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1. 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; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 1/8 inches (20.3 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Norham Castle on the Tweed

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 7/8 inches (28.6 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Tivoli

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 1/4 inches (27.6 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Macbeth and the Witches

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Ancient Carthage - The Embarcation of Regulus

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Wilson, 1816–1892
Date:: 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 31 1/8 inches (63.8 × 79.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Crossing the Brook

Creator:: Print made by Robert Brandard, 1805–1862
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 5/8 inches (76.5 × 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Tivoli Above the Casade

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1758
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 3/4in. (26 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Birnam Wood

Creator:: Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Date:: before 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 19 3/4 inches (38.1 × 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Matlock High-Torr

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 22 3/8in. (39.7 x 56.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Thorp Cloud &c., Pyramid Mountain in Derbyshire

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 21 1/2in. (39.4 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A View of Anchor Church (Derbyshire)

Creator:: Print made by Francois Vivares, 1709–1780
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Colored engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 20 3/4in. (35.9 x 52.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. 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:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 20 x 25 1/8in. (50.8 x 63.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. A Landscape, with the Story of Apollo and Marsyas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches (27.6 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

14. Crossing the Red Sea

Creator:: George H. Phillips, active 1819–1825
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 5/8 × 33 7/8 inches (60 × 86 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Happy Cottagers

Creator:: Joseph Grozer, ca. 1755–1798
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Gipsies

Creator:: Etched by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 17 3/4 inches (50.8 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Rural Lovers

Creator:: Francois Vivares, 1709–1780
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 19 3/4in. (40.3 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Niobe

Creator:: Print made by William Sharp, 1749–1824
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Snowden Hill

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 3/8in. (40 x 54.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Hermit

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Wood, 1720–1763 or 1764
Date:: 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 15 7/8 inches (31.1 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. Chauncey B. TInker, B.A. 1899

21. Solitude

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 21 7/8in. (44.5 x 55.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Tinmouth Castle from the North with a View of the Haven

Creator:: Francois Vivares, 1709–1780
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving tinted with watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 20 7/8in. (36.8 x 53cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 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

24. Figures by a stream with cattle watering

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 20 inches (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. The Haymakers

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 20 3/8in. (43.2 x 51.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Rural Cott

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving; proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/8 × 24 1/8 inches (48.6 × 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Summit of Cader Idris Mountain

Creator:: Edward Rooker, 1724–1774
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 24 inches (44.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Ceyx and Alcyone

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Meleager and Atalanta

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches (44.5 x 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Pembroke Town and Castle

Creator:: James Mason, 1710–1783
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 23 3/4 inches (44.8 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Opening of the Seventh Seal

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: ca. 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 16 inches (39.4 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Italian sketchbook

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with white and black chalk on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches (28.3 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. London from Greenwich Hill

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches (37.8 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Gypsie's Tent

Creator:: Joseph Grozer, ca. 1755–1798
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Dedham Vale

Creator:: Print made by David Lucas, 1802–1881
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 × 21 3/4 inches (68.6 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Druids: or, the Conversion of the Britons to Christianity

Creator:: Print made by Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 19in. (42.5 x 48.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Departure of Regulus from Rome

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 x 34 1/2in. (63.5 x 87.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown, Yale MA (HON.) 1971

40. Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Colored aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 1/8in. (40 x 53.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

2. Norham Castle on the Tweed

3. Tivoli

4. Macbeth and the Witches

5. Ancient Carthage - The Embarcation of Regulus

6. Crossing the Brook

7. Tivoli Above the Casade

8. Birnam Wood

9. Matlock High-Torr

10. Thorp Cloud &c., Pyramid Mountain in Derbyshire

11. A View of Anchor Church (Derbyshire)

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

13. A Landscape, with the Story of Apollo and Marsyas

14. Crossing the Red Sea

15. The Happy Cottagers

16. The Gipsies

17. The Rural Lovers

18. Niobe

19. Snowden Hill

20. The Hermit

21. Solitude

22. Tinmouth Castle from the North with a View of the Haven

23. King John Ratifying the Magna Charta

24. Figures by a stream with cattle watering

25. The Haymakers

26. The Rural Cott

27. The Summit of Cader Idris Mountain

28. Ceyx and Alcyone

29. Meleager and Atalanta

30. Celadon and Amelia

31. Pembroke Town and Castle

32. The Opening of the Seventh Seal

33. Italian sketchbook

34. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

35. London from Greenwich Hill

36. The Gypsie's Tent

37. Dedham Vale

38. The Druids: or, the Conversion of the Britons to Christianity

39. The Departure of Regulus from Rome

40. Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire