Collection: Prints and Drawings / Associated Places: United Kingdom / Subject Terms: literary theme

1. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (26.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1879
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/16 inches (26.1 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

3. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

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

4. 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

5. Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: after 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 9/16 inches (16.1 × 21.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: after 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 7/16 inches (15.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: after 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/8 inches (14.9 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Hamlet in Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (28.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. 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

10. Tom Jones

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

11. David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759

Creator:: Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 x 14 13/16 inches (53.4 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Falstaff Inspecting the Recruits

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1761 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.8 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Queen Katherine's Dream

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (34.6 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck or the Land of Stones

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1786
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

15. Tom Jones; The Interview of Tom Jones, and Sophia, after the Reconciliation

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

16. Wolf's Hope

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, active early 19th century
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Boy of Egremond

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 inches (44.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (36.8 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Murder of Banquo

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Scene from Quentin Durward

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. A Scene from "The Abbot"

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, Fund

24. Falstaff in the Boar's Head

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil with brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 13/16 inches (44 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (19 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 6 1/4in. (29.8 x 15.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art from the bequest of Mr. and Mrs. John Estabrook

28. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, 1st state on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 7/8 inches (29.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Wolf's Hope

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, active early 19th century
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, 1st state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 5/16 inches (29.5 × 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Murder on the Thames

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (23 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

32. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches (50.2 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 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

34. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, open etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (36.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof (early) on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 6 3/4 inches (30.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Wolf's Hope

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, active early 19th century
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

Creator:: Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:: 1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

38. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by M. H. Long
Date:: 1884
Materials & Techniques:: Lithography (hand coloring)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 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

40. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/2 inches (30.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

41. The Princes in the Tower

Creator:: William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (27.5 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Macbeth and the Witch

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. Design for the Setting of Charles Kean's Production of Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 inches (20.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/16 inches (58.5 x 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Lonely Tower

2. The Lonely Tower

3. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

4. Here Nature List'ning Stood

5. Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II

6. Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV

7. London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I

8. Hamlet in Scotland

9. Lovelace in Prison

10. Tom Jones

11. David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759

12. Falstaff Inspecting the Recruits

13. Queen Katherine's Dream

14. The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck or the Land of Stones

15. Tom Jones; The Interview of Tom Jones, and Sophia, after the Reconciliation

16. Wolf's Hope

17. The Boy of Egremond

18. Bolton Abbey

19. Bolton Abbey

20. St. Herbert's Chapel

21. The Murder of Banquo

22. Scene from Quentin Durward

23. A Scene from "The Abbot"

24. Falstaff in the Boar's Head

25. St. Herbert's Chapel

26. Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath

27. Bolton Abbey

28. St. Herbert's Chapel

29. Wolf's Hope

30. Bolton Abbey

31. The Murder on the Thames

32. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

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

34. St. Herbert's Chapel

35. Bolton Abbey

36. Wolf's Hope

37. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

38. St. Herbert's Chapel

39. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

40. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

41. The Princes in the Tower

42. Macbeth and the Witch

43. Design for the Setting of Charles Kean's Production of Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857

44. Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI