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101. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold Him, When Past by; What Then Is Seen"

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

102. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 26, "Measuring His Motions by Revolving Spheres"

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

103. 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

104. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 31, "'Tis Greatly Wise to Talk with Our Past Hours"

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

105. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like That, the Dial Speaks; and Points to Thee"

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

106. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

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

107. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

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

108. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 37, "Love, and Love Only, Is the Loan for Love"

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

109. 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

110. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 11, "I want! I want!"

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

111. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 12, "Help! Help!"

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

112. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 13, "Aged Ignorance"

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

113. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 14, "Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?"

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

114. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 15, "Fear & hope are -- Vision"

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

115. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 16, "The Traveller hasteth in the Evening"

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

116. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 9, "Alas!"

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

117. Pl. 3: Baffled Devils Fighting [' ... so turn'd/ His talons on his comrade.' Hell; Canto xxii. line 135]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 11/16 × 21 1/4 inches (37.3 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

118. Pl. 6: The Pit of Disease ['...Then two I mark'd that sat Propp'd 'gainst each other,' Hell; Canto xxix. line 71.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 1/4 inches (37.8 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

119. Pl. 7: The Circle of Traitors: Dante Striking Against Bocca degli Abati ['...'Wherefore dost bruise me?' weeping he/ exclaim'd.' Hell; Canto xxxii. line 79.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 × 21 1/4 inches (39.2 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

120. Pl. 5: A Serpent Attacking Buoso Donata ['...He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him.' Hell; Canto xxv. line 82.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 21 9/16 inches (39 × 54.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

121. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 17, "Death's Door"

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

122. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 2, Frontispiece, "What is Man!"

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

123. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 7, "Fire"

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

124. pl. 1: The Circle of the Lustful [' ...and like a corpse fell to the ground' Hell; Canto v. line 137.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 21 7/16 inches (37.5 × 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

125. 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

126. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"

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

127. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 86, "His Hand the Good Man Fastens on the Skies"

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

128. 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

129. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

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

130. 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

131. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

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

132. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 43, "Night the Third, Narcissa."

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

133. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 49, "As If the Sun Could Envy, Check'd His Beam"

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

134. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The Vale of Death! That Hush'd Cimmerian Vale"

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

135. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, Shall We Grieve Their Hovering Shades"

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

136. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 57, "Trembling Each Gulp, Lest Death Should Snatch the Bowl"

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

137. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 40, "Angels Should Paint It, Angels Ever There"

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

138. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 63, "This King of Terrors Is the Prince of Peace"

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

139. 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

140. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

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

141. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the Dire Steel? -- Ah No!"

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

142. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 1, Title Page

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

143. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 18, "I have said to the Worm . . . ."

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

144. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 19, "To The Accuser . . . ." (Bentley 21)

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

145. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 20, "He meets his Saviour in the Grave . . . . "

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

146. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 3, "I found him beneath a Tree"

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

147. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 4, "Water"

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

148. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 5, "Earth"

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

149. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 6, "Air"

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

150. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 8, "At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell"

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

151. Pl. 2: Ciampolo Tormented by the Devils ['...seiz'd on his arm, / And mangled bore away the sinewy part.' Hell; Canto xxii. line 70.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 21 1/4 inches (38.8 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

152. Pl. 4: The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi ['...lo! a serpent with six feet/ Springs forth on one,'Hell; Canto xxv. line 45.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches (38.8 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

153. The Complaint and The Consolation: or Night Thoughts

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored line engraving
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4in. (42.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

154. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 16 9/16 inches (31.2 × 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

155. Rev. John Caspar Lavater

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 9/16 inches (36.5 × 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

156. Caius Julius Cæsar

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

157. Theocritus

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

158. From Antique Coins

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

159. Epicurus

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

160. Octavius Augustus Cæsar

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

161. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge"

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

162. 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

163. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We censure nature for a span too short"

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

164. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

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

165. Publius Virgilius Maro

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

166. Fable XIII. The Tame Stag

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

167. Fable XVI. The Pin and the Needle

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

168. Fable XXIV. The Butterfly and the Snail

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

169. Fable I. The Dog and the Fox

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

170. Fable XII. Pan and Fortune

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

171. Fable XVI. The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-Worm

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

172. 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

173. A Sketch of the Monument Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk in Memory of William Cowper Esq.

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

174. A View of St. Edmund's Chapel, in the Church of East Dereham, Containing the Grave of William Cowper Esq.

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

175. Introduction to the Fables, The Shepherd and the Philosopher

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

176. Fable VI. The Miser and Plutus

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

177. Fable XXII. The Goat Without a Beard

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

178. Fable XXVIII. The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

179. Fable XXX. The Setting-dog and the Partridge

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

180. Fable XLI. The Owl and the Farmer

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

181. Édouard Colbert, Marquis de Villacerf

Creator:: Gerard Edelinck, 1640–1707
Date:: 1696
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 14 3/16 inches (49.8 x 36.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone

182. A View of Several Palaces at Naples at Sun Rise

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches (24.5 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

183. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevations

Creator:: Edmund Turrell, active 1835–1860
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

184. Studies, with Gardens, Possibly for a Talman Family House

Creator:: Verso by John Talman, 1677–1726
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and red chalk; verso: line engraving on thick, textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches (57.8 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

185. The Ruins of the College of Lincluden

Creator:: Print made by William Byrne, 1743–1805
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 14 15/16 inches (27.5 x 38 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

186. The Foundlings

Creator:: Print made by François M. la Cave, active 1726–1766
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 8 3/8 inches (12.1 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

187. Cobham Hall, Kent: First and Second Floor Plans

Creator:: Print made by Henry Hulsberg, active 1700s–died 1729
Date:: 1715 to 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on slightly textured, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (45.1 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

188. Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex Pl. 4

Creator:: Sparrow, active 1773–1787
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, with graphite on slightly textured, medium, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 10 inches (16 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

189. Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex

Creator:: William Tombleson, ca.1795–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, (verso) graphite on smooth, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 3 7/8 inches (14.6 × 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

190. Cobham Hall, Kent: The Elevation of Cobham Hall in Kent

Creator:: Print made by Henry Hulsberg, active 1700s–died 1729
Date:: 1715 to 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 17 1/8 inches (26.7 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

191. Cobham Hall, Kent: The Elevation of Cobham Hall in Kent

Creator:: Print made by Henry Hulsberg, active 1700s–died 1729
Date:: 1715 to 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/4 inches (25.4 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

192. Cobham Hall, Kent: First and Second Floor Plans

Creator:: Print made by Henry Hulsberg, active 1700s–died 1729
Date:: 1715 to 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on slightly textured, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 11 inches (40.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

193. Herstmonceux Castle, Interior of Porter's Lodge and Gateway Tower

Creator:: William Henry Brooke, 1772–1860
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on smooth, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (21.9 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

194. Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex

Creator:: John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, with graphite on smooth, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 1/4 inches (9.5 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

195. West Hill in Surrey, the Seat of D. H. Rucker Esqr.

Creator:: Print made by William Angus, 1752–1821
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (20.9 × 26.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

196. Ruins of St. Paul Covent Garden

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Medland, 1755–1823
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 3/8 inches (11.4 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

197. Scott's Birthplace, no. 39, Castle Street, Edinburgh

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

198. Fish Market, Rotterdam

Creator:: Print made by W. Floyd, active 1845
Date:: 1834-1856
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, first published state
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

199. Joppa

Creator:: Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1835-1836
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and graphite, touched engraver's proof
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

200. Egypt, the Pyramids of Ghizeh

Creator:: Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1835-1836
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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101. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold Him, When Past by; What Then Is Seen"

102. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 26, "Measuring His Motions by Revolving Spheres"

103. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O Treacherous Conscience!"

104. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 31, "'Tis Greatly Wise to Talk with Our Past Hours"

105. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like That, the Dial Speaks; and Points to Thee"

106. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

107. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

108. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 37, "Love, and Love Only, Is the Loan for Love"

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

110. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 11, "I want! I want!"

111. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 12, "Help! Help!"

112. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 13, "Aged Ignorance"

113. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 14, "Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?"

114. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 15, "Fear & hope are -- Vision"

115. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 16, "The Traveller hasteth in the Evening"

116. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 9, "Alas!"

117. Pl. 3: Baffled Devils Fighting [' ... so turn'd/ His talons on his comrade.' Hell; Canto xxii. line 135]

118. Pl. 6: The Pit of Disease ['...Then two I mark'd that sat Propp'd 'gainst each other,' Hell; Canto xxix. line 71.]

119. Pl. 7: The Circle of Traitors: Dante Striking Against Bocca degli Abati ['...'Wherefore dost bruise me?' weeping he/ exclaim'd.' Hell; Canto xxxii. line 79.]

120. Pl. 5: A Serpent Attacking Buoso Donata ['...He ey'd the serpent and the serpent him.' Hell; Canto xxv. line 82.]

121. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 17, "Death's Door"

122. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 2, Frontispiece, "What is Man!"

123. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 7, "Fire"

124. pl. 1: The Circle of the Lustful [' ...and like a corpse fell to the ground' Hell; Canto v. line 137.]

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

126. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"

127. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 86, "His Hand the Good Man Fastens on the Skies"

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

129. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

130. Thomas Hayley (1780-1800)

131. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

132. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 43, "Night the Third, Narcissa."

133. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 49, "As If the Sun Could Envy, Check'd His Beam"

134. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The Vale of Death! That Hush'd Cimmerian Vale"

135. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, Shall We Grieve Their Hovering Shades"

136. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 57, "Trembling Each Gulp, Lest Death Should Snatch the Bowl"

137. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 40, "Angels Should Paint It, Angels Ever There"

138. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 63, "This King of Terrors Is the Prince of Peace"

139. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though My Soul Fantastick Measures Trod"

140. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

141. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the Dire Steel? -- Ah No!"

142. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 1, Title Page

143. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 18, "I have said to the Worm . . . ."

144. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 19, "To The Accuser . . . ." (Bentley 21)

145. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 20, "He meets his Saviour in the Grave . . . . "

146. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 3, "I found him beneath a Tree"

147. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 4, "Water"

148. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 5, "Earth"

149. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 6, "Air"

150. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 8, "At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell"

151. Pl. 2: Ciampolo Tormented by the Devils ['...seiz'd on his arm, / And mangled bore away the sinewy part.' Hell; Canto xxii. line 70.]

152. Pl. 4: The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi ['...lo! a serpent with six feet/ Springs forth on one,'Hell; Canto xxv. line 45.]

153. The Complaint and The Consolation: or Night Thoughts

154. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

155. Rev. John Caspar Lavater

156. Caius Julius Cæsar

157. Theocritus

158. From Antique Coins

159. Epicurus

160. Octavius Augustus Cæsar

161. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge"

162. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The longest night though longer far, would fail"

163. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We censure nature for a span too short"

164. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

165. Publius Virgilius Maro

166. Fable XIII. The Tame Stag

167. Fable XVI. The Pin and the Needle

168. Fable XXIV. The Butterfly and the Snail

169. Fable I. The Dog and the Fox

170. Fable XII. Pan and Fortune

171. Fable XVI. The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-Worm

172. Thomas Hayley (1780-1800)

173. A Sketch of the Monument Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk in Memory of William Cowper Esq.

174. A View of St. Edmund's Chapel, in the Church of East Dereham, Containing the Grave of William Cowper Esq.