Genre: literary theme / Image Available: Available / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. L'Allegro

Creator:: Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 7/8 inches (16.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James

Creator:: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:: 1875, printed ca.1980
Materials & Techniques:: Gold toned contact print from a collodion wet plate negative on photographic printing-out paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Benson and Richard Benson (1943–2017)

6. Marion "Polly" Terry as Dora

Creator:: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson [pseud. Lewis Carroll], 1832–1898
Date:: 1875, printed ca.1980
Materials & Techniques:: Gold toned contact print from a collodion wet plate negative on photographic printing-out paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 inches (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara Benson and Richard Benson (1943–2017)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Costume Party

Creator:: Marie Harnett, born 1983
Date:: 2015
Materials & Techniques:: Linocut on white Kozo paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 32 11/16 × 52 7/8 inches (83 × 134.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund, with additional support from Francis O’Brien

27. 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

28. Die Unschuldige Susana - Susanna Innocens

Creator:: Print made by Johann Philip Koch, ca. 1716–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint printed in blue ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 19 1/2 inches (40.6 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 13/16 inches (24 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Crumpled

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 34 3/4 inches (64.8 × 88.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

39. Jane Eyre

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

40. Up the Tree

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

41. Mr. Rochester

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

42. Loving Bewick

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

43. In the Comfort of the Bonnet

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

44. Undressing

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

45. Biting

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

46. Come to Me

Creator:: Dame Paula Rego, 1935–2022
Date:: 2001 to 2002
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on white Somerset Velvet wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

47. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (31.1 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Pan and Syrinx

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 1/4 inches (29.2 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Pan and Syrinx

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 inches (30.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. 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

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

2. An Unwritten Novel

3. Dog and the Shadow

4. L'Allegro

5. Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James

6. Marion "Polly" Terry as Dora

7. Chanticleer and Pertelote

8. The Miller's Tale II

9. Prologue

10. The Reeve's Tale

11. The Nun's Priest Tale

12. Wife of Bath's Tale

13. The Franklin's Tale

14. The Shipman's Tale

15. The Squire's Tale

16. The Merchant's Tale

17. The Miller's Tale I

18. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

19. In Horne's House

20. Finn MacCool

21. Leopold Bloom

22. The Transmogrifications of Bloom

23. He Foresaw his Pale Body

24. Bronze by Gold

25. The Heaventree of Stars

26. Costume Party

27. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

28. Die Unschuldige Susana - Susanna Innocens

29. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

30. Council of Love Contact Sheet

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

32. Front of House Display, Hadrian the Seventh

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

34. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

35. The Cypress Grove

36. The Homeward Star

37. The Sepulchre

38. Crumpled

39. Jane Eyre

40. Up the Tree

41. Mr. Rochester

42. Loving Bewick

43. In the Comfort of the Bonnet

44. Undressing

45. Biting

46. Come to Me

47. Aesacus and Hesperie

48. Pan and Syrinx

49. Pan and Syrinx

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