On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 18th century / Creator: Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740–1779

1. Two Men Fighting Before a Woman

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (8.9 x 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Man Kneeling

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink; verso: gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches (8.6 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Studies of Groups of Heads

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (28.6 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Three Soldiers in Armour Sitting on Stone Blocks

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (17.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Choir and Orchestra (A Choral Band)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches (21 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Saint Paul Preaching to the Britons

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1775 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 inches (20.3 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Studies of Academics

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (29.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Portrait of John Saxby

Creator:: attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 inches (21 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Two Heads in a Roundel

Creator:: attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (12.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (21 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Portrait of James Tuffs

Creator:: attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (22.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Little Missenden Church from the Southeast

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 17 1/8 inches (29 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Coastal Scene

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (28.8 x 42.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Landscape with Classical Ruins

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 16 9/16 inches (29.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Reclining Female Figure in an Italian Landscape

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (22.2 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Frontispiece dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds (no. 1 from Fifteen Etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 10 11/16in. (41.3 x 27.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (62.5 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Self-Portrait

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784
Date:: between 1771 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches (54 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Cassandra, "Troilus and Cressida", Act II, Scene IV

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, oval image
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 1/4in. (34.3 x 28.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. "Richard II", Act III, Scene II

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 12 3/4in. (40 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. York, "Henry IV", Part II, Act V, Scene IV

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 13in. (40.6 x 33cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. The Poet, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act V, Scene I

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 7/16in. (39.4 x 31.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Bardolph, "Henry IV", Part II, Act II, Scene IX

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving, oval image
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 5/8in. (40.6 x 1.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Edgar, "King Lear", Act III, Scene III

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 13in. (40.6 x 33cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. John Hamilton Mortimer

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 1/2in. (44.5 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches (29.2 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. A Choral Band

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 16 3/4 inches (29.4 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Comedies

Creator:: Print made by John Hall, 1739–1797
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 9/16 inches (16.9 × 9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

30. Monsieur Masson the Tennis Player

Creator:: Richard Brookshaw, 1736–1804
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 14in. (50.5 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. An Aga of the Janizaries

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 13 1/16 inches (40.6 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Putti Dancing to the Pipe and Tambourine

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1780
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Two Studies, Each of Three (Historical ?) Characters, Two Male and One Female: a pair

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Iphigenia's Late Procession from Kingston to Bristol - By Chudleigh Meadows, - Then the Dutchess was Brought into Court Attended by her Chaplain, Physician, Apothecary and Three Maids of Honor

Iphigenia's Late Procession from Kingston to Bristol - By Chudleigh Meadows, - Then the Dutchess was Brought into Court Attended by her Chaplain, Physician, Apothecary and Three Maids of Honor

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 1/2in. (24.9 x 34.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. An Academy

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches (31.4 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. John Hamilton Mortimer

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 13/16 inches (41.7 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. King John Ratifying the Magna Charta

Creator:: William Wynne Ryland, 1732–1783
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, engraver's proof
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 x 23 5/8in. (46.5 x 60cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Dido and Aeneas

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 17 7/8 x 22in. (45.4 x 55.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Virgin Teaching St. John

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 11in. (24.1 x 27.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. King John

Creator:: William Wynne Ryland, 1732–1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Banditti...Representing Banditti Variously Employed: Stripping the Slain

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Battle of Agincourt

Creator:: Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Fisherman

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Elevation of the Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Ephesian Matron (laid down on same sheet as B1977.14.11653)

Creator:: Gabriel Scorodomoff, 1748–1792
Date:: 1776
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Life Class

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The Heads in this and the Following Plates were drawn by Mr. Mortimer, on a Chimney Piece, from Ideas suggested by the Natural Veins in the Marble

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1780
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Marcus Curius Dentatus rejecting the Bribes of the Samnites

Creator:: Anthony Walker, 1726–1765
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Portraits of Two Historical or Biblical Characters (a pair)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Portraits of Two Historical or Biblical Characters (a pair)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Soldier with A Pike

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1780
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Nebuccadnezzer Recovering his Reason

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Banditti Conversing

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Rustick Dance

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Shepherds in Arcadia

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Soldiers with Pack-Horse (Laid down on same sheet as B1977.14.12070)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. The Discovery of Prince Arthur's Tomb by the Inscription on the Leaden Cross (Laid down on the same sheet as B1977.14.12069)

Creator:: John Ogborne the Elder, 1755–1795
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Two Men beside a Water Jar (Laid down on the same sheet as B1977.14.12075)

Creator:: Samuel Ireland, active 1760–died 1800
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Portraits of James Smithson, Marshall of the King's Bench 1422 and his wife Alice Whitworth (Laid down on the same sheet as B1977.14.12074)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Death Of Sir Philip Sidney

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Illustration For The Book: Evelina, Or, The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance into The World

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Sed Placidam Pueri Metuens Turbare Quietem, Fixit Vicinis Basia Mille Rosis

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Vignette: Monk Giving Letter to a Pregnant Woman in a Cell

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: ca.1785
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. The Heads in this and the Following Plates were drawn by Mr. Mortimer, on a Chimney Piece, from Ideas suggested by the Natural Veins in the Marble

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1780
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. The Heads in this and the Following Plates were drawn by Mr. Mortimer, on a Chimney Piece, from Ideas suggested by the Natural Veins in the Marble

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1780
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Pastoral (Four laid down on one sheet)(Notes to numbers 84-86 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Materials & Techniques:: etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 1/8in. (27.9 x 23.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Elegy (Four laid down on one sheet)(Notes to numbers 84-86 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Materials & Techniques:: etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 7 1/8in. (27.6 x 18.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Two Women at Toilette

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1780
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Caius Marius sitting on the Ruins of Carthage (Number 34 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 x 15 3/8in. (47.9 x 39.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Two untitled etchings laid down on one sheet: Bandits and Soldiers Fighting

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/8 x 13 13/16in. (28.3 x 35.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Saint Paul Preaching to the Britons

Creator:: Joseph Haynes, 1760–1829
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 7/8 x 27 3/8in. (55.6 x 69.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Belisarius

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 10 3/16 inches (31.1 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Homer Repeating his Verses to the Greeks (number 41 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 23 7/16in. (49.8 x 59.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Belisarius

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 10 3/16 inches (31 x 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Death of Sir Philip Sydney (number 42 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Samuel Ireland, active 1760–died 1800
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. A Monumental Design (number 45 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Joseph Haynes, 1760–1829
Date:: 1784
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Death of Sir Philip Sydney (number 42 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Samuel Ireland, active 1760–died 1800
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. The Ratifying Magna Charta by King John (number 37 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: William Wynne Ryland, 1732–1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: Joseph Haynes, 1760–1829
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 x 18 3/4in. (68.6 x 47.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. The Origin of Drawing (number 47 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 13/16 inches (27.9 x 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 13/16 inches (27.9 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Banditti at Market (number 41 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: John Hall, 1739–1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Life and Death of a Soldier: Soldier's Courtship (notes to number 54 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Banditti Returning (number 53 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Banditti Going Out (number 52 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Banditti Gambling (number 51 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: John Hall, 1739–1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Banditti at Market (number 41 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: John Hall, 1739–1797
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Life and Death of a Soldier: Soldier's Death (note to number 56 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Banditti Gambling (number 51 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: John Hall, 1739–1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Banditti

Creator:: Joseph Haynes, 1760–1829
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (35.2 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Caius Marius Sitting on the Ruins of Carthage

Creator:: Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Canterbury Tales: The Frere and Thomas (Notes to number 77-78 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

Creator:: Jacob Hogg, active 1751
Date:: 1787
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Caliban, from The Tempest

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Twelve etchings of Characters from Shakespeare: 4) Richard II, from Richard II, Act III, Scene 2 (Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968 - Number 79)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 x 13 7/8in. (43.5 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Twelve etchings of Characters from Shakespear: 3) Cassandra, from Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 4 (sic)(Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968 - Number 79)

Twelve etchings of Characters from Shakespear: 3) Cassandra, from Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 4 (sic)(Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968 - Number 79)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Twelve etchings of Characters from Shakespeare: 5) Beatrice, from Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 2 (sic)(Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968 - Number 79)

Twelve etchings of Characters from Shakespeare: 5) Beatrice, from Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 2 (sic)(Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968 - Number 79)

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Lear, from King Lear, Act III, Scene ii

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 11/16 inches (42.9 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Edgar, from King Lear, Act III, Scene iii

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Two Men Fighting Before a Woman

2. A Man Kneeling

3. Studies of Groups of Heads

4. Three Soldiers in Armour Sitting on Stone Blocks

5. Choir and Orchestra (A Choral Band)

6. Saint Paul Preaching to the Britons

7. Studies of Academics

8. Portrait of John Saxby

9. Two Heads in a Roundel

10. Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare

11. Portrait of James Tuffs

12. Little Missenden Church from the Southeast

13. Coastal Scene

14. Landscape with Classical Ruins

15. Reclining Female Figure in an Italian Landscape

16. Frontispiece dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds (no. 1 from Fifteen Etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds)

17. Death on a Pale Horse

18. Self-Portrait

19. Cassandra, "Troilus and Cressida", Act II, Scene IV

20. "Richard II", Act III, Scene II

21. York, "Henry IV", Part II, Act V, Scene IV

22. The Poet, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act V, Scene I

23. Bardolph, "Henry IV", Part II, Act II, Scene IX

24. Edgar, "King Lear", Act III, Scene III

25. John Hamilton Mortimer

26. Deucalion and Pyrrha after the Flood

27. Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare

28. A Choral Band

29. Comedies

30. Monsieur Masson the Tennis Player

31. An Aga of the Janizaries

32. Putti Dancing to the Pipe and Tambourine

33. Two Studies, Each of Three (Historical ?) Characters, Two Male and One Female: a pair

34. Iphigenia's Late Procession from Kingston to Bristol - By Chudleigh Meadows, - Then the Dutchess was Brought into Court Attended by her Chaplain, Physician, Apothecary and Three Maids of Honor

35. An Academy

36. John Hamilton Mortimer

37. King John Ratifying the Magna Charta

38. Dido and Aeneas

39. The Virgin Teaching St. John

40. King John

41. Banditti...Representing Banditti Variously Employed: Stripping the Slain

42. The Battle of Agincourt

43. Fisherman

44. The Elevation of the Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness

45. The Ephesian Matron (laid down on same sheet as B1977.14.11653)

46. Life Class

47. The Heads in this and the Following Plates were drawn by Mr. Mortimer, on a Chimney Piece, from Ideas suggested by the Natural Veins in the Marble

48. Marcus Curius Dentatus rejecting the Bribes of the Samnites

49. Portraits of Two Historical or Biblical Characters (a pair)

50. Portraits of Two Historical or Biblical Characters (a pair)

51. Soldier with A Pike

52. Nebuccadnezzer Recovering his Reason

53. Banditti Conversing

54. Rustick Dance

55. The Shepherds in Arcadia

56. Soldiers with Pack-Horse (Laid down on same sheet as B1977.14.12070)

57. The Discovery of Prince Arthur's Tomb by the Inscription on the Leaden Cross (Laid down on the same sheet as B1977.14.12069)

58. Two Men beside a Water Jar (Laid down on the same sheet as B1977.14.12075)

59. Portraits of James Smithson, Marshall of the King's Bench 1422 and his wife Alice Whitworth (Laid down on the same sheet as B1977.14.12074)

60. The Death Of Sir Philip Sidney

61. Illustration For The Book: Evelina, Or, The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance into The World

62. Sed Placidam Pueri Metuens Turbare Quietem, Fixit Vicinis Basia Mille Rosis

63. Vignette: Monk Giving Letter to a Pregnant Woman in a Cell

64. The Heads in this and the Following Plates were drawn by Mr. Mortimer, on a Chimney Piece, from Ideas suggested by the Natural Veins in the Marble

65. The Heads in this and the Following Plates were drawn by Mr. Mortimer, on a Chimney Piece, from Ideas suggested by the Natural Veins in the Marble

66. Pastoral (Four laid down on one sheet)(Notes to numbers 84-86 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

67. Elegy (Four laid down on one sheet)(Notes to numbers 84-86 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

68. Two Women at Toilette

69. Caius Marius sitting on the Ruins of Carthage (Number 34 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)

70. Two untitled etchings laid down on one sheet: Bandits and Soldiers Fighting

71. Saint Paul Preaching to the Britons

72. Belisarius

73. Homer Repeating his Verses to the Greeks (number 41 of Catalogue Mortimer Exhibition 1968)