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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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. 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

7. 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

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. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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.

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

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 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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. Miss Morris as 'Hope Nursing Love'

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

3. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

4. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

5. Rowlandson and Wigstead on Tour

6. Lady Rushout and Daughter

7. Lady Louisa Vaughan

8. Master Bunbury

9. Mr. Crisp

10. Henry Sass

11. Unidentified Sitter

12. Mrs. William Wilberforce and Child

13. Sophy Steadman Reading

14. Dante in Meditation Holding a Pomegranate

15. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

16. John Hoppner, R.A.

17. Henry More

18. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

19. The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

20. George Cruikshank, self-portrait

21. Francis Smith, Architect

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

23. A Parliamentary "Souvenir"

24. Medallions of F. Hutcheson and L. Natter

25. Henry Tresham, Esq, R.A.

26. Peter Tillemans

27. Nicholas Laniere

28. Sir Thomas Harrison

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

30. Thomas Haden of Derby

31. George Vertue

32. William Robertson, D.D.

33. William Robert Fitzgerald, Second Duke of Leinster

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

35. An Elderly Woman

36. Self-portrait

37. David Garrick, Esq.

38. Miss Benedetta Ramus

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

40. Cyril Jackson

41. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

42. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

43. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

44. Lady Sarah Bunbury, Pouring Libations to the Graces

45. The Lady Sarah Spencer, Althorp