Materials & Techniques: mezzotint / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: portrait / Subject Terms: literary theme

1. Miss Kitty Fisher as 'Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl'

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: between 1752 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 9 3/8 inches (34.2 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 11 7/16 inches (37.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (36.3 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Mrs. Michael Angelo Taylor as 'Miranda'

Creator:: Print made by James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/4 × 18 1/8 inches (64.1 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. David Garrick as Richard III

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (66.7 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of the Merry Wives of Windsor

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 11 5/16 inches (31.2 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina

Creator:: Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 x 11 5/16 inches (39.2 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Mrs. Siddons, in the Character of the Tragic Muse

Creator:: Print made by Francis Haward, 1759–1797
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, etching and stipple engraving (first state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 × 20 inches (71.1 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. 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

10. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.1 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/16 inches (36 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (61.9 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 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

14. Life School at the Royal Academy

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/8 x 28 1/2 inches (51.1 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

Creator:: Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Garrick in the Character of Richard III

Creator:: Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (52.7 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Margaret Woffington as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 inches (50.2 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Mrs. Pope as Juliet

Creator:: Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 12 inches (40.6 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Composite of twenty mixed intaglio plate (various sizes): lift-ground aquatint, photogravure, drypoint, hard and soft-ground etching, burin, stipple, mezzotint, line engraving and roulette on medium, smooth, cream Hahnemuhle wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

20. David Garrick with a Bust of Shakespeare

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 24 1/2 x 15 1/8in. (62.2 x 38.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. The late Mrs Pope as Juliet

Creator:: William Ward, 1766–1826
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Rosalind

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 3/4 × 16 inches (55.2 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Thomas Leland

Creator:: John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 10 1/2 inches (38.1 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Mrs. Elizabeth Billington as St. Cecilia

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 5/8 × 16 3/4 inches (65.1 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Miss Kitty Fisher as 'Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl'

2. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

3. Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield

4. Mrs. Michael Angelo Taylor as 'Miranda'

5. David Garrick as Richard III

6. Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of the Merry Wives of Windsor

7. La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina

8. Mrs. Siddons, in the Character of the Tragic Muse

9. Sigismonda

10. Edwin

11. Edwin

12. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

13. Imogen's Bedchamber in Cymbeline's Palace, 'Cymbeline,' Act II, Scene II

14. Life School at the Royal Academy

15. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

16. Garrick in the Character of Richard III

17. Margaret Woffington as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

18. Mrs. Pope as Juliet

19. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

20. David Garrick with a Bust of Shakespeare

21. The late Mrs Pope as Juliet

22. Rosalind

23. Thomas Leland

24. Mrs. Elizabeth Billington as St. Cecilia