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1. Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, "Night the First, On Life, Death and Immortality."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its favours here are trials, not rewards"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, On Time, Death and Friendship."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though my soul fantastick measures trod"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 72, "And vapid; sense and reason shew the door"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When faith is virtue, reason makes it so"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, on Time, Death and Friendship"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 24, "Time, in Advance, behind Him Hides His Wings"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 26, "Measuring His Motions by Revolving Spheres"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though My Soul Fantastick Measures Trod"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the Dire Steel? -- Ah No!"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun Beheld it -- No, the Shocking Scene"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its Favours Here Are Trials, Not Rewards"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, Shall We Grieve Their Hovering Shades"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is Lost in Love! Thou Great Philanthropist"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That Touch, with Charm Celestial Heals the Soul"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 88, "But for the Blessing Wrestle Not with Heaven"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When Faith Is Virtue, Reason Makes It So"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If Angels Tremble, 'Tis at Such a Sight"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We censure nature for a span too short"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 1st state ) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 19 7/8 inches (41.6 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Dr. Goldsmith

Creator:: Print made by Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 13 inches (46 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Ella, or the Sweets of Constancy

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Park, ca. 1760–1834
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 1/2 inches (39.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. Reverend Thomas Warton

Creator:: Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 14 3/16 inches (49.2 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Samuel Dyer

Creator:: Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 1/8 inches (44.8 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Pamela setting out in the travelling Chariot (for her Father's as She is made to believe) takes her farewel of Mrs. Jervis, and the other servants; Mr. B. observing her from the window; by whose private order she is carried into Lincolnshire

Pamela setting out in the travelling Chariot (for her Father's as She is made to believe) takes her farewel of Mrs. Jervis, and the other servants; Mr. B. observing her from the window; by whose private order she is carried into Lincolnshire

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Philippe Benoist, 1725–ca. 1770
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (39.7 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Associates

39. Sophia, Honour, and the Chambermaid

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (39.7 x 27.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

40. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (44.8 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Lear, from King Lear, Act III, Scene ii

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 11/16 inches (42.9 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Caliban, from The Tempest

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 19 7/8 inches (43.2 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets

Creator:: Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896
Date:: 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 20 3/4 inches (39.6 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 inches (40.3 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

46. Chanticleer and Pertelote

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 23 3/8 inches (40.3 × 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

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1. Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, "Night the First, On Life, Death and Immortality."

2. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its favours here are trials, not rewards"

3. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, On Time, Death and Friendship."

4. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though my soul fantastick measures trod"

5. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 54, "The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale"

6. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades"

7. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 72, "And vapid; sense and reason shew the door"

8. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!"

9. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul"

10. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When faith is virtue, reason makes it so"

11. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 33, "Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee"

12. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene"

13. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist"

14. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame"

15. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, on Time, Death and Friendship"

16. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

17. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 24, "Time, in Advance, behind Him Hides His Wings"

18. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 26, "Measuring His Motions by Revolving Spheres"

19. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though My Soul Fantastick Measures Trod"

20. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

21. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 73, "Draw the Dire Steel? -- Ah No!"

22. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun Beheld it -- No, the Shocking Scene"

23. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 12, "Its Favours Here Are Trials, Not Rewards"

24. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 55, "Ungrateful, Shall We Grieve Their Hovering Shades"

25. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is Lost in Love! Thou Great Philanthropist"

26. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That Touch, with Charm Celestial Heals the Soul"

27. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 88, "But for the Blessing Wrestle Not with Heaven"

28. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 92, "When Faith Is Virtue, Reason Makes It So"

29. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If Angels Tremble, 'Tis at Such a Sight"

30. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

31. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We censure nature for a span too short"

32. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

33. Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy

34. Dr. Goldsmith

35. Ella, or the Sweets of Constancy

36. Reverend Thomas Warton

37. Samuel Dyer

38. Pamela setting out in the travelling Chariot (for her Father's as She is made to believe) takes her farewel of Mrs. Jervis, and the other servants; Mr. B. observing her from the window; by whose private order she is carried into Lincolnshire

39. Sophia, Honour, and the Chambermaid

40. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

41. Lear, from King Lear, Act III, Scene ii

42. Caliban, from The Tempest

43. Mr. Garrick in "The Farmer's Return"

44. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets

45. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

46. Chanticleer and Pertelote