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Prints and Drawings 501

Creator

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 136
Blake, William, 1757–1827 51
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 41
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 38
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 37
Miller, William, 1796–1882 36
Unknown artist 24
Moses, Henry, ca. 1782–1870 17
Hope, Thomas, 1769–1831 16
Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834 12
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 11
Smith, William R., active 1819–1851 10
Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810 9
Smirke the Younger, Robert, Sir, 1781–1867 8
Earlom, Richard, 1743–1822 7
Page, P. D. H. Mrs., 20th century 7
Wallis, Robert, 1794–1878 7
White, John, active 1585–1593 7
Cooke, George, 1781–1834 6
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 6
Humphrey, Hannah, ca. 1745–1818 6
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801 6
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727–1785 5
Doyle, John ('H.B.'), 1797–1868 5
Jode, Gerard de, born 1509 or 1517, died 1591 5
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 5
McLean, Thomas, 1788–1875 5
Panvinio, Onofrio, 1530–1568 5
Piroli, Tommaso, 1752–1824 5
Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627–1691 5

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Accessible in the Study Room 479
On view 22

Image Use

Free to Use 484
Under Certain Circumstances 17

Image Available

available 501

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 348
Drawings & Watercolors 150
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 1
Posters 1

Collective Title

Drawings from the Antique 36
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F 31
Scott's Prose Works 30
Campbell's Poetical Works 24
For Children: The Gates of Paradise, Copy E 16
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 12
Rogers's Italy 12
Rogers's Poems 11
The Environs of London 9
A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804 8
Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England 6
Fifty-six Engravings Illustrative of Italy: A Poem 6
Picturesque Views in England and Wales 6
Amplissimi Ornatissimique Triumphi 5
Political Sketches 5
The Turner Gallery 5
Byron's Life and Works 4
Lockhart's Life of Scott 4
Robert & Mary Smirke's Illustrated Sketches to Shakespeare 4
Fisher's Illustrations to Waverley Novels 3
The Keepsake 3
The Literary Souvenir 3
The Poems of Thomas Gray 3
Views of the Capture of Amoy 3
"Vetusta Monumenta", Society of Antiquaries of London, 1747-1906 2
Cooke's Views in Sussex 2
Studies of, 167 Drawings, and 1 Print, for Oil Paintings, by Benjamin R. Haydon 2
The Pocket Magazine 2
'The Copper-Plate Magazine' and 'The Itinerant,' 1794-1798 1
An Essay on Sculpture 1

Period

19th century 266
18th century 170
18th century-19th century 31
20th century 14
19th century-20th century 6
16th century-17th century 5
17th century 4
17th century-18th century 3

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 241
line engraving 157
etching (printing process) 138
watercolor 111
laid paper 90
graphite 87
black ink 58
stipple engraving 55
brown ink 43
pen 43
engraving (printing process) 42
relief etching 31
aquatint 30
mezzotint 27
gouache 23
chine collé 22
gray wash 20
color printing 19
hand coloring 17
card 13
lithography 13
woodcut (process) 13
ink 11
brown wash 10
gray ink 9
black chalk 7
red ink 6
Engraving 5
colored ink 4
photogravure 4

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Work Type

intaglio print 287
drawing 168
watercolor 154
relief print 46
planographic print 18
photomechanical print 5
ticket 5
collage 1
frontispiece 1
religious and mythological subject 1

Genre

historical subject 501

architectural subject 127
military art 99
landscape 80
literary theme 65
marine art 56
portrait 35
cityscape 32
religious and mythological subject 27
genre subject 20
animal art 8
cartographic material 7
figure study 6
still life 5
sporting art 2
botanical subject 1

Subject Terms

historical subject 196
men 83
architectural subject 60
text 49
women 49
trees 33
branches 30
leaf 28
marine art 28
children 27
portrait 27
river 25
vines 25
costume 23
crowd 22
cityscape 20
nudes 20
clouds 19
hats 18
horses (animals) 17
military art 17
religious and mythological subject 17
swords 17
wings 17
death 15
man 15
vegetation 15
fire 14
flags 14
landscape 14

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 65
England 56
London 47
Europe 35
Greater London 21
Asia 17
City of Westminster 10
Thames 10
Bharat 9
India 9
Palace of Westminster 8
City of London 7
France 7
Tower Hamlets 7
Tower of London 7
Devon 6
Italy 6
St. Paul's Cathedral 6
Plymouth 5
Rome 5
Aube 4
Brienne-le-Château 4
Greece 4
Plymouth Sound 4
Scotland 4
Athens 3
Carrick Roads 3
China 3
Cornwall 3
Emilia-Romagna 3

Associated People

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 9
Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852), army officer and prime minister 8
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter 7
West, Benjamin (1738–1820), American history painter active in Britain 6
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter 5
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver 5
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver 5
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor 5
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator 5
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter 5
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect 5
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman 5
Cosway, Richard (bap. 1742, d. 1821), artist and collector 5
Gwynn, John (bap. 1713, d. 1786), architect 5
Hayman, Francis (1707/8–1776), painter, engraver, and book illustrator 5
Hoare, William (1707/8–1792), portrait painter 5
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–1784), Irish painter 5
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife 5
Kauffmann, Angelica (1741–1807), history and portrait painter 5
Meyer, Jeremiah (1735–1789), miniature painter 5
Moser [married name Lloyd], Mary (1744–1819), flower painter 5
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783) 5
Newton, Francis Milner (1720–1794), portrait painter 5
Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor 5
Penny, Edward (1714–1791), portrait, historical, and genre painter 5
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 5
Richards, John Inigo (1730/31?–1810), landscape and scene-painter 5
Sandby, Paul (bap. 1731, d. 1809), painter and engraver 5
Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman 5
Serres, Dominic (1722–1793), marine painter 5

Exhibition History

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 49
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 49
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 29
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 22
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) 12
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 10
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 9
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 7
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 7
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 7
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 5
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 4
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 4
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 4
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 3
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 3
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 3
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) 3
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 3
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 3
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 2
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 2
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 2
Francis Hayman (Kenwood House, 1987-06-24 - 1987-09-30) 2
Francis Hayman (Yale Center for British Art, 1987-04-01 - 1987-05-31) 2
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) 2
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) 2
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 2
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11) 2
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) 2

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William Hogarth, 1697–1764

George Taylor's Epitaph: George Taylor Breaking the Ribs of Death

ca. 1750
Accessible in the Study Room
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Scarborough
Accessible in the Study Room
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Le Depart de la Flotte des Troyens
Accessible in the Study Room
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Carisbrooke Castle
Accessible in the Study Room
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Burning of the Houses of Parliament
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

The Death of Demosthenes

1800
On view
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

The Angel (Plate 40)

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

"Fear to stop, and shame to fly..." (Design 91)

between 1797 and 1798
Accessible in the Study Room
William Blake, 1757–1827

The Triumphs of Owen, A Fragment; Title Page

between 1797 and 1798
Accessible in the Study Room
William Blake, 1757–1827

The Bard Singing Owen's Praise (Design 89)

between 1797 and 1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

The Shepherd (Plate 4)

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

The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 10)

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

Spring (Plate 12)

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

The Little Black Boy (Plate 6)

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

Laughing Song (Plate 14)

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

The Little Boy Lost (Plate 16)

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

The Lamb (Plate 18)

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

The Little Girl Lost (Plate 20)

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

The Little Girl Found (Plate 22)

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

The Divine Image (Plate 24)

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

A Cradle Song (Plate 26)

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

Infant Joy (Plate 28)

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

Night (Plate 30)

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

Air (Plate 6)

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

Earth (Plate 5)

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

The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening (Plate 16)

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

Death's Door (Plate 17)

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

Introduction (Plate 3)

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

The Ecchoing Green (Plate 8)

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

Songs of Experience, Title Page (Plate 33)

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

Introduction (Plate 34)

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

Nurses Song (Plate 37)

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

The Clod & the Pebble (Plate 36)

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

Holy Thursday (Plate 38)

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

London (Plate 39)

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

A Little Boy Lost (Plate 43)

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

The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 45)

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

A Little Girl Lost (Plate 44)

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

The Human Abstract (Plate 46)

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

The Fly (Plate 48)

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

My Pretty Rose Tree (Plate 47)

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

I Found Him Beneath a Tree (Plate 3)

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

For Children. The Gates of Paradise; Title Page (Plate 2)

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

Water (Plate 4)

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

At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell (Plate 8)

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

I Want! I Want! (Plate 11)

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

Alas! (Plate 9)

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

Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

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

Help! Help! (Plate 12)

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

Does Thy God O Priest Take such Vengeance as This? (Plate 14)

1793

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