Genre: religious and mythological subject / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: costume

1. Peace Embracing Plenty

Creator:: Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640
Date:: between 1633 and 1634
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches (62.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1814 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches (71.8 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Virgin and Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. “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

5. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (43.8 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 5/8 inches (47.9 × 62.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. 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

11. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches (36 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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 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

14. The Good Samaritan

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1751 and 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 78 1/2 × 48 1/2 inches (199.4 × 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

15. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. 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

17. 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

18. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

Creator:: Print made by John Franklin, c.1800–1868
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.8 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Fry Print Collection

19. A Landscape, with the Story of Europa

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 5/8 inches (27.8 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

20. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 × 7 5/8 inches (26.2 × 19.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (21.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: before 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 3/8 inches (22.3 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, with center cut out on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (8.9 × 13.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. St. Cecilia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (30.8 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Aeneas Entering Hades

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1675 and 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 5/16 inches (25.3 × 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Lot and His Family

Creator:: Print made by John Alexander, 1686–before 1768
Date:: ca. 1718
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 15 1/16 inches (28.8 x 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 inches (32.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. 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

29. Juvenis auscultans seni de divinis admonenti

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (46.6 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (31.5 × 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 13 9/16 inches (44.2 x 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Virgin

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper laid on modern mount
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/4 x 11 1/16 inches (38.7 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 3/16 inches (50.4 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 5 11/16 inches (14.8 × 14.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

36. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: before 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 5 11/16 inches (22.2 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

38. Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Treachery

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches (36.5 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Peace Embracing Plenty

2. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

3. Virgin and Child

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

5. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

6. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

7. Dido

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

9. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

10. Aeneas and the Sibyl

11. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

12. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

13. The Education of Achilles

14. The Good Samaritan

15. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

16. The Pool of Bethesda

17. A Spanish Good Friday

18. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

19. A Landscape, with the Story of Europa

20. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

21. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

22. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

23. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

24. St. Cecilia

25. Aeneas Entering Hades

26. Lot and His Family

27. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

28. St. Nil

29. Juvenis auscultans seni de divinis admonenti

30. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

31. Sensibility

32. Sensibility

33. The Virgin

34. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

35. Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.

36. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

37. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

38. Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Treachery