Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: spear

1. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

Creator:: William Artaud, 1763–1823
Date:: 1788 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 x 80 1/2 inches (241.3 x 204.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Man attacking a monster

Creator:: Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 14 inches (29.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. 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

4. St. George and the Dragon

Creator:: Francesco Fanelli, born 1577
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Bronze, on a later wooden base with tortoiseshell veneer and gilt bronze mounts
Dimensions:: Overall: 11 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 8 inches (29.2 × 29.2 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)
On View:: Not on view

5. Paul Before Felix

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (42.5 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

6. David before Saul

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash with gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches (41.9 x 56.8 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, to the Yale University Art Gallery

7. Sealing the Stone and Setting a Watch

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1800 to 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 15/16 inches (50.8 × 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901 Fund

8. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 11, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

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

9. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 67, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

10. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 55, "The Bard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink, graphite and gouache 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

11. America. A Prophecy, Plate 6, "Appear to the Americans...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 8, "Death! Great Proprietor of All!"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 13, "The Present Moment Terminates our Sight"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. 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

16. Sketch for the Oil Painting "The Conversion of St. Paul"

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brushed black ink, gray wash and gouache on medium, moderately textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (44.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red 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

18. 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

19. A Young Daughter of the Picts

Creator:: Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, ca. 1533–before 1588
Date:: ca. 1585
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache, touched with gold on parchment
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (26 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Scene on Mount Olympus

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4in. (21 x 28.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Neptune and Britannia

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 6 1/4 inches (15.2 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 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

24. Acteon and Diana

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 5/8 inches (35.7 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. S. Jacobus

Creator:: Print made by Elias Nessenthaler, 1664–1714
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 9 3/16 inches (34.3 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. S. Thomas

Creator:: Print made by Elias Nessenthaler, 1664–1714
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 × 9 5/16 inches (34.4 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. 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

28. Diana and Acteon

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 3/4 inches (29.5 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Meeting of Jacob and Esau

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof before all letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 23 3/4 inches (52.1 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. 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

31. S. Matthaeus

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 x 15 1/4 inches (52.4 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) Countess of Castlemaine

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 11/16 × 13 1/16 inches (42.4 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 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

34. Hiram King of Tyre, Sends Presents to King Solomon

Creator:: Print made by John Murphy, ca. 1748–1820
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 × 25 1/2 inches (49.1 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 7/16 inches (6.4 × 11.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, published state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/4 × 30 13/16 inches (59.1 × 78.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Pandemonium

Creator:: Print made by John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 3/4 inches (56.8 × 78.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Triumph of Britannia

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 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

40. Study of a Military Scene

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 4 3/8 inches (14.3 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Paul Before Felix

Creator:: Print made by Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (42.5 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

42. Absalom

Creator:: Stephen Frederick Gooden, 1892–1955
Date:: 1923
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with etching on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 8 3/16 inches (18.5 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Lydia Evans Tunnard

43. The Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: 1680s to 1690s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 8 3/4 inches (29.2 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

2. Man attacking a monster

3. The Education of Achilles

4. St. George and the Dragon

5. Paul Before Felix

6. David before Saul

7. Sealing the Stone and Setting a Watch

8. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 11, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

9. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 67, "The Fatal Sisters."

10. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 55, "The Bard."

11. America. A Prophecy, Plate 6, "Appear to the Americans...."

12. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 8, "Death! Great Proprietor of All!"

13. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 13, "The Present Moment Terminates our Sight"

14. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

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

16. Sketch for the Oil Painting "The Conversion of St. Paul"

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

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

19. A Young Daughter of the Picts

20. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

21. A Scene on Mount Olympus

22. Neptune and Britannia

23. Venus and Adonis

24. Acteon and Diana

25. S. Jacobus

26. S. Thomas

27. Venus and Adonis

28. Diana and Acteon

29. Meeting of Jacob and Esau

30. Venus and Adonis

31. S. Matthaeus

32. Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) Countess of Castlemaine

33. Ulysses and Circes

34. Hiram King of Tyre, Sends Presents to King Solomon

35. Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being

36. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

37. Pandemonium

38. The Triumph of Britannia

39. Vulcan's Forge

40. Study of a Military Scene

41. Paul Before Felix

42. Absalom

43. The Judgement of Paris