Genre: literary theme / Image Available: Unavailable / Creator: Blake, William, 1757–1827

1. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, (volume 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings and line engravings on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper (volume 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etchings and line engravings on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 15/16in. (27 x 35.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. William Cowper, Author of "The Task"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. William Cowper

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Mrs Cowper Mother of the Poet

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Peasants' Nest: Cowper's tame Hares

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Death's Door

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Death's Door

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (51.4 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 3/4 inches (49.5 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 inches (34.9 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (50.2 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. 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

30. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 14 inches (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Death's Door

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (49.8 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 inches (34.9 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 20 inches (34.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (34.3 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (51.4 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (50.2 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (51.4 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. 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

46. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress bound in full calf with marbled endpapers on moderately thick, slightly textured, laid paper and wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 1/8 inches (41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and letterpress, bound in contemporary publisher's paper-covered boards, rebacked on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

Creator:: Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: 13 Etchings bound in green cloth portfolio on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 14 inches (51.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 1

Creator:: Text by John Gay, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16in. (26.7 x 17cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

51. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 2

Creator:: Published by John Stockdale, ca. 1749–1814
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Bound volume on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 6 11/16in. (26.7 x 17cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD

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1. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

2. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, (volume 1)

3. The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper (volume 2)

4. Illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy

5. William Cowper, Author of "The Task"

6. William Cowper

7. Mrs Cowper Mother of the Poet

8. The Peasants' Nest: Cowper's tame Hares

9. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

10. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

11. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

12. The Day of Judgment

13. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

14. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

15. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

16. Death's Door

17. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

18. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

19. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

20. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

21. The Day of Judgment

22. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

23. The Death of the Good Old Man

24. Death's Door

25. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

26. Christ Descending into the Grave

27. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

28. The Reunion of the Soul & the Body

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

30. Christ Descending into the Grave

31. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

32. The Death of the Good Old Man

33. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

34. Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page

35. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

36. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

37. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

38. Death's Door

39. Death of the Strong Wicked Man

40. The Death of the Good Old Man

41. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

42. The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave

43. The Day of Judgment

44. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

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

46. Christ Descending into the Grave

47. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

48. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

49. The Grave, A Poem, by Robert Blair

50. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 1

51. Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates, Volume 2