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1. Sophy Steadman Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Unidentified Sitter

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 1/2 inches (31.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

3. Mrs. William Wilberforce and Child

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and scored gesso ground on panel
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 1/4 inches (35.6 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Mr. Crisp

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (17.1 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

5. Rowlandson and Wigstead on Tour

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 11 7/16 inches (18.6 x 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

Creator:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882
Date:: ca. 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 7/8 inches (22.9 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Henry Sass

Creator:: Daniel Maclise, 1806–1870
Date:: between 1830 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, graphite, watercolor, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/16 × 5 1/2 inches (18.9 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Master Bunbury

Creator:: Print made by Francis Haward, 1759–1797
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 11 5/16 inches (38.1 x 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint ( 2nd state ) on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/2 × 19 1/4 inches (67.3 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, and the Rt. Honble. George, Lord Herbert

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/16 × 13 1/4 inches (46.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Lady Louisa Vaughan

Creator:: Print made by William Whiston Barney, active 1805–1817
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 3/4 inches (35.2 × 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Lady Rushout and Daughter

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 × 13 1/16 inches (43.3 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.7 x 29.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 × 15 inches (52.4 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (38.2 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. The Bride, Paul and Virginia, the Chalees Satoon, East India

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; hand coloring done by an unknown later printer on thick cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 10 9/16 inches (13.4 × 26.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. George Vertue

Creator:: M. Gauci, 1810–1846
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 15/16 x 12 11/16 inches (43.1 x 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (37.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. William Robert Fitzgerald, Second Duke of Leinster

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 14 1/16 inches (50.4 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Sir Thomas Harrison

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (38 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, and the Rt. Honble. George, Lord Herbert

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 inches (45.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. William Robertson, D.D.

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/16 inches (50.5 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Nelly O'Brien (Lady Mary O'Brien)

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 7/8 inches (50.4 × 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Francis Smith, Architect

Creator:: Alexander van Haecken, 1701–1758
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 13/16 inches (35.3 × 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Parliamentary "Souvenir"

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 11 15/16 inches (46 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Nicholas Laniere

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (30.2 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 11/16 x 16 3/4 inches (50 x 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. John Hoppner, R.A.

Creator:: Print made by William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 11/16 x 12 5/16 inches (47.4 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. George Cruikshank, self-portrait

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (20.7 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Henry More

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691
Date:: 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 7 5/16 inches (33 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. William L. Harkness

31. Medallions of F. Hutcheson and L. Natter

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 7/16 inches (36.9 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Thomas Haden of Derby

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 11 5/16 inches (42.2 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

33. Henry Tresham, Esq, R.A.

Creator:: Print made by George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, drypoint, and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 3/16 inches (24 × 18.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Peter Tillemans

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.2 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. An Interesting Group: "Misfortune Makes us Acquainted with Strange Bedfellows"

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Tinted lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (30.9 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. An Elderly Woman

Creator:: Archibald Skirving, 1749–1819
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on vellum
Dimensions:: Frame: 39 × 34 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (99.1 × 87 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Self-portrait

Creator:: Lady Mary Lowther, 1740–1824
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 38 1/2 × 33 × 3 3/8 inches (97.8 × 83.8 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd.

38. David Garrick, Esq.

Creator:: John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 15/16 x 14 1/8 inches (50.6 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Knapp

39. Miss Benedetta Ramus

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 12 11/16 inches (42.3 x 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: 13 Etchings bound in green cloth portfolio on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 inches (51.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress bound in full calf with marbled endpapers on moderately thick, slightly textured, laid paper and wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 1/8 inches (41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress, bound in contemporary publisher's paper-covered boards, rebacked on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 16 1/16 inches (63.8 × 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Right Reverend George Huntingford, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/16 × 14 1/4 inches (51.3 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Cyril Jackson

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 13/16 inches (50.3 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Lady Sarah Spencer, Althorp

Creator:: George Barker, active mid-19th century
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 4 1/4 inches (13.7 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

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1. Sophy Steadman Reading

2. Unidentified Sitter

3. Mrs. William Wilberforce and Child

4. Mr. Crisp

5. Rowlandson and Wigstead on Tour

6. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

7. Henry Sass

8. Master Bunbury

9. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

10. Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, and the Rt. Honble. George, Lord Herbert

11. Lady Louisa Vaughan

12. Lady Rushout and Daughter

13. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

14. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

15. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

16. The Bride, Paul and Virginia, the Chalees Satoon, East India

17. George Vertue

18. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

19. William Robert Fitzgerald, Second Duke of Leinster

20. Sir Thomas Harrison

21. Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, and the Rt. Honble. George, Lord Herbert

22. William Robertson, D.D.

23. Nelly O'Brien (Lady Mary O'Brien)

24. Francis Smith, Architect

25. A Parliamentary "Souvenir"

26. Nicholas Laniere

27. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

28. John Hoppner, R.A.

29. George Cruikshank, self-portrait

30. Henry More

31. Medallions of F. Hutcheson and L. Natter

32. Thomas Haden of Derby

33. Henry Tresham, Esq, R.A.

34. Peter Tillemans

35. An Interesting Group: "Misfortune Makes us Acquainted with Strange Bedfellows"

36. An Elderly Woman

37. Self-portrait

38. David Garrick, Esq.

39. Miss Benedetta Ramus

40. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

41. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

42. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

43. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

44. The Right Reverend George Huntingford, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

45. Cyril Jackson

46. The Lady Sarah Spencer, Althorp