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1. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 12 7/8 inches (26.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

4. 'Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe' (Page 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

5. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

6. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

7. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

8. Visions, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Title Page, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Plate 2)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Visions. "Enslav'd, the Daughters of Albion weep..." (Plate 4)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. "Headlong, from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." (Design 65)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Elizabeth. "Girt with many a Baron bold..." (Design 63)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. "O'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heav'n..." (Design 59)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. "Rose up against me thundering..." (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

16. "Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield..." (Design 109)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. "Leaning from her golden cloud, The venerable Marg'ret see!..." (Design 99)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. "A wond'rous boy shall Rinda bear, Who ne'er shall comb his raven hair..." (Design 83)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. "I have heard Jerusalems groans..." (Plate 82)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. "Corruptability appears upon thy limbs..." (Plate 83)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

22. "His western heaven with rocky clouds..." (Plate 31)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. "Leaning against the pillars..." (Plate 32)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. "Why wilt thou give to her a Body..." (Plate 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. "But when they saw Albion fall'n..." (Plate 20)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. "To the Public. After my three years slumber..." (Plate 3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. "They saw their Wheels rising up poisonous..." (Plate 43)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. "Bath, healing City!..." (Plate 45)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. "The Atlantic Mountains where Giants dwelt..." Chapter 2 Tailpiece (Plate 50)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. "One hair nor particle of dust..." (Plate 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. "The Four Zoa's clouded rage..." (Plate 74)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. "To the Christians..." (Plate 77)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Jerusalem, Chapter 4. "The Spectres of Albions Twelve Sons..." (Plate 78)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. "And this the form of mighty Hand..." (Plate 70)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

36. Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 11)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

38. "But when the morn arose, her lamentation renewd..." (Plate 8)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. 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

41. 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

42. The Lamb (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Genius Driving Away "Comus & his midnight-crew..." (Design 95)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

45. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

46. A Shepherd Reading the Epitaph (Design 115)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. "I have mock'd those who refused cruelty..." (Plate 81)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. "What do I see! The Briton Saxon Roman Norman..." (Plate 92)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

50. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

51. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

52. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in 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

53. 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

54. The Gambols of Ghosts According with Their Affections Previous to the Final Judgement

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1805 to 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/16 × 12 1/2 inches (46.2 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1784 to 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: White-line metal cut engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 1/8 inches (17.8 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Miranda, Prospero, and Caliban: The Tempest

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 22 1/8 inches (39.4 x 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

58. A Procession of the Damned: Study for the Damned in Dante's "Inferno"

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches (15.9 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The Fatal Bellman

Creator:: Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 x 5 3/8 inches (17.3 x 13.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

60. Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV: Olivia's House

Creator:: Thomas Ryder, 1746–1810
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 29 1/2 inches (50.8 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Ashestiel

Creator:: Print made by William Richardson, active 1842–1877
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. The Death of Ophelia

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 x 5 7/8 inches (12.2 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Venus Presenting Armour to Aeneas

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 13 1/16 inches (25.4 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

64. The Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 12 7/16 inches (27.5 × 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

65. Mary Hale (née Chaloner) as Euphrosyne in 'L'Allegro'

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: between 1762 and 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 3/8 × 17 3/4 inches (67 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (one of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

69. Falstaff Instructing Bardolph

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite with gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 4 1/2 inches (15.2 x 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (13.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Lear in the Storm

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, peach wove paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 30 1/16 x 24 15/16 inches (76.3 x 63.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (19 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

73. Prospero Conjuring a Masque for Ferdinand and Miranda

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 x 6 9/16 inches (12.6 x 16.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. 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

75. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. 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

78. Queen Katherine's Dream - "Henry VIII"

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 20in. (43.2 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

79. 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

80. 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

81. Dog and the Shadow

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Date:: 1909
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/16 x 4 1/8 inches (8.1 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

84. A Scene in Ancient Rome: A Setting for Titus Andronicus, I, ii

Creator:: Joseph Michael Gandy, 1771–1843
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 1/2in. (18.4 x 29.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Ferdinand and Ariel

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 13/16 x 11 1/4 inches (35.1 x 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head

Creator:: William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 15/16 inches (28.1 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

88. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1920
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed in brown ink by Sir Frank Short) on thin, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 10 1/2 inches (17.6 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1926
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed under the supervision of Sir Frank Short, Martin Hardie and Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1926) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 9/16 inches (18.4 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (51.4 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (50.2 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated, Uncut Panorama

Creator:: Print made by Ralph Hudson, active ca. 1820
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 22 1/2 inches (30.5 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Opening the Fold

2. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

3. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

4. 'Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe' (Page 1)

5. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

6. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

7. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

8. Visions, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

9. Title Page, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Plate 2)

10. Visions. "Enslav'd, the Daughters of Albion weep..." (Plate 4)

11. "Headlong, from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night." (Design 65)

12. Elizabeth. "Girt with many a Baron bold..." (Design 63)

13. "O'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heav'n..." (Design 59)

14. "Rose up against me thundering..." (Plate 8)

15. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

16. "Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield..." (Design 109)

17. "Leaning from her golden cloud, The venerable Marg'ret see!..." (Design 99)

18. "A wond'rous boy shall Rinda bear, Who ne'er shall comb his raven hair..." (Design 83)

19. "I have heard Jerusalems groans..." (Plate 82)

20. "Corruptability appears upon thy limbs..." (Plate 83)

21. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

22. "His western heaven with rocky clouds..." (Plate 31)

23. "Leaning against the pillars..." (Plate 32)

24. "Why wilt thou give to her a Body..." (Plate 12)

25. "But when they saw Albion fall'n..." (Plate 20)

26. "To the Public. After my three years slumber..." (Plate 3)

27. "They saw their Wheels rising up poisonous..." (Plate 43)

28. "Bath, healing City!..." (Plate 45)

29. "The Atlantic Mountains where Giants dwelt..." Chapter 2 Tailpiece (Plate 50)

30. "One hair nor particle of dust..." (Plate 14)

31. "The Four Zoa's clouded rage..." (Plate 74)

32. "To the Christians..." (Plate 77)

33. Jerusalem, Chapter 4. "The Spectres of Albions Twelve Sons..." (Plate 78)

34. "And this the form of mighty Hand..." (Plate 70)

35. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

36. Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 11)

37. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

38. "But when the morn arose, her lamentation renewd..." (Plate 8)

39. Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 16)

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

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

42. The Lamb (Plate 8)

43. A Genius Driving Away "Comus & his midnight-crew..." (Design 95)

44. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

45. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

46. A Shepherd Reading the Epitaph (Design 115)

47. "I have mock'd those who refused cruelty..." (Plate 81)

48. "What do I see! The Briton Saxon Roman Norman..." (Plate 92)

49. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

50. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

51. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

52. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

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

54. The Gambols of Ghosts According with Their Affections Previous to the Final Judgement

55. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

56. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

57. Miranda, Prospero, and Caliban: The Tempest

58. A Procession of the Damned: Study for the Damned in Dante's "Inferno"

59. The Fatal Bellman

60. Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV: Olivia's House

61. Ashestiel

62. The Death of Ophelia

63. Venus Presenting Armour to Aeneas

64. The Judgement of Paris

65. Mary Hale (née Chaloner) as Euphrosyne in 'L'Allegro'

66. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

67. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (one of four)

68. Celadon and Amelia

69. Falstaff Instructing Bardolph

70. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

71. Lear in the Storm

72. Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath

73. Prospero Conjuring a Masque for Ferdinand and Miranda