Period: 18th century / Genre: religious and mythological subject / Creator: Unknown artist

1. Allegory of Geometry

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Stoneware ('Coade Stone')
Dimensions:: Overall: 21 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 8 inches (54 × 107.3 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. Father Time

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Stoneware ('Coade Stone')
Dimensions:: Overall: 59 1/2 inches (151.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. Perseus Relating to Andromeda the Power of Medusa's Head

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 12 3/4 inches (45.1 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Oliver Plunket

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on modertately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 × 9 1/2 inches (32.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three 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

6. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphis (four of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 3/8 inches (35.6 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury

Creator:: Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 × 3 1/8 inches (13.8 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Ariadne

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (18.1 x 24.8 cm)
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. 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

11. 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

12. Venus Bathing

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1779 and 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (37.5 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. The Holy Family

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (39.7 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Meeting of Jacob and Esau

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (proof before all letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 23 3/4 inches (52.1 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 inches (26.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Fortune

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (40.3 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Isaac Watts

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 11/16 inches (23.2 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. William Robertson

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 3/4 inches (18.4 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Collection of 105 Wedgewood Plaques (in one frame)

Creator:: Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795
Date:: after 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Wedgwood ceramic
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/8 x 14 1/8in. (51.8 x 35.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Venus Standing By the Sea, Two Cupids Carry Masks

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Dr. Isaac Watts

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Prométhée

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (22.5 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Salvator Mundi

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (40.3 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Gerolamo Tartarotti

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 1/4 inches (24.6 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Hermes Leading Persephone out of the Underworld

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 17 inches (35.9 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Deane Keller, B.A. 1923

27. Mary Hale (née Chaloner) as Euphrosyne in 'L'Allegro'

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: 1762-1764
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 13/16 × 16 1/4 inches (65.6 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Allegory of Geometry

2. Father Time

3. Perseus Relating to Andromeda the Power of Medusa's Head

4. Oliver Plunket

5. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

6. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphis (four of four)

7. Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury

8. Ariadne

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

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

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

12. Venus Bathing

13. The Holy Family

14. Meeting of Jacob and Esau

15. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

16. Fortune

17. Isaac Watts

18. William Robertson

19. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

20. Collection of 105 Wedgewood Plaques (in one frame)

21. Venus Standing By the Sea, Two Cupids Carry Masks

22. Dr. Isaac Watts

23. Prométhée

24. Salvator Mundi

25. Gerolamo Tartarotti

26. Hermes Leading Persephone out of the Underworld

27. Mary Hale (née Chaloner) as Euphrosyne in 'L'Allegro'