Period: 19th century / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: curtains

1. The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe Theatre

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1864 to 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 7/8 x 21 7/8 inches (70.8 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

Creator:: Charles Hunt, 1803–1877
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. The Lady Betty Germain Bedroom at Knole, Kent

Creator:: James Holland, 1799–1870
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 37 1/2 inches (68.6 x 95.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Seated Turk

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches (33.7 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Passing of the Great Emancipation Act

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:: ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (26.7 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Henry Howard, 1769–1847
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 1/4 inches (91.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. An Unknown Woman

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/2 inches (76.2 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Self-Portrait

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Diana at the Bath

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/2 inches (76.2 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Venus Rising from her Couch

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 3/4 inches (76.2 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Le Repos

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches (36.8 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Bergues - La Tour du March,

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 1/2in. (24.5 x 14cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Sunshine of Love

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches (44.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Viola and Olivia

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 4 3/8 inches (16.7 x 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 x 4 1/2 inches (16.1 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught

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 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (16.5 x 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Infant

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 10 7/8 inches (22.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Shakespeare in His Study

Creator:: James Faed Sr., 1821–1911
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, etching, and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches (62.6 x 46.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. 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

20. Specimens of Waltzing

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 13/16 inches (24.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Eight Rural Subjects

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, stipple engraving and color woodcut on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 11 3/16 inches (31.8 × 28.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Queen Victoria

Creator:: after George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, etching, and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 7 1/2 inches (27.5 × 19 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Hogarth After His Wife had Put on a New Night Shirt, Ties up Her Things to Send to Sir James Thornhill with a Letter in Which He Told Him, 'He took His Daughter Without a Smock to Her A--e

Hogarth After His Wife had Put on a New Night Shirt, Ties up Her Things to Send to Sir James Thornhill with a Letter in Which He Told Him, 'He took His Daughter Without a Smock to Her A--e

Creator:: John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 3/4 inches (32.7 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Reverend. Shute Barrington L.L.D.

Creator:: William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 13/16 inches (50.2 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Hazard Room at Crockford's

Creator:: T. J. Rawlins, active 1837–1840
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (12.1 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV: Olivia's House

Creator:: Thomas Ryder, 1746–1810
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 29 1/2 inches (50.8 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Messrs. Morgan & Sanders, Catherine St., Strand

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 7/16 inches (15.4 × 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Miss Macdonald

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (35.8 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Frank Altschul, Yale BA 1908, PhD (HON.) 1967, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

29. As You Like It: Act II, Scene VII: The Seven Ages Man (Third Age)

Creator:: Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches (51.4 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening thou Bringest All)

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1802, published 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 13 5/8 inches (22.8 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

31. George Vertue

Creator:: Print made by George T Doo, 1800–1886
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches (24.5 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Interior View of the Gallery of Hatfield House

Creator:: John Buckler FSA, 1770–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 inches (50.2 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Dining Room at Newby Hall, Yorkshire

Creator:: John Buckler FSA, 1770–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 19 3/4 inches (35.6 × 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda

Creator:: Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with black chalk and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (21.9 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Main Entrance of Great Mosque, (Ulu cami) Bursa, Turkey,

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1840 and 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (29.8 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Illustration for The New Doll: The Doll brought Home

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (11.4 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

37. The Spoiled Child, Scene III

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (39.3 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Death of Cardinal Wolsey

Creator:: Print made by Philip Audinet, 1766–1837
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 7/8 inches (35.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent

39. Henry Liverseege

Creator:: Print made by Henry Cousins, died 1864
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 inches (29.2 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Whistler Seated in a Chair in His Paris (rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs) Studio

Creator:: Paul François Arnold Cardon, called "Dornac", 1859–1941
Date:: 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print on thin, smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 8 inches (26 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

41. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

Creator:: Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (28.3 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

42. Olivia and Maria

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown wash, gouache and oil on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 inches (10.7 x 8.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Princes in the Tower

Creator:: William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (27.5 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. An Unconventional Visit

Creator:: Robert Isaac Cruikshank, 1789–1856
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, lightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (20.6 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Woman Reading, Seated Before a Window

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (25.1 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Death of Mark Antony

Creator:: Print made by Jean Marie Delatre, 1746–1840
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 12 1/4 inches (37.2 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Gil Blas Practicing Medicine Under Dr. Sangrado

Creator:: Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857
Date:: between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with brown pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, laid in contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches (44.2 x 52 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Drawing Room Interior

Creator:: William Matthison, 1853–1926
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 13 5/8 inches (25.4 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

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1. The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe Theatre

2. Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii

3. The Lady Betty Germain Bedroom at Knole, Kent

4. Seated Turk

5. The Passing of the Great Emancipation Act

6. Venus and Cupid

7. An Unknown Woman

8. Self-Portrait

9. Diana at the Bath

10. Venus Rising from her Couch

11. Le Repos

12. Bergues - La Tour du March,

13. Sunshine of Love

14. Viola and Olivia

15. Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet

16. Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught

17. The Infant

18. Shakespeare in His Study

19. William Henry West Betty

20. Specimens of Waltzing

21. Eight Rural Subjects

22. Queen Victoria

23. Hogarth After His Wife had Put on a New Night Shirt, Ties up Her Things to Send to Sir James Thornhill with a Letter in Which He Told Him, 'He took His Daughter Without a Smock to Her A--e

24. Reverend. Shute Barrington L.L.D.

25. The Hazard Room at Crockford's

26. Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV: Olivia's House

27. Messrs. Morgan & Sanders, Catherine St., Strand

28. Miss Macdonald

29. As You Like It: Act II, Scene VII: The Seven Ages Man (Third Age)

30. A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening thou Bringest All)

31. George Vertue

32. Interior View of the Gallery of Hatfield House

33. The Dining Room at Newby Hall, Yorkshire

34. Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda

35. Main Entrance of Great Mosque, (Ulu cami) Bursa, Turkey,

36. Illustration for The New Doll: The Doll brought Home

37. The Spoiled Child, Scene III

38. The Death of Cardinal Wolsey

39. Henry Liverseege

40. Whistler Seated in a Chair in His Paris (rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs) Studio

41. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

42. Olivia and Maria

43. The Princes in the Tower

44. An Unconventional Visit

45. Woman Reading, Seated Before a Window

46. The Death of Mark Antony

47. Gil Blas Practicing Medicine Under Dr. Sangrado

48. Drawing Room Interior