Materials & Techniques: aquatint and etching (printing process) / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: historical subject

1. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 inches (36.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Costume of the Reign of King Henry III, 1250

Creator:: Print made by John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches (26 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. Military Costumes of the Reign of King Henry VI, 1447

Creator:: Print made by John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 11/16 inches (26.9 x 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. The Flight from Belgium

Creator:: William Lee Hankey, 1869–1952
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, soft-ground etching, drypoint, and roulette on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 x 23 1/16 inches (51 x 58.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

5. View of the Coronation Procession of George IV

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, proof before letters on smooth, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 22 7/16 inches (34.2 × 57 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Picasso's Meninas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1973
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, open-bite, lift-ground, aquatint, line engraving, drypoint, and burnishing; artist's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 13/16 x 22 3/8 inches (75.8 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

7. Caesar in Egypt

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1926
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 13 3/8 inches (27.9 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

8. Caesar in Egypt

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1926
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 14 7/8 inches (27.9 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

9. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Great Exhibition: Exterior View from the Southwest

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, surrounded with gold dome-shaped border, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 12 5/8 inches (14.4 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the Day before He Was Massacred

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, aquatint, and etching with woodcut on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 7/8 inches (22 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Boats of His Majesty's Sloop 'Procris' Attacking and Capturing off the Coast of Java on 31st of July 1837

Creator:: Print made by Charles Rosenberg, active 1828–1848
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 9/16 × 25 5/16 inches (47.1 × 64.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Younger, 1740–1814
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 54 1/4 inches (50.2 x 137.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Arc de Triomphe, Paris

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 × 25 1/4 inches (76.2 × 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

15. Antony's Palace

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1928
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 1/2 inches (27.9 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 7/16 inches (26.4 × 39.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

Creator:: John William Edy, 1760–1820
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 11/16 inches (35.9 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Ten Needle-Box Prints

Creator:: Print made by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814–1885
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (10.6 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Views in the Levant: The Sacred Cave of Archidamus

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 20 1/16 inches (29.5 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Interior of St. Paul's on the Day of Solemn Thanksgiving for the Recovery of His Majesty

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, and engraving on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 × 27 3/8 inches (45.7 × 69.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the Recognition. July 19, 1821

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 × 19 3/16 inches (36.6 × 48.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret

22. A Court of Justice, Ancient Rome

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, open biting, and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 1/2 × 27 inches (87.6 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

23. In the Days of Justinian

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, open biting, and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/4 × 30 5/8 inches (56.5 × 77.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

24. Entry of a Roman Consul

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1923
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (67.3 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

25. Antony in Egypt No.2, Morning of the Festival

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1916
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/8 × 26 inches (66.4 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

26. A Tragedy of Sophocles Performed before the Emperor Hadrian

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slighly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 26 inches (64.8 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

27. Antony in Egypt No.1 (A Visit to Cleopatra)

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 3/8 × 25 3/8 inches (77.2 × 64.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

28. The Forum, Rome

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 30 3/8 inches (65.1 × 77.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

2. Costume of the Reign of King Henry III, 1250

3. Military Costumes of the Reign of King Henry VI, 1447

4. The Flight from Belgium

5. View of the Coronation Procession of George IV

6. Picasso's Meninas

7. Caesar in Egypt

8. Caesar in Egypt

9. Presages of the Millenium

10. The Great Exhibition: Exterior View from the Southwest

11. The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the Day before He Was Massacred

12. The Boats of His Majesty's Sloop 'Procris' Attacking and Capturing off the Coast of Java on 31st of July 1837

13. The Procession of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

14. Arc de Triomphe, Paris

15. Antony's Palace

16. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

17. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

18. Ten Needle-Box Prints

19. Views in the Levant: The Sacred Cave of Archidamus

20. Interior of St. Paul's on the Day of Solemn Thanksgiving for the Recovery of His Majesty

21. The Coronation of His Majesty, George the Fourth: Taken at the Time of the Recognition. July 19, 1821

22. A Court of Justice, Ancient Rome

23. In the Days of Justinian

24. Entry of a Roman Consul

25. Antony in Egypt No.2, Morning of the Festival

26. A Tragedy of Sophocles Performed before the Emperor Hadrian

27. Antony in Egypt No.1 (A Visit to Cleopatra)

28. The Forum, Rome