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1. The Agony in the Garden

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 x 46 inches (106 x 116.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

2. The Lady of Shalott

Creator:: Walter Crane, 1845–1915
Date:: 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. Lucretia

Creator:: Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723
Date:: between 1672 and 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Aeneas and the Sibyl

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Dido

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 3/16 × 72 3/16 inches (244.3 × 183.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. “And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick”

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: 1872
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches (90.8 x 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. "The Lady of Shalott"

Creator:: John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893
Date:: ca. 1875
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 36 inches (61 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew
On View:: Not on view

8. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Cave of Despair

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Deluge

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 66 1/4 x 101 3/4 inches (168.3 x 258.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Last Judgement (study)

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1851 and 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 12 inches (19.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

12. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Pool of Bethesda

Creator:: Robert Bateman, 1842–1922
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 × 29 inches (50.8 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

15. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1800 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 7/8 x 32 5/8 inches (103.8 x 82.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. The Death of Lucretia

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: 1763 to 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 104 inches (213.4 x 264.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Belshazzar's Feast

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches (80 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Man attacking a monster

Creator:: Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 14 inches (29.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. The Death of Orpheus

Creator:: Landscape by Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 51 inches (95.3 x 129.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1450 to 1500
Materials & Techniques:: Alabaster
Dimensions:: Overall: 17 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (44.5 × 26.7 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

22. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Rispah: 2nd Book of Samuel, Chap. 21

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 inches (21 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (21.6 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Rispah: 2nd Book of Samuel, Chap. 21

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink First published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 7/8 inches (27.9 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (29.8 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Deluge

Creator:: Engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint; modern impression on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 1/4 inches (28.9 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Tenth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Procris and Cephalus

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

30. Tenth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 inches (30.2 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 18, "I have said to the Worm . . . ."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Jerusalem, Plate 94, "Albion cold lays on his Rock...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Jerusalem, Plate 37, "And One stood forth...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 12, "Los Smitten with Astonishment...." (Bentley 8)

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: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Elisha on His Death-Bed (II Kings 12:17)

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: before 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (8.3 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Christ Raising the Widow's Son (Luke 7:13-16)

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: before 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches (8.6 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Adonis dies in the arms of Venus

Creator:: Print made by Wallerant Vaillant, 1623–1677
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 × 12 3/16 inches (38.3 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. 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

43. 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

44. The Death of Arcite

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

45. The Brothers of Joseph Showing his Bloody Coat

Creator:: Print made by John Murphy, ca. 1748–1820
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 9/16 × 25 3/4 inches (54.8 × 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 11/16 inches (36 × 27.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. 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

48. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1678 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 3/8 inches (30.4 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. Le Tombaux de Marie Magdeleine

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: 1690s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 1/4 inches (23.7 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. 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

51. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (34.8 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. De Begraving

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 3/8 × 20 1/2 inches (67 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector

Creator:: Domenico Cunego, 1726–1803
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Dimensions:: Plate: 15 7/8 x 24 1/8in. (40.3 x 61.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

54. Studies of Death and the Resurrection, and a Head of a Man

Creator:: George Frederic Watts, 1817–1904
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 7/16 inches (17.9 × 11.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Death's Door

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, watercolor and white 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

63. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 inches (17.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Deposition

Creator:: Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959
Date:: 1910
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 9 3/4 inches (36.4 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

65. The Death of Ananias

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Burial of Sarah

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 3 7/8 x 5 13/16 inches (9.8 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Cain and Abel

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The Death of Dido

Creator:: Joseph Grozer, ca. 1755–1798
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 23 9/16 inches (49.8 × 59.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. The Murder of the Innocents

Creator:: Print made by John Baptist Jackson, 1701–1780
Materials & Techniques:: Chiaroscuro woodcut
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Collection

70. St. Nil

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 12 15/16 inches (49.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Cephalus and Procris

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 11 inches (19.6 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Lamentation

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper, pasted on thick, smooth, gray card
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 5/8 × 9 inches (27 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

73. Death of the First Born of Egypt

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and red and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 19 15/16 x 27 15/16 inches (50.6 x 70.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

74. A Landscape, with the Story of Apollo and Marsyas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches (27.6 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

75. A Spanish Good Friday

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 x 13 inches (51 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

76. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (26 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

77. The Destruction of Job's Sons

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 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (13.3 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791–1873
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Finished state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 inches (34 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Death of the First Born

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 inches (55.6 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Marcus Curtius

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (56.8 × 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (62.5 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Andromache and Hecuba Weeping over the Ashes of Hector

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 × 14 1/16 inches (51 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Study of the Pieta

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 1/16 inches (9.5 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. The Death of Ananias

Creator:: Print made by John Simon, 1675–1755
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (25.2 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

85. Pieta

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: between 1681 and 1688
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 6 15/16 inches (14.4 × 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

86. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 15/16 inches (16.8 × 12.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

87. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. The Assault

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 x 8 1/8 inches (16 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

90. Charon's Boat

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (21.2 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

91. The Deluge

Creator:: Print made by John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with etching; engraver's proof on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 9/16 × 33 3/16 inches (64.9 × 84.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. The Crucifixion

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 × 30 15/16 inches (54.9 × 78.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Rear View of the Crucifixion

Creator:: Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860–1932
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 7/8 inches (20.6 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

94. Death of Abimelech at Thebez

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Agony in the Garden

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5. Dido

6. “And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick”

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26. Procris and Cephalus

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28. Tenth Plague of Egypt

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30. Tenth Plague of Egypt

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

32. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 18, "I have said to the Worm . . . ."

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

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

35. Jerusalem, Plate 94, "Albion cold lays on his Rock...."

36. Jerusalem, Plate 37, "And One stood forth...."

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

38. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 12, "Los Smitten with Astonishment...." (Bentley 8)

39. Elisha on His Death-Bed (II Kings 12:17)

40. Christ Raising the Widow's Son (Luke 7:13-16)

41. Adonis dies in the arms of Venus

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

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

44. The Death of Arcite

45. The Brothers of Joseph Showing his Bloody Coat

46. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

47. De Kruisiging

48. Lucretia Romana

49. Le Tombaux de Marie Magdeleine

50. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

51. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

52. De Begraving

53. Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector

54. Studies of Death and the Resurrection, and a Head of a Man

55. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

56. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

57. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

58. Christ Descending into the Grave

59. Death's Door

60. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

61. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

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

63. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

64. Deposition

65. The Death of Ananias

66. Burial of Sarah

67. Cain and Abel

68. The Death of Dido

69. The Murder of the Innocents

70. St. Nil

71. Cephalus and Procris

72. Lamentation

73. Death of the First Born of Egypt