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Prints and Drawings 394

Creator

Blake, William, 1757–1827 96
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 23
Bradshaw, & Blacklock, active ca.1850 21
Unknown artist 21
Barnes, Robert, 1840–1895 19
Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797 15
Young, Edward, 1683–1765 15
Hamilton, William, 1751–1801 11
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 10
Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876–1953 10
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801–1828 9
Austin, Robert, 1895–1973 7
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803–1874 7
Wale, Samuel, 1721–1786 7
Bonneau, Jacob, 1741–1786 6
Boydell, John, 1720–1804 6
Flint, W. Russell (William Russell), Sir, 1880–1969 6
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786 6
Macklin, Thomas, active 1779–1793 6
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 6
Wilkinson, Robert, 1758–1825 6
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 5
Bigg, William Redmore, 1755–1828 5
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 5
Cooper, Alfred W., active 1850–1901 5
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 5
Haid, Johann Jacobus, 1704–1767 5
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765–1810 5
T. & R. Annan and Sons 5
Zoffany, Johann, 1733–1810 5

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 370
On view 24

Image Use

Free to Use 356
Under Certain Circumstances 38

Image Available

available 353
unavailable 41

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Prints 394

Collective Title

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F 18
Young's Night Thoughts 15
Songs of Innocence, Copy G 14
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Copy G 8
For Children: The Gates of Paradise, Copy E 7
Exhibition Etchings 5
The First Book of Urizen, Copy C 5
Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France 5
America. A Prophecy, Copy M 4
The Book of Thel, Copy B 4
The Book of Thel, Copy R 4
The Fairs 4
The First Book of Urizen, Copy A 4
Costumes of India 3
Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E 3
Original Views of London As It Is, 1842 3
Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., Drawn from Nature on Stone 3
The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair 3
Twelve New Views in Rome and Naples 3
As You Like It 2
Bacharach and View near Bingen 2
Beauties of England and Wales 2
Europe. A Prophecy, Copy A 2
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres 2
Raphael Cartoons 2
Selections of the Seasons 2
Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man 2
There Is No Natural Religion, Copy B 2
Études à l'eau-forte 2
Baxter's "Gems of the Great Exhibition" 1

Period

18th century 186
19th century 132
20th century 38
19th century-20th century 19
18th century-19th century 8
17th century-18th century 7
17th century 2
21st century 2

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 230
etching (printing process) 191
laid paper 120
watercolor 102
stipple engraving 73
relief etching 61
line engraving 59
aquatint 49
mezzotint 42
colored ink 40
drypoint 35
color printing 29
lithography 28
wood engraving (process) 28
woodcut (process) 28
hand coloring 27
black ink 24
ink 21
card 16
chine collé 14
Asian paper 10
brown ink 5
soft-ground etching 5
chromolithography 4
gouache 4
plate tone 4
Pigment printing 2
ink jet printing 2
oil paint 2
red ink 2

Height [cm]

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Work Type

intaglio print 263
relief print 129
watercolor 94
drawing 44
planographic print 32
frontispiece 6
ticket 3
digital print 2
photograph 2
photomechanical print 1

Genre

genre subject 195
literary theme 83
architectural subject 78
religious and mythological subject 70
landscape 53
historical subject 39
cityscape 36
portrait 30
marine art 9
animal art 5
still life 2
military art 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

children 394

women 204
genre subject 190
men 175
trees 119
religious and mythological subject 79
text 77
architectural subject 76
literary theme 75
hats 72
costume 69
mother 66
buildings 55
landscape 55
clouds 53
dresses 52
walking 50
woman 49
baby 48
family 48
leaf 44
vines 44
boys 43
dog (animal) 40
historical subject 40
architecture 37
cityscape 37
man 37
nudes 37
arches 36

Subject Period

Associated Places

United Kingdom 69
England 56
Europe 46
Greater London 30
London 27
City of Westminster 15
Scotland 12
Asia 10
France 10
Italy 9
Bharat 7
Glasgow 7
India 7
Kelvingrove Park 7
Lambeth 7
Southwark 6
Vauxhall Gardens 6
Westminster Abbey 6
Germany 4
Haute-Normandie 4
Rome 4
Aberdeenshire 3
Bacharach 3
Balmoral Castle 3
Bingen 3
Chiswick 3
Chiswick House 3
City of London 3
Hampshire 3
Kent 3

Associated People

Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 12
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 6
The Virgin Mary 6
Victoria (1819–1901), queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India 5
Albert (1819–1861), prince consort, consort of Queen Victoria 3
Cupid 3
Drummond family (per. 1363–1518), nobility 3
Drummond, Andrew (1688–1769), Scottish goldsmith and banker 3
Drummond, Charlotte (died 1774), Charlotte and John Drummond’s youngest daughter 3
Drummond, Charlotte (née Beauclerk, died 1793) 3
Drummond, George (1758–1789), Charlotte and John Drummond's eldest son 3
Drummond, Jane Diana, John Drummond senior's eldest daughter 3
Drummond, John (1723–1774), member of Parliament 3
Drummond, John (1766–1833) 3
Jesus 3
John the Baptist (c. 6 BC–c. AD 36) 3
Mary 3
Venus 3
saint 3
Bacchus 2
John the Evangelist, Saint (c. 1–c. 100 AD) 2
Madonna 2
Peter, the Apostle, St. (ca. 1 BC - ca. 68 AD) 2
Pomare IV, Queen of Tahiti (1813–1877) 2
St. Cecilia as patroness of music 2
St. Cecilia making music and/or singing 2
saints 2
the virgin martyr Cecilia of Rome; possible attributes: falcon, musical instruments, organ, wreath of roses and lilies 2
Acland, Arthur (1811–1857) 1
Acland, Lydia Elizabeth Dyke (1786–1856) 1

Exhibition History

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 35
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 35
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) 27
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 25
William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 24
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) 17
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 8
William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20) 5
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11) 5
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14) 5
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 4
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) 4
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 3
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 3
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20) 3
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01) 3
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 3
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 2
Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) 2
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29) 2
William Blake (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-03-26 - 2000-07-05) 2
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) 1
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 1
Art, Artifact, Artifice (Yale University Art Gallery, 2020-02-14 - 2021-03-15) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Caribbean - Crossroads of the World (El Museo del Barrio, 2012-06-12 - 2013-01-06) 1
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1981-03-08 - 1981-04-19) 1
Circa 1800 - The Beginnings of Modern Printmaking (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1981-05-12 - 1981-06-28) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 276
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 47
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 16
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 14
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960 3
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, A. Conger Goodyear, B.A. 1899, Fund 2
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection 2
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Carole Young 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James Wilson, YCBA Docent 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ralph C. Garratt 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Kenny and Susan Phillips, In Memory of Richard Kressler and Leland Sweet 1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania 1
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield 1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association 1
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman 1

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Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881

Christmas

1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764

The First Stage of Cruelty: Children Torturing Animals

1751
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality; Title Page

ca. 1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

ca. 1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

ca. 1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

What is Man!, Frontispiece (Plate 1)

1793
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

Alas! (Plate 9)

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

'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

ca. 1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

ca. 1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827

'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

ca. 1797
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

Chapter VII, "Stretch'd for a work of eternity..." (Plate 19)

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

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

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

Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 24)

1794
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

Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

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

Fear & Hope Are -- Vision (Plate 15)

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

The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 45)

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

Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)

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 Angel (Plate 40)

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

Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny... [Read more]

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

III, "But he that loves the lowly, pours his oil upon my head..." (Plate 7)

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

III. "Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed..." (Plate 6)

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

IV. "The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar..." (Plate 8)

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

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

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

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of... [Read more]

1789-1794
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

Songs of Experience, Frontispiece (Plate 32)

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

Infant Joy (Plate 28)

1789
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

The Fly (Plate 48)

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

The Ecchoing Green (Plate 10)

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

Infant Joy (Plate 14)

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

A Cradle Song (Plate 18)

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

On Anothers Sorrow (Plate 24)

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

Spring (Plate 26)

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

Laughing Song (Plate 28)

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

The Little Girl Found (Plate 6)

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

The Lamb (Plate 8)

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

The Ecchoing Green (Plate 8)

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 Girl Found (Plate 22)

1789

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