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Prints and Drawings 308

Creator

Blake, William, 1757–1827 115
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801 38
Colnaghi,, established 1760, active ca. 1785–1911 34
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 25
Buckley, Stephen, born 1944 21
J.C., Editions, established ca. 1971 19
Vendramini, Giovanni, 1769–1839 15
Heron, Patrick, 1920–1999 11
Kapoor, Anish, Sir, born 1954 11
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765–1810 11
Frost, Terry, Sir, 1915–2003 10
O'Donoghue, Hughie, born 1953 10
Stoneman, Hugh, 1947–2005 10
The, Paragon Press 10
Cardon, Anthony, 1772–1813 9
Frink, Elisabeth, Dame, 1930–1993 8
Rothenstein, Michael, 1908–1993 8
Marlborough, Fine Art (London) Ltd. 4
Rego, Paula, Dame, 1935–2022 4
Smith, Richard, 1931–2016 4
Wilkinson, Donald, born 1937 4
Arthur, Ackermann & Son Limited 3
Haghe, Louis, 1806–1885 3
Knight, Charles, 1743–c.1826 3
Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003 3
Schiavonetti, Niccoló, 1771–1813 3
Singleton, Henry, 1766–1839 3
Thorpe, John Hall, 1874–1947 3
Andrews, Sybil, 1898–1992 2
Bond, William, active 1772–1831, died 1842 2

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 283
On view 24
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery 1

Image Use

Free to Use 174
Under Certain Circumstances 134

Image Available

available 250
unavailable 58

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 308

Collective Title

The First Book of Urizen, Copy A 28
The First Book of Urizen, Copy C 26
Cries of London 25
Mother and Child Album 25
Europe. A Prophecy, Copy A 17
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F 17
The Cries of London 12
Ten Colour Etchings 11
There Is No Natural Religion, Copy B 11
A Line of Retreat 10
America. A Prophecy, Copy M 10
Madron Woodcuts (Half Moons) 10
The Brushwork Series 10
September Suite 7
Birds of Prey 5
Jane Eyre Series 4
Getting Ready for the Ball Triptych 3
"India, Mother" 1
China Series 1
Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene II 1
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 1

Period

18th century 161
20th century 121
21st century 14
19th century 6
18th century-19th century 2
17th century-18th century 1
19th century-20th century 1
20th century-21st century 1

Materials & Techniques

color printing 308

wove paper 259
watercolor 149
relief etching 111
etching (printing process) 102
aquatint 92
hand coloring 46
stipple engraving 44
black ink 33
woodcut (process) 22
artist's proof 19
roulette 19
oil paint 17
carborundum print 11
photogravure 11
sugar-lift 10
linocut 9
mezzotint 9
wood block printing 8
laid paper 7
lithography 7
open biting 6
Asian paper 5
ink 5
relief halftone 3
screen printing 3
collotype 2
drypoint 2
relief printing processes 2
varnish 2

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Work Type

intaglio print 150
relief print 141
watercolor 104
drawing 43
planographic print 12
frontispiece 4

Genre

abstract art 81
literary theme 77
religious and mythological subject 60
genre subject 47
figure study 26
historical subject 22
landscape 14
military art 11
animal art 8
portrait 6
architectural subject 5
cityscape 2
marine art 2
botanical subject 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

text 85
men 81
literary theme 74
religious and mythological subject 58
nudes 53
trees 37
women 37
vines 33
figure study 30
children 29
flames 27
fire 26
branches 24
leaf 24
beard 22
historical subject 19
genre subject 17
abstract art 16
clouds 16
night 13
snake 13
serpent 12
kneeling 11
landscape 11
infant 10
vegetation 10
birds 9
moiré 9
mountains 9
animal art 8

Subject Period

Associated Places

England 2
India 2
United Kingdom 2
Arras 1
Asia 1
Camblain-l’Abbé 1
China 1
Church of St. Pierre 1
Cumbria 1
Europe 1
France 1
Ganges 1
Grasmere 1
Greater London 1
Hong Kong 1
Kanpur 1
London 1
Nord-Pas-de-Calais 1
Pas-de-Calais 1
Rajasthan 1
Udaipur 1

Associated People

Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 2
Gadshill 1
Jesus 1
Mellon, Paul (1907–1999), philanthropist and art collector 1
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 1
The Virgin Mary 1
Thomas Gray 1
Walton, Izaak (1593–1683), author and biographer 1

Exhibition History

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 62
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 62
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 49
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 43
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) 33
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 24
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 14
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 12
William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20) 12
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 11
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 10
Graphic! British Prints Now (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-08 - 1999-06-06) 10
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 9
William Blake (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-03-26 - 2000-07-05) 6
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11) 6
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 4
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 3
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 3
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 2
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19) 2
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28) 2
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 2
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 2
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 1
Caribbean - Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio, 2012-06-12 - 2013-01-06) 1
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 1
Just what was it that made British Pop so different, so appealing? (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-01-26 - 2004-05-09) 1
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 1
Printing Darkness (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-06-20 - 2025-12-07) 1
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 152
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 47
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Ruth and Walter Loria 22
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 14
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields 12
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, Smith Richardson Foundation, Iola S. Haverstick Fund 11
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Bequest of Doris M. Brixey 9
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mrs. Michael Rothenstein 6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Renée and Geoffrey Hartman, Yale PhD 1953 3
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Bequest of Doris M. Brixey 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Michael Rothenstein 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund. 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Collection of Richard & Susan Reece 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carole Young 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel and Pearl K. Bell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky in honor of Ralph Kinnard Williams, Yale Mus.M., 1968 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith Zlotsky 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Renée and Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale PhD 1953 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan Boyd-Bowman, Yale BA 1971 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Ogden children in honor of their mother Ruth Simpson Woodcock 1
Yale Center for British Art, The Lewis Walpole Library Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Purchased 1929 1

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Sir Anish Kapoor, born 1954

Shadow IV: Dark Green

2011
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Pity

ca. 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection

1795 to 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Spring, from Songs of Innocence

ca. 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

The Shepherd, from Songs of Innocence

ca. 1795
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

II. "Reason or the ratio of all we have already known..." (Plate 11)

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

The Argument. "Man has no notion of moral fitness..." (Plate 2"

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

II. "Man by his reasoning power can only compare..." (Plate 4)

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

VI. "The desires & perceptions of man untaught..." (Plate 8)

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

"Therefore God becomes as we are..." (Plate 9)

ca. 1788
On view
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

"The Terror Answered: I am Orc, wreath'd round the accursed tree..." (Plate 10)

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

"In the flames stood & view'd the armies drawn out in the sky..." (Plate 16)

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

"The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations..." (Plate... [Read more]

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

"In thunders ends the voice. Then Albions Angel wrathful burnt..." (Plate 9)

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

"Albions Angel rose upon the Stone of Night..." (Plate 12)

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

Plague (Plate 13)

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

"And the clouds & fires pale rolld round in the night of Enitharmon"... (Plate... [Read more]

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

"The red limb'd Angel siez'd in horror and torment..." (Plate 15)

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

"Ethinthus queen of waters, how thou shinest in the sky..." (Plate 16)

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

"Shot from the heights of Enitharmon..." (Plate 17)

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

"The shrill winds wake!..." (Plate 6)

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

"Now comes the night of Enitharmons joy!..." (Plate 7)

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

"Arise 'O Rintrah eldest born..." (Plate 9)

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

Famine (Plate 8)

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

The First Book of Urizen; Title Page (Plate 1)

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

"Los howld in a dismal stupor..." (Plate 10)

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

From a Globe of Blood Rises Enitharmon (Plate 11)

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

Chapter IV, "Los smitten with astonishment..." (Plate 12)

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

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 15 (Bentley 14)

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

Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 16)

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

Chapter V, "The globe of life blood trembled..." (Plate 17)

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

Los with the child Orc and Enitharmon (Plate 18)

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

"They call'd her Pity, and fled..." (Plate 19)

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

Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd... [Read more]

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

Los Falls through Fire (Plate 21)

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

Chapter VII, "Stretch'd for a work of eternity..." (Plate 22)

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

Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 25)

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

"The Ox in the slaughter house moans..." (Plate 26)

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

Chapter IX, "They lived a period of years..." (Plate 27)

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

Fettered Urizen Weeping (Plate 3)

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

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 4 (Bentley 24)

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

I. "Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception..." (Plate... [Read more]

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

I. "Man cannot naturally Percieve..."(Plate 3)

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

III. "From a perception of only 3 senses..." (Plate 5)

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

IV. "None could have other than natural or organic thoughts..." (Plate 6)

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

V. "Mans desires are limited by his perceptions..." (Plate 7)

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

Albion's Angel; Frontispiece (Plate 1)

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

"Sound! sound! my loud war-trumpets & alarm my Thirteen Angels!..." (Plate... [Read more]

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

"So cried he, rending off his robe & throwing down his scepter..." (Plate... [Read more]

1793

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