Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: poet / Classification: Prints

1. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 inches (19.8 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

2. Mr. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 inches (15 × 10.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by Charles Heath, 1785–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 3/16 inches (18.4 × 13.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Robert Burns

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, published state
Dimensions:: Plate: 20 1/2 x 16 7/16in. (52.1 x 41.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.7 x 29.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Lovelace in Prison

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches (40.1 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

9. William Drummond of Hawthornden

Creator:: John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (39 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

10. Alexander Pope, Profile

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack

11. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (38.2 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. James Beattie, LL.D.

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 1/8 inches (19.8 × 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/16 inches (36 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.1 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Samuel Johnson

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (26 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. John Armstrong, M.D.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: between 1760 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches (43 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (37.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Henry More

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691
Date:: 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 7 5/16 inches (33 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. William L. Harkness

19. William Drummond of Hawthorne

Creator:: Richard Gaywood, active 1650–1680
Date:: 1654
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 1/16 inches (19.9 × 12.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

20. Anne Killigrew

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: ca. 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (26.3 × 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Reverend William Mason

Creator:: Robert Cooper, active ca. 1800–1836
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 9/16 inches (17.1 × 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Reverend. William Mason

Creator:: Edward Scriven, 1775–1841
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 12 11/16 inches (38.7 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Mary Robinson

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 13/16 inches (44.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and stipple engraving, with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 9 15/16 inches (34.2 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

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1. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

2. Mr. Thomas Gray

3. Thomas Gray

4. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

5. Robert Burns

6. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

7. Lovelace in Prison

8. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

9. William Drummond of Hawthornden

10. Alexander Pope, Profile

11. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

12. James Beattie, LL.D.

13. Edwin

14. Edwin

15. Samuel Johnson

16. John Armstrong, M.D.

17. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

18. Henry More

19. William Drummond of Hawthorne

20. Anne Killigrew

21. Reverend William Mason

22. Reverend. William Mason

23. Mary Robinson

24. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)