Genre: literary theme / Height [cm]: 32 / Image Use: Free to Use

1. Lear Awakened by Cordelia

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: ca. 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 5/16 inches (38 x 49 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

2. Prospero Summoning Ariel

Creator:: William Young Ottley, 1771–1836
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, white chalk, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (31.6 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer

Creator:: Alfred Edward Chalon, 1780–1860
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (31.8 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Macbeth and the Witches

Creator:: James Northcote, 1746–1831
Date:: between 1777 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (32.4 x 41.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. David Garrick, Esq.

Creator:: Robert Laurie, 1755?–1836
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 7/16 inches (37.6 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Emma, Lady Hamilton as 'Ariadne'

Creator:: Print made by Charles Brome, ca. 1774–1801
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/4 × 17 inches (59.1 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. The Day of Judgment

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

8. William Congreve Esq.

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 5/16 inches (35.9 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Matthew Prior

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (35.9 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. John Hawkesworth

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 13 inches (43.2 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Dr. John Reynolds, S.T.B.

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Sir Richard Steele

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 15/16 inches (39.1 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Right Honorable Jospeh Addison, Esqr.

Creator:: John Simon, 1675–1755
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 1/8 inches (35.6 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Smailholm Tower

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 inches (32.4 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Study of a Woman, Imploring for the Return of Her Captive Child

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 3 9/16 inches (14.1 × 9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. MSS Bible Regia

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

17. Joseph Addison Esq.

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 × 10 1/8 inches (36.4 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Mr. Alexander Pope

Creator:: John Simon, 1675–1755
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. John Smith, Writing Master in London

Creator:: William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (32.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. George Stepney Esq.

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (36 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. John Locke, Esq.

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 × 9 7/8 inches (34.4 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. John Philip Kemble, as Richard III

Creator:: George Keating, 1762–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 1/4 inches (32.1 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Heavenly Ganymede

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1804, published 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (31.8 × 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Lear Awakened by Cordelia

2. Prospero Summoning Ariel

3. Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer

4. Macbeth and the Witches

5. David Garrick, Esq.

6. Emma, Lady Hamilton as 'Ariadne'

7. The Day of Judgment

8. William Congreve Esq.

9. Matthew Prior

10. John Hawkesworth

11. Dr. John Reynolds, S.T.B.

12. Sir Richard Steele

13. The Right Honorable Jospeh Addison, Esqr.

14. Smailholm Tower

15. Study of a Woman, Imploring for the Return of Her Captive Child

16. MSS Bible Regia

17. Joseph Addison Esq.

18. Mr. Alexander Pope

19. John Smith, Writing Master in London

20. George Stepney Esq.

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

22. The Day of Judgment

23. Christian and Hopeful in the Castle of Giant Despair

24. The Day of Judgment

25. The Day of Judgment

26. John Locke, Esq.

27. John Philip Kemble, as Richard III

28. Heavenly Ganymede