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1. La paresse du toucher

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 3/16 inches (25.3 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. April

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 6 1/8 inches (20.3 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. Le Hollandois sur la glace

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 3/16 inches (25.7 x 18.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Tout autre chose

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches (23.2 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. April

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 6 1/8 inches (21.7 × 15.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. L'Antiquaire

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 1/16 inches (42.9 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Voluntier

Creator:: Print made by Callender, active mid–18th century
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 5/8 inches (8 × 6.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. John's Coffee House

Creator:: Print made by Callender, active mid–18th century
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 4 7/8 inches (8.5 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Study of a Man with a Cutlass

Creator:: Print made by Callender, active mid–18th century
Date:: between 1745 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/16 × 2 5/8 inches (8.1 × 6.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Flash Maccaroni

Creator:: Print made by Callender, active mid–18th century
Date:: 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 5 1/8 inches (8.6 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. La male consequence du celibat

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 10 1/16 inches (40.2 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Love and Wind

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored etching on thick beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (31.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon in "The Mayor of Garratt"

Creator:: Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (44.8 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Illustration for Don Quixote (with figures on a donkey)

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Sacrifice

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 3/4 inches (33 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Curious Maids

Creator:: Print made by John Greenwood, 1727–1792
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (44.2 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. The Methodist Tailor Caught in Adultery

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 1/16 inches (28.2 x 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Refusal

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 14 9/16 inches (33.3 × 37 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Statue Hall or the Modern Register Office

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 15 13/16 inches (28 x 40.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Mr. Foote and Mr. Weston in the Characters of the President and Dr. Last

Creator:: Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8 inches (46 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Contented Dutchmen

Creator:: Print made by Richard Brookshaw, 1736–1804
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 11/16 inches (24.9 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Courtship for Money

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 7/16 inches (36.2 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. A French Physician with His Retinue Going to Visit His Patients

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 13 3/4 inches (28.1 x 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A French Petit Maître and His Valet

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, pasted on medium, moderately textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 1/4 x 11 5/16 inches (41.3 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 1/4 inches (28 x 20.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Cotillion Dance

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 9/16 inches (25.5 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Now Sir, You're a Complete Macaroni

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches (28.2 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Fish-Street Macaroni

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (29.6 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. John Jehu L'Inghilterra

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (29.6 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Macarony Brothers

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 3/16 inches (27.9 x 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Full Blown Macaroni

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 9/16 inches (29.8 x 21.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Houndsditch Macaroni

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 8 9/16 inches (25.4 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Monsieur Le Fouet, La Francia

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (26.4 × 17.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The St. James's Macaroni

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 9 7/16 inches (32.3 x 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A Macarony Alderman and His Rib

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7 13/16 inches (27.9 x 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Captain Conquest and His Baggage Wagon

Creator:: Print made by John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 1/8 inches (28.1 x 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Lady Time Present and Lady Time Past

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (42.2 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Heyday! Is This My Daughter Anne!

Creator:: Print made by Francis E. Adams, active ca.1760–1775
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 1/16 inches (35.5 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Inimitable Mr. James Moss

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 7 1/4 inches (24.6 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Damnation of Obadiah

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 15 11/16 inches (30.6 x 39.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Man with a Walking Stick in a Landscape

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 9 1/16 inches (25.6 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Slumbers of Ragotin Interrupted

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 1/8 inches (27.1 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Hats

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 x 17 5/8 inches (27.1 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

Creator:: James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 13 1/16 inches (26.9 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (44.9 x 26.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Caricature of Matthew Darly

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 4 inches (12.3 × 10.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Place des Victoires, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor in pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 inches (34.9 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. A Modern Spread Eagle

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (26.3 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 58 7/16 inches (24 x 148.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Olivia, Maria and Malvolio from "Twelfth Night," Act III, Scene iv

Creator:: Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763–1840
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 62 1/8 x 86 7/8 inches (157.8 x 220.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

51. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/4 inches (24.9 × 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. An Abyssinian Breakfast

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and sitpple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 × 13 15/16 inches (28.4 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (31.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Spoiled Child, Scene IV

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 × 19 1/8 inches (39.4 × 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Spoiled Child, Scene I

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 20 1/8 inches (39 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. The Spoiled Child, Scene V

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 × 19 5/8 inches (39.4 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. The Spoiled Child, Scene II

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 3/8 inches (39.1 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The Spoiled Child, Scene III

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (39.3 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Spoiled Child, Scene VI

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 19 5/8 inches (38.1 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Le Coup de Maitre

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 3/16 inches (26.4 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. The Royal Rush Light

Creator:: George Moutard Woodward, ca. 1760–1809
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 13 3/8 inches (40 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Doublûres of Characters; - or - Striking Resemblance in Phisiognomy

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 18 11/16 inches (34.4 x 47.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Englishman at Paris, 1767

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 18 7/8 inches (36.7 x 48 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Every Sous Begad!

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 8 11/16 inches (20.6 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Damn Mambrino

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 8 3/8 inches (30.6 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. The Union Club

Creator:: Charles Williams, active 1796–1830
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 7/16 inches (31.1 x 41.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Strephon and Chloe

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 1/16 inches (25.5 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. The Salutation Tavern

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 15/16 inches (25.5 x 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on green card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 11/16 inches (39 × 27.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Barbara and Max Wilk, Yale BA 1941

71. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. A Morning Ride

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 20 3/16 inches (34.7 x 51.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Robert W. Carle

73. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 inches (36.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

74. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 5 - "Convened for wearing Gaiters - sad offence! Expelled - nor e'en permitted a defence."

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 14 1/16 inches (24.5 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 2 - "Ah me! that thou the Freshman's-Guide should'st read, yet venture on the hallowed grass to tread"

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (24.7 × 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 3 - "The Master's Wig the guilty wight appals, who brings his Dog within the College walls."

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 7/8 inches (25 × 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 1 - "Ah me! what perils doth that Youth encounter, who dares within the Fellow's Bog to enter."

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 13 7/8 inches (24.3 × 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 4 - "Expulsion waits that Son of Alma Mater who dares to shew his face in Boot or Gaiter"

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (24.7 × 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The Tailors Baffling the Bailiff

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 x 5 3/8 inches (23.7 x 13.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

80. Sagittarius - The Archer (Not "Venus' Son Divine.")

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 5/8 inches (10.7 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

81. Glaud and Symon

Creator:: Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (28.3 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

82. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 7/16 inches (26.4 × 39.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Hamlet

Creator:: Print made by Charles Ansell, ca.1752–active 1790
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 15 3/16 inches (31.2 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

84. Humorous Family Scene

Creator:: Walter Geikie, 1795–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 5 1/4 inches (10.2 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

85. Oh Yes Believe Me. Love Has Eyes.

Creator:: William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 17 inches (28.3 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul and Anita Turner

86. Dandies Having a Treat

Creator:: Print made by Robert Isaac Cruikshank, 1789–1856
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 15 11/16 inches (25.7 x 39.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Sales by Auction! - or Provident Children Disposing of their Deceased Mother's Effects for the Benefit of the Creditors!!

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (31.2 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. A Maiden Lady and her Family

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1820 and 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches (29.2 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Fitting out. - Plate 1

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 13 15/16 inches (25.4 x 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Finding things not exactly what he expected - Plate 2

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 inches (25.3 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Monsignor Alexandre's Characters in his Entertainment of the Devil on Two Sticks, or, Asmodeus in London

Creator:: Print made by John Franklin, c.1800–1868
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 17 13/16 inches (32.8 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Fry Print Collection

92. Mr. B. Mastheaded -or, enjoying the fresh air for the 304th time - Plate 4

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 14 inches (25.5 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Gil Blas Practicing Medicine Under Dr. Sangrado

Creator:: Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857
Date:: between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with brown pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, laid in contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches (44.2 x 52 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Falstaff at Herne's Oak

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 4 1/2 inches (18.6 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. The Lover

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

96. The School-Boy

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.6 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

97. The Infant

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 10 7/8 inches (22.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

98. The Justice

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

99. Miss-Ann-Thropy

Creator:: Print made by Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 11/16 inches (35.3 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Ominum Gatherum, Second Series, No. 3

Creator:: Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches (27 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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42. The Slumbers of Ragotin Interrupted

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44. Dancing Bear with Its Keeper, Piper, and Audience of One

45. The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady

46. Caricature of Matthew Darly

47. Place des Victoires, Paris

48. A Modern Spread Eagle

49. The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath

50. Olivia, Maria and Malvolio from "Twelfth Night," Act III, Scene iv

51. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

52. An Abyssinian Breakfast

53. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

54. Presages of the Millenium

55. The Spoiled Child, Scene IV

56. The Spoiled Child, Scene I

57. The Spoiled Child, Scene V

58. The Spoiled Child, Scene II

59. The Spoiled Child, Scene III

60. The Spoiled Child, Scene VI

61. Le Coup de Maitre

62. The Royal Rush Light

63. Doublûres of Characters; - or - Striking Resemblance in Phisiognomy

64. Englishman at Paris, 1767

65. Every Sous Begad!

66. Damn Mambrino

67. The Union Club

68. Strephon and Chloe

69. The Salutation Tavern

70. A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique

71. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

72. A Morning Ride

73. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

74. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 5 - "Convened for wearing Gaiters - sad offence! Expelled - nor e'en permitted a defence."

75. The Rake's-Progress at the University - No. 2 - "Ah me! that thou the Freshman's-Guide should'st read, yet venture on the hallowed grass to tread"