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1. "Before Abraham Was..." (Left)

Creator:: Francis Hoyland, born 1930
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera, black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 × 22 inches (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972

2. "Before Abraham Was..." (Right)

Creator:: Francis Hoyland, born 1930
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera, black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 × 22 inches (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972

3. "The Lady of Shalott"

Creator:: John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893
Date:: ca. 1875
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 36 inches (61 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew
On View:: Not on view

4. 'Diana and Acteon', after Titian, done for the National Gallery appeal in London

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978
Date:: ca. 1970
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, purple chalk, green chalk, red chalk, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 16 inches (35.2 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Russell

5. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

Creator:: William Artaud, 1763–1823
Date:: 1788 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 x 80 1/2 inches (241.3 x 204.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. A Bacchanalian Vase

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 1/8 inches (44.1 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. A Bacchanian Scene

Creator:: Print made by Johann Ulrich Kraus, 1655–1719
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 1/2 inches (18.7 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. A Bacchante

Creator:: Sir Hubert von Herkomer, 1849–1914
Date:: 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Polychrome enamels on copper
Dimensions:: Overall: 4 inches (10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen

9. A Christening at the Vatican with Swiss Papal Guard, etc.

Creator:: Attributed to James Miller, active 1773–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 5/8 inches (32.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 8 1/8 inches (40.6 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A Design for a Mural Executed in the Salon at Roehampton House, Surrey: Apollo Carrying off Aeneas in a Cloud

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1715
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 inches (14 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Difference of Opinion

Creator:: Print made by Auguste Boulard, 1852–1927
Date:: 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 15/16 × 12 3/16 inches (48.1 × 30.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bryan Fuermann

13. A Faun with Pipes

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 7/8 × 15 inches (58.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. A Goddess

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (13 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. A Gosain - A Tribe of Hindu Religious Beggars

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 6 inches (14.3 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/8 × 2 3/4 inches (6 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 2 3/4 inches (7.6 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 2 5/8 inches (9.2 × 6.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (12.1 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (8.3 × 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (7.9 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 4 1/4 inches (10.2 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. A Grotesque

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 4 1/8 inches (9.2 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Grotesque Mask

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/8 × 2 1/2 inches (6.7 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Grotesque with an Open Mouth

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/8 × 2 3/4 inches (6.7 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Grotesque with Beak Facing Left

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 3 inches (8.3 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A Grotesque with Horns

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 3 inches (10.5 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Grotesque with Horns on Head and Chin

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (8.9 × 6.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Gujarat Brahmin

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (17.1 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A Hindu Austere

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: ca. 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 1/4 inches (18.1 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Jungum, a religious Hindu Beggar

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 3/8 inches (16.8 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. A Landscape, with the Story of Apollo and Marsyas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches (27.6 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

33. A Landscape, with the Story of Europa

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 16 5/8 inches (27.8 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

34. A Large Christmas Card

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1895
Materials & Techniques:: Line block print on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (23.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A Lewsa of Jettee - A Kind of Hindu Monk

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 5 3/4 inches (14.3 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. A Lion

Creator:: Attributed to Augustin Heckel, 1690–1770
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thin blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 × 3 3/8 inches (7 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. A Man with Dropsy

Creator:: Francis Hoyland, born 1930
Date:: 2000
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and drypoint on thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/4 × 29 1/2 inches (56.5 × 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Monroe E. Price, Yale BA 1960, LLB 1965, and Aimee Brown Price, Yale MA 1963, PhD 1972, and Theodore C. and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Yale MCP 1964

38. A Mohamatan Fakir

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 3 3/4 inches (15.9 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A Mohametan with his Parrot

Creator:: Attributed to Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 inches (16.8 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. A Monk's Head

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 16 inches (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. A Muslim Wedding Procession by Night, Patna

Creator:: Unknown artist (Company style)
Date:: between 1820 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 × 22 3/4 inches (40 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

43. A Mythological Battle

Creator:: George C. Finden, 1811–1885
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 19 15/16 inches (34.8 x 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. A Naiad

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. A Parsi Priest or Adam

Creator:: Sadanand Vyas, active late 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache, with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 5 7/8 inches (15.4 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. A Peasant of Mount Erix

Creator:: Henry Tresham, 1751–1814
Date:: between 1783 and 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and graphite; verso: pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (24.1 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. A Sacrifice To Cupid

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. A Sacrifice To Diana The Goddess Of Hunting

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A Satyr Family

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 7 1/4 inches (22.9 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. A Satyr Family

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 11/16 inches (24.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. "Before Abraham Was..." (Left)

2. "Before Abraham Was..." (Right)

3. "The Lady of Shalott"

4. 'Diana and Acteon', after Titian, done for the National Gallery appeal in London

5. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

6. A Bacchanalian Vase

7. A Bacchanian Scene

8. A Bacchante

9. A Christening at the Vatican with Swiss Papal Guard, etc.

10. A Design for a Ceiling

11. A Design for a Mural Executed in the Salon at Roehampton House, Surrey: Apollo Carrying off Aeneas in a Cloud

12. A Difference of Opinion

13. A Faun with Pipes

14. A Goddess

15. A Gosain - A Tribe of Hindu Religious Beggars

16. A Grotesque

17. A Grotesque

18. A Grotesque

19. A Grotesque

20. A Grotesque

21. A Grotesque

22. A Grotesque

23. A Grotesque

24. A Grotesque Mask

25. A Grotesque with an Open Mouth

26. A Grotesque with Beak Facing Left

27. A Grotesque with Horns

28. A Grotesque with Horns on Head and Chin

29. A Gujarat Brahmin

30. A Hindu Austere

31. A Jungum, a religious Hindu Beggar

32. A Landscape, with the Story of Apollo and Marsyas

33. A Landscape, with the Story of Europa

34. A Large Christmas Card

35. A Lewsa of Jettee - A Kind of Hindu Monk

36. A Lion

37. A Man with Dropsy

38. A Mohamatan Fakir

39. A Mohametan with his Parrot

40. A Monk's Head

41. A Mother with Her Child in Her Arms Flying upon the Ramparts of a City in Flames

42. A Muslim Wedding Procession by Night, Patna

43. A Mythological Battle

44. A Naiad

45. A Parsi Priest or Adam

46. A Peasant of Mount Erix

47. A Sacrifice To Cupid

48. A Sacrifice To Diana The Goddess Of Hunting

49. A Satyr Family

50. A Satyr Family