Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Queen Charlotte

Creator:: Modeled by William Hackwood, died 1836
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Wedgwood and Bentley blue and white jasper, with contemporary ormolu frame with pierced ribbon finials
Dimensions:: Overall: 2 1/4in. (5.7cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. King George III

Creator:: Modeled by William Hackwood, died 1836
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Wedgwood and Bentley blue and white jasper, with contemporary ormolu frame with pierced ribbon finials
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/4in. (5.7cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. John Locke

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 13 inches (33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. John Locke

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Plaster
Dimensions:: Overall: 21 inches (53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Sir Charles Linnaeus

Creator:: Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wedgwood black basaltes
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4in. (10.2cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Hunting Scenes: five oval plaques in one frame, perhaps Staffordshire or Liverpool and possibly enamel transfer-printed in black

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Enamel transfer-printed in black on ceramic
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Bust of the Reverend John Wesley: in clerical collar and black robes

Creator:: Staffordshire pottery
Date:: ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Staffordshire (Enoch Wood) pearlware bust
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2in. (31.8cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Bust of the Reverend George Whitfield: with ruddy cheeks, prominent mole, black robes and clerical collar

Creator:: Staffordshire pottery
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Staffordshire pearlware bust
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4in. (32.4cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. A Setter: Standing

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pearlware figure
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4in. (28.6cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Samson Slaying a Philistine

Creator:: John Cheere, 1709–1787
Date:: between 1740 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Lead
Dimensions:: Overall: 79 15/16 inches (203 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
On View:: Not on view

11. Father Time

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Stoneware ('Coade Stone')
Dimensions:: Overall: 59 1/2 inches (151.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

12. Mr. Punch

Creator:: John Cheere, 1709–1787
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Lead
Dimensions:: Overall: 33 3/4 inches (85.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

13. Beer Street

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale Univesrity Art Gallery

14. Paul before Felix

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

15. The Distressed Poet

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16. Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard III

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1746
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

17. Simon, Lord Lovat

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Isabelle Hollister Tuttle for the Emerson Tuttle Memoiral Collection

18. Pit Ticket

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mr. Arthur F. Tuttle

19. Fair Scene

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Painting of Pharoah's Daughter and Moses in the Foundling Hospital

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Four Stages of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection (The Murderer)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

23. Frontispiece and its Explanation (no.1)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

24. Hudibras's First Adventure (no.3)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

25. Hudibras Sallying Forth (no.2)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

26. Hudibras Catechiz'd (no.9)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

27. Hudibras Vanquish'd by Trulla (no.5)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

28. Hudibras Triumphant (no.4)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

29. Hudibras in Tribulation (no.6)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

30. Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington (no.12)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

31. William Hogarth

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1764
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Burning ye Rumps at Temple-Barr (no.11)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

33. Large Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras: Hudibras and the Skimmington (no.12)

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

34. Prospectus print "Crown & Mitre"

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Plate 43 (page 95): 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Plate 22 (page 40): ' Angels should paint it, angels ever there'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Plate 24 (page 43): 'NIGHT/ THE/ THIRD,/ NARCISSA'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Plate 27 (page 54): 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Plate 34 (page 73): 'Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!-- the dreadful blessing'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Plate 36 (page 80): 'The thunder if in that the ALMIGHTY dwells'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Plate 41 (page 92): 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Plate 19 (page 33): 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Plate 20 (page 35): 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Plate 18 (page 31): ''Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Plate 21 (page 37): 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Plate 7 (page 12): 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Plate 9 (page 15):' The longest night though longer far, would fail'

Creator:: Engravings by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Plate 11 (page 17): 'NIGHT the SECOND/ ON/ TIME,/DEATH/ AND FRIENDSHIP'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Plate 4 (page 7): 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Plate 6 (page 10): 'Disease invades the chastest temperence'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Plate 8 (page 13): 'The present moment terminates our sight'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Plate 13 (page 23): 'We censure nature for a span too short'

Creator:: Engravings by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Plate 3 (page 4): 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Plate 12 (page 19): 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Plate 15 (page 25): 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Plate 17 (page 27): 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep"

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Plate 23 (page 41): 'One radiant MARK; the Death bed of the Just'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Plate 26 (page 49): 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Plate 28 (page 55): 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Plate 29 (page 57): 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Plate 30 (page 63): 'This KING OF TERRORS is the PRINCE OF PEACE'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Plate 35 (page 75): 'The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene Drove back his chariot'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Plate 37 (page 86): 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Plate 42 (page 93): 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. May-Day in London

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Beggar's Opera, Act III

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Lyall Dean, Mrs. Borden Helmer, and the Estate of Bliss Reed Crocker in memory of Mr and Mrs. Edward Bliss Reed, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

67. Plate 25 (page 46): 'Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Plate 32 (page 70): 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Plate 38 (page 87): 'Is lost in love! thou great PHILANTHROPIST'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Plate 40 (page 90): 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Plate 31 (page 65): [Night the Fourth] 'THE/ CHRISTIAN/ TRIUMPH'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Plate 33 (page 72): 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Plate 2 (page 1): 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. "The Book of Thel William Blake Original Wrappers 1789"

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789-1794
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in dark-brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. "There is No Natural Religion", London, by William Blake

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching (several sheets in the set are touched with watercolor)
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2in. (14cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection