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Creator

Blake, William, 1757–1827 15
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 10
Gravelot, Hubert-François, 1699–1773 6
Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807 6
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 6
Romney, George, 1734–1802 5
Cook, Thomas, 1744–1818 4
Longman,, active 1804–1914 4
Unknown artist 4
Heath, James, 1757–1834 3
The, London Printing and Publishing Company 3
Allason, Thomas, 1790–1852 2
Cooke, George, 1781–1834 2
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 2
Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825 2
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 2
Hayley, William, 1745–1820 2
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800 2
Phillips, Thomas, 1770–1845 2
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765–1810 2
Thornton, Robert John, 1768–1837 2
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 1
Alexander, William, 1767–1816 1
Allan, David, 1744–1796 1
Apostool, Cornelis, 1762–1844 1
Bain, Iain, active 1977 1
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 1
Blair, Robert, 1699–1746 1
British, Museum Publications 1
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 1

Date

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To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 68
On view 5

Image Use

Free to Use 73

Image Available

available 73

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 47
Drawings & Watercolors 26

Collective Title

Fisher's Pilgrim's Progress 2
Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola in Istria 2
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F 2
The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair 2
A Select Collection of English Songs 1
America. A Prophecy, Copy M 1
An Essay on Sculpture 1
Designs to a Series of Ballads 1
English Landscape: Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery, from Pictures Painted by John Constable, R.A. 1
Engravings after Guercino's Libro dei Disegni 1
Europe. A Prophecy, Copy A 1
Fables by John Gay, Vol. I 1
Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds 1
For Children: The Gates of Paradise, Copy E 1
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Copy G 1
Gay's Fables 1
Illustrations to "The Vicar of Wakefield" 1
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 1
Liber Studiorum 1
Original Sketches of Animals & etc. 1
Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon 1
Songs of Innocence, Copy G 1
The Costume of China 1
The Gentle Shepherd 1
The Pastorals of Virgil 1
The Progress of a Midshipman Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead in Seven Plates & Frontispiece 1
The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1
There Is No Natural Religion, Copy B 1
Twelve Large Illustrations to Samuel Butler's "Hudibras" 1
Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Copy I 1

Period

19th century 34
18th century 28
18th century-19th century 7
17th century 2

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 40
laid paper 25
etching (printing process) 20
graphite 20
black ink 19
line engraving 18
watercolor 13
gray wash 11
relief etching 9
color printing 4
incising 4
pen 4
red chalk 4
aquatint 3
brown ink 3
steel engraving 3
stipple engraving 3
chine collé 2
ink 2
mezzotint 2
red ink 2
wood engraving (process) 2
black chalk 1
brown wash 1
colored ink 1
engraving (printing process) 1
gold 1
gold leaf 1
gray ink 1
hosho 1

Height [cm]

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Width [cm]

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Work Type

frontispiece 73

intaglio print 36
drawing 34
watercolor 23
relief print 11

Genre

religious and mythological subject 20
genre subject 17
literary theme 17
architectural subject 10
portrait 9
landscape 3
animal art 2
figure study 2
historical subject 1
marine art 1
still life 1

Subject Terms

religious and mythological subject 15
men 11
genre subject 9
lyre 9
trees 9
architectural subject 8
children 6
frontispiece (illustration) 6
literary theme 6
man 6
nudes 6
angel 5
books 5
clouds 5
putti 5
text 5
women 5
frontispieces (illustrations) 4
laurel crown 4
leaf 4
portrait 4
tree 4
vines 4
allegorical 3
beard 3
bust 3
chains 3
comedy 3
figures (illustrations) 3
frontispieces 3

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 3
Europe 3
United Kingdom 3
Avon 1
China 1
East Bergholt 1
Suffolk 1
Wakefield 1
Warwickshire 1
Yorkshire 1

Associated People

Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet 2
Apollo 1
Artemis 1
Brudenell (née Savile), Lady Frances, (d. 1695) 1
Cupid 1
Diana of Ephesus 1
Father Time, man with wings and scythe 1
Flora 1
Ramsay, Allan (1684–1758), poet 1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 1

Exhibition History

The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 14
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 10
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 10
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 5
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 4
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 3
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) 3
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 2
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 2
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 1
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 1
Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Sir John Soane's Museum, 2010-02-19 - 2010-05-01) 1
Mrs Delany & Her Circle (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-09-24 - 2010-01-03) 1
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 1
Romantics & Revolutionaries : Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-03-30) 1
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) 1
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) 1
Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27) 1
The Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France 1850-1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1984-02-01 - 1984-03-25) 1
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 1
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 1
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 1
William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 45
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 10
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 7
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Archer Gee for History of Art (History of Prints) 1
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert 1

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Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Frontispiece and its Explanation (no. 1)

1726
Accessible in the Study Room
after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Frontispiece to Hogarth's Works, The Milk Maid

between 1849 and 1895
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Frontispiece to the 'Liber Studiorum'

1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Albion's Angel; Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

There Is No Natural Religion; Frontispiece (Plate 1)

ca. 1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

"What is Man!"; Frontispiece (Plate 2)

1826
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

The Ancient of Days; Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1794
On view
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1789
On view
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Songs of Experience, Frontispiece (Plate 32)

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Visions of the Daughters of Albion; Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
Wood block engraved by William Blake, 1757–1827

Thenot and Colinet, Frontispiece; Imitation of Eclogue I

1821, reprinted 1977
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

What is Man!, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1793
On view
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Jerusalem, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1804 to 1820
On view
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Europe. A Prophecy; Frontispiece

ca. 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Frontispiece

1821
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Pericles, Frontispiece

1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

The Dog; Frontispiece

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Richard Cumberland Frontispiece

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Richard Cumberland Frontispiece

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Richard Cumberland Frontispiece

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Richard Cumberland Frontispiece

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Richard Cumberland Frontispiece

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815

Frontispiece to Volume II of a Book, Woman pointing to a Tablet on which is... [Read more]

1782
Accessible in the Study Room
Robert White, 1645–1703

Frontispiece to John Nalson's "Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of... [Read more]

1682
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by David Lucas, 1802–1881

Frontispiece, Artist's Home at East Bergholt, Suffolk

1831
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870

Frontispiece to Pilgrim's Progress

1838
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779

Frontispiece with Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds

1778
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878

Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Vicar of Wakefield: Frontispiece

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles H. Jeens, 1827–1879

William Blake

1827
Accessible in the Study Room
John Romney, 1786–1863

Frontispiece to Rasselas' Tale by Dr. Johnson

1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Hamilton Smith, 1776–1859

Frontispiece - Peter Simon Pallas

ca. 1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822

A Tiger Resting: the frontispiece for "Oriental Field Sports"

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Girtin, ca. 1780–after 1820

Dedication Page for: to the Right Honorable George Earl of Essex

1803
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796

Alan Ramsay Scotus

1808
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870

Frontispiece to Pilgrim's Progress

1836
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834

Antiquities at Pola, Frontispiece

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834

Antiquities at Pola, Frontispiece

1818
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Frederick Christian Lewis the Elder, 1779–1856

Frontispiece to Mr. Fawkes Catalogue

1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844

Here Nature List'ning Stood

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810

William Blake, Frontispiece

1808, published 1813
On view
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810

William Blake, Frontispiece

1808
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807

Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for Vol. IV, 1772

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807

Town and Country Magazine, Frontispiece for Vol. X for 1778

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807

Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. II, No. 1

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807

Town and Country Magazine - Frontispiece for 1769 (1st issue therefore... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807

Frontispiece for Town and Country Magazine, for Vol. III for 1771, No. 1

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807

Frontispiece Vol. VII, No. I for 1775 from Town and Country Magazine

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Frontispiece to the Artist's Catalogue, 1761

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Humours of Oxford, 1729

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Frontispiece Vol. I

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804–1872

Original Frontispiece for 'Book of Ballads' (Bon Gaultier)

ca. 1845
Accessible in the Study Room
Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825

Drawing for the Frontispiece of Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"

1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Frontispiece to the Artist's Catalogue, 1761

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Jane Ireland, active ca. 1785–1800

Frontispiece to Leveridge's Songs

1799
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Frontispiece to the Artist's Catalogue

1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Thomas Cook, 1744–1818

Frontispiece to the Artist's Catalogue, 1761

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Francesco Curti, 1610–1690

Frontispiece: Hercules Fighting the Hydra

ca. 1633
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William C. Wilson, active 1798–1836

Frontispiece, Monument to John Gay

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878

Count Bertram's Shipwreck

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by unknown artist

Frontispiece to the Artist's Catalogue

1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834

A Select Collection of English Songs, Frontispiece

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
Charles Dyce, active 1848

Titlepage and thirteen sheets of ms. description for "Thoughts and... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
John Fayram, op.1713–1743

Frontispiece Design for John Fayram's "Eight Views after Nature"

ca. 1739
Accessible in the Study Room
James Heath, 1757–1834

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven, for G. G. J.... [Read more]

1770
Accessible in the Study Room
William Alexander, 1767–1816

Frontispiece for Costume of China

ca. 1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773

Design for a Frontispiece: Allegorical Landscape

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773

Design for a Frontispiece: Shepherds with Flock

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773

Design for a Frontispiece: A Bishop Conferring an Honor, Scene Within a... [Read more]

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773

Design for a Frontispiece: Group of Allegorical Figures

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773

Design for a Frontispiece: Bust of a Roman Man

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773

Drawing for a Frontispiece: "The Toast"

1735

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