Genre: literary theme / Height [cm]: 18 - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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

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

2. An Unwritten Novel

Creator:: Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1921
Materials & Techniques:: Woodcut on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 3/4 inches (18.4 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin

3. 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

4. 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

5. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 17 inches (28.9 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

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

7. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; second published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 15 5/8 inches (27.9 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Aesacus and Hesperie

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

9. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

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

10. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Songs of Experience, Frontispiece (Plate 32)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief and white-line etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

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

15. William Cowper

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and 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

16. Allegorical Sketch of Victory

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (18.4 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Skech for Timon of Athens

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/8 × 9 7/16 inches (13 × 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Procris and Cephalus

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

19. Aesacus and Hesperie

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

20. Illustration for Don Quixote, Two Figures at a Table

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 3 1/2in. (7.6 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song

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

22. Falstaff and his Friends

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

23. David Garrick Esq.

Creator:: Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (27.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Mrs. Robinson

Creator:: Print made by William Birch, 1755–1834
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and acquatint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 7/16 inches (17.8 × 13.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Skiddaw

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (18.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1627
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/4 inches (17.9 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Little Red Riding Hood

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

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

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

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

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

30. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Woods Bedroom

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

31. The Name on the Beams

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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off

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

35. Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character

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

36. Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church

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

37. Audacity of Jack Sheppard

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

38. Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 9/16 inches (21.4 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

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

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

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

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

41. Ehrenbreitstein

Creator:: Print made by John Cousen, 1804–1880
Date:: between 1859 and 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (29.2 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Mount Moriah

Creator:: Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine-collé; first state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (18.4 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Sandy Knowe, or Smailholm Tower

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

44. Title Page: William Hunter's Coat of Arms

Creator:: Print made by Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 6 13/16 × 4 15/16 inches (17.3 × 12.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Edwin M. Herr, Yale PhD 1884, Memorial Collection; Gift of Mrs. Herr, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

45. Nathan the Wise

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:: 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 4 3/8 inches (17.5 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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

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

47. Jack Sheppard Accuses Thames Darrell of the Theft

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

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

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

49. Mount Moriah

Creator:: Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 16 1/4 inches (27.6 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. A Voyage of Discovery

Creator:: William Finden, 1787–1852
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 9/16 inches (43.5 × 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Loch Lomond

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; early engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 6 3/4 inches (21.9 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Designs for Illustrations to Beethoven's Works

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (18.1 × 23.5 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

53. Scene from Quentin Durward

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

54. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Gulliver Bound by the Lilliputians

Creator:: Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, rough, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (17.5 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Murder of Banquo

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

57. Sigismunda

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash, graphite and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (18.4 × 23.8 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

58. Mr. Wood Offers to Adopt Little Jack Sheppard

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

59. The Murder on the Thames

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

60. Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son

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

61. Jane Shore

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (18.1 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Carlisle

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

63. Loch Katrine

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, with graphite, white chalk, and chine collé; touched engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 9 1/2 inches (17.8 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 13 inches (17.8 x 33 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

65. Theatrical Scene

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811
Date:: after 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches (18.4 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

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

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

68. Hudibras and Rolpho

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

69. To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 inches (18.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

71. Aesacus and Hesperie

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

72. The Wine Drinkers

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:: 1904
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 3/8 inches (42.2 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

73. The Mutiny of the Mavericks

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 8 inches (23.2 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood

74. William the Conqueror

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.8 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood

75. 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

76. 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

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

2. An Unwritten Novel

3. Opening the Fold

4. Opening the Fold

5. Aesacus and Hesperie

6. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

7. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

8. Aesacus and Hesperie

9. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

10. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

11. Songs of Experience, Frontispiece (Plate 32)

12. Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)

13. Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

14. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

15. William Cowper

16. Allegorical Sketch of Victory

17. Skech for Timon of Athens

18. Procris and Cephalus

19. Aesacus and Hesperie

20. Illustration for Don Quixote, Two Figures at a Table

21. Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song

22. Falstaff and his Friends

23. David Garrick Esq.

24. Mrs. Robinson

25. Skiddaw

26. Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban

27. Little Red Riding Hood

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

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

30. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Woods Bedroom

31. The Name on the Beams

32. Dido and Aeneas

33. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

34. Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off

35. Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character

36. Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church

37. Audacity of Jack Sheppard

38. Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler

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

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

41. Ehrenbreitstein

42. Mount Moriah

43. Sandy Knowe, or Smailholm Tower

44. Title Page: William Hunter's Coat of Arms

45. Nathan the Wise

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

47. Jack Sheppard Accuses Thames Darrell of the Theft

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

49. Mount Moriah

50. A Voyage of Discovery

51. Loch Lomond

52. Designs for Illustrations to Beethoven's Works

53. Scene from Quentin Durward

54. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

55. Gulliver Bound by the Lilliputians

56. The Murder of Banquo

57. Sigismunda

58. Mr. Wood Offers to Adopt Little Jack Sheppard

59. The Murder on the Thames

60. Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son

61. Jane Shore

62. Carlisle

63. Loch Katrine

64. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

65. Theatrical Scene

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

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

68. Hudibras and Rolpho

69. To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

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

71. Aesacus and Hesperie

72. The Wine Drinkers

73. The Mutiny of the Mavericks

74. William the Conqueror