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The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 71, "The Fatal Sisters."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 81, "The Descent of Odin."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 89, "The Triumphs of Owen."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 79, "The Descent of Odin."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 91, "The Triumphs of Owen."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book of Thel, Plate 3, "Thel / I / The daughters of Mne Seraphim . . . ."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 x 9 inches (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
America. A Prophecy, Plate 7, "Albions Angel stood...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 7, "Fire"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line 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
Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 7, "Now comes the night . . . . " (Bentley 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Falstaff Disguised as Herne
Creator:
John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 x 10 3/16 inches (28.9 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Enter Malvolio, Crossgartered...
Creator:
Sir John Gilbert, 1817–1897
Date:
1863
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, red ink, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/4 × 29 3/4 inches (48.9 × 75.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Ferdinand Riding the Waves
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gray wash and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (24.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Falstaff in the Boar's Head
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1807
Materials & Techniques:
Oil with brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Lear in the Storm
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, peach wove paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 30 1/16 x 24 15/16 inches (76.3 x 63.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Briar Wood
Creator:
After Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:
1892
Materials & Techniques:
Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 32 3/4 inches (41.9 × 83.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund
Theatrical Figures About a Throne
Creator:
Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 × 23 3/4 inches (48.3 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Imogen Entering the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with brown ink and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Mount: 27 5/16 x 21 7/16 inches (69.3 x 54.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Fatal Bellman
Creator:
Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 13/16 x 5 3/8 inches (17.3 x 13.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Audacity of Jack Sheppard
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1839
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.2 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1839
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 9/16 inches (21.4 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jonathan Wild Seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church Yard
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1839
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (21.5 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
"May I be Cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard, "if ever I try to be honest again!"
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1839
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (21.6 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jonathan Wild Throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard Down the Well-Hole
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1839
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.9 x 19 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jonathan Wild Discovers Darrell in the Loft
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
1835
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 11/16 inches (24.2 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
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
Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head
Creator:
William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 15/16 inches (28.1 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Sketch for the Passions: Love
Creator:
Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:
1853
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Hamlet and the Ghost
Creator:
William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with watercolor and gray wash on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 x 8 3/16 inches (27.2 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
'The Gamester,' Act V, Scene IV
Creator:
James Fittler, 1758–1835
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 1/16 inches (14 × 7.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Young Roscius
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
1804
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with hand coloring on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 × 11 1/8 inches (34.6 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Dreams of the Youthful Shakespeare
Creator:
Print made by Augustus Fox, 1800–1876
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 3 15/16 inches (15.8 × 10 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Hubert, let me not be bound!"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (42.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Here, I and sorrows sit; here is my throne, bid kings come and bow to it"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 inches (42.8 x 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Pistol eating Fluellen's Leak - "Henry V"
Creator:
Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:
between 1811 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (26 x 39 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Seht Ihr denn nichts hier: 'Hamlet,' Act IV, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:
1778
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 inches (16.3 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
...in ein Nonnen Kloster geh: 'Hamlet,' Act III, Scene IX
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:
1778
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 3 3/4 inches (16.4 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Great Executioner
Creator:
Print made by Prince Rupert, 1619–1682
Date:
1658
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/8 × 17 1/2 inches (63.8 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Venus Presenting Armour to Aeneas
Creator:
Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 × 13 1/16 inches (25.4 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Joseph Sold by his Brethren
Creator:
Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 3/8 × 25 inches (54.3 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Malvolio Dancing
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Black ink with brown wash and oil on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches (13 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
King Richard the Third: Act IV, Scene III (The Murder of the Princes in the Tower)
Creator:
Print made by Francis Legat, 1755–1809
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 5/8 × 16 1/2 inches (57.5 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Gadshill

Gadshill
Creator:
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Color printed mezzotint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/16 x 12 3/16 inches (41.5 x 31 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
As You Like It: Act II, Scene VII: The Seven Ages Man (Third Age)
Creator:
Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:
1803
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches (51.4 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ferdinand Reunited with his Father
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 15/16 x 4 5/16 inches (15.1 x 11 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Dido
Creator:
Joseph Grozer, ca. 1755–1798
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 9/16 inches (49.8 × 59.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Tancred and Clorinda
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 9 3/16 inches (28.3 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gualtherus and Griselda
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, mdoerately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (31.1 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:
1875, printed ca.1980
Materials & Techniques:
Gold toned contact print from a collodion wet plate negative on photographic printing-out paper
Dimensions:
Frame: 17 1/2 × 15 1/4 × 1/2 inches (44.5 × 38.7 × 1.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sondra S. and Gary L. Haller, Yale MA (HON.) 1980
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
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