Period: 19th century / Height [cm]: 18 / Subject Terms: literary theme

1. Dr. Syntax: On a Horse, Jumping a Gate

Creator:: Derby porcelain factory, founded 1756
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Derby figure
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7in. (17.8cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1926
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed under the supervision of Sir Frank Short, Martin Hardie and Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1926) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 9/16 inches (18.4 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1920
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed in brown ink by Sir Frank Short) on thin, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 10 1/2 inches (17.6 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; engraver's proof (f) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 inches (29.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 1/4 inches (17.8 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 7/8 inches (29.2 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: White-line metal cut engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 1/8 inches (17.8 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791–1873
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; finished state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 inches (34 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (31.1 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 5/16 inches (17.7 x 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Falstaff and his Friends

Creator:: William Greatbach, Born 1802
Date:: ca. 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 inches (22.5 × 28 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Little Red Riding Hood

Creator:: Print made by imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut done by Le Blond & Co. on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 5 1/8 inches (17.9 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 inches (21.8 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

14. Jonathan Wild Throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard Down the Well-Hole

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.9 x 19 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

15. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Woods Bedroom

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 3/8 inches (21.8 x 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

16. The Name on the Beams

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches (21 x 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

17. Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (21 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

18. Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 1/16 inches (21.7 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

19. Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (21.8 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

20. Audacity of Jack Sheppard

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.2 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

21. "May I be Cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard, "if ever I try to be honest again!"

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (21.6 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

22. Jonathan Wild Seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church Yard

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (21.5 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

23. Sandy Knowe, or Smailholm Tower

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 4 1/4 inches (18.1 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Jack Sheppard's Escape from the Cage at Willesden

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 7 3/16 inches (21.9 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

25. Jack Sheppard Accuses Thames Darrell of the Theft

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches (22.5 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

26. Jack Sheppard's Irons Knocked off in the Stone Hall at Newgate

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (21.7 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

27. Scene from Quentin Durward

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Murder of Banquo

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Mr. Wood Offers to Adopt Little Jack Sheppard

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 7 7/16 inches (22 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

30. The Murder on the Thames

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (23 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

31. Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches (21 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

32. Carlisle

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, with graphite, scraping out, and chine collé; touched engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 inches (18.4 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary mount paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (16.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 4, Scene 1

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 inches (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Hudibras and Rolpho

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 6 inches (17.5 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. A Scene in Ancient Rome: A Setting for Titus Andronicus, I, ii

Creator:: Joseph Michael Gandy, 1771–1843
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 1/2in. (18.4 x 29.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (31.1 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Dr. Syntax: On a Horse, Jumping a Gate

2. Opening the Fold

3. Opening the Fold

4. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

5. Aesacus and Hesperie

6. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

7. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

8. Procris and Cephalus

9. Aesacus and Hesperie

10. Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song

11. Falstaff and his Friends

12. Little Red Riding Hood

13. The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'

14. Jonathan Wild Throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard Down the Well-Hole

15. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Woods Bedroom

16. The Name on the Beams

17. Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off

18. Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character

19. Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church

20. Audacity of Jack Sheppard

21. "May I be Cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard, "if ever I try to be honest again!"

22. Jonathan Wild Seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church Yard

23. Sandy Knowe, or Smailholm Tower

24. Jack Sheppard's Escape from the Cage at Willesden

25. Jack Sheppard Accuses Thames Darrell of the Theft

26. Jack Sheppard's Irons Knocked off in the Stone Hall at Newgate

27. Scene from Quentin Durward

28. The Murder of Banquo

29. Mr. Wood Offers to Adopt Little Jack Sheppard

30. The Murder on the Thames

31. Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son

32. Carlisle

33. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2

34. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 4, Scene 1

35. Hudibras and Rolpho

36. A Scene in Ancient Rome: A Setting for Titus Andronicus, I, ii

37. Aesacus and Hesperie