Collection: Prints and Drawings / Exhibition History: The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)

201. A Woody Landscape

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 inches (14.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

202. Albion Compelling the Four Zoas to Their Proper Tasks

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (25.1 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

203. The Widow Embracing Her Husband's Grave

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1805 to 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink with graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8 1/8 inches (15.2 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

204. A Descriptive Catalog of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions, Painted by William Blake in Water-Colours, Being the Ancient Method of Fresco Painting Restored, London

A Descriptive Catalog of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions, Painted by William Blake in Water-Colours, Being the Ancient Method of Fresco Painting Restored, London

Creator:: Text by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Bound volume, 12mo, full red crushed levant morocco, Jansen style, with gilt edges
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/2 inches (19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

205. An Essay on Sculpture on a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2in. (19.7 x 16.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

206. An Essay on Sculpture on a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2in. (19.7 x 16.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

207. Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Frontispiece

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

208. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

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

209. An Essay on Sculpture on a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2in. (19.7 x 16.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

210. Publius Virgilius Maro

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

211. Beggar's Opera, Act III

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: c.1790
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/16 x 22 9/16in. (44.3 x 57.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

212. 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

213. Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1786 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (18.7 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

214. Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 inches (32.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

215. A Visionary Head

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1819 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (19.1 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

216. Five Visionary Heads of Women

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1819 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches (27 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

217. Study for a Destroying Deity

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1820 to 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 24 inches (45.1 × 61 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

218. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches (42.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

219. Pity

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Color monotype, watercolor, pen and black ink, and varnish on moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (41.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

220. Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1795 to 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Color monotype, watercolor, pen and black ink and varnish on moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 22 1/2 inches (43.2 x 57.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Purchased 1929

221. 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

222. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera and pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

223. Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera with pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

224. Moses Receiving the Law

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

225. Sealing the Stone and Setting a Watch

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1800 to 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 15/16 inches (50.8 × 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901 Fund

226. 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

227. An Angel with a Trumpet

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1805 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (19.7 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

228. Socrates, a Visionary Head

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (22.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

229. Landscape with Spire

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches (15.6 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

230. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803 to 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen, and black ink gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 12 1/2 inches (35.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

231. Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

232. Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Half-Length Drawing

Creator:: attributed to William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (17.1 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles Rosenbloom

233. God Creating the Universe

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches (23.5 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

234. Portrait of Catherine Blake

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (34.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

235. Reproduction of "William Blake in Youth and Age"

Creator:: Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with gray tint on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 inches (27.1 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

236. Reproduction of "William Blake in Youth and Age"

Creator:: Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with gray tint on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 x 7 13/16 inches (27.2 x 19.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

237. William Blake in Youth and Age

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with brush and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (34.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

238. Title Page: Illustrations of the Book of Job

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: after 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 3 1/2 inches (12.7 x 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

239. Portrait of William Blake

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 1/8 inches (17.8 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

240. Illustrations of the Book of Job

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on card
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

241. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The North Front of the Monument of King Schert (Plate IV)

Creator:: James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

242. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Figure of Aveline Countess of Lancaster, Cumbent on her Monument (Plate II)

An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Figure of Aveline Countess of Lancaster, Cumbent on her Monument (Plate II)

Creator:: James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

243. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Figures supposed to be those of King Sebert and King Henry III (Plate V)

An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Figures supposed to be those of King Sebert and King Henry III (Plate V)

Creator:: James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

244. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: Heads and Ornaments on the North Side of the Monument of King Sebert (Plate VI)

An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: Heads and Ornaments on the North Side of the Monument of King Sebert (Plate VI)

Creator:: James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

245. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Under Vaulting of one side of the Canopy of the Monument of Aveline, Coutess of Lancaster (Plate III)

An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Under Vaulting of one side of the Canopy of the Monument of Aveline, Coutess of Lancaster (Plate III)

Creator:: James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

246. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Monument of Ann of Cleves, fourth Wife of King Henry VIII (Plate VII)

An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Monument of Ann of Cleves, fourth Wife of King Henry VIII (Plate VII)

Creator:: Engraved by James Basire the younger, 1769–1822
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

247. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Front of the Monument of Aveline, First Wife of Edmund Crouchback (Plate I)

An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Front of the Monument of Aveline, First Wife of Edmund Crouchback (Plate I)

Creator:: Attributed to Sir Joseph Ayloffe, 1709–1781
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

248. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

249. Illustrations of the Book of Job, pl. 1 (Title Page): 'Illustrations of/ the/ Book/ of/ Job'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on chine-collé
Dimensions:: Binding: 17 1/4in. (43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

250. The Book of Thel

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored relief etchings printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink
Dimensions:: Spine: 12in. (30.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

251. Illustrations to Dante's "Divine Comedy"

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Spine: 22 1/4in. (56.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

252. Illustrations of the Book of Job

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: 22 engravings on india paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 17 1/4in. (43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

253. The Pastorals of Virgil, London, 1821

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: 17 wood engravings reprinted from the original blocks
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

254. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, (volume 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings and line engravings on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

255. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Spine: 22 1/4in. (56.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

256. "A Select Collection of English Songs," London, 1783

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Engravings
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

257. The Life of George Romney

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

258. The Triumphs of Temper

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

259. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 15/16in. (27 x 35.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

260. A Father's Memoirs of His Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

261. A Father's Memoirs of His Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

262. A Father's Memoirs of His Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

263. A Select Collection of English Songs

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

264. The Triumphs of Temper

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

265. The Life of George Romney

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

266. Ballads

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

267. William Cowper

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

268. William Blake, Frontispiece

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper with chine-collé
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

269. William Blake, Frontispiece

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

270. William Blake, Frontispiece

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

271. Songs of Innocence and Experience

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink
Dimensions:: Spine: 8 1/8in. (20.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

272. Life of Blake

Creator:: Frederick Tatham, 1805–1878
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Manuscript
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

273. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: 54 watercolors with pen & brown ink, on 54 leaves (with a letter from Samuel Rogers)
Dimensions:: Spine: 8 1/8in. (20.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

274. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress bound in full calf with marbled endpapers on moderately thick, slightly textured, laid paper and wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 1/8 inches (41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

275. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: 13 Etchings bound in green cloth portfolio on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 inches (51.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

276. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress, bound in contemporary publisher's paper-covered boards, rebacked on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

277. Thoughts on outline, sculpture, and the system that guided the ancient artists in composing their figures and groupes...

Creator:: George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings Bound in 1/8 brown calf, marbled boards
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 3/4in. (25.7 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

278. Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that Guided the Ancient Artists

Creator:: Attributed to George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings, bound in original boards
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

279. Gymnastics for Youth

Creator:: Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, 1744–1811
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

280. Thoughts on outline, sculpture, and the system that guided the ancient artists in composing their figures and groupes...

Creator:: George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 3/4in. (25.7 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

281. Gymnastics for Youth

Creator:: Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, 1744–1811
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

282. Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that Guided the Ancient Artists

Creator:: George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2in. (31.1 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

283. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 1

Creator:: Text by John Gay, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16in. (26.7 x 17cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

284. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 2

Creator:: Published by John Stockdale, ca. 1749–1814
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Bound volume on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16in. (26.7 x 17cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

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201. A Woody Landscape

202. Albion Compelling the Four Zoas to Their Proper Tasks

203. The Widow Embracing Her Husband's Grave

204. A Descriptive Catalog of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions, Painted by William Blake in Water-Colours, Being the Ancient Method of Fresco Painting Restored, London

205. An Essay on Sculpture on a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

206. An Essay on Sculpture on a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

207. Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Frontispiece

208. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

209. An Essay on Sculpture on a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

210. Publius Virgilius Maro

211. Beggar's Opera, Act III

212. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

213. Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons

214. Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia

215. A Visionary Head

216. Five Visionary Heads of Women

217. Study for a Destroying Deity

218. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

219. Pity

220. Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection

221. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

222. Abraham and Isaac

223. Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus

224. Moses Receiving the Law

225. Sealing the Stone and Setting a Watch

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

227. An Angel with a Trumpet

228. Socrates, a Visionary Head

229. Landscape with Spire

230. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

231. Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre

232. Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Half-Length Drawing

233. God Creating the Universe

234. Portrait of Catherine Blake

235. Reproduction of "William Blake in Youth and Age"

236. Reproduction of "William Blake in Youth and Age"

237. William Blake in Youth and Age

238. Title Page: Illustrations of the Book of Job

239. Portrait of William Blake

240. Illustrations of the Book of Job

241. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The North Front of the Monument of King Schert (Plate IV)

242. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Figure of Aveline Countess of Lancaster, Cumbent on her Monument (Plate II)

243. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Figures supposed to be those of King Sebert and King Henry III (Plate V)

244. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: Heads and Ornaments on the North Side of the Monument of King Sebert (Plate VI)

245. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Under Vaulting of one side of the Canopy of the Monument of Aveline, Coutess of Lancaster (Plate III)

246. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Monument of Ann of Cleves, fourth Wife of King Henry VIII (Plate VII)

247. An Account of Some Ancient Monuments in Westminster Abbey, in Vetusta Monumenta, vol. 2: The Front of the Monument of Aveline, First Wife of Edmund Crouchback (Plate I)

248. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

249. Illustrations of the Book of Job, pl. 1 (Title Page): 'Illustrations of/ the/ Book/ of/ Job'

250. The Book of Thel

251. Illustrations to Dante's "Divine Comedy"

252. Illustrations of the Book of Job

253. The Pastorals of Virgil, London, 1821

254. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, (volume 1)

255. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

256. "A Select Collection of English Songs," London, 1783

257. The Life of George Romney

258. The Triumphs of Temper

259. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

260. A Father's Memoirs of His Child

261. A Father's Memoirs of His Child

262. A Father's Memoirs of His Child

263. A Select Collection of English Songs

264. The Triumphs of Temper

265. The Life of George Romney

266. Ballads

267. William Cowper

268. William Blake, Frontispiece

269. William Blake, Frontispiece

270. William Blake, Frontispiece

271. Songs of Innocence and Experience

272. Life of Blake

273. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

274. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair