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The Lady of Shalott
Creator:
Walter Crane, 1845–1915
Date:
1862
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
The Sepulchre
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 13/16 inches (24 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Albions Angel stood beside the Stone of night, and saw..." (Plate 7)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief and white-line etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Now comes the night of Enitharmons joy!..." (Plate 7)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Whirlwind of Lovers (Plate 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 21 7/16 inches (37.5 × 54.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils (Plate 2)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 21 1/4 inches (38.8 × 54 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Serpent Attacking Buoso Donati (Plate 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 21 9/16 inches (39 × 54.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers (Plate 6)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 1/4 inches (37.8 × 54 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Jerusalem, Chapter 3. But Los, who is the Vehicular Form..." (Plate 53)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief and white-line etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (34.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1784 to 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Juliet
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1799
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (24.4 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Dryburgh Abbey
Creator:
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (24.1 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Kean as Othello
Creator:
unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 8in. (24.1 x 20.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Viola nach Shakespeare von Deinhardstein - Costume Bild zur Theatrezeitung
Creator:
Andreas Geiger, 1765–1856
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 1/16 inches (24 x 30.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Three Witches
Creator:
Peltro W. Tomkins, 1760–1840
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 10 3/16 inches (24.2 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Frances Abington (née Barton) as Roxalana in "The Sultan"
Creator:
John Keyse Sherwin, c.1751–1790
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 9/16 inches (24.4 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscriptions in Greek Alphabet
Creator:
Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:
1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 9/16 inches (24 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Lover

The Lover
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 5/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Caerlaverock Castle
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 17 5/8 inches (23.5 × 44.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Abbotsford
Creator:
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:
1841
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with chine-collé; open etched state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/8 × 11 1/4 inches (41 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to the Iliad
Creator:
John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:
between 1760 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (23.5 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Ulysses and Circes
Creator:
Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 11/16 inches (24.8 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Venus and Adonis
Creator:
Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:
ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint, before all letters on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 13/16 inches (25.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Venus and Adonis
Creator:
Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 inches (26.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Dorastus and Fawnia
Creator:
Print made by John Simon, 1675–1751
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 9/16 × 14 1/16 inches (26.8 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Meeting of a Family in Heaven
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Death of the Strong Wicked Man
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Reunion of the Soul & the Body
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Death's Door
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of the Good Old Man
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Parnassus and Castalian Spring
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 7/16 inches (24.9 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Dido and Aeneas
Creator:
Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:
between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 inches (23.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 inches (23.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Grandpapa's Story or The Witches Frolick
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
1838
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 5 11/16 inches (23.5 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
The Plain of Troy
Creator:
Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:
1832
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving; third state on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/16 inches (28.3 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Summer Eve, the Rainbow
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1837
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine-collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 11 inches (41.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gertrude of Wyoming - The Valley
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1837
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 5 5/8 inches (24.1 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Expulsion from Paradise
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1835
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 7/8 inches (23.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Parting of Hero and Leander
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Bradshaw, 1830–1869
Date:
ca. 1861
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (23.5 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sheet of Sketches
Creator:
Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite; verso: pen and brown ink and graphite on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (24.1 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Studies for Shylock
Creator:
Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:
1825
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper joined to thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:
Mount: 15 × 18 7/8 inches (38.1 × 47.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Scene from "The Abbot"
Creator:
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, Fund
Study for the Figures of Demitrius and Two Workmen
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, brown chalk and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (24.4 × 27 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
Creator:
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:
ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Col. Mannering, Hazlewood, and the Smugglers
Creator:
Print made by William Finden, 1787–1852
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (a) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (23.5 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Juliet
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
unknown
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches (24.4 x 14 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Jonathan Wild Discovers Darrell in the Loft
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: 9 1/2 x 7 11/16 inches (24.2 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Troilus and Cressida?
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 inches (23.8 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery
Abbotsford
Creator:
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:
1841
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (30.8 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Newark Castle
Creator:
Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (c) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 inches (44.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Abington as Thalia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving printed in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 9/16 × 8 1/4 inches (26.8 × 21 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Othello and Desdemona, 'Othello', Act V, Scene II
Creator:
attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:
ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (24.4 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund