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1. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 × 7 5/8 inches (26.2 × 19.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Sheet of Classical Figure Studies

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured beige laid paper and moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches (21.3 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 x 12 1/2 inches (14.1 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. A Design for a Mural Executed in the Salon at Roehampton House, Surrey: Apollo Carrying off Aeneas in a Cloud

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 inches (14 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Diana

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (29.2 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Diana and Actaeon: A Study for a Panel on a Staircase

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 6 1/4in. (15.2 x 15.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

Creator:: Henry Holland, 1745–1806
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over pen and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 15/16 x 28 1/4 inches (35.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Hecate

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 inches (21.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Helios

Creator:: William Pitts, 1790–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches (27.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

10. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 6 3/8 inches (15.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: James Wyatt, 1746–1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor; verso: pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (50.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Design of Apollo and the Python for a Painted over-door Decoration

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper laid down on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches (21.3 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Romance

Creator:: Print made by Robert Sargent Austin, 1895–1973
Date:: 1922
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with gouache and graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 inches (38 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

14. Fall of a City

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Design for a Ceiling at Addiscombe: Bacchus and Ariadne

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/16 inches (24.8 x 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Apollo and the Muses

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 15/16 inches (21.9 x 32.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (13.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Birth of Venus

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8in. (18.4 x 14.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

Creator:: John Sanderson, active 1730; died 1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 13/16 inches (10.2 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 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

22. Cassandra

Creator:: Print made by Reg Butler, 1913–1981
Date:: 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with crayon on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches (38 x 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Minotaur

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 5/8 inches (22.5 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

24. The Mask of Comus. As Now Being Performed at the Theatre Royal, Madrid, with Amazing Success

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 1/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30.7 x 44.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Unhappy Ghosts Wandering on the Banks of Styx, while Charon in his Boat Ferries over the Elect to the Elysian Fields

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30.6 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (14.6 x 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Bluebeard Giving the Keys to Fatima

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Doyle, 1824–1883
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (21.6 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Classical Figures in Battle

Creator:: Attributed to Mauritius Lowe, 1746–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (26.7 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert

29. Design for an Engraving: Battle of Troy with the Trojan Horse

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, red chalk, graphite, watercolor and gold leaf on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink, border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 1/8 × 11 inches (30.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving and drypoint print on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Telemachus and Mentor

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 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches (30.8 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. 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

33. The Centaur Nessus Carrying off Deianira

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: 17 1/2 x 12 3/16 inches (44.4 x 30.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Fates

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Tinted lithograph 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

35. The Harpies Attacking the Daughters of Pandarus

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 1/8 inches (30.5 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 9/16 inches (10.8 × 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 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

39. Study for Bacchanal

Creator:: Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860–1932
Date:: ca. 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (21 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

40. Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (22.2 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

41. Cupid Overpowering a Satyr

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (27.6 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

42. Venus and Mars

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches (22.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Design for Ceiling

Creator:: Sir William Chambers, 1723–1796
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black and brown ink, watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 9 3/8 inches (33 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Britannia Allegory

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: between 1743 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; verso: letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper (page in book)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (15.8 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

45. Benjamin West, P.R.A.

Creator:: James Fittler, 1758–1835
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 inches (53 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. 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

47. David Hume

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/2 inches (17.9 × 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

48. Putto Holding a Torch

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Fuller, 1606/20–1672
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 inches (11.4 × 10.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Studies for a Hand in The Godhead Fires

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (31.1 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of John Goolet

50. Venus, after Masters of Tarrochi

Creator:: Print made by Arthur Burgess, 1844–1886
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 6 7/16 inches (16.3 x 16.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

51. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

52. Sylvio and Dorinda

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1752 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 x 14 1/8 inches (26.2 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. 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

54. Vertumnus et Pomona

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 3/16 inches (51.5 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. Elijah Casting off His Mantle

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches (21 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 11/16 inches (36 × 27.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. Sylvio and Dorinda

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1680 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 5/8 inches (23.1 × 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. Mercury

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 12 3/8 inches (43.2 x 31.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

59. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 x 2 7/8in. (11.9 x 7.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

60. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 x 2 7/8in. (11.7 x 7.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

61. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

62. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 7/8in. (11.6 x 7.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

63. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 2 15/16in. (12.1 x 7.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

64. Miss Ann Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (40.3 x 30.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

65. Cupid's Tent

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Beckett, 1652/3–1719
Date:: 1680s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 5/16 inches (24 × 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Aeneas Entering Hades

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1675 and 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 5/16 inches (25.3 × 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (34.8 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 13/16 inches (24.2 × 19.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1678 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 3/8 inches (30.4 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70. Vertumnus and Pomonae

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with touches of gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 8 11/16 inches (29.2 × 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

71. Vertumnus and Pomonae

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 1/16 inches (29.8 × 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. Augustus

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 9/16 inches (25.6 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

73. Intemperance

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 20 inches (34.4 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Charon's Boat

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (21.2 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 13/16 inches (27.9 x 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 13/16 inches (27.9 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. A Mythological Battle

Creator:: George C. Finden, 1811–1885
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 19 15/16 inches (34.8 x 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Rinaldo and Armida

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 x 14 15/16 inches (53 x 38 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. 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

80. Vulcan's Forge

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 5/8 inches (27.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

81. Flora

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: White chalk on thick, rough, brown wove paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches (34.3 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

82. The Satyrs

Creator:: Stephen Frederick Gooden, 1892–1955
Date:: 1937
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 10 3/16 inches (32.2 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell

83. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 3/16 inches (32.7 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Cephalus and Procris

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 11 inches (19.6 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Paris and Oenone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 7/16 inches (30.2 x 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. 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

87. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

Creator:: Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 7/16 inches (27 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, with hand colored ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 inches (23.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. 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

90. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches (25.6 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Statue of Achilles in Hyde Park

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 5 5/16 inches (20 x 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Ceyx and Alcyone

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. 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

95. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 9 1/16 inches (29 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Cleone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (32.7 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, with center cut out on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (8.9 × 13.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. At Rome

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches (22.3 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. At the City of Albano

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches (22.2 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. [One of] 25 drawings and prints for ceilings

Creator:: George Richardson, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (42.9 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

2. Sheet of Classical Figure Studies

3. Design for a Ceiling

4. A Design for a Mural Executed in the Salon at Roehampton House, Surrey: Apollo Carrying off Aeneas in a Cloud

5. Diana

6. Diana and Actaeon: A Study for a Panel on a Staircase

7. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

8. Hecate

9. Helios

10. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

11. Design for a Ceiling

12. Design of Apollo and the Python for a Painted over-door Decoration

13. Romance

14. Fall of a City

15. Design for a Ceiling at Addiscombe: Bacchus and Ariadne

16. Apollo and the Muses

17. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

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19. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

20. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

21. An Allegory of Love

22. Cassandra

23. Minotaur

24. The Mask of Comus. As Now Being Performed at the Theatre Royal, Madrid, with Amazing Success

25. Unhappy Ghosts Wandering on the Banks of Styx, while Charon in his Boat Ferries over the Elect to the Elysian Fields

26. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

27. Bluebeard Giving the Keys to Fatima

28. Classical Figures in Battle

29. Design for an Engraving: Battle of Troy with the Trojan Horse

30. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

31. Telemachus and Mentor

32. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

33. The Centaur Nessus Carrying off Deianira

34. The Fates

35. The Harpies Attacking the Daughters of Pandarus

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

37. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

38. Cupid and Psyche

39. Study for Bacchanal

40. Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ

41. Cupid Overpowering a Satyr

42. Venus and Mars

43. Design for Ceiling

44. Britannia Allegory

45. Benjamin West, P.R.A.

46. Hope Nursing Love

47. David Hume

48. Putto Holding a Torch

49. Studies for a Hand in The Godhead Fires

50. Venus, after Masters of Tarrochi

51. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

52. Sylvio and Dorinda

53. Cupid and Psyche

54. Vertumnus et Pomona

55. Elijah Casting off His Mantle

56. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

57. Sylvio and Dorinda

58. Mercury

59. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

60. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

61. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

62. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

63. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

64. Miss Ann Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne

65. Cupid's Tent

66. Aeneas Entering Hades

67. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

68. Lucretia Romana

69. Lucretia Romana

70. Vertumnus and Pomonae

71. Vertumnus and Pomonae

72. Augustus

73. Intemperance

74. Charon's Boat