On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Associated People: Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet / Classification: Prints

1. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with white watercolor, gouache or chalk on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 8 1/4 inches (29.3 x 20.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 5/16 inches (12 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 9 1/4 inches (32.5 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

4. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (30 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. 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

6. Antony and Cleopatra Act IV Sc. 8

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Raimbach, 1784–1868
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

7. Garrick in the Green Room

Creator:: William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 7/8 × 27 inches (58.1 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

8. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 17 3/4 inches (27.9 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (28.6 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (21.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 19 5/8 inches (32.4 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 inches (22.2 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Shakespeare's Monument at the Church at Stratford upon Avon

Creator:: Print made by John Horsburgh, 1791–1869
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 11 3/4 inches (43.8 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Miss Lissie Weston as Oberon - Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 3/4in. (28.6 x 24.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. St. Mark's Place, Venice - Juliet and her Nurse

Creator:: Print made by George Hollis, 1792–1842
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etched state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/8 × 30 1/2 inches (61.3 × 77.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. St. Mark's Place, Venice - Juliet and her Nurse

Creator:: Print made by George Hollis, 1792–1842
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/8 × 33 3/8 inches (64.5 × 84.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 3

Creator:: John Neagle, 1796–1865
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

18. William Henry West Betty

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (64.8 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Shakespeare, Macbeth Act IV, Scene I

Creator:: Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 15/16 × 25 1/16 inches (50.6 × 63.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. King Henry VI, Second Part, Act 3, Scene 3

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 inches (42.2 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. David Garrick Esq.

Creator:: Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (27.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Mrs. Pope as Juliet

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 inches (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. 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

24. Anne Page, Slender and Shallow - "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene IV

Creator:: Charles Burt, 1822–1894
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2in. (49.5 x 59.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Jack Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet

Creator:: James S. King, 1852–1925
Date:: 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 14in. (27.9 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. 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

30. Mr. C. Kemble as Faulconbridge

Creator:: Thomas A. Woolnoth, 1785–1857
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 3 3/8in. (15.6 x 8.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. Oberon and Titania - "Midsummer Night's Dream", Act II, Scene III

Creator:: Charles Mottram, 1807–1876
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2in. (27.9 x 21.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Kemble

Creator:: William Sharp, 1749–1824
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12in. (22.9 x 30.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Charles Kean in the Character of Hamlet

Creator:: Karl Friedrich Reichert, active 1860–died 1881
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Colored lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Mrs. Siddons

Creator:: William Say, 1768–1834
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 11/16 × 22 3/16 inches (88.1 × 56.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. One of a set of four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Savings

Creator:: John Phillips, active 1840–1852
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/2in. (29.5 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings

Creator:: John Phillips, active 1840–1852
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/2in. (29.5 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings

Creator:: John Phillips, active 1840–1852
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/2in. (29.5 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. "Tempest", Act I, Scene I

Creator:: Benjamin Smith, 1775–1833
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 25 7/8 inches (50.8 × 65.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Set of Seven: Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, 1 leaf of letterpress and the original wrappers
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Sayings

Creator:: John Phillips, active 1840–1852
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored soft-ground etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/2in. (29.5 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. One of a Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings

Creator:: John Phillips, active 1840–1852
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/2in. (29.5 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Taming of the Shrew, Induc. Sc. II

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1803
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

43. Comedy of Errors, Act II, Scene II

Creator:: John Neagle, 1796–1865
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

44. 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

45. Timon of Athens

Creator:: John Hall, 1739–1797
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 22 1/4in. (50.2 x 56.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Romeo

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 4 3/4in. (17.1 x 12.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. MacBeth, Act I, Scene V: "Inverness. A Room in MacBeth's Castle"

Creator:: James Parker, 1750–1805
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 22 7/16in. (42.9 x 57cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

49. MacBeth, Act I, Scene III: "A Heath"

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Trotter, ca. 1750–1803
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, progress proof
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 25in. (49.8 x 63.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

50. King Richard II Act IV, Scene I: "King Richard, Bolingbroke, Yorke, etc."

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 24 5/8in. (49.7 x 62.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. MacBeth, Act I,V Scene I: "A Dark Cave in the Middle a Cauldrom Boiling"

Creator:: Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 24 3/4in. (49.7 x 62.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

52. Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene II: " The Road by Gadshill - Prince Henry, Poins, Peto, Falstaff, etc."

Creator:: Samuel Middiman, ca. 1750–1831
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 7/16in. (44 x 59.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. As You Like It: Act II, Scene I: Forest of Arden

Creator:: Samuel Middiman, ca. 1750–1831
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Lawrence, The Sleeping and the Dead are but as Pictures; Shakespeare

Creator:: Richard James Lane, 1800–1872
Date:: 1830
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Comedy of Errors, Act II Sc. 2

Creator:: Charles Warren, 1767–1823
Date:: 1804
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

56. The Green Room at Drury Lane Theatre

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

57. Charles Kemble

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: c.1860
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 9in. (26.7 x 22.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. Titania and Bottom

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and engraving, color printed, hand colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 x 15 1/4in. (54.6 x 38.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

59. 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

60. 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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. A Scene in the New Farce - as Performed at the Royalty Theatre!

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 5/8 inches (24.2 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. 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

70. 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

71. Shakespeare in His Study

Creator:: James Faed Sr., 1821–1911
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, etching, and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches (62.6 x 46.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. 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

73. 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

74. "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

75. "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

76. "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

77. "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

78. "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

79. 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

80. "Mark your divorce young sir, whom son I dare not call"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (42.7 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

81. 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

82. Mr. Macready as Hamlet and Mr. Stuart as the Ghost - "Hamlet," Act I, Scene V

Creator:: Possibly George Hollis, 1792–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 7in. (26.7 x 17.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

83. Orlando and the Wrestler - "As You Like It"

Creator:: Charles W. Sharpe, active 1858–1883
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 11 3/4in. (25.4 x 29.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

84. Falstaff and his Friends

Creator:: William Greatbach, Born 1802
Date:: ca. 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 inches (22.5 × 28 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

85. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by Wilhelm Krauskopf, Born 1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

86. Shakespeare brought before Sir Thomas Lucy for the Deer Shooting, from "The Eclectic"

Creator:: John Sartain, 1808–1897
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

87. Shakespeare Writing

Creator:: Albert Henry Payne, 1812–1902
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 6 1/2 x 4 11/16in. (16.5 x 11.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

88. The Play Scene - "Hamlet", Act III, Scene II

Creator:: Charles Rolls, 1800–active 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

89. William Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches (56.5 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

90. Sleepest or Wakest Thou?

Creator:: Print made by Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885
Date:: ca. 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (10.8 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Untitled: Arabian Knight

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper with chine-collé
Dimensions:: Image: 3 3/4 x 3 1/8in. (9.5 x 7.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Rokeby

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper with chine-collé
Dimensions:: Image: 4 3/4 x 3 1/2in. (12.1 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Rokeby

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper with chine-collé
Dimensions:: Image: 4 3/4 x 3 1/2in. (12.1 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Rokeby

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on wove paper with chine-collé
Dimensions:: Image: 4 3/4 x 3 1/2in. (12.1 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Eastnor Castle

Creator:: Print made by James Charles Armytage, 1802–1897
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on smooth, thin, cream wove paper with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Image: 4 5/16 × 6 3/4 inches (11 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. St Martin-in-the-Fields, London: Elevation and Section

Creator:: Print made by John Le Keux, 1783–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 7 × 4 3/4 inches (17.8 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire

Creator:: Print made by Henry Hobson, born 1814
Date:: between 1812 and 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, proof before letters on smooth, thin, cream wove paper with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Image: 3 1/4 × 5 inches (8.3 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Twelfth Night

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Image: 4 x 3in. (10.2 x 7.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Vine

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4. The Vine

5. Octavius Augustus Cæsar

6. Antony and Cleopatra Act IV Sc. 8

7. Garrick in the Green Room

8. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

9. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

10. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

11. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

12. Dover from Shakespeare's Cliff

13. Shakespeare's Monument at the Church at Stratford upon Avon

14. Miss Lissie Weston as Oberon - Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II

15. St. Mark's Place, Venice - Juliet and her Nurse

16. St. Mark's Place, Venice - Juliet and her Nurse

17. Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 3

18. William Henry West Betty

19. Shakespeare, Macbeth Act IV, Scene I

20. King Henry VI, Second Part, Act 3, Scene 3

21. David Garrick Esq.

22. Mrs. Pope as Juliet

23. Pistol eating Fluellen's Leak - "Henry V"

24. Anne Page, Slender and Shallow - "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene IV

25. Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV

26. London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene IV

27. Mr. G. V. Brooke as Othello and James Bennett as Iago - 'Othello,' Act III, Scene III

28. Jack Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet

29. Theatre Royal Italian, Salon, dans l'Opera "Othello" par Mr. Ferri

30. Mr. C. Kemble as Faulconbridge

31. Oberon and Titania - "Midsummer Night's Dream", Act II, Scene III

32. Kemble

33. Charles Kean in the Character of Hamlet

34. Mrs. Siddons

35. One of a set of four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Savings

36. Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings

37. Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings

38. "Tempest", Act I, Scene I

39. Set of Seven: Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man

40. Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Sayings

41. One of a Set of Four: Much Ado About Nothing or Illustrations of Old Sayings

42. Taming of the Shrew, Induc. Sc. II

43. Comedy of Errors, Act II, Scene II

44. Where the Bee Sucks. The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, Ariel on a Hammock of Convolvulus

45. Timon of Athens

46. Romeo

47. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

48. MacBeth, Act I, Scene V: "Inverness. A Room in MacBeth's Castle"

49. MacBeth, Act I, Scene III: "A Heath"

50. King Richard II Act IV, Scene I: "King Richard, Bolingbroke, Yorke, etc."

51. MacBeth, Act I,V Scene I: "A Dark Cave in the Middle a Cauldrom Boiling"

52. Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene II: " The Road by Gadshill - Prince Henry, Poins, Peto, Falstaff, etc."

53. As You Like It: Act II, Scene I: Forest of Arden

54. Lawrence, The Sleeping and the Dead are but as Pictures; Shakespeare

55. Comedy of Errors, Act II Sc. 2

56. The Green Room at Drury Lane Theatre

57. Charles Kemble

58. Titania and Bottom

59. The Infant

60. The School-Boy

61. Hamlet

62. The Justice

63. The Lover

64. The Young Roscius

65. A Great Actor between Tragedy and Comedy

66. Come Gentle Night: "Romeo and Juliet," Act III, Scene II

67. David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759

68. A Scene in the New Farce - as Performed at the Royalty Theatre!

69. Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II

70. London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I

71. Shakespeare in His Study

72. The Dreams of the Youthful Shakespeare