Genre: religious and mythological subject / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: horses (animals)

1. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

Creator:: Louis Laguerre, 1663–1721
Date:: ca. 1704
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/8 x 30 inches (107 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 69, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

3. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 75, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

4. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun Beheld it -- No, the Shocking Scene"

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

5. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 61, "The Bard."

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

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 73, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

7. Sketch for "The Conversion of St. Paul" for the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1709 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk on thin, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (24.1 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Birth of Venus

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8in. (18.4 x 14.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

10. Neptune

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 6 11/16 inches (18.7 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 6 3/8 inches (15.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (two of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 3/8 inches (35.9 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. De Kruisiging

Creator:: Print made by Frederik Christiaan Bierweiler, active 1800–1831
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 × 19 3/4 inches (66.7 × 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Sketch for the Oil Painting "The Conversion of St. Paul"

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brushed black ink, gray wash and gouache on medium, moderately textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (44.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Cave of Trophonius

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on thin, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 15 1/16 inches (23.7 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Dido and Aeneas; The Morning of the Chase

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with graphite; engraver's proof (a), touched on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/8 × 28 1/8 inches (53.7 × 71.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Triumph of Britannia

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Mythological Battle

Creator:: George C. Finden, 1811–1885
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 19 15/16 inches (34.8 x 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Creation

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (14.6 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Widow with the Burning Corpse of her Husband Becoming a Sati, Patna

Creator:: Unknown artist (Company style)
Date:: between 1820 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 22 3/4 inches (40.3 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. The Deposition

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink, gray ink, graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (34.9 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

23. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave

Creator:: Francis Cleyn, 1582–1658
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

2. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 69, "The Fatal Sisters."

3. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 75, "The Fatal Sisters."

4. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun Beheld it -- No, the Shocking Scene"

5. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 61, "The Bard."

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 73, "The Fatal Sisters."

7. Sketch for "The Conversion of St. Paul" for the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral

8. The Birth of Venus

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

10. Neptune

11. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

12. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (two of four)

13. De Kruisiging

14. Sketch for the Oil Painting "The Conversion of St. Paul"

15. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

16. Cave of Trophonius

17. Dido and Aeneas; The Morning of the Chase

18. The Triumph of Britannia

19. A Mythological Battle

20. The Creation

21. Widow with the Burning Corpse of her Husband Becoming a Sati, Patna

22. The Deposition

23. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave