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

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. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Lear in the Storm

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, peach wove paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 30 1/16 x 24 15/16 inches (76.3 x 63.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Canonbury Tower, Islington, Middlesex Formerly the Residence of Oliver Goldsmith

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and stipple
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Scene from the Tempest

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (14 × 16.8 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

23. Scene from the Tempest

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (11.1 × 18.7 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

24. 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

25. Lady MacBeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (28.6 × 18.7 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

26. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 13 inches (17.8 x 33 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

27. Scene from the Inferno

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (15.6 × 20 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

28. Study for the Damned

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 7 3/4 inches (16.2 × 19.7 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

29. Troilus and Cressida?

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/4 inches (23.8 × 18.4 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

30. Troilus and Cessida: Six Women on the Walls of Illion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 7 7/8 inches (15.9 × 20 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

31. Awakening of Titania

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 inches (17.1 × 25.4 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

32. Titania and Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (13.3 × 19.1 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

33. Scene from MacBeth: Apparition of Banquo?

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, sllightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 inches (12.1 × 17.8 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

34. Titania, from A Midsummer's Night Dream

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 6 1/4 inches (15.2 × 15.9 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

35. Apparition of Banquo's Ghost: Banquet Scene from MacBeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 inches (19.7 × 25.4 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

36. Apparition: Banquo?

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (14.3 × 22.2 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

37. Birth of Shakespeare

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 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

38. Scene from Macbeth: Apparition of Banquo

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 inches (14.3 × 20.3 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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)

46. 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)

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

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

2. The Taming of the Shrew

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

4. An Unwritten Novel

5. The Cypress Grove

6. The Sepulchre

7. The Homeward Star

8. Dog and the Shadow

9. L'Allegro

10. Lear in the Storm

11. Canonbury Tower, Islington, Middlesex Formerly the Residence of Oliver Goldsmith

12. Die Unschuldige Susana - Susanna Innocens

13. Pan and Syrinx

14. Pan and Syrinx

15. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

16. Je Dus Voyager

17. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

18. Aesacus and Hesperie

19. The Heaventree of Stars

20. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

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

22. Scene from the Tempest

23. Scene from the Tempest

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

25. Lady MacBeth

26. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

27. Scene from the Inferno

28. Study for the Damned

29. Troilus and Cressida?

30. Troilus and Cessida: Six Women on the Walls of Illion

31. Awakening of Titania

32. Titania and Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream

33. Scene from MacBeth: Apparition of Banquo?

34. Titania, from A Midsummer's Night Dream

35. Apparition of Banquo's Ghost: Banquet Scene from MacBeth

36. Apparition: Banquo?

37. Birth of Shakespeare

38. Scene from Macbeth: Apparition of Banquo

39. In Horne's House

40. Front of House Display, Hadrian the Seventh

41. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

42. Prologue

43. The Reeve's Tale

44. Wife of Bath's Tale

45. Marion "Polly" Terry as Dora

46. Marion "Polly" Terry as Fitz-James

47. The Miller's Tale I

48. The Miller's Tale II

49. Chanticleer and Pertelote

50. The Nun's Priest Tale