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The Garden Court
Creator:
After Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:
1892
Materials & Techniques:
Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 30 1/2 inches (41.9 × 77.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948, Fund
Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer
Creator:
Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:
between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 x 15 1/2 inches (33 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sketch for the Passions: Pride
Creator:
Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:
ca. 1854
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (36.8 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head
Creator:
William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 15/16 inches (28.1 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with drawn border
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (41.3 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Sketch for the Passions: Jealousy
Creator:
Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:
1853
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 x 10 1/8 inches (35.5 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Illustration to Fielding's Amelia
Creator:
George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, pen and black ink, brown ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (9.5 × 13 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sketch for the Passions: Love
Creator:
Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:
1853
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Princes in the Tower
Creator:
William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (27.5 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Hamlet and the Ghost
Creator:
William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with watercolor and gray wash on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 x 8 3/16 inches (27.2 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
after 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Castle of Udolpho
Creator:
Rev. William Warren Porter, 1776–1804
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 16 inches (27 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W
Scene from 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'
Creator:
Rev. William Warren Porter, 1776–1804
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 16 inches (27 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W
Troilus and Cessida: Six Women on the Walls of Illion
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 7 7/8 inches (15.9 × 20 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
Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 13 inches (17.8 x 33 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

816. Sigismunda

Sigismunda
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black wash, graphite and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (18.4 × 23.8 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
Apparition: Banquo?
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (14.3 × 22.2 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
Banquo's Ghost?
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 9 3/4 inches (13.7 × 24.8 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
Scene from MacBeth: Banquo?
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 5/8 inches (14.3 × 19.4 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
Scene from the Tempest
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (14 × 16.8 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
Awakening of Titania
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 inches (11.4 × 17.8 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
Lady MacBeth
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (28.6 × 18.7 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
Dr. Syntax and his Counterpart
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
1820
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly texture, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Frame: 23 11/16 × 30 inches (60.2 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Eugene Galleries, Inc.
Awakening of Titania
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 inches (17.1 × 25.4 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
Titania and Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (13.3 × 19.1 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
Birth of Shakespeare
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 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
Olivia and Maria
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown wash, gouache and oil on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 inches (10.7 x 8.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for Shakespeare's " A Winter's Tale" or '"Cymbeline"
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and pen and brown ink on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (6.4 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly "The Arabian Nights", with Kneeling Female Figure at Right)
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, lightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3in. (11.4 x 7.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sophia, Honour, and the Chambermaid
Creator:
James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (39.7 x 27.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
A Plate from Orlando Furioso: Depicting Orlando and Rodomont Fighting
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration from Orlando Furioso: "Che deb'bo sar? che poss'io sar qui sola? / che mi da ajuto, oime, che mi consola?"
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

833. Cordelia

Cordelia
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Where the Bee Sucks. The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, Ariel on a Hammock of Convolvulus
Creator:
Print made by Henry J. Townsend, 1810–1890
Date:
1853
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 x 5 5/8 inches (10.2 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
David Garrick in the Character of 'Kitely'
Creator:
John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:
1769
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 13/16 inches (37.8 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Rustics Perform from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Creator:
John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 11/16 x 9 9/16 inches (14.4 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Pamela Swooning, after having discovered Mr. B. in the closet, He (frighted) endeavouring to recover her, Mrs. Jervis wringing her hands, and screaming
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/16 x 20 1/16 inches (38.3 x 51 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Associates
Mrs. Cibber in the Character of Cordelia in Play of King Lear, Act III
Creator:
Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 x 13 3/8in. (40.6 x 34cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
'The Gamester,' Act V, Scene IV
Creator:
James Fittler, 1758–1835
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 1/16 inches (14 × 7.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

840. Comedies

Comedies
Creator:
Print made by John Hall, 1739–1797
Date:
ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 9/16 inches (16.9 × 9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
A Scene from "The Abbot"
Creator:
Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:
1833
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, Fund
Mefistofile II
Creator:
George Augustus Sala, 1828–1895
Date:
1880
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 11/16 × 9 1/2 inches (19.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Adina and Dr. Dulcamara, Scene from Donigetti's Elisir d'Amore
Creator:
George Augustus Sala, 1828–1895
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (16.2 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
Designs for Illustrations to Mozart's Operas
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (20 × 19.1 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
Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
Creator:
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:
ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 3 inches (10.5 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
She Never Told Her Love, But Sat Like Patience on a Monument
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink with brown wash and gouache and oil on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches (13 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights', with Two Male Figures Standing
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and graphite on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Siddons, in the Character of the Tragic Muse
Creator:
Print made by Francis Haward, 1759–1797
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint, etching and stipple engraving (first state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 28 × 20 inches (71.1 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
David Garrick as Richard III
Creator:
Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:
1772
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 26 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (66.7 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

852. Sigismunda

Sigismunda
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 3/16 inches (33.5 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"
Creator:
Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:
1739
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 inches (27.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Sylvio and Dorinda
Creator:
Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:
between 1752 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/16 x 14 1/8 inches (26.2 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

855. Edwin

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
Don Ferdinand
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (37.2 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
George Primrose
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (36.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

858. Juliet

Juliet
Creator:
Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 x 14 1/8 inches (53.4 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:
1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Kean as Othello
Creator:
unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 8in. (24.1 x 20.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

861. The Lover

The Lover
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The School-Boy
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.6 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Justice
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

864. The Infant

The Infant
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 10 7/8 inches (22.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

865. Hamlet

Hamlet
Creator:
Print made by Charles Ansell, ca.1752–active 1790
Date:
1809
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/16 x 15 3/16 inches (31.2 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Here Nature List'ning Stood
Creator:
Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Great Actor between Tragedy and Comedy
Creator:
Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:
1834
Materials & Techniques:
Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/16 x 16 5/16 inches (28.4 x 41.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Come Gentle Night: "Romeo and Juliet," Act III, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by James H. Baker, born 1829
Date:
between 1839 and 1849
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches (28.2 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Queen Katherine's Dream - "Henry VIII"
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 20in. (43.2 x 50.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Ophelia: There Is Rue for You and Here's Some for Me
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 5/16 x 8 7/8 inches (28.7 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Young Roscius
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
1804
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with hand coloring on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 × 11 1/8 inches (34.6 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Die Maussalle.... - "Hamlet," Act III, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Berger, 1744–1824
Date:
between 1778 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 10 3/4 inches (23 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 9/16 inches (16.1 × 21.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene IV
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 1/8 inches (16.4 × 20.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Opera Reminiscences: Desdemona and Othello
Creator:
Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:
1829
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
'Henry IV, Part I,' Act II, Scene IV
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 × 2 5/8 inches (10.2 × 6.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/8 inches (14.9 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV
Creator:
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:
after 1857
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 7/16 inches (15.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Hamlet in Scotland
Creator:
Print made by Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (28.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Dreams of the Youthful Shakespeare
Creator:
Print made by Augustus Fox, 1800–1876
Date:
1827
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 3 15/16 inches (15.8 × 10 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mr. W. J. Hammond and Miss Daly as Othello and Desdemona at the New Strand Theatre
Creator:
Print made by John W. Gear, 1806–1866
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/16 x 14 9/16 inches (26.2 x 37 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Antony and Cleopatra," Act III, Scene XI
Creator:
Georg Goldberg, 1830–1894
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches (28.2 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Hubert, let me not be bound!"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (42.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Viola nach Shakespeare von Deinhardstein - Costume Bild zur Theatrezeitung
Creator:
Andreas Geiger, 1765–1856
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 1/16 inches (24 x 30.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Here, I and sorrows sit; here is my throne, bid kings come and bow to it"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 inches (42.8 x 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Pistol eating Fluellen's Leak - "Henry V"
Creator:
Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:
between 1811 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (26 x 39 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Supposed Death of Imogen, 'Cymbeline,' Act IV, Scene IV
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Cheesman, 1760–1834/35
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving and stipple engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 19in. (41.9 x 48.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Seht Ihr denn nichts hier: 'Hamlet,' Act IV, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:
1778
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 inches (16.3 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
...in ein Nonnen Kloster geh: 'Hamlet,' Act III, Scene IX
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:
1778
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 3 3/4 inches (16.4 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759
Creator:
Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:
1811
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 21 x 14 13/16 inches (53.4 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"Then go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns"
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (42.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
"We come to visit you: and purpose now, to lead you to our court: vouchsafe it then."
Creator:
James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:
1802
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 inches (42.8 x 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Opera Reminiscences: Desdemona and Otello
Creator:
Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:
1829
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 7/8 inches (26 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mr. G. V. Brooke as Othello and James Bennett as Iago - 'Othello,' Act III, Scene III
Creator:
Benjamin Holl, 1808–1884
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving made from a daguerrotype
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8in. (23.5 x 15.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Theatre Royal Italian, Salon, dans l'Opera "Othello" par Mr. Ferri
Creator:
Print made by Henry Martens, 1828–1854
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 17 1/2in. (34.3 x 44.5cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Macbeth and the Witches
Creator:
William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:
1770
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mr. Rossi as Othello
Creator:
Print made by Antonin Marie Chatinière, 1828–ca. 1900
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Tinted lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches (25.5 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mr. Macklin and Mrs. Pope in the Characters of Shylock and Portia
Creator:
William Nutter, 1754–1802
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, etching, and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 1/16 x 16 1/4 inches (56.1 x 41.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Desdemona and Othello
Creator:
Print made by William Nutter, 1754–1802
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving reinforced with etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 15 7/8in. (36.8 x 40.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Falstaff Reproved by King Henry
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving and stipple engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 7/8 x 17 9/16in. (35.2 x 44.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund