Genre: religious and mythological subject / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: 3 selected

1. Jacob's Dream

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (163.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. The Last Judgement (study)

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1851 and 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 12 inches (19.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. The Angel Binding Satan

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (45.1 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "The Bard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 115, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Albions Angel rose . . . . " (Bentley 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Jerusalem, Plate 20, "But when they saw Albion...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches (42.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Salvator Mundi

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 6 5/16 inches (21.3 × 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Plaudit Ave Regina

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 1/4 inches (24.6 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. The Birth of Venus

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8in. (18.4 x 14.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 5 inches (12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Shepherd Offering, Nativity Scene

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 21 1/16 inches (45.1 × 53.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Birth of Christ (Luke 2:15)

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: before 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (10.8 x 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 × 15 inches (52.4 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Salvator Mundi

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 6 9/16 inches (22.1 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Niobe

Creator:: Print made by William Sharp, 1749–1824
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Guardian Angels

Creator:: Print made by Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (second state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (54.6 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Apollo and Phaeton

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 12 1/4 inches (21 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

23. Pamphilia

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 7 1/4 inches (15.6 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

24. The Virgin in the Clouds and Six Saints

Creator:: Print made by John Baptist Jackson, 1701–1780
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Chiaroscuro woodcut
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Ralph Kirkpatrick, Yale MA (HON.) 1965

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1. Jacob's Dream

2. The Last Judgement (study)

3. The Angel Binding Satan

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "The Bard."

5. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 115, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

7. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

8. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

9. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Albions Angel rose . . . . " (Bentley 14)

10. Jerusalem, Plate 20, "But when they saw Albion...."

11. The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

12. Salvator Mundi

13. Plaudit Ave Regina

14. The Birth of Venus

15. Design for a Ceiling Decoration

16. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Shepherd Offering, Nativity Scene

17. The Birth of Christ (Luke 2:15)

18. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

19. Salvator Mundi

20. Niobe

21. Guardian Angels

22. Apollo and Phaeton

23. Pamphilia

24. The Virgin in the Clouds and Six Saints