Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / Genre: literary theme / Image Available: Available

1. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: beeswax and oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (67.3 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Beggar's Opera

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1729
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/4 x 30 inches (59.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Horse

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1805
Medium:: Tempera with pen and black ink on a copper engraving plate
Dimensions:: 4 3/16 x 2 1/2 inches (10.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: William Artaud, 1763–1823, British
Date:: 1788 to 1790
Medium:: 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

5. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. I, Chap. VIII: Dining in the Hayfields' (Surprised by Mr. Thornhill's Chaplain)

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Imogen and the Shepherds, 'Cymbeline,' Act IV, scene II

Creator:: James Smetham, 1821–1889, British
Date:: ca. 1874
Medium:: Oil over ink on panel
Dimensions:: 4 3/4 x 12 9/16 inches (12.1 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: 1767
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

Creator:: Benjamin van der Gucht, 1753–1794, British
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1779
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/16 x 50 1/4 inches (101.8 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815, American, active in Britain (from 1776)
Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 inches (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Captain Macheath Upbraided by Polly and Lucy in the 'Beggar's Opera', 1826

Creator:: Gilbert Stuart Newton, 1794–1835, British
Date:: 1826
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 47 1/2 inches (96.5 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British
Date:: 1769
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British
Date:: 1769
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Mr. Peregrine Touchwood Breaking in upon the Rev. Josiah Cargill

Creator:: William Mulready, 1786–1863, Irish
Date:: 1831
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 21 × 17 inches (53.3 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1723)
Date:: 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 65 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches (166.4 x 133.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Cave of Despair

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1772
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886, British
Date:: 1846
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 × 34 inches (102.2 × 86.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The revelation of Olivia's betrothal, from "Twelfth Night," Act V, Scene i

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.3 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 20 x 25 1/2 inches (50.8 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Rinaldo and Armida

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–81)
Date:: 1771
Medium:: 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

23. Scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I"

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Date:: 1746
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 1/2 inches (91.4 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Louis-Francois Roubiliac Modelling His Monument to Shakespeare

Creator:: Adrien Carpentiers, active 1739–1778, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1739)
Date:: between 1760 and 1761
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/4 x 39 3/4 inches (127.6 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:: between 1745 and 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches (64.8 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Knight and Page (from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Götz von Berlichingen” )

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828, British
Date:: ca. 1826
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 15 inches (46.4 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

Creator:: Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1723)
Date:: ca. 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Dr. Syntax: Walking with a Stick

Creator:: unknown artist, English Pearlware
Date:: ca. 1810
Medium:: Pearlware figure
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6in. (15.2cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Dr. Syntax: Losing His Temper

Creator:: Derby porcelain factory, founded 1756, British
Date:: ca. 1810
Medium:: Derby figure
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6in. (15.2cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Dr. Syntax: On a Horse, Jumping a Gate

Creator:: Derby porcelain factory, founded 1756, British
Date:: ca. 1810
Medium:: Derby figure
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7in. (17.8cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches (16.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 13/16 inches (24 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Bellman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1879
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 x 16 7/8 inches (28.4 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Bellman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1879
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: begun ca. 1880
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1879
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (26.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1880
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 12 7/8 inches (26.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Moeris and Galatea

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: plate etched between 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone, retouched with white watercolor, gouache or chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 13 13/16 inches (29.1 x 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Sleeping Shepherd

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1857
Medium:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 9/16 inches (30 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Date:: 1788
Medium:: Etching with roulette and rocker work, first state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 27 3/8in. (52 x 69.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1819
Medium:: Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 17 inches (28.9 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Engraver's proof (f) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 inches (29.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Deluge

Creator:: Engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Mezzotint, printed in brown ink Modern Impression on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 18 inches (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Design for an Illustration for Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake", Loch Achray

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: ca. 1832
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (28.6 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Aeneas Relating His Adventures to Dido

Creator:: after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Medium:: Chromolithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1811
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Second published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 15 5/8 inches (27.9 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/4 inches (28.3 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Etched and engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1819
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 1/4 inches (17.8 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.3 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1811
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 7/8 inches (29.2 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. A Procession of the Damned: Study for the Damned in Dante's "Inferno"

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches (15.9 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The longest night though longer far, would fail"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We censure nature for a span too short"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Songs of Innocence, Plate 30, "The Little Black Boy" (Bentley 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. A View of St. Edmund's Chapel, in the Church of East Dereham, Containing the Grave of William Cowper Esq.

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

61. A Sketch of the Monument Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk in Memory of William Cowper Esq.

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

62. The Book of Thel, Plate 4, "Why should the mistress . . . ."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1822
Medium:: White-line metal cut engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 1/8 inches (17.8 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Pity

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1795
Medium:: Color monotype, watercolor, pen and black ink, and varnish on moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (41.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1784 to 1785
Medium:: Graphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1786 to 1789
Medium:: Pen and black ink with gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (18.7 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

69. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is Lost in Love! Thou Great Philanthropist"

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

70. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 10, "Disease Invades the Chastest Temperence"

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

71. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 109, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

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

72. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 11, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

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

73. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 111, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

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

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

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

75. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 13, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

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

76. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 15, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

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

77. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

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

78. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 19, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

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

79. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 33, "A Long Story."

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

80. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 35, "Ode to Adversity."

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

81. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 37, "Ode to Adversity."

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

82. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 39, "Ode to Adversity."

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

83. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."

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

84. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 61, "The Bard."

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

85. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 65, "The Bard."

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

86. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 67, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

87. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 7, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

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

88. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 71, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

89. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 75, "The Fatal Sisters."

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

90. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 77, "The Descent of Odin."

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

91. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 81, "The Descent of Odin."

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

92. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 83, "The Descent of Odin."

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

93. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 85, "The Descent of Odin."

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

94. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 87, "The Triumphs of Owen."

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

95. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 89, "The Triumphs of Owen."

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

96. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 9, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

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

97. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 97, "Ode for Music."

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

98. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 99, "Ode for Music."

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

99. Songs of Innocence, Plate 1, Frontispiece (Bentley 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 1, Frontispiece (Bentley a1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1788
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

2. The Beggar's Opera

3. The Horse

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

5. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

6. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. I, Chap. VIII: Dining in the Hayfields' (Surprised by Mr. Thornhill's Chaplain)

7. Imogen and the Shepherds, 'Cymbeline,' Act IV, scene II

8. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

9. Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catherine and Petruchio, a version by Garrick of "The Taming of the Shrew"

10. Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus

11. Study for 'The Red Cross Knight'

12. Captain Macheath Upbraided by Polly and Lucy in the 'Beggar's Opera', 1826

13. Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms

14. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

15. Mr. Peregrine Touchwood Breaking in upon the Rev. Josiah Cargill

16. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

17. Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave

18. The Cave of Despair

19. Hamlet and his Mother; The Closet Scene

20. The revelation of Olivia's betrothal, from "Twelfth Night," Act V, Scene i

21. The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies

22. Rinaldo and Armida

23. Scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I"

24. Louis-Francois Roubiliac Modelling His Monument to Shakespeare

25. The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"

26. A Knight and Page (from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Götz von Berlichingen” )

27. Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia

28. Dr. Syntax: Walking with a Stick

29. Dr. Syntax: Losing His Temper

30. Dr. Syntax: On a Horse, Jumping a Gate

31. The Homeward Star

32. The Sepulchre

33. The Bellman

34. The Bellman

35. The Cypress Grove

36. The Homeward Star

37. The Homeward Star

38. The Lonely Tower

39. The Homeward Star

40. Opening the Fold

41. Moeris and Galatea

42. The Sleeping Shepherd

43. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven

44. Aesacus and Hesperie

45. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

46. The Deluge

47. Design for an Illustration for Walter Scott's "Lady of the Lake", Loch Achray

48. Aeneas Relating His Adventures to Dido

49. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

50. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

51. Aesacus and Hesperie

52. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

53. Procris and Cephalus

54. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

55. A Procession of the Damned: Study for the Damned in Dante's "Inferno"

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold him, when past by; what then is seen"

57. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The longest night though longer far, would fail"

58. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 23, "We censure nature for a span too short"

59. Songs of Innocence, Plate 30, "The Little Black Boy" (Bentley 10)

60. A View of St. Edmund's Chapel, in the Church of East Dereham, Containing the Grave of William Cowper Esq.

61. A Sketch of the Monument Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk in Memory of William Cowper Esq.

62. The Book of Thel, Plate 4, "Why should the mistress . . . ."

63. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

64. Pity

65. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

66. Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons

67. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge"

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

69. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, "Is Lost in Love! Thou Great Philanthropist"

70. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 10, "Disease Invades the Chastest Temperence"

71. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 109, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

72. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 11, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

73. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 111, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."