Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Period: 18th century-19th century / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: religious and mythological subject / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera with pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera and pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Brass Chrism of Constance Bownell and her Baby from Heston Church

Creator:: Attributed to Daniel Lysons, 1762–1834
Date:: 1796-1811
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 5/8 inches (37.8 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Angel and Instrument, Possibly Design for Interiors of St. Mary's, West Tofts, Norfolk

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 4 1/2 inches (24.8 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Abraham and Isaac (Abraham grasping Isaac's arm)

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and brown ink on moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2in. (11.4 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Adoration of the Magi, a Design for Bas Relief

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 18 inches (28.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Abraham and Isaac

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.2 × 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Apollo Preceding Hector with His Aegis, and Dispersing the Greeks, Fuseli's Lectures

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, red chalk, watercolor, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 11 5/8 inches (20.3 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Christening at the Vatican with Swiss Papal Guard, etc.

Creator:: Attributed to James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 5/8 inches (32.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. St. Michael and Lucifer

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 6 1/4 inches (24.6 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. God Creating the Universe

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/8 inches (23.5 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Rape of Persephone

Creator:: William P. Sherlock, c.1780–1850
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 23 1/8 inches (43.5 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Christ in the Temple

Creator:: Henry Singleton, 1766–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 inches (22.2 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Allegory of Steam

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 5in. (9.8 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Study for Telemachus

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 7/8 inches (23.2 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Study for Ceiling: Apollo and other Figures

Creator:: Attributed to Domenico Mondo, 1723– c.1808
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 1/4in. (25.1 x 18.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Incantation Scene

Creator:: Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 23 5/8 inches (50.2 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Allegory of Sea Trades

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (9.2 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Allegory of Drawing

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 3/4in. (8.3 x 12.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 5in. (7.9 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Relief Design for a Silver Salt Cellar

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (11.4 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Leander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont

Creator:: Attributed to William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen and brown ink, red chalk, graphite, with scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 5/8 inches (35.9 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Cutting Mistletoe from it by the Druids

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/8 × 3 inches (6 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Allegorical Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 2 3/16 × 6 1/16 inches (5.6 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 15/16 × 9 3/8 inches (10 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 9 9/16 inches (11 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (9.2 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 7/16 inches (6.4 × 11.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 2 9/16 inches (9.4 × 6.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Scene of a Bacchanalia

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, groache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 5/16 × 4 1/4 inches (13.5 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Diana and Actaeon

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil, varnish, gouache, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (15.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Bachanalia Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 × 3 1/2 inches (12.7 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (21 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Study of a Woman and Child

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (18.1 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Allegorical Designs for Medals

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and black ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 8 3/16 inches (11.9 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Allegorical Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/16 × 9 3/4 inches (5.2 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Pan, Spying, From Behind a Tree, at Putti, Shooting Arrows

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (8.3 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 5/8 inches (10.6 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Nymphs at a Roman Bath

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 x 7 7/16 inches (22.4 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Prometheus

Creator:: Prince Hoare, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on thin, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (16.2 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Goddess

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (13 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Chinese Neptune

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (9.8 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Judgement of Paris

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (20.6 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 inches (18.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost: Adam and Eve Guarded by the Angels

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (11.4 x 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Sculpture depicting three heads

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 inches (32.1 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus

2. Abraham and Isaac

3. Brass Chrism of Constance Bownell and her Baby from Heston Church

4. Angel and Instrument, Possibly Design for Interiors of St. Mary's, West Tofts, Norfolk

5. Abraham and Isaac (Abraham grasping Isaac's arm)

6. The Adoration of the Magi, a Design for Bas Relief

7. Abraham and Isaac

8. Apollo Preceding Hector with His Aegis, and Dispersing the Greeks, Fuseli's Lectures

9. A Christening at the Vatican with Swiss Papal Guard, etc.

10. St. Michael and Lucifer

11. God Creating the Universe

12. The Rape of Persephone

13. Christ in the Temple

14. Allegory of Steam

15. Study for Telemachus

16. Study for Ceiling: Apollo and other Figures

17. Incantation Scene

18. Allegory of Sea Trades

19. Allegory of Drawing

20. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

21. Relief Design for a Silver Salt Cellar

22. Leander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont

23. Cutting Mistletoe from it by the Druids

24. Allegorical Scene

25. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

26. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

27. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

28. Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being

29. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

30. Scene of a Bacchanalia

31. Diana and Actaeon

32. Bachanalia Scene

33. Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity

34. Study of a Woman and Child

35. Allegorical Designs for Medals

36. Allegorical Scene

37. Pan, Spying, From Behind a Tree, at Putti, Shooting Arrows

38. Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, with Satyrs, sleeping Cupid and a Pegasus in a Wooded Landscape

39. Nymphs at a Roman Bath

40. Prometheus

41. A Goddess

42. Chinese Neptune

43. The Judgement of Paris

44. To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

45. Illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost: Adam and Eve Guarded by the Angels

46. Sculpture depicting three heads