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1. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 13/16 inches (24 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1880 and 1883
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 3/8 inches (25.3 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

3. Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 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, to the Yale University Art Gallery

4. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera and pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. An Altar at Delos

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/16 x 14 3/4 inches (53.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Untitled (one of three)

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, with white gouache and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 x 2 7/16 inches (9.7 x 6.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Morning Prayer

Creator:: Print made by Charles West Cope, 1811–1890
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thick, slightly textured, cream card with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 3/4 inches (15.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex: The Chapel

Creator:: James Lambert of Lewes, 1725–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor within triple-ruled and wash border on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/4 x 18 5/8 inches (64.1 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Design for Polychromatic Decoration of a Church

Creator:: George Edmund Street, 1824–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 6 1/4 inches (25.7 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. St. Laumer-Blois

Creator:: Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1903
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 1/8 inches (35.6 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

11. Notre Dame, Dinant [Belgian Set: No. 8]

Creator:: Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1907
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (39.7 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

12. Design for Love's Labour's Lost

Creator:: Thomas Grieve, 1799–1882
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, graphite, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and collage on three layerd sheets of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (16.5 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Incantation Scene

Creator:: Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 23 5/8 inches (50.2 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Interior of Milan Cathedral

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (49.6 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Design for a Stained Glass Window

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on thin, smooth, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 8 inches (17.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Sacrifice at Lystra

Creator:: George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, stipple engraving and color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches (11.5 x 18.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Sacrifice at Lystra

Creator:: George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving with aquatint and red color woodcut on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (13.4 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Sacrifice at Lystra

Creator:: George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, stipple engraving and color woodcut on cream card mounted on contemporary cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 15/16 x 7 7/8 inches (17.7 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Brahmins at a Toolsee Altar

Creator:: Print made by Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/8 x 6 5/16 inches (24.5 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Design for a Chapel at Enfield: Transverse Sections, East and West End

Creator:: Lewis Vulliamy, 1791–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 18 7/16 inches (31.6 x 46.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the Recognition. July 19, 1821

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 × 19 3/16 inches (36.6 × 48.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret

22. The Duomo at Brescia, Interior

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 1/8 inches (25.2 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Nave Looking towards High Altar, Westminster Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 3 1/8 inches (10.8 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

24. Procession in a Church

Creator:: James Pattison Cockburn, 1779–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gouache and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (10.8 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Interior of the Church of the Gesù, Rome

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 25 1/4 inches (52.1 × 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

26. Figures by a Tomb

Creator:: James Pattison Cockburn, 1779–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gouache and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (10.5 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. St. Mark's, No. 3

Creator:: Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 10 15/16 x 7 7/16in. (27.8 x 18.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

28. Saint Stephen's, Walbrook

Creator:: Print made by John Bluck, active 1791–1831
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (23.9 x 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

29. Sketch of the Interior of a Gothic Church

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and graphite on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. William Henry West Betty

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (64.8 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Designs for Altar and Processional Crosses

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thin, smooth, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 3/8 inches (26.4 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Blessing of the Suez Canal, November 16, 1869

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: after 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches (27.6 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 1st state ) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/4 × 15 inches (60.3 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 2 9/16 inches (9.4 × 6.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches (50.2 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Job's Sacrifice

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches (12.1 x 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Window in St. Dunstan's in the West, London

Creator:: Print made by J. Blore
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand-coloring on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches (21.9 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Designs for a Gothic Church Altar and Organ

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 17 3/4 inches (30.5 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Nuns Praying at Altar of a Church

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 9/16 inches (34.3 × 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Interior of a Church

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 10 1/2 inches (34.6 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Eight Groups of Designs for Gothic holy Objects

Creator:: Print made by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (25.1 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Romanus sum Civis

Creator:: Joseph Goupy, 1689–1769
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 17 1/2 inches (39.7 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Design for an Altar

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 14 1/2 inches (23.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Sacrifice of Isaac

Creator:: Print made by Robert Robinson, active 1674–1706
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 7/8 inches (24.8 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Countess Talbot

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 15 1/4 inches (63.8 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. The Sepulchre

2. The Sepulchre

3. Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar

4. Abraham and Isaac

5. An Altar at Delos

6. Untitled (one of three)

7. Morning Prayer

8. Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex: The Chapel

9. Design for Polychromatic Decoration of a Church

10. St. Laumer-Blois

11. Notre Dame, Dinant [Belgian Set: No. 8]

12. Design for Love's Labour's Lost

13. Incantation Scene

14. Interior of Milan Cathedral

15. Design for a Stained Glass Window

16. The Sacrifice at Lystra

17. The Sacrifice at Lystra

18. The Sacrifice at Lystra

19. Brahmins at a Toolsee Altar

20. Design for a Chapel at Enfield: Transverse Sections, East and West End

21. The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the Recognition. July 19, 1821

22. The Duomo at Brescia, Interior

23. Nave Looking towards High Altar, Westminster Abbey

24. Procession in a Church

25. Interior of the Church of the Gesù, Rome

26. Figures by a Tomb

27. St. Mark's, No. 3

28. Saint Stephen's, Walbrook

29. Sketch of the Interior of a Gothic Church

30. William Henry West Betty

31. Designs for Altar and Processional Crosses

32. The Blessing of the Suez Canal, November 16, 1869

33. Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

34. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

35. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

36. Job's Sacrifice

37. Window in St. Dunstan's in the West, London

38. Designs for a Gothic Church Altar and Organ

39. Nuns Praying at Altar of a Church

40. Interior of a Church

41. Eight Groups of Designs for Gothic holy Objects

42. Romanus sum Civis

43. Design for an Altar

44. The Sacrifice of Isaac

45. Countess Talbot