Associates

18. Sketches for a Scene from 'Macbeth'

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: ca. 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/16 x 20 inches (41.5 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Falstaff Carrying Dead Hotspur

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache, and gum arabic on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches (41.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Launce Teaching His Dog Crab

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, red chalk, black chalk, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 5/16 x 20 3/8 inches (41.5 x 51.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

22. Gordon Jackson and Alec Guinness in 'Wild Child'

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on glossy, resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

23. Pamela having divided her clothes into threee Bundles, in order to leave the House, rejects that containing her Masters presents calling it the wicked bundle, & harangues over her own little Parcel which she huggs in her Arms;...

Pamela having divided her clothes into threee Bundles, in order to leave the House, rejects that containing her Masters presents calling it the wicked bundle, & harangues over her own little Parcel which she huggs in her Arms;...

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 1/16 inches (39.1 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association

24. Tom Jones: 'The Philosopher Square, Discovered in Molly Seagrim's Garret'

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Colored stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 19 7/8 inches (42.9 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 inches (34.9 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 20 inches (34.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (34.3 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 inches (34.9 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Cephalus lamenting the Death of Procris

Creator:: Print made by Mathieu Liart, 1736–1782
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 9/16 × 29 7/8 inches (54.8 × 75.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Mathieu Liart, 1736–1782
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/4 × 29 7/8 inches (54 × 75.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Pity

2. Fainasollis, Borbar and Fingal

3. The Fall of Agandecca

4. King Lear and Cordelia, Act V, Scene 10

5. Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy

6. The Huguenot: Eve of St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572

7. Queen Katherine's Dream - "Henry VIII"

8. Mrs. Siddons, in the Character of the Tragic Muse

9. Cymon and Iphigenia

10. The Hermitage of Warkworth

11. King Henry VI, Part I: Act II, Scene V, A Room in the Tower (The Death of Mortimer)

12. Henry VI, Part III: Act I, Scene III, A Field of Battle betwixt Sandal Castle . . .

13. The Interview of Tom Jones and Sophia, After the Reconciliation.

14. Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"

15. Richard III: Act IV, Scene III, Tower of London

16. Queen Katherine's Dream

17. Pamela Swooning, after having discovered Mr. B. in the closet, He (frighted) endeavouring to recover her, Mrs. Jervis wringing her hands, and screaming

18. Sketches for a Scene from 'Macbeth'

19. Falstaff Carrying Dead Hotspur

20. Launce Teaching His Dog Crab

21. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

22. Gordon Jackson and Alec Guinness in 'Wild Child'

23. Pamela having divided her clothes into threee Bundles, in order to leave the House, rejects that containing her Masters presents calling it the wicked bundle, & harangues over her own little Parcel which she huggs in her Arms;...

24. Tom Jones: 'The Philosopher Square, Discovered in Molly Seagrim's Garret'

25. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

26. The Death of the Good Old Man

27. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

28. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

29. Cephalus lamenting the Death of Procris

30. Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis