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1. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

Creator:: John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1590
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 45 × 71 3/4 inches (114.3 × 182.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Robert, Duke of Normandy, in Prison

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 9 1/16 x 7 1/2 inches (23 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Mixed media on paper
Dimensions:: 19 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (49.5 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

5. Cleopatra

Creator:: Benedetto Gennari, 1633–1715
Date:: between 1674 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 49 x 41 1/2 inches (124.5 x 105.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. Preparatory Study for the decoration "Equestrian Portrait of George I"

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 12 3/8 inches (28.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a Balloon, June 20, 1785

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

Creator:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882
Date:: ca. 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 7/8 inches (22.9 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Mary, Queen of Scots

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 18 3/8 inches (25.7 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. St. Jerome in his Study

Creator:: Alexander Marshal, active 1651–died 1682
Date:: 1650
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. James II Receiving the Mathematical Scholars of Christ's Hospital

Creator:: Studio of Antonio Verrio, ca. 1639–1707
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on canvas and nailed to wooden strainer
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 × 92 3/4 inches (45.9 × 235.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Wm. Fredk. King of Prussia (Frederick William III)

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 inches (34.3 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

13. Edward Duke of Kent, Father of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: after 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with stipple on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches (27.3 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

14. Frederick William III King of Prussia

Creator:: Print made by Charles James Canton, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Etching hand-colored with watercolor on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 14 3/8 inches (21.9 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

15. George the Third King of Great Britain &c &c &c

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1763-1764
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 inches (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

16. Silas Deane

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Johnson, 1709–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Manuscripts and Archives Collection, transfer from the Sterling Memorial Library

17. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

Creator:: Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962
Date:: 2011
Materials & Techniques:: Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:: Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund

18. Picasso's Meninas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1973
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, open-bite, lift-ground, aquatint, line engraving, drypoint, and burnishing; artist's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 13/16 x 22 3/8 inches (75.8 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

19. Robert, Duke of Normandy

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk with stumping and graphite on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 5/8 inches (22.9 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. King Henry VIII with Will Somer, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 3/16 inches (28.5 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (52.7 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. This is NOT the Baron of Oakland, in the Opera of the Haunted Tower

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (40.4 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie

23. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: between 1843 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Iron gall ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (22.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard J. Mammana Jr., Yale MAR 2012, in memory of Cynthia McFarland

24. Sappho

Creator:: attributed to Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (22.9 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wilton

25. The Departure Of The Sons Of Tippoo From The Zenana

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (52.1 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. James Boswell in the Dress of a Corsican Chief

Creator:: Print made by J. Miller, active 1769–1825
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple on medium, slighly textured, cream aid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (18.4 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp

27. 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

28. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume II, July 1894

Creator:: Print made by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872–1898
Date:: 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Photomechanical reproduction on thin, slightly textured, orange wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 x 8 9/16 inches (27.9 x 21.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

29. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume I, April 1894

Creator:: Print made by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872–1898
Date:: 1894
Materials & Techniques:: Photomechanical reproduction on medium, smooth, contemporary glossy paper, laid on contemporary mount made of medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 1/16 x 8 1/2 inches (28.1 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

30. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 11 7/16 inches (37 × 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Constantia

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Theodosius

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (30.7 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 x 30 3/8 inches (55.9 x 77.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Ten Needle-Box Prints

Creator:: Print made by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814–1885
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (10.6 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Royal Academy of Arts

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches (49.2 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, 4th March 1835

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Mann Baynes, 1794–1854
Date:: after 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 inches (37.5 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Medallions of F. Hutcheson and L. Natter

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 7/16 inches (36.9 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Younger, 1740–1814
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 54 1/4 inches (50.2 x 137.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/8 x 28 1/2 inches (51.1 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 x 28 7/8 inches (52.4 x 73.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum

Creator:: Print made by James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 13/16 inches (22.2 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Penny Trumpeter!

Creator:: Charles Jameson Grant, active 1830–1852
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (44.2 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie

43. David Garrick with a Bust of Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 24 1/2 x 15 1/8in. (62.2 x 38.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon

2. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

3. Robert, Duke of Normandy, in Prison

4. Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor

5. Cleopatra

6. Preparatory Study for the decoration "Equestrian Portrait of George I"

7. Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a Balloon, June 20, 1785

8. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

9. Mary, Queen of Scots

10. St. Jerome in his Study

11. James II Receiving the Mathematical Scholars of Christ's Hospital

12. Wm. Fredk. King of Prussia (Frederick William III)

13. Edward Duke of Kent, Father of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

14. Frederick William III King of Prussia

15. George the Third King of Great Britain &c &c &c

16. Silas Deane

17. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

18. Picasso's Meninas

19. Robert, Duke of Normandy

20. King Henry VIII with Will Somer, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I

21. Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

22. This is NOT the Baron of Oakland, in the Opera of the Haunted Tower

23. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

24. Sappho

25. The Departure Of The Sons Of Tippoo From The Zenana

26. James Boswell in the Dress of a Corsican Chief

27. 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

28. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume II, July 1894

29. Cover of "The Yellow Book: an Illustrated Quarterly", Volume I, April 1894

30. Sensibility

31. Constantia

32. Theodosius

33. Life School at the Royal Academy

34. Ten Needle-Box Prints

35. The Royal Academy of Arts

36. The Opening of the Lecture Theatre of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, 4th March 1835

37. Medallions of F. Hutcheson and L. Natter

38. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

39. Life School at the Royal Academy

40. Life School at the Royal Academy

41. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum

42. The Penny Trumpeter!

43. David Garrick with a Bust of Shakespeare