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1. 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

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. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 15/16in. (27 x 35.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. William Cowper, Author of "The Task"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, (volume 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings and line engravings on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper (volume 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings and line engravings on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Peasants' Nest: Cowper's tame Hares

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. William Cowper

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Mrs Cowper Mother of the Poet

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Tempest, Act I, Scene II. The Enchanted Island.

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1852 and 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (36.8 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Italy - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1852 and 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 24 inches (35.6 × 61 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Boccaccio, the Bird Cage

Creator:: Print made by J. P. Quilley, active 1828
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint; engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 38 5/8 × 26 inches (98.1 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Boccaccio, the Bird Cage

Creator:: Print made by J. P. Quilley, active 1828
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint; second published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 32 3/4 × 22 1/8 inches (83.2 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated, Uncut Panorama

Creator:: Print made by Ralph Hudson, active ca. 1820
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 22 1/8 inches (30.5 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Malvoleo

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/16 × 4 9/16 inches (18.9 × 11.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated, Uncut Panorama

Creator:: Print made by Ralph Hudson, active ca. 1820
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 22 1/2 inches (30.5 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. 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

20. Figure Studies for "The Tempest"

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth

21. The Captive Pegasus

Creator:: Print made by Charles Shannon, 1863–1937
Date:: 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Chiaroscuro woodcut on thin, slightly textured, beige 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; Gift of Donald and Willi Holden

22. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

Creator:: Roger Furse, 1903–1972
Date:: ca. 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 23 1/16 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (58.6 × 40 × 2.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell

23. Getting Ready for the Ball Triptych

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed lithogaphs on three sheets of white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 32 5/8 × 23 1/2 inches (82.9 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

24. Jane Eyre, The Guardians Suite

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Nine lithographs on white Somerset wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

25. Olney Church

Creator:: Print made by John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Peasant's Nest

Creator:: Print made by John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Cowper's Summer House

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Elms

Creator:: Print made by John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Shrubbery

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Temple in the Wilderness

Creator:: Print made by John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Rustic Bridge.

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Weston Lodge

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Alcove from the Avenue

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 1

Creator:: Text by John Gay, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16in. (26.7 x 17cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

35. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 2

Creator:: Published by John Stockdale, ca. 1749–1814
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Bound volume on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16in. (26.7 x 17cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

36. The Wilderness

Creator:: Print made by John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. John Bunyan. " Pilgrim's Progress ", illustrated by Thomas Stothard

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Strutt, 1749–1802
Date:: 1788 to 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engravings with etching bound in blue morocco on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Overall: 10 1/4 × 11 3/4 × 3/4 inches (26 × 29.8 × 1.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Mauritius - a scene with figures wearing classical costume standing by a pool flanked by palms; in the background is the Pieter Both Mountain

Creator:: William John Chamberlayne, 1821–1910
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on textured, thick, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 13/16 × 20 3/4 inches (35.1 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. James Graham, Marquess of Montrose

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 14 3/8 inches (53.5 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

41. Thomas Sackvill Earl of Dorset, Baron of Buckhurst

Creator:: Print made by George Vertue, 1684–1756
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, ream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 11/16 × 13 1/2 inches (52.5 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

42. Lady MacBeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on heavy board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 3/4 × 21 inches (103.5 × 53.3 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

43. Getting Ready for the Ball (Left Panel)

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 32 5/8 × 23 1/2 inches (82.9 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

44. Getting Ready for the Ball (Right Panel)

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 32 5/8 × 23 1/2 inches (82.9 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

45. Getting Ready for the Ball (Center Panel)

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 32 5/8 × 23 1/2 inches (82.9 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

46. Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James

Creator:: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:: 1875, printed ca.1980
Materials & Techniques:: Gold toned contact print from a collodion wet plate negative on photographic printing-out paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 1/2 × 15 1/4 × 1/2 inches (44.5 × 38.7 × 1.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sondra S. and Gary L. Haller, Yale MA (HON.) 1980

47. Olney Bridge

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Weston House

Creator:: Print made by John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Views from the Alcove

Creator:: Print made by James S. Storer, 1771–1853
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Wife of Bath's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (80 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

51. Chanticleer and Pertelote

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 23 3/8 inches (40.3 × 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

52. The Franklin's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

53. The Nun's Priest Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

54. Prologue

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

55. The Miller's Tale II

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1974
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/8 × 15 1/2 inches (59.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

56. The Reeve's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

57. The Squire's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

58. The Miller's Tale I

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1974
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/2 × 15 3/4 inches (59.7 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

59. The Merchant's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

60. The Shipman's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

61. The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Photomechanical reproduction on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery Collection

62. William Cavendish Marquis of Newcastle

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, printed in brown ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 7/8 inches (26 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

63. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress bound in full calf with marbled endpapers on moderately thick, slightly textured, laid paper and wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 1/8 inches (41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress, bound in contemporary publisher's paper-covered boards, rebacked on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: 13 Etchings bound in green cloth portfolio on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 inches (51.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. The Right Reverend Thomas Newton, D.D. Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St. Paul's

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 14 5/16 inches (49.2 × 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (34.3 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (51.4 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (50.2 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Ghismonda

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 13/16 × 11 11/16 inches (45.2 × 29.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. Unbound Facsimile Edition of William Blake's Illustrations for "The Poems of Thomas Gray"

Creator:: Print made by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Facsimile printed in color
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 13/16in. (41.9 x 32.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Six Designs for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: The Spirit of the South Sends Forth the Albatross as a Sign of Peace to the Ship

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 × 9 5/16 inches (30 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

77. Six Designs for Colreidge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: The Spectre Ship Approaches

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and tracing on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 1/2 inches (31.3 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

78. Six Designs for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Death and Line-in-Death, Dice for the Crew

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, tracing on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 9/16 inches (31.4 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

79. Six Designs for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: While Spirits of Peace Descend

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, and tracing on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 7/16 inches (31.3 × 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

80. Six Designs for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: The Crew Blames the Mariner for Killing the Albatross

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 9 inches (30.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

81. Six Designs for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: He Rows Ashore in the Pilot's Boat

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, tracing on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 9/16 inches (23.7 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

82. Christian and Hopeful in the Castle of Giant Despair

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, traced for transfer on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 11/16 inches (32.1 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

83. Christian, Accompanied by Discretion, Piety, Charity and Prudence

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: graphite, red chalk, traced for transfer on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 3/8 inches (32.7 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

84. Hearing the Music of the Spheres

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 7 5/16in. (17.6 x 18.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

85. The Baron's Hall of Chaucer's Time

Creator:: Thomas Sibson, 1817–1844
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on thin, smooth, brown tracing paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

86. Mrs. Yates, in the Character of the Tragic-Muse

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (62.2 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

87. Nicolaus Boileau Despreaux

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: 1704
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (41.3 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

88. Robert Burns

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/16 × 14 11/16 inches (48.4 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

89. Death's Door

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 14 inches (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Death's Door

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (49.8 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. The late Mrs Pope as Juliet

Creator:: William Ward, 1766–1826
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (50.2 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Opening the Fold

2. Opening the Fold

3. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

4. William Cowper, Author of "The Task"

5. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, (volume 1)

6. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper (volume 2)

7. The Peasants' Nest: Cowper's tame Hares

8. William Cowper

9. Mrs Cowper Mother of the Poet

10. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

11. Tempest, Act I, Scene II. The Enchanted Island.

12. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

13. Italy - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

14. Boccaccio, the Bird Cage

15. Boccaccio, the Bird Cage

16. The Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated, Uncut Panorama

17. Malvoleo

18. Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated, Uncut Panorama

19. Gil Blas Practicing Medicine Under Dr. Sangrado

20. Figure Studies for "The Tempest"

21. The Captive Pegasus

22. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

23. Getting Ready for the Ball Triptych

24. Jane Eyre, The Guardians Suite

25. Olney Church

26. The Peasant's Nest

27. Cowper's Summer House

28. The Elms

29. The Shrubbery

30. The Temple in the Wilderness

31. The Rustic Bridge.

32. Weston Lodge

33. The Alcove from the Avenue

34. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 1

35. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 2

36. The Wilderness

37. Christ Descending into the Grave

38. John Bunyan. " Pilgrim's Progress ", illustrated by Thomas Stothard

39. Mauritius - a scene with figures wearing classical costume standing by a pool flanked by palms; in the background is the Pieter Both Mountain

40. James Graham, Marquess of Montrose

41. Thomas Sackvill Earl of Dorset, Baron of Buckhurst

42. Lady MacBeth

43. Getting Ready for the Ball (Left Panel)

44. Getting Ready for the Ball (Right Panel)

45. Getting Ready for the Ball (Center Panel)

46. Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James

47. Olney Bridge

48. Weston House

49. Views from the Alcove

50. Wife of Bath's Tale

51. Chanticleer and Pertelote

52. The Franklin's Tale

53. The Nun's Priest Tale

54. Prologue

55. The Miller's Tale II

56. The Reeve's Tale

57. The Squire's Tale

58. The Miller's Tale I

59. The Merchant's Tale

60. The Shipman's Tale

61. The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

62. William Cavendish Marquis of Newcastle

63. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

64. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

65. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

66. The Right Reverend Thomas Newton, D.D. Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St. Paul's

67. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

68. Christ Descending into the Grave

69. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

70. The Day of Judgment

71. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

72. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

73. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

74. Ghismonda