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1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 5 x 7 1/2 inches (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1814 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches (71.8 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. '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

4. Aeneas and the Sibyl

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/16 x 48 inches (91.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: between 1800 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 7/8 x 32 5/8 inches (103.8 x 82.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

Creator:: Louis Laguerre, 1663–1721
Date:: ca. 1704
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/8 x 30 inches (107 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1718
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Cymon and Iphigenia

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: ca. 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 32 1/2 inches (61.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

10. Cupid Armed

Creator:: William Hilton, 1786–1839
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
On View:: Not on view

11. Dido

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 3/16 × 72 3/16 inches (244.3 × 183.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Apotheosis of Nelson

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/2 x 29 inches (100.3 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: ca. 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

15. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Sea, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Rinaldo and Armida

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/2 × 60 1/4 inches (130.8 × 153 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

Creator:: Henry Holland, 1745–1806
Date:: ca. 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over pen and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 15/16 x 28 1/4 inches (35.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Helios

Creator:: William Pitts, 1790–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches (27.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

19. Hecate

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 inches (21.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Fall of a City

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: James Wyatt, 1746–1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor; verso: pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (50.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

Creator:: John Sanderson, active 1730; died 1774
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 13/16 inches (10.2 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Design of Apollo and the Python for a Painted over-door Decoration

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper laid down on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches (21.3 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 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

25. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 6 3/8 inches (15.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Diana and Actaeon: A Study for a Panel on a Staircase

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 6 1/4in. (15.2 x 15.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Design for a Ceiling at Addiscombe: Bacchus and Ariadne

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 3/16 inches (24.8 x 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Vulcan's Forge

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, smooth, 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

29. Benjamin West, P.R.A.

Creator:: James Fittler, 1758–1835
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/8 inches (53 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 3/16 inches (32.7 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Satyrs

Creator:: Stephen Frederick Gooden, 1892–1955
Date:: 1937
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 10 3/16 inches (32.2 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell

32. Rinaldo and Armida

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 x 14 15/16 inches (53 x 38 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Charon's Boat

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (21.2 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Intemperance

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 20 inches (34.4 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 13/16 inches (27.9 x 25 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 13/16 inches (27.9 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. 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

38. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 × 7 5/8 inches (26.2 × 19.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Cupid and Cephisa: "Cephisa says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 14 13/16 inches (49.8 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Britannia Allegory

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: between 1743 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; verso: letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper (page in book)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (15.8 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

41. Hope Nursing Love

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/8 inches (50.5 × 35.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. David Hume

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/2 inches (17.9 × 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

43. Ceyx and Alcyone

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 3/16 inches (50.4 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 9 1/16 inches (29 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

Creator:: Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 7/16 inches (27 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches (25.6 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, with hand colored ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 inches (23.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Tancred and Clorinda

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 9 3/16 inches (28.3 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Cleone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (32.7 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, with center cut out on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (8.9 × 13.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Elijah Casting off His Mantle

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches (21 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Venus, after Masters of Tarrochi

Creator:: Print made by Arthur Burgess, 1844–1886
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 6 7/16 inches (16.3 x 16.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

54. Studies for a Hand in The Godhead Fires

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (31.1 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of John Goolet

55. An Allegory of Love

Creator:: Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1734–1808
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and colored chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 24 7/16 inches (49.5 x 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

56. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 x 12 1/2 inches (14.1 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. 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

58. Diana

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (29.2 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (13.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 x 18 5/8 inches (49.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. The Centaur Nessus Carrying off Deianira

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 12 3/16 inches (44.4 x 30.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Unhappy Ghosts Wandering on the Banks of Styx, while Charon in his Boat Ferries over the Elect to the Elysian Fields

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30.6 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The Harpies Attacking the Daughters of Pandarus

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 1/8 inches (30.5 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Apollo and the Muses

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 15/16 inches (21.9 x 32.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Sheet of Classical Figure Studies

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured beige laid paper and moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches (21.3 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 2 15/16in. (12.1 x 7.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

67. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 x 2 7/8in. (11.7 x 7.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

68. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 x 2 7/8in. (11.9 x 7.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

69. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

70. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 7/8in. (11.6 x 7.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

71. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (34.8 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. Sylvio and Dorinda

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1680 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 5/8 inches (23.1 × 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

73. Sylvio and Dorinda

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1752 and 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 x 14 1/8 inches (26.2 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

74. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1678 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 3/8 inches (30.4 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. Vertumnus et Pomona

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 3/16 inches (51.5 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

76. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 20 3/8 inches (38.6 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

77. Mercury

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 12 3/8 inches (43.2 x 31.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

78. Miss Ann Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (40.3 x 30.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

79. Cephalus and Procris

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 11 inches (19.6 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Paris and Oenone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 7/16 inches (30.2 x 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Venus Chiding Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 10 1/8 inches (29.6 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Flora

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: White chalk on thick, rough, brown wove paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches (34.3 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

84. At Rome

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches (22.3 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. At the City of Albano

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 5 13/16 inches (22.2 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Statue of Achilles in Hyde Park

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 5 5/16 inches (20 x 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving and drypoint print on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. The Fates

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Tinted lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (31 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Telemachus and Mentor

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches (30.8 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (31 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. The Mask of Comus. As Now Being Performed at the Theatre Royal, Madrid, with Amazing Success

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30.7 x 44.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 9/16 x 2 13/16in. (11.6 x 7.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Wilmarth S. Lewis, B.A. 1918

93. Cupid's Tent

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Beckett, 1652/3–1719
Date:: 1680s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 5/16 inches (24 × 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

94. Aeneas Entering Hades

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1675 and 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 5/16 inches (25.3 × 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

95. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 11/16 inches (36 × 27.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

96. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 13/16 inches (24.2 × 19.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

97. Vertumnus and Pomonae

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint with touches of gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 8 11/16 inches (29.2 × 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

98. Vertumnus and Pomonae

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 1/16 inches (29.8 × 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

99. Augustus

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 9/16 inches (25.6 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

100. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

2. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

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

4. Aeneas and the Sibyl

5. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

6. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

7. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

8. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

9. Cymon and Iphigenia

10. Cupid Armed

11. Dido

12. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

13. The Apotheosis of Nelson

14. The Education of Achilles

15. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Sea, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

16. Rinaldo and Armida

17. Carlton House, Pall Mall, London: Section of the Portico, Hall and Tribune

18. Helios

19. Hecate

20. Fall of a City

21. Design for a Ceiling

22. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

23. Design of Apollo and the Python for a Painted over-door Decoration

24. The Birth of Venus

25. The Fall of Phaeton: A Study for a Ceiling

26. Diana and Actaeon: A Study for a Panel on a Staircase

27. Design for a Ceiling at Addiscombe: Bacchus and Ariadne

28. Vulcan's Forge

29. Benjamin West, P.R.A.

30. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

31. The Satyrs

32. Rinaldo and Armida

33. Charon's Boat

34. Intemperance

35. Silenus

36. Silenus

37. A Mythological Battle

38. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

39. Cupid and Cephisa: "Cephisa says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love..."

40. Britannia Allegory

41. Hope Nursing Love

42. David Hume

43. Ceyx and Alcyone

44. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

45. Hebe

46. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

47. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

48. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

49. Tancred and Clorinda

50. Cleone

51. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

52. Elijah Casting off His Mantle

53. Venus, after Masters of Tarrochi

54. Studies for a Hand in The Godhead Fires

55. An Allegory of Love

56. Design for a Ceiling

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

58. Diana

59. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

60. Cupid and Cephisa: "One Day as I was Walking in the Woods..."

61. The Centaur Nessus Carrying off Deianira

62. Unhappy Ghosts Wandering on the Banks of Styx, while Charon in his Boat Ferries over the Elect to the Elysian Fields

63. The Harpies Attacking the Daughters of Pandarus

64. Apollo and the Muses

65. Sheet of Classical Figure Studies

66. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

67. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

68. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

69. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

70. One of Six Illustrations to Fenelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus son of Ulysses"

71. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

72. Sylvio and Dorinda

73. Sylvio and Dorinda

74. Lucretia Romana

75. Vertumnus et Pomona