Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: gesture

1. Virgin and Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (43.8 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Diana at the Bath

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/2 inches (76.2 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 5/8 inches (47.9 × 62.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Hecate

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 inches (21.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Incantation Scene

Creator:: Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 23 5/8 inches (50.2 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 15/16 inches (20.3 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

10. Lamentation

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper, pasted on thick, smooth, gray card
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 5/8 × 9 inches (27 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

11. Supper at Emmaus

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches (15.6 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

12. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

13. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (31.5 × 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 9/16 inches (44.2 x 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Susanna and the Elders

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 14 3/16 inches (45.9 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. S. Maria Magdalena

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 inches (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.2 × 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Charity

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and oil on medium, moderately textured, wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (5.4 × 13 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

19. Susanna and the Two Elders

Creator:: Print made by Richard Brookshaw, 1736–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 15/16 inches (37.4 x 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Elisha on His Death-Bed (II Kings 12:17)

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: before 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (8.3 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Vulcan's Forge

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 5/8 inches (27.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

22. Pilgrims Paying Their Devotion in St. Peters at Rome

Creator:: Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: between 1773 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 15/16 inches (25.1 × 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. St. Nil

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 12 15/16 inches (49.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Juvenis auscultans seni de divinis admonenti

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (46.6 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (21.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 9/16 x 9 5/8 inches (47.1 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Virgin and Child

2. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

3. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

4. Diana at the Bath

5. The Education of Achilles

6. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

7. Hecate

8. Incantation Scene

9. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

10. Lamentation

11. Supper at Emmaus

12. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

13. Sensibility

14. Sensibility

15. Susanna and the Elders

16. S. Maria Magdalena

17. Abraham and Isaac

18. Charity

19. Susanna and the Two Elders

20. Elisha on His Death-Bed (II Kings 12:17)

21. Vulcan's Forge

22. Pilgrims Paying Their Devotion in St. Peters at Rome

23. St. Nil

24. Juvenis auscultans seni de divinis admonenti

25. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

26. Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre