Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: costume and literary theme

1. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: beeswax and oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 x 36 3/8 inches (70.5 x 92.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. The Return of Othello, 'Othello,' Act II, Scene II

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 10 inches (21 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (21 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

5. Olivia, Maria and Malvolio from "Twelfth Night," Act III, Scene iv

Creator:: Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763–1840
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 62 1/8 x 86 7/8 inches (157.8 x 220.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. Falstaff with the Body of Hotspur

Creator:: Attributed to Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 12 x 11 1/4 inches (30.5 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/8 x 50 1/2 inches (104.5 x 128.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

9. Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i

Creator:: Edward Alcock, active 1750–ca. 1778
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

10. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

Creator:: Benjamin Wilson, 1721–1788
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 54 5/8 x 72 1/2 inches (138.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

11. Jaques and the Wounded Stag: 'As You Like It,' Act II, Scene I

Creator:: Landscape by William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 48 1/2 inches (92.1 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

12. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

Creator:: Herbert Stoppelaer, active 1730–1775
Date:: 1767 to 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches (59.7 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

13. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

Creator:: Benjamin van der Gucht, 1753–1794
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. The Cave of Despair

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 65 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches (166.4 x 133.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Louis-Francois Roubiliac Modelling His Monument to Shakespeare

Creator:: Adrien Carpentiers, active 1739–1778
Date:: between 1760 and 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/4 x 39 3/4 inches (127.6 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with roulette and rocker work, first state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 27 3/8in. (52 x 69.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Here Nature List'ning Stood

Creator:: Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Lovelace in Prison

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 11 7/16 inches (37.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Margaret Woffington as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 inches (50.2 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 inches (27.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Mr. Macklin and Mrs. Pope in the Characters of Shylock and Portia

Creator:: William Nutter, 1754–1802
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, etching, and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/16 x 16 1/4 inches (56.1 x 41.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Ophelia: There Is Rue for You and Here's Some for Me

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 7/8 inches (28.7 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (36.3 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina

Creator:: Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 x 11 5/16 inches (39.2 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Juliet

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 x 14 1/8 inches (53.4 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

Creator:: Print made by Hugh Downman, d. 1789
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 × 13 1/4 inches (48.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Tom Jones Assisting Molly Seagrim

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 x 15 7/16 inches (53.4 x 39.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

33. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

Creator:: Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (61.9 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Mr. Foote and Mr. Weston in the Characters of the President and Dr. Last

Creator:: Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches (46 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Griffin and Johnson

Creator:: Print made by Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:: 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 3/8 inches (46.5 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Alphonso and Aciloe

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 11 inches (38.5 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Gualtherus and Griselda

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, mdoerately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (31.1 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Death of Cora

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 10 3/16 inches (34.4 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Imogen's Bedchamber in Cymbeline's Palace, 'Cymbeline,' Act II, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 16 3/4 inches (32.5 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. John Henderson as Iago

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: before 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 inches (27.8 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Ophelia: There's Rue for You, and Here's Some for Me

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 9/16 inches (27.9 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. John Henderson as Iago

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 1/16 inches (27.5 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Pamela, being now in the custody of Mrs. Jenkes, seizes an occasion (as they are walking in the garden) to propose a Correspondence with Mr. Williams in order to contrive an Escape, who agree to hide their letters between two tiles near the Sunflower

Pamela, being now in the custody of Mrs. Jenkes, seizes an occasion (as they are walking in the garden) to propose a Correspondence with Mr. Williams in order to contrive an Escape, who agree to hide their letters between two tiles near the Sunflower

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: 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (37.4 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Library Association

47. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (47 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. First Part of King Henry the sixth: Keep, My Lord ... (Act II, Scene 5)

Creator:: Print made by Robert Thew, 1758–1802
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, etching, and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 18 3/8 inches (64.8 × 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

2. Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"

3. The Return of Othello, 'Othello,' Act II, Scene II

4. Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii

5. Olivia, Maria and Malvolio from "Twelfth Night," Act III, Scene iv

6. Falstaff with the Body of Hotspur

7. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

8. Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i

9. Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i

10. David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii

11. Jaques and the Wounded Stag: 'As You Like It,' Act II, Scene I

12. Shylock and Tubal from "The Merchant of Venice"

13. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

14. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

15. The Cave of Despair

16. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

17. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

18. Louis-Francois Roubiliac Modelling His Monument to Shakespeare

19. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

20. Here Nature List'ning Stood

21. Lovelace in Prison

22. Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné

23. Margaret Woffington as Mrs. Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

24. Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"

25. Mr. Macklin and Mrs. Pope in the Characters of Shylock and Portia

26. Ophelia: There Is Rue for You and Here's Some for Me

27. Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield

28. La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina

29. Juliet

30. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

31. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wells in the Characters of Lingo and Cowslip

32. Tom Jones Assisting Molly Seagrim

33. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

34. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

35. Miss Farren in the Character of Hermione

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

37. Mr. Foote and Mr. Weston in the Characters of the President and Dr. Last

38. Griffin and Johnson

39. Alphonso and Aciloe

40. Gualtherus and Griselda

41. The Death of Cora

42. Imogen's Bedchamber in Cymbeline's Palace, 'Cymbeline,' Act II, Scene II

43. John Henderson as Iago

44. Ophelia: There's Rue for You, and Here's Some for Me

45. John Henderson as Iago

46. Pamela, being now in the custody of Mrs. Jenkes, seizes an occasion (as they are walking in the garden) to propose a Correspondence with Mr. Williams in order to contrive an Escape, who agree to hide their letters between two tiles near the Sunflower

47. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

48. First Part of King Henry the sixth: Keep, My Lord ... (Act II, Scene 5)