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Landscape near Clifton
Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:
1822 to 1823
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children
Creator:
William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:
1730
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 1/4 x 35 3/4 inches (71.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
Creator:
Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797
Date:
1766
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Cottage Interior
Creator:
William Ratcliffe, 1870–1955
Date:
1911 to 1912
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on plywood
Dimensions:
15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt
Creator:
David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:
1849
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (36.8 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
John Eardley Wilmot
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
1812
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
41 1/2 x 58 1/4 inches (105.4 x 148 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Study of a Nun
Creator:
Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:
ca. 1915
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on board laid to panel
Dimensions:
23 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches (60.8 × 40.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Mr. and Mrs. Hill
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:
between 1750 and 1751
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
John Varley
Creator:
John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:
1820
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
12 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (32.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Portrait of a Woman as St. Agnes, Traditionally Identified as Catherine Voss
Creator:
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723
Date:
between 1705 and 1710
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 x 26 inches (78.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Lovers in Richmond Park
Creator:
James Smetham, 1821–1889
Date:
1864
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
3 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches (9.8 x 15.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.)
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:
1763
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/8 x 25 inches (76.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mr. Ernest Hillman, Jr.
On View:
Not on view
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
The Book Worm
Creator:
Bertha Herkomer, 1858–1943
Date:
1915
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (50.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
On View:
Not on view
George Robertson
Creator:
Portrait by John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
44 1/4 x 34 5/8 inches (112.4 x 87.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Unknown Man in a Library
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:
between 1740 and 1741
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper
Creator:
Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:
ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 x 38 1/2 inches (78.7 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view

18. Mary Adam

Mary Adam
Creator:
Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:
1754
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
37 x 28 inches (94 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Unknown Man
Creator:
Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:
1746
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (90.8 × 70.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:
1749
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/4 × 40 3/4 inches (64.1 × 103.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Christening of the Heir
Creator:
William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Date:
ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie
Creator:
Paul van Somer, ca. 1576–1621
Date:
ca. 1619
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
81 x 48 1/2 inches (205.7 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Schoolgirls
Creator:
Sir George Clausen, 1852–1944
Date:
1880
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 30 3/8 inches (52.1 x 77.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Mrs. Stevens
Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 x 18 1/2 inches (66 x 47 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Conversation Piece
Creator:
Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787
Date:
1761
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 26 3/4 inches (63.5 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Unknown Woman with a Book
Creator:
Bartholomew Dandridge, baptized 1691–died in or after 1754
Date:
ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 7/8 × 16 1/2 inches (53 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Unknown Man
Creator:
John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
14 x 10 1/2 inches (35.6 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Copy after a Painting Traditionally Attributed to Van Dyck of Two Monks Reading
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
late 18th century?
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
20 1/2 × 18 inches (52.1 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
George and Margaret Rogers
Creator:
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:
between 1748 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (90.2 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Study for a Group Portrait
Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:
between 1729 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/8 × 18 1/2 inches (35.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"
Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Date:
between 1745 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches (64.8 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Seven Ages of Man: Second Childishness, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and ink and oil on panel
Dimensions:
15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
A Woman, possibly Anne (née Ward) Morland, Wife of the Artist
Creator:
George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
11 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches (29.7 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Portrait of a Boy
Creator:
Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/16 x 25 3/16 inches (76.4 x 64 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Brown Tea Pot
Creator:
Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:
between 1915 and 1916
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 3/16 × 9 1/8 inches (33.5 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Lady Betty Germain Bedroom at Knole, Kent
Creator:
James Holland, 1799–1870
Date:
1845
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 x 37 1/2 inches (68.6 x 95.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Unknown Man Seated at a Table
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:
between 1744 and 1746
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Portrait of a Woman
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 7/8 x 26 1/4 inches (75.9 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Brick Piece 1
Creator:
Phillip King, 1934–2021
Date:
1974
Materials & Techniques:
Brick, steel mesh, steel
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 11 inches (39.4 x 41.9 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
On View:
Not on view
A Cleric: rotund figure in white clerical collar and black robes, with a red book tucked under his arm
Creator:
Derby porcelain factory, founded 1756
Date:
ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:
Derby figure
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6in. (15.2cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 9/16 inches (30 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 x 4 1/16 inches (12.2 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/16 x 7 inches (21.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Simon, Lord Lovat
Creator:
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Isabelle Hollister Tuttle for the Emerson Tuttle Memoiral Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:
1764
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (31.4 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

46. Sibyl

Sibyl
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (14.6 x 13.7 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
Couple Examining a Book
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (19.7 x 16.5 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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The longest night though longer far, would fail"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Moses Receiving the Law
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Half-Length Drawing
Creator:
attributed to William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (17.1 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles Rosenbloom
Thomas Hayley (1780-1800)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 11/16 inches (28.7 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789-1794
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in dark-brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 37, "Ode to Adversity."
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
There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 9, "Therefore God becomes . . . . " (Bentley b12)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 41, "Bath who is Legions...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O Treacherous Conscience!"
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The Longest Night Though Longer Far, Would Fail"
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 1, "The Pindaric Genius Receiving His Lyre"
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 103, "Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke."
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 113, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 29, "A Long Story."
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 5, "Ode on the Spring."
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "The Bard."
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
There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 8, "VI The desires & perceptions . . . . " (Bentley a9)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 64, "Of the Mundane Shell...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Hayley (1780-1800)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (22.3 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles J. Rosenbloom, B.A. 1920
Songs of Innocence, Plate 8, "The Lamb" (Bentley 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though my soul fantastick measures trod"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching printed in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 6, "In living creations appear'd . . . ." (Bentley 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 18, "The Lamb" (Bentley 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 2, Innocence Title Page (Bentley 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 28, "Infant Joy" (Bentley 25)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence, Plate 2, Title Page (Bentley 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's Toll, Whose Restless Iron Tounge"
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 105, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
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
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 107, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though My Soul Fantastick Measures Trod"
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
Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Albions Angel rose . . . . " (Bentley 14)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 8, "In Living Creations Appear'd...." (Bentley 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Aubertus Miræus
Creator:
Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658
Date:
ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (27 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Damnation of Obadiah
Creator:
Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/16 x 15 11/16 inches (30.6 x 39.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Little Girls
Creator:
John Glover, 1767–1849
Date:
ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 6 1/2 inches (22.9 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Child Seated
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 x 3 13/16 inches (15.9 x 9.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sophy Steadman Reading
Creator:
William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Romance

Romance
Creator:
Print made by Robert Sargent Austin, 1895–1973
Date:
1922
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with gouache and graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 inches (38 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Alexander Pope
Creator:
John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:
ca. 1744
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, pasted on very thick, smooth, brown card
Dimensions:
Mount: 16 7/8 x 12 5/16 inches (42.8 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Florence & Maynard Mack
Le Casaquin de Laine
Creator:
Print made by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, 1890–1978
Date:
1923
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, stipple engraving, and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 inches (28.1 x 21.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
A Lady Reading
Creator:
William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:
ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Catherine Reading
Creator:
Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Color mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 7/8 × 19 3/8 inches (58.1 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Costume Study for the Portrait of a Lady
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk with white chalk; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 9/16 x 8 1/8 inches (49.7 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Misses Van and Lady Salisbury
Creator:
Lady Salesbury, active 1791
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (16.5 x 21 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Original Frontispiece for 'Book of Ballads' (Bon Gaultier)
Creator:
Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804–1872
Date:
ca. 1845
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/8 inches (18.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of a Man with Hat
Creator:
Print made by John James Chalon, 1778–1854
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 9/16 × 4 15/16 inches (14.2 × 12.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman in memory of Richard Godfrey
A Lecture on Gadding
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, stipple engraving, and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 7/16 x 15 1/16 inches (46.9 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Benevolent Effects of Abolishing Slavery, or the Planter instructing his Negro
Creator:
Print made by W. Pyott, active late 18th century
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches (48.9 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mr. Wilkinson as Michael in Free & Easy
Creator:
Print made by Robert Cooper, ca. 1800–1836
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 11/16 inches (27.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
David Hockney
Creator:
Michael Childers, born 1944
Date:
1978
Materials & Techniques:
Inkjet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
Ray Davies and Thom Keyes
Creator:
Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:
1966
Materials & Techniques:
Gelatin silver print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy