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The Seven Ages of Man: The Schoolboy, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v
Creator:
George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
ca. 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Aesacus and Hesperie
Creator:
Etched 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
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 on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/4 inches (28.3 × 40 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Aesacus and Hesperie
Creator:
Etched and engraved 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
Procris and Cephalus
Creator:
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
1812
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.3 × 41 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 115, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 4, "II Man by his reasoning power . . . ." (Bentley a5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 101, "Ode for Music."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 5, "Ode on the Spring."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence, Plate 10, "The Ecchoing Green" (Bentley 6)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence, Plate 16, "Night" (Bentley 20)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence, Plate 6, "The Little Girl Found" (Bentley 35)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence, Plate 2, Title Page (Bentley 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration
Creator:
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slight textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 3/4 inches (14.9 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration
Creator:
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 3 15/16 inches (17 × 10 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath
Creator:
George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (19 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
St. Julienne's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and graphite, engraver's proof (touched) on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (44.5 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"This is fairy gold, boy, and will prove so"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1804
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (42.7 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Illustration for Shakespeare's " A Winter's Tale" or '"Cymbeline"
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and pen and brown ink on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (6.4 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sylvio and Dorinda
Creator:
Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:
between 1752 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/16 x 14 1/8 inches (26.2 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Apollo and Daphne
Creator:
Print made by Elisha Kirkall, ca. 1682–1742
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 1/8 inches (16.7 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Sylvio and Dorinda
Creator:
Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:
between 1680 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 5/8 inches (23.1 × 32 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of the Merry Wives of Windsor
Creator:
Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 11 5/16 inches (31.2 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Unidentified Periodical / Play Illustration
Creator:
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/16 × 3 15/16 inches (16 × 10 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Pan and Syrinx
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 inches (30.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pan and Syrinx
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: 11 1/2 × 16 1/4 inches (29.2 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Mark your divorce young sir, whom son I dare not call"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1804
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (42.7 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Procris and Cephalus
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1885
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (26 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
St. Herbert's Chapel
Creator:
Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving, 1st state on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 7/8 inches (29.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching printed in brown ink (trial proof) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 × 13 3/8 inches (25.4 × 34 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 17 inches (30.5 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; working proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 3/8 inches (30.8 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by James T. Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:
1856
Materials & Techniques:
Etching; open etched state on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/8 × 26 1/2 inches (41 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Abiel Prior, 1809–1886
Date:
1873
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 27 1/4 × 39 7/8 inches (69.2 × 101.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by James T. Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:
1856
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; first published state on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 26 3/8 × 32 7/8 inches (67 × 83.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink, with gouache; touched proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 15 inches (27.6 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; working proof 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, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
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: 11 3/4 × 16 5/8 inches (29.8 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:
1896
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with mezzotint (trial proof of abandoned plate) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 1/4 inches (24.4 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell
No cover image available
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