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The Lover
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Justice
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The School-Boy
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.6 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Infant
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 10 7/8 inches (22.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field:" Full Cry: 'Let's Keep the Lead'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Meet: 'With Bright Faces and Merry Hearts'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 11/16 inches (12.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities:" 'Mr. Jorrocks Renounces the Acquaintance of the Yorkshireman'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 9/16 inches (10.5 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Mr. Jorrocks Takes a Ride at St. Cloud'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 9/16 inches (10.5 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Lift me Up! Tie me in my Chair! Fill my Glass'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/16 × 6 9/16 inches (10.3 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": Getting Away: 'Let's Take the Lead'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Mr. Jorrocks Beats the Baron for Speed'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 9/16 inches (10.5 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": Title page
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/8 × 5 11/16 inches (21.3 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Mr. Jorrocks's Surprize on Seeing the Paris Diligence, "My Vig, Here's Wombwell's Wildbeast show" '
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/16 × 6 9/16 inches (10.3 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
1842
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 × 7 3/8 inches (12.2 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": "Water, I do Declare with Worms in it"
Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 1/2 inches (10.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy
Creator:
Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (28.3 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Symon Breaks the News to Glaud: Design number 3 for The Gentle Shepherd
Creator:
David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 6 5/8 inches (22.9 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sleepest or Wakest Thou?
Creator:
Print made by Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885
Date:
ca. 1853
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (10.8 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Hamlet

Hamlet
Creator:
Print made by Charles Ansell, ca.1752–active 1790
Date:
1809
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/16 x 15 3/16 inches (31.2 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Here Nature List'ning Stood
Creator:
Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Come Gentle Night: "Romeo and Juliet," Act III, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by James H. Baker, born 1829
Date:
between 1839 and 1849
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches (28.2 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Illustration to Aesop's Fables: The Fox & the Crane
Creator:
Follower of Francis Barlow, 1622–1704
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 7/8 × 5 7/8 inches (12.4 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
King Lear and Cordelia, Act V, Scene 10
Creator:
James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint; touched with india ink
Dimensions:
Plate: 21 7/8 x 20 1/8in. (55.6 x 51.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
King Lear and Cordelia
Creator:
Print made by James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and aquatint with India ink, published state
Dimensions:
Plate: 21 7/8 x 21 5/8 inches (55.6 x 54.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ophelia: There Is Rue for You and Here's Some for Me
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 7/8 inches (28.7 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Queen Katherine's Dream - "Henry VIII"
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 20in. (43.2 x 50.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Lovelace in Prison
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Henderson as Iago
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 1/16 inches (27.5 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ticket: Anacreontic Society Meeting
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, stipple engraving and line engraving in red ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 4 inches (14 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Miss Anna Brunton
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 inches (14.9 × 9.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Henderson as Iago
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
before 1786
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 inches (27.8 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Cordelia

Cordelia
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene I: The Street
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1803
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and stipple engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 x 29 1/2 inches (50.8 x 74.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Tom Jones Assisting Molly Seagrim
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 x 15 7/16 inches (53.4 x 39.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection
A Plate from Orlando Furioso: Depicting Orlando and Rodomont Fighting
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ticket: Anacreontic Society Meeting
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple and line engraving and etching in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (14.6 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustration from Orlando Furioso: "Che deb'bo sar? che poss'io sar qui sola? / che mi da ajuto, oime, che mi consola?"
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Alphonso and Aciloe
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/16 x 11 inches (38.5 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Cora
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 9/16 x 10 3/16 inches (34.4 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Gualtherus and Griselda
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, mdoerately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (31.1 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
And Ah! Let Pity Turn Her Dewy Eyes...
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1801
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 9/16 inches (35.7 x 26.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Imogen's Bedchamber in Cymbeline's Palace, 'Cymbeline,' Act II, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 13/16 x 16 3/4 inches (32.5 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ophelia: There's Rue for You, and Here's Some for Me
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 x 8 9/16 inches (27.9 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Tancred and Clorinda
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 9 3/16 inches (28.3 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 17 7/8 inches (40 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
Creator:
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:
ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Little Red Riding Hood
Creator:
Print made by imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:
after 1856
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut done by Le Blond & Co. on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 5 1/8 inches (17.9 × 13 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pamela having divided her clothes into threee Bundles, in order to leave the House, rejects that containing her Masters presents calling it the wicked bundle, & harangues over her own little Parcel which she huggs in her Arms;...
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 1/16 inches (39.1 x 51 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Pamela setting out in the travelling Chariot (for her Father's as She is made to believe) takes her farewel of Mrs. Jervis, and the other servants; Mr. B. observing her from the window; by whose private order she is carried into Lincolnshire
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (39.7 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Associates
The Marriage Ceremony performed in Mr. B.'s own Chappel by Mr. Williams, Mr. Peters giving her away, Mrs. Jewkes waits behind Pamela and the Maid keeps the door
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches (39 x 54 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Pamela, being now in the custody of Mrs. Jenkes, seizes an occasion (as they are walking in the garden) to propose a Correspondence with Mr. Williams in order to contrive an Escape, who agree to hide their letters between two tiles near the Sunflower
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (37.4 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Pamela with the Children and Miss Goodwin to whome she is telling her nursery tales. This last Piece leaves her in full possession of the peaceable fruits of her Virtue long after having surmounted all the difficulties it had been exposed to
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 21 5/16 inches (39.3 x 54.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association
Pamela Swooning, after having discovered Mr. B. in the closet, He (frighted) endeavouring to recover her, Mrs. Jervis wringing her hands, and screaming
Creator:
Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/16 x 20 1/16 inches (38.3 x 51 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Associates
Die Maussalle.... - "Hamlet," Act III, Scene II
Creator:
Print made by Daniel Berger, 1744–1824
Date:
between 1778 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 10 3/4 inches (23 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Dog and the Shadow
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Date:
1909
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/16 x 4 1/8 inches (8.1 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
A. Birrell, ca.1770–ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sigismonda
Creator:
Print made by John Blackmore, active 1740–1780
Date:
between 1769 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (42.8 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Book of Thel, Plate 2, Title Page
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book of Thel, Plate 7, "But he that loves the lowly . . . ."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book of Thel, Plate 8, "IV. / The eternal gates . . . ."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
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
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
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 63, "This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace"
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
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all"
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The thunder if in that the Almighty dwells"
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 86, "His hand the good man fastens on the skies"
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist"
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
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
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching printed in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 2(b), "Preludium" (Bentley 2b)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in pale brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 3, "Chap: 1 . . . ." (Bentley 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 6, "In living creations appear'd . . . ." (Bentley 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 8 (Bentley 9)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 12 (Bentley 22)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 11, "Two nostrils bent down to the deep . . . ." (Bentley 13)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 9, "Chap: IV | 1 Ages on ages roll'd over him . . . ." (Bentley 10)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 13, "Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided . . . " (Bentley 15)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 15, "8. The globe of life blood trembled . . . ." (Bentley 18)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 21 (Bentley 27)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book of Thel, Plate 3, "Thel / I / The daughters of Mne Seraphim . . . ."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book of Thel, Plate 5, "II. / O little Cloud . . . ."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book of Thel, Plate 6, "III. / Then Thel astonish'd . . . ."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
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
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
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
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades"
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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 57, "Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl"
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
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
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
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
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
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 4, "Muster around the bleak desarts . . . ." (Bentley 4)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 5 (Bentley 12)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection