On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Subject Terms: meal

1. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches (16.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 18

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Breakfast at Breteuil

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 26 3/8 inches (48.9 × 67 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Hogarth Has Made Breakfast and Sends up a Cup to His Wife at the Same Time Ordering the Little Dog to be Admitted to her Mistress's Bedchamber

Creator:: John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 3/4 inches (32.7 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Benjamin Disraeli, Sketched at a Royal Academy Dinner

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1876
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 4 5/8 inches (19.1 × 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Symptoms: of None of Your Stuff, of a Declaration, of a Meltonian, of Is that a Writ I See Before Me, of a Love Feast, of a Buck

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 8 11/16 inches (17 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. [Shooting] The Sportsman's Repast

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 x 22in. (45.4 x 55.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Plate 2. The Repast

Creator:: Richard Gilson Reeve, 1803–1889
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 18in. (34.6 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Foxhunting: The Toast

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Early Repast

Creator:: Day and Son
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 24 1/4in. (45.1 x 61.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968

14. Grand Coronation Dinner in Westminster Hall, July 19, 1821

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Diners in a Chop Shop

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1800 and 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and red-brown ink over graphite, verso: black crayon, graphite, and ink lines, numbers and tracing of recto image on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/16 x 6 5/8 inches (11.3 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Study of Women and Men Saying Grace, Before a Meal

Creator:: Sir Hubert von Herkomer, 1849–1914
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk and pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 11 1/2 inches (25.4 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen

17. The Supper Box at Vauxhall

Creator:: Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 1/2 inches (24.9 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Study for Dinner in Mote Park, Maidstone after the Royal Review of the Kentish Volunteers on 1st August 1799

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 14 inches (21.6 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Dinner Party at a Mandarin's House

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Dr. Syntax Copying the Wit of the Window

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1809 and 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 8 3/16 inches (13.7 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. City Steam and Boat Company: Dinner to Captains

Creator:: Edwin Jewitt, active 1855
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Shepherd's Meal

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: hand colored mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 11/16 × 17 3/16 inches (55.1 × 43.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection