Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: ruins

1. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1814 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches (71.8 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. St. Paul before Agrippa

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches (81.9 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

Creator:: John Rogers Herbert, 1810–1890
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 13 3/8 x 21 7/8 inches (34 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Creator:: Etched 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: 11 1/2 × 17 3/8 inches (29.2 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 10, "My son! my Son!"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Study after the Story of Apollo and Daphne

Creator:: Attributed to John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite with scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 × 22 1/4 inches (40 × 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elliot Sussman, MD, MBA, Yale BA 1973

7. The Headless Christ

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956
Date:: 1910
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 15 3/8 × 12 inches (39 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel and Pearl K. Bell

8. Epiphany

Creator:: Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938
Date:: 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; 2nd state on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 7 1/4 inches (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

9. Leicester Abbey

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching, 3rd state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 15 inches (27.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Leicester Abbey

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching, 2nd state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 inches (27.3 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. St. Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, Surrey

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, active early 19th century
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching, 2nd state on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 15/16 inches (27.1 × 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Nymphs Bathing

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 1/8 × 11 11/16 inches (25.7 × 29.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Sisters Contemplating on Mortality

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 14 1/4 inches (50.8 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Mercury and Battus

Creator:: James Peak, 1703–1782
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

15. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Print made by John Greenwood, 1727–1792
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 12 15/16 inches (44.4 x 32.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Nymphs Bathing

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 11 11/16 inches (25.6 × 29.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, moderately textured cream laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 inches (16.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

18. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

Creator:: Print made by J. C. Varrall, active 1815–1827
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, 3rd state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 11/16 inches (27.1 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. 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

20. Cave of Trophonius

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on thin, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 15 1/16 inches (23.7 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

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

22. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Sections

Creator:: Edmund Turrell, active 1835–1860
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with graphite on thin, smooth, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches (29.8 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 12 3/8 inches (21.9 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Longitudinal Section of Platform and Cave

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with graphite on smooth, thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 11 3/4 inches (17.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 12 3/8 inches (21.9 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Golden Bough

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

27. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

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

28. The Golden Bough

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

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1. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

2. St. Paul before Agrippa

3. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

4. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

5. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 10, "My son! my Son!"

6. Study after the Story of Apollo and Daphne

7. The Headless Christ

8. Epiphany

9. Leicester Abbey

10. Leicester Abbey

11. St. Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, Surrey

12. Nymphs Bathing

13. Sisters Contemplating on Mortality

14. Mercury and Battus

15. Venus and Cupid

16. Nymphs Bathing

17. Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome

18. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

19. Sacra Christi Familia

20. Cave of Trophonius

21. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

22. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Sections

23. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

24. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Longitudinal Section of Platform and Cave

25. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

26. The Golden Bough

27. The Bay of Baiae - Apollo and the Sibyl

28. The Golden Bough