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1. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

2. The Taming of the Shrew

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: ca. 1937
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum
On View:: Not on view

3. An Unwritten Novel

Creator:: Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: 1921
Materials & Techniques:: Woodcut on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 3/4 inches (18.4 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin

4. Design for the Dust Jacket of 'Between the Acts' by Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: ca. 1941
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (30.2 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Lucia Woods Lindley

5. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

Creator:: David Jones, 1895–1974
Date:: ca. 1940
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 x 19 inches (61.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Dog and the Shadow

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Date:: 1909
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/16 x 4 1/8 inches (8.1 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Transmogrifications of Bloom

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1984 to 1985
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching and aquatint on medium, smooth, white Hahnemuhle wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 5/16 inches (76 × 56.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

8. Bronze by Gold

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1985 to 1987
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, lift-ground aquatint, line engraving, scraper and burnisher in twenty-three colors from five plates on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

9. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Composite of twenty mixed intaglio plate (various sizes): lift-ground aquatint, photogravure, drypoint, hard and soft-ground etching, burin, stipple, mezzotint, line engraving and roulette on medium, smooth, cream Hahnemuhle wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

10. The Heaventree of Stars

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1998
Materials & Techniques:: Iris print on medium, smooth, white Somerset wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

11. He Foresaw his Pale Body

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1990
Materials & Techniques:: Heliogravure, line engraving and roulette in twenty-three colors from four plates on medium, smooth, white Zerkall wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

12. Council of Love Contact Sheet

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 1/8 inches (25.4 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

13. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/2 inches (30.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

14. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 inches (40.3 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

15. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

16. Gordon Jackson and Alec Guinness in 'Wild Child'

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on glossy, resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

17. Finn MacCool

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Heliogravure, lift-ground etching, spit-bite aquatint, line engraving and burnisher on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 7/8 × 22 3/8 inches (75.9 × 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

18. Leopold Bloom

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1983
Materials & Techniques:: Soft ground etching, roulette, line engraving and aquatint on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 × 22 3/8 inches (76.2 × 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

19. In Horne's House

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011
Date:: 1982
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, line engraving, lift-ground, and spit-bite on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 3/4 × 22 1/8 inches (75.6 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

20. Front of House Display, Hadrian the Seventh

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Chromogenic color print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (34.9 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

21. Je Dus Voyager

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 12 1/8 inches (49.8 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

22. Aeneas With The Sibyl

Creator:: Print made by Pellissier & Allen, active late 19th century
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Pellissier & Allen, active late 19th century
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: 1949
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (26.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

25. The Miller's Tale II

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1974
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/8 × 15 1/2 inches (59.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

26. The Nun's Priest Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

27. The Shipman's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

28. Wife of Bath's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (80 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

29. The Reeve's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

30. The Merchant's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

31. The Miller's Tale I

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1974
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/2 × 15 3/4 inches (59.7 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

32. Prologue

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

33. Chanticleer and Pertelote

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 23 3/8 inches (40.3 × 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

34. The Franklin's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

35. The Squire's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

36. First Uncorrected Proof of Arnold Fawcus's Facsimile of Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored collotype on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 12 7/8 inches (42.2 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Unbound Facsimile Edition of William Blake's Illustrations for "The Poems of Thomas Gray"

Creator:: Print made by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Facsimile printed in color
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 13/16in. (41.9 x 32.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. A Tragedy of Sophocles Performed before the Emperor Hadrian

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1913
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slighly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 26 inches (64.8 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

39. Lady MacBeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on heavy board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 3/4 × 21 inches (103.5 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

40. The Wine Drinkers

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921
Date:: 1904
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 3/8 inches (42.2 × 34 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

41. The Trojan Horse

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, open biting, and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 3/4 × 34 1/2 inches (70.5 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

42. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

Creator:: Roger Furse, 1903–1972
Date:: ca. 1952
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 23 1/16 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (58.6 × 40 × 2.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell

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1. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

2. The Taming of the Shrew

3. An Unwritten Novel

4. Design for the Dust Jacket of 'Between the Acts' by Virginia Woolf

5. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

6. Dog and the Shadow

7. The Transmogrifications of Bloom

8. Bronze by Gold

9. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

10. The Heaventree of Stars

11. He Foresaw his Pale Body

12. Council of Love Contact Sheet

13. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

14. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

15. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

16. Gordon Jackson and Alec Guinness in 'Wild Child'

17. Finn MacCool

18. Leopold Bloom

19. In Horne's House

20. Front of House Display, Hadrian the Seventh

21. Je Dus Voyager

22. Aeneas With The Sibyl

23. Venus and Adonis

24. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

25. The Miller's Tale II

26. The Nun's Priest Tale

27. The Shipman's Tale

28. Wife of Bath's Tale

29. The Reeve's Tale

30. The Merchant's Tale

31. The Miller's Tale I

32. Prologue

33. Chanticleer and Pertelote

34. The Franklin's Tale

35. The Squire's Tale

36. First Uncorrected Proof of Arnold Fawcus's Facsimile of Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

37. Unbound Facsimile Edition of William Blake's Illustrations for "The Poems of Thomas Gray"

38. A Tragedy of Sophocles Performed before the Emperor Hadrian

39. Lady MacBeth

40. The Wine Drinkers

41. The Trojan Horse

42. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice