Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: love

1. Venus Rising from her Couch

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 3/4 inches (76.2 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Cupid Armed

Creator:: William Hilton, 1786–1839
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

3. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Henry Howard, 1769–1847
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 1/4 inches (91.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Cymon and Iphigenia

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 32 1/2 inches (61.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. Dido

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 3/16 × 72 3/16 inches (244.3 × 183.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Hero and Leander

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, gouache, and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 inches (42.2 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Peter Oliver, 1589–1647
Date:: 1631
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 x 8 13/16 inches (19.2 x 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. An Allegory of Love

Creator:: Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1734–1808
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and colored chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 24 7/16 inches (49.5 x 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. A Difference of Opinion

Creator:: Print made by Auguste Boulard, 1852–1927
Date:: 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 15/16 × 12 3/16 inches (48.1 × 30.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bryan Fuermann

14. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 18 5/8 inches (49.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: ca. 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pastel on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/8 x 19 inches (70.2 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund

16. Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 5 11/16 inches (14.8 × 14.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

17. Hope Nursing Love

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/8 inches (50.5 × 35.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

Creator:: Print made by John Franklin, c.1800–1868
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.8 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Fry Print Collection

19. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 13 1/2 inches (25.9 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Endymion and Diana

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/16 inches (22.5 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Creator:: Print made by John Simon, 1675–1755
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 1/8 inches (22.9 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Cupid

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 5 13/16 inches (21.7 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Venus Witholding Adonis From the Chase

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 5/16 inches (17.8 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Tristis Mea est Anima Usque ad Mortem / My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 1/16 inches (24.3 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Bacchus et Ariadne

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 15/16 inches (27.1 × 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 1/16 inches (24.9 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: between 1690 and 1699
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 inches (24.1 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/16 inches (24.9 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, before all letters on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 13/16 inches (25.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Cupids Trying Out a Bow

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 3 13/16 inches (12.4 × 9.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Phoebus and Leucothea

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 7/16 inches (18.1 × 13.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 inches (26.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Love

Creator:: Print made by William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: c.1813
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (second state) on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 inches (42.9 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Madona col Bambino

Creator:: Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (Ham.II) on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 3/8 inches (51.4 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: between 1680 and 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 10 inches (31.8 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 20 3/8 inches (38.6 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Bacchus and Ariadne

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 inches (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Elijah

Creator:: Print made by Robert Robinson, active 1674–1706
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 5/16 inches (17.8 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Allaert van Everdingen, 1621–1675
Date:: between 1660 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 inches (16.5 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Christ and Ye Woman of Samaria

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 6 7/16 inches (21.9 × 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Ulysses and Circes

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 11/16 inches (24.8 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 inches (14.6 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 2nd state ) on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/2 × 19 1/4 inches (67.3 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. The Sleeping Nymph

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (only state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 11/16 × 24 13/16 inches (52.5 × 63 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Love Vindicated (L'Amour Vinqe')

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 8 7/8 inches (15.2 × 22.5 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

46. Cupid and Cephisa: "Cephisa says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 14 13/16 inches (49.8 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Sacra Christi Familia

Creator:: Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 inches (33.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. Madona Col Bambino

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 × 15 1/8 inches (52.7 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Venus Chiding Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 10 1/8 inches (29.6 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 3/16 inches (50.4 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. 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

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1. Venus Rising from her Couch

2. Cupid Armed

3. Venus and Cupid

4. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

5. Cymon and Iphigenia

6. Dido

7. Hero and Leander

8. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

9. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

10. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

11. Venus and Adonis

12. An Allegory of Love

13. A Difference of Opinion

14. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

15. Cupid and Psyche

16. Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.

17. Hope Nursing Love

18. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

19. Cupid and Psyche

20. Endymion and Diana

21. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

22. Cupid

23. Venus Witholding Adonis From the Chase

24. Tristis Mea est Anima Usque ad Mortem / My Soul is Sorrowful Even Unto Death

25. Bacchus et Ariadne

26. Cupid and Psyche

27. Cupid and Psyche

28. Cupid and Psyche

29. Venus and Adonis

30. Cupids Trying Out a Bow

31. Phoebus and Leucothea

32. Venus and Adonis

33. Love

34. Madona col Bambino

35. Venus and Adonis

36. Cupid and Psyche

37. Bacchus and Ariadne

38. Elijah

39. Venus and Cupid

40. Christ and Ye Woman of Samaria

41. Ulysses and Circes

42. Venus and Cupid

43. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

44. The Sleeping Nymph

45. Love Vindicated (L'Amour Vinqe')

46. Cupid and Cephisa: "Cephisa says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love..."

47. Sacra Christi Familia

48. Madona Col Bambino

49. Venus Chiding Cupid

50. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

51. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body