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Prints and Drawings 625

Creator

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 139
Unknown artist 54
Blake, William, 1757–1827 48
Lafreri, Antonio, 1512–1577 43
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 39
Goodall, Edward, 1795–1870 38
Miller, William, 1796–1882 36
Panvinio, Onofrio, 1530–1568 35
Soye, Philippe, active 1565–1568 29
Smirke, Robert, 1752–1845 22
Spence, Robert, 1871–1964 20
Stratford, J., active 1792–1813 20
Clark, James, 19th century 18
Pine, John, 1690–1756 18
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 13
Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627–1691 13
Earlom, Richard, 1743–1822 12
Green, Valentine, 1739–1813 12
Smith, Anker., 1759–1819 12
Walcot, William, 1874–1943 12
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 12
Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876–1953 11
Gillray, James, 1756–1815 10
Smith, William R., active 1819–1851 10
Dupérac, Etienne, ca. 1535–1604 9
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 9
Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810 9
Doyle, John ('H.B.'), 1797–1868 8
Haid, Johann Jacobus, 1704–1767 8
Humphrey, Hannah, ca. 1745–1818 8

Date

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To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 603
On view 22

Image Use

Free to Use 580
Under Certain Circumstances 45

Image Available

available 514
unavailable 111

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 625

Collective Title

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F 31
Scott's Prose Works 30
XXVII Pontificum Maximorum Elogia et Imagines 30
Illustrations from Camden's 'The imperial history of England' 25
Campbell's Poetical Works 24
George Fox His Journal 20
Scenes of Ancient Rome from Richard Bundy's Translation of Catrou and Rouillé's Roman History 18
For Children: The Gates of Paradise, Copy E 16
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 16
Rogers's Italy 12
Rogers's Poems 11
Political Sketches 8
Urbis Romae Sciographia ex Antiquis Monumentis Accuratiss Delineata 8
Exhibition Etchings 7
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
Cooke's Views in Sussex 5
The Turner Gallery 5
Lockhart's Life of Scott 4
Byron's Life and Works 3
Fisher's Illustrations to Waverley Novels 3
The Keepsake 3
The Literary Souvenir 3
Views of the Capture of Amoy 3
"Vetusta Monumenta", Society of Antiquaries of London, 1747-1906 2
English History Delineated 2
Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland 2
The Pocket Magazine 2

Period

19th century 267
18th century 230
20th century 41
16th century 30
19th century-20th century 27
16th century-17th century 13
17th century 7
17th century-18th century 5
18th century-19th century 3

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 282
wove paper 278
line engraving 259
laid paper 175
mezzotint 84
stipple engraving 78
watercolor 52
aquatint 47
engraving (printing process) 46
drypoint 40
hand coloring 31
relief etching 31
chine collé 27
lithography 24
color printing 22
black ink 17
woodcut (process) 14
colored ink 12
card 10
ink 10
Engraving 6
brown ink 5
letterpress printing 5
open biting 4
photogravure 4
photolithography 4
Asian paper 3
graphite 3
soft-ground etching 3
Baxter print 2

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 538
relief print 51
planographic print 35
watercolor 31
drawing 18
photomechanical print 7
ticket 5
frontispiece 1

Genre

historical subject 625

architectural subject 135
military art 125
portrait 103
landscape 72
literary theme 65
marine art 56
religious and mythological subject 37
cityscape 35
genre subject 30
cartographic material 14
animal art 7
figure study 6
still life 6
frontispiece 3
sporting art 3
abstract art 2
botanical subject 1

Subject Terms

historical subject 244
men 102
architectural subject 53
women 52
text 46
portrait 45
children 39
costume 36
trees 34
hats 32
branches 30
man 29
leaf 28
river 28
swords 28
death 27
vines 27
illustration 25
cityscape 24
clouds 24
religious and mythological subject 24
satire 23
crowd 22
soldiers 22
woman 22
frame (furnishing) 21
marine art 21
event 20
military art 20
Religious Society of Friends 19

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 70
England 54
London 41
Greater London 26
Europe 23
Scotland 12
City of Westminster 11
Thames 10
Glasgow 9
India 9
City of London 8
Kelvingrove Park 8
Palace of Westminster 8
Tower Hamlets 7
Tower of London 7
Cumbria 6
France 6
St. Paul's Cathedral 6
Cornwall 5
Italy 5
Westminster Abbey 5
Asia 4
Aube 4
Brienne-le-Château 4
Devon 4
Lucknow 4
Plymouth 4
Plymouth Sound 4
Carrick Roads 3
Emilia-Romagna 3

Associated People

Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 20
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 9
saint 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
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 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) 14
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 12
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09) 10
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) 10
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
Doomed Youth The Poetry and the Pity of World War I (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-06-22 - 1999-09-26) 4
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 4
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 4
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 3
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) 3
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 3
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) 3
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 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
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 2
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 2
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 2
The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) 2
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 2
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11) 2
20th Century Works on Paper - Recent Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-11-01 - 2002-03-31) 1
Benjamin West : Fidelia and Speranza (Timken Museum of Art, 2004-11-05 - 2005-02-27) 1
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 413
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 53
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 27
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 24
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania 20
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 13
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 7
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth 6
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie 5
Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952 4
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Linda G. Mitchell and David M. Doret, Yale BA 1968 3
Yale Center for British Art, A gift from Great-Granddaughter, G. Patricia Haynes Clark in memory of her son Christopher Sears Griffith, Great-Great-Grandson of Thomas Henry Kavanagh, VC 2
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Sunderman Hoerner 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker 2
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman 2
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. J. Richardson Dilworth 2
Yale Center for British Art 1
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman 1

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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The Foundlings

1833
Accessible in the Study Room
William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Copyright - Act of Parliament

1767
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

Columbus Breaking the Egg

1752
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

Burning of the Houses of Parliament
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

Carisbrooke Castle
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
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

Water (Plate 4)

1793
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

Fire (Plate 7)

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

Fear & Hope Are -- Vision (Plate 15)

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

Death's Door (Plate 17)

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

I Have Said to the Worm, Thou Art My Mother & My Sister (Plate 18)

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

The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 10)

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 Lamb (Plate 18)

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

Infant Joy (Plate 28)

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

Earth's Answer (Plate 35)

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

A Cradle Song (Plate 26)

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

Holy Thursday (Plate 38)

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

London (Plate 39)

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

A Poison Tree (Plate 41)

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

The Human Abstract (Plate 46)

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

My Pretty Rose Tree (Plate 47)

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

The Shepherd (Plate 4)

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

The Little Black Boy (Plate 6)

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

Spring (Plate 12)

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 Little Girl Lost (Plate 20)

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

Nurses Song (Plate 37)

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

Introduction (Plate 34)

1794
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

The Clod & the Pebble (Plate 36)

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

The Tyger (Plate 42)

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

A Little Girl Lost (Plate 44)

1794
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

Earth (Plate 5)

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

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