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1. Pistil Mawddach, North Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1835 and 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 21 inches (44.1 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 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

3. 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

4. Jerusalem, Plate 11, "To labours mighty...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Helios

Creator:: William Pitts, 1790–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches (27.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

6. 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

7. Landscape at Henstead

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (17.5 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Meuse and Sambre, from the Gate of the Sambre

Creator:: Print made by George Arnald, 1763–1841
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 11 5/16 inches (22.4 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Study for Fishermen and Bathers

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: ca. 1951
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 7 9/16 inches (15.9 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942

10. Meuse and Sambre, from the Gate of the Sambre

Creator:: Print made by George Arnald, 1763–1841
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 10 15/16 inches (21.8 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Church of England Podium in Midst of Crowded Beach

Creator:: Bruce Davidson, born 1933
Date:: 1965
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

12. Man and Woman Sitting in Sun with Sunglasses

Creator:: Bruce Davidson, born 1933
Date:: 1965
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

13. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. European Swimming Championships

Creator:: Student of the Reimann School and Studios of Industrial and Commercial Art, 1937–1940
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 12 9/16 inches (25.4 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

15. Foxhunting: Rider Approaching a Fence by a Pond, Hound Swimming Through

Creator:: Samuel Henry Gordon Alken, 1810–1894
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 3/8 inches (23.2 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. "Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 1/4 inches (16.7 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. St. Vincent's Rocks, Clifton (Hotwell House and Baths)

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 21 1/8 inches (40.7 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

Creator:: Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:: 1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

19. Boston Church and Grand Sluice, Lincolnshire

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (13.7 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Breaking Cover, Desperate Struggle for the Lead, Consequences of Leaping Short

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 5/16 inches (29.8 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (21.6 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The School-Boy

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.6 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 18 9/16 inches (31.1 x 47.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Under the Ouse Bridge, Bathing

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: between 1803 and 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 21 3/8 inches (41.9 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Bagno della Marchese

Creator:: Sir William Russell Flint, 1880–1969
Date:: 1930
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (34.3 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

26. A-Hunting We Will Go

Creator:: Print made by Alfred W. Cooper, active 1850–1901
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 x 5 3/16 inches (12.6 x 13.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The (Modern) Deluge

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: 12 x 18 1/16 inches (30.5 x 45.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Dover

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches (14.6 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Westminster from Lambeth

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (14.3 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. On the Thames at Barnes

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, and pen and gray ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (17.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Amazons on a Breton Beach

Creator:: Sir William Russell Flint, 1880–1969
Date:: 1931
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 17 1/4 inches (27.9 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

32. Fish

Creator:: Print made by Katharine Clayton, active 1918–1930
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 1/16 inches (26.6 x 20.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953

33. Clear Waters

Creator:: Robert John Gibbings, 1889–1958
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches (28.2 x 19 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953

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1. Pistil Mawddach, North Wales

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

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

4. Jerusalem, Plate 11, "To labours mighty...."

5. Helios

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

7. Landscape at Henstead

8. Meuse and Sambre, from the Gate of the Sambre

9. Study for Fishermen and Bathers

10. Meuse and Sambre, from the Gate of the Sambre

11. Church of England Podium in Midst of Crowded Beach

12. Man and Woman Sitting in Sun with Sunglasses

13. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

14. European Swimming Championships

15. Foxhunting: Rider Approaching a Fence by a Pond, Hound Swimming Through

16. "Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

17. St. Vincent's Rocks, Clifton (Hotwell House and Baths)

18. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

19. Boston Church and Grand Sluice, Lincolnshire

20. Breaking Cover, Desperate Struggle for the Lead, Consequences of Leaping Short

21. Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

22. The School-Boy

23. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

24. Under the Ouse Bridge, Bathing

25. Bagno della Marchese

26. A-Hunting We Will Go

27. The (Modern) Deluge

28. Dover

29. Westminster from Lambeth

30. On the Thames at Barnes

31. Amazons on a Breton Beach

32. Fish

33. Clear Waters