Work Type: intaglio print / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: literary theme

1. The Vine

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

2. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1880 and 1883
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 3/8 inches (25.3 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

3. Moeris and Galatea

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1880-1883
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

4. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches (16.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (26.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/16 inches (26.1 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

8. The Bellman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Bellman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 x 16 7/8 inches (28.4 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Moeris and Galatea

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched between 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone, retouched with white watercolor, gouache or chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 13 13/16 inches (29.1 x 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Sleeping Shepherd

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 9/16 inches (30 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 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

14. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with roulette and rocker work, first state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 27 3/8in. (52 x 69.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.3 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 7/8 inches (29.2 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Etched and engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 1/4 inches (17.8 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/4 inches (28.3 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Engraver's proof (f) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 inches (29.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Deluge

Creator:: Engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, printed in brown ink Modern Impression on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 18 inches (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, "Night the First, On Life, Death and Immortality."

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

22. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

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

23. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 10, "Disease invades the chastest temperence"

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

24. My Son! My Son!; Plate 10

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

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

26. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight"

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

27. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame"

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

28. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though my soul fantastick measures trod"

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

29. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 31, "'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours"

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

30. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain"

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

31. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 37, "Love, and love only, is the loan for love"

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

32. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 40, "Angels should paint it, angels ever there"

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

33. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One radiant Mark, the Deathbed of the Just"

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

34. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 43, "Night the Third, Narcissa."

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

35. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its favours here are trials, not rewards"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with 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. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 13, "The present moment terminates our sight"

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

37. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, On Time, Death and Friendship."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with 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. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 19, "Emblem of that which shall awake the dead"

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

39. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O treacherous conscience!"

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

40. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee"

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

41. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 46, "Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain"

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

42. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 49, "As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam"

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

43. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale"

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

44. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 1, Title Page

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

45. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 10, "My son! my Son!"

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

46. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 11, "I want! I want!"

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

47. 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

48. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 13, "Aged Ignorance"

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

49. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 14, "Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?"

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

50. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 15, "Fear & hope are -- Vision"

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

51. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 16, "The Traveller hasteth in the Evening"

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

52. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 17, "Death's Door"

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

53. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 72, "And vapid; sense and reason shew the door"

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

54. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!"

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

55. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene"

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

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul"

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

57. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When faith is virtue, reason makes it so"

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

58. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 16 9/16 inches (31.2 × 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

59. The Death of Juliet

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (24.4 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

60. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 20, "He meets his Saviour in the Grave . . . . "

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

61. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 5, "Earth"

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

62. 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

63. 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

64. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 7, "Fire"

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

65. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 9, "Alas!"

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

66. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We Censure Nature for a Span Too Short"

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

67. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold Him, When Past by; What Then Is Seen"

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

68. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O Treacherous Conscience!"

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

69. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 26, "Measuring His Motions by Revolving Spheres"

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

70. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 31, "'Tis Greatly Wise to Talk with Our Past Hours"

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

71. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like That, the Dial Speaks; and Points to Thee"

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

72. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

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

73. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 37, "Love, and Love Only, Is the Loan for Love"

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

74. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is Lost in Love! Thou Great Philanthropist"

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

75. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That Touch, with Charm Celestial Heals the Soul"

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

76. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 88, "But for the Blessing Wrestle Not with Heaven"

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

77. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's Toll, Whose Restless Iron Tounge"

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

78. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When Faith Is Virtue, Reason Makes It So"

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

79. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

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

80. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 8, "Death! Great Proprietor of All!"

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

81. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If Angels Tremble, 'Tis at Such a Sight"

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

82. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its Favours Here Are Trials, Not Rewards"

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

83. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 10, "Disease Invades the Chastest Temperence"

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

84. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 13, "The Present Moment Terminates our Sight"

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

85. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The Longest Night Though Longer Far, Would Fail"

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

86. Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, "Night the First, on Life, Death and Immortality."

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

87. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 16, "Oft Bursts My Song beyond the Bounds of Life"

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

88. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, on Time, Death and Friendship"

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

89. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 19, "Emblem of That Which Shall Awake the Dead"

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

90. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

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

91. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 40, "Angels Should Paint It, Angels Ever There"

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

92. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

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

93. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The Vale of Death! That Hush'd Cimmerian Vale"

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

94. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, Shall We Grieve Their Hovering Shades"

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

95. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 57, "Trembling Each Gulp, Lest Death Should Snatch the Bowl"

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

96. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 63, "This King of Terrors Is the Prince of Peace"

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

97. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

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

98. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

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

99. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though My Soul Fantastick Measures Trod"

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

100. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the Dire Steel? -- Ah No!"

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

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21. Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, "Night the First, On Life, Death and Immortality."

22. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

23. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 10, "Disease invades the chastest temperence"

24. My Son! My Son!; Plate 10

25. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

26. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight"

27. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame"

28. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though my soul fantastick measures trod"

29. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 31, "'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours"

30. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain"

31. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 37, "Love, and love only, is the loan for love"

32. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 40, "Angels should paint it, angels ever there"

33. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One radiant Mark, the Deathbed of the Just"

34. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 43, "Night the Third, Narcissa."

35. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its favours here are trials, not rewards"

36. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 13, "The present moment terminates our sight"

37. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, On Time, Death and Friendship."

38. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 19, "Emblem of that which shall awake the dead"

39. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O treacherous conscience!"

40. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee"

41. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 46, "Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain"

42. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 49, "As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam"

43. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale"

44. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 1, Title Page

45. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 10, "My son! my Son!"

46. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 11, "I want! I want!"

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

48. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 13, "Aged Ignorance"

49. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 14, "Does thy God O Priest take such vengeance as this?"

50. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 15, "Fear & hope are -- Vision"

51. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 16, "The Traveller hasteth in the Evening"

52. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 17, "Death's Door"

53. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 72, "And vapid; sense and reason shew the door"

54. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!"

55. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene"

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul"

57. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When faith is virtue, reason makes it so"

58. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

59. The Death of Juliet

60. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 20, "He meets his Saviour in the Grave . . . . "

61. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 5, "Earth"

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

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

64. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 7, "Fire"

65. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 9, "Alas!"

66. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We Censure Nature for a Span Too Short"

67. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold Him, When Past by; What Then Is Seen"

68. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O Treacherous Conscience!"

69. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 26, "Measuring His Motions by Revolving Spheres"

70. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 31, "'Tis Greatly Wise to Talk with Our Past Hours"

71. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like That, the Dial Speaks; and Points to Thee"

72. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

73. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 37, "Love, and Love Only, Is the Loan for Love"