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1. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: between 1680 and 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 10 inches (31.8 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Allaert van Everdingen, 1621–1675
Date:: between 1660 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 inches (16.5 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. An Allegory of Love

Creator:: Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1734–1808
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and colored chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 24 7/16 inches (49.5 x 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Cupid and Cephisa: "Cephisa says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 14 13/16 inches (49.8 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Madona Col Bambino

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 × 15 1/8 inches (52.7 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

Creator:: Print made by John Franklin, c.1800–1868
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.8 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Fry Print Collection

7. Christ and Ye Woman of Samaria

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 6 7/16 inches (21.9 × 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Ulysses and Circes

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 11/16 inches (24.8 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 inches (14.6 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Bacchus et Ariadne

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 15/16 inches (27.1 × 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 1/16 inches (24.9 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/16 inches (24.9 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, before all letters on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 13/16 inches (25.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: between 1690 and 1699
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 inches (24.1 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Venus and Adonis

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 3/8 × 14 inches (26.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Creator:: Print made by John Simon, 1675–1751
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 1/8 inches (22.9 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Bacchus and Ariadne

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 inches (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Elijah

Creator:: Print made by Robert Robinson, active 1674–1706
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 5/16 inches (17.8 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Phoebus and Leucothea

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 7/16 inches (18.1 × 13.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Cupids Trying Out a Bow

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 3 13/16 inches (12.4 × 9.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Tristis Mea est Anima Usque ad Mortem / My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.3 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Venus Witholding Adonis From the Chase

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 5/16 inches (17.8 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Cupid

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 5 13/16 inches (21.7 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 20 3/8 inches (38.6 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Endymion and Diana

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/16 inches (22.5 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Cupid and Psyche

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 3/16 × 13 1/2 inches (25.9 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 2nd state ) on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/2 × 19 1/4 inches (67.3 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Love

Creator:: Print made by William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: c.1813
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (second state) on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 inches (42.9 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Madona col Bambino

Creator:: Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (Ham.II) on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 3/8 inches (51.4 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. The Sleeping Nymph

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (only state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 11/16 × 24 13/16 inches (52.5 × 63 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 3/16 inches (50.4 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Venus Chiding Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 10 1/8 inches (29.6 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 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

34. Hero and Leander

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, gouache, and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 inches (42.2 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Love Vindicated (L'Amour Vinqe')

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 8 7/8 inches (15.2 × 22.5 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

36. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Peter Oliver, 1589–1647
Date:: 1631
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 x 8 13/16 inches (19.2 x 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: ca. 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pastel on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/8 x 19 inches (70.2 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund

41. Sacra Christi Familia

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 inches (33.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 5 11/16 inches (14.8 × 14.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

43. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 18 5/8 inches (49.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. A Difference of Opinion

Creator:: Print made by Auguste Boulard, 1852–1927
Date:: 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 15/16 × 12 3/16 inches (48.1 × 30.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bryan Fuermann

45. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Venus and Adonis

2. Venus and Cupid

3. An Allegory of Love

4. Cupid and Cephisa: "Cephisa says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love..."

5. Madona Col Bambino

6. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

7. Christ and Ye Woman of Samaria

8. Ulysses and Circes

9. Venus and Cupid

10. Bacchus et Ariadne

11. Cupid and Psyche

12. Cupid and Psyche

13. Venus and Adonis

14. Cupid and Psyche

15. Venus and Adonis

16. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

17. Bacchus and Ariadne

18. Elijah

19. Phoebus and Leucothea

20. Cupids Trying Out a Bow

21. Tristis Mea est Anima Usque ad Mortem / My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death

22. Venus Witholding Adonis From the Chase

23. Cupid

24. Cupid and Psyche

25. Endymion and Diana

26. Cupid and Psyche

27. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

28. Love

29. Madona col Bambino

30. The Sleeping Nymph

31. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

32. Venus Chiding Cupid

33. Hope Nursing Love

34. Hero and Leander

35. Love Vindicated (L'Amour Vinqe')

36. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

37. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

38. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

39. Venus and Adonis

40. Cupid and Psyche

41. Sacra Christi Familia

42. Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.

43. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

44. A Difference of Opinion

45. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body