Period: 18th century / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: swords

1. St. Paul before Agrippa

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches (81.9 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. The Battle of La Hogue

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1778, retouched 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 3/4 x 96 1/4 inches (164.5 x 244.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. Scene in a London Street

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 inches (95.3 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Cave of Despair

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. British Gentlemen in Rome

Creator:: Katherine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/4 × 53 inches (94.6 × 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Hob Selling Beer at the Wake

Creator:: John Laguerre, 1688–1746
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 36 1/2 inches (88.9 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Hob's Defence

Creator:: John Laguerre, 1688–1746
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches (90.2 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I"

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 1/2 inches (91.4 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

10. Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks..." (Plate 3)

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: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. "Hurry, hurry, to the field!" Design 75)

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

12. The Relief

Creator:: William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 × 13 3/8 inches (29 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Enchantress

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 × 29 3/4 inches (54.9 × 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. The Enchantress

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 × 29 3/4 inches (54.9 × 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Banditti

Creator:: Joseph Haynes, 1760–1829
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (35.2 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Death of Captain Alexander Hood

Creator:: Print made by Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 26 1/2 inches (56.2 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. 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

18. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

Creator:: Print made by Paul Angier, active 1749
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 inches (31.4 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

19. George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham

Creator:: Imitator of Renold Elstrack, 1570–1625(?)
Date:: between 1700 and 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 13/16 inches (25.1 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George A. Douglass

20. The Battle at La Hogue

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 1/16 inches (50.2 × 63.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

21. Shakespeare Illustration: "Henry VIII"

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

22. Taming of the Shrew. Katharine and Petruchio - The Modern Quixotte, or, What You Will

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 x 15 3/4 inches (22.9 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Death of the Great Wolf

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 7/16 inches (34 × 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (62.5 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (44.8 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Alphonso and Aciloe

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 11 inches (38.5 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Edward, Prince of Wales, Presenting the Captive King John of France and His Sons to His Father Edward the Third After the Battle of Poictiers

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper laid on mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/4 x 19 1/16 inches (38.8 x 48.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Plate from Orlando Furioso: Depicting Orlando and Rodomont Fighting

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Scots Concert!!!

Creator:: Richard Newton, 1777–1798
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching & aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 5/8in. (39.1 x 52.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. A Durbar Scene, Poona, October 3, 1792

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 1/16 inches (11.4 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Mary, Queen of Scots, Embarking

Creator:: William Lock II, 1767–1847
Date:: between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 3/4 inches (30.8 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector

Creator:: Domenico Cunego, 1726–1803
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 15 7/8 x 24 1/8in. (40.3 x 61.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

35. Political Caricature: "The Spiritualists"

Creator:: Anthony Walker, 1726–1765
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (22.9 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Duel: 'Twelfth Night,' Act III, Scene IV

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, red ink, black ink, brown ink, gum arabic, graphite, and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 16 13/16 inches (56.2 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Two Men Fighting Before a Woman

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (8.9 x 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (31.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Sketchbook of Portrait Studies

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: 1760s
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bound in carta fiorentina
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (22.2 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Lady and a Gentleman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 5 3/8 inches (15.9 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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. Caricature of Two Men with Drawn Swords (One of a Set of Three)

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (19.4 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Design for a Frontispiece: A Bishop Conferring an Honor, Scene Within a Cartouche

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, red chalk, and graphite, incised for transfer on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/2 × 11 inches (39.4 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Port Mahon

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: between 1756 and 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 × 9 7/8 inches (20.3 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. St. Paul before Agrippa

2. The Battle of La Hogue

3. Scene in a London Street

4. The Cave of Despair

5. British Gentlemen in Rome

6. Hob Selling Beer at the Wake

7. Hob's Defence

8. Scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I"

9. Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla

10. Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks..." (Plate 3)

11. "Hurry, hurry, to the field!" Design 75)

12. The Relief

13. The Enchantress

14. The Enchantress

15. Banditti

16. Death of Captain Alexander Hood

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

18. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

19. George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham

20. The Battle at La Hogue

21. Shakespeare Illustration: "Henry VIII"

22. Taming of the Shrew. Katharine and Petruchio - The Modern Quixotte, or, What You Will

23. The Death of the Great Wolf

24. Presages of the Millenium

25. Death on a Pale Horse

26. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

27. Alphonso and Aciloe

28. Edward, Prince of Wales, Presenting the Captive King John of France and His Sons to His Father Edward the Third After the Battle of Poictiers

29. A Plate from Orlando Furioso: Depicting Orlando and Rodomont Fighting

30. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

31. A Scots Concert!!!

32. A Durbar Scene, Poona, October 3, 1792

33. Mary, Queen of Scots, Embarking

34. Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector

35. Political Caricature: "The Spiritualists"

36. The Duel: 'Twelfth Night,' Act III, Scene IV

37. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

38. Two Men Fighting Before a Woman

39. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

40. Sketchbook of Portrait Studies

41. A Lady and a Gentleman

42. Venus and Mars

43. Caricature of Two Men with Drawn Swords (One of a Set of Three)

44. Design for a Frontispiece: A Bishop Conferring an Honor, Scene Within a Cartouche

45. Port Mahon