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1. The Fourth Stage of Cruelty: The Reward of Cruelty

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1751, printed 1790
Medium:: Line engraving on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 x 19 1/4 inches (63.2 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell

2. Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (29.8 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Landscape with Waterfall

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: ca. 1796
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 3/8 inches (27.6 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."

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 inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"

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

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "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

7. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804, British
Date:: 1753
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 3/16 inches (39.6 x 53.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Damnation of Obadiah

Creator:: Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:: 1773
Medium:: 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

10. Design for an Ornamental Cartouche: Samuel Garth

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 x 2 15/16 inches (6.8 x 7.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gum and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 inches (31.1 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 3/8 inches (38.1 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817, British
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: 1751
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Ascent of Vesuvius

Creator:: Henry Tresham, 1751–1814, British
Date:: 1785 to 1790
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 27 5/8 inches (44.8 x 70.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Oxford Physic Garden

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Green, ca. 1736–ca. 1800, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 17 3/8 inches (33.7 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith and Norman A. Zlotsky, Yale BS 1953

18. Caryophyllus X. Mercurius. Plate 67 from 'Hortus Nitidissimis Omnem per Annum Superbiens Floribus', Nuremberg, 1768

Creator:: Print made by Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1733–1797, German
Date:: 1768
Medium:: Engraving with original hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

19. Phalaena Aceris. Acer Rubrum (Grey Maple Moth, Red Maple), Plate 93 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797

Phalaena Aceris. Acer Rubrum (Grey Maple Moth, Red Maple), Plate 93 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797

Creator:: Print made by John Harris the elder, 1767–1832, British
Date:: 1797
Medium:: Engraving with original hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 12 1/4 inches (40.6 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

20. Pastinaca (Parsnip), Plate 379 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737

Creator:: Print made by Elizabeth Blackwell, died 1774, British
Date:: 1737
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 1/8 inches (37.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

21. The Blue Passion Flower, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, 'The Temple of Flora', London, 1799-1812

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819, British
Date:: 1800
Medium:: Aquatint, stipple and line engraving with hand coloring on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/2 x 18 7/8 inches (59.7 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

22. Phalaena Quernaria. Quercus Rubra (American Oak Beauty, Northern Red Oak), Plate 103 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797

Phalaena Quernaria. Quercus Rubra (American Oak Beauty, Northern Red Oak), Plate 103 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797

Creator:: Print made by John Harris the elder, 1767–1832, British
Date:: 1797
Medium:: Engraving with original hand color on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 12 1/8 inches (40.6 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

23. Lysimachia (Loosestrife), Plate 278 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737

Creator:: Print made by Elizabeth Blackwell, died 1774, British
Date:: 1737
Medium:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (36.8 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

24. The White Lily with Variegated-Leaves, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, the 'Temple of Flora', 1799-1812

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Constantine Stadler, active 1780–1812, British
Date:: 1800
Medium:: Aquatint engraving with original hand color on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (51.8 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961

25. Distress

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: 1790 to 1795
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and brown and red ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/16 inches (31 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Dr. John Fothergill

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Stipple engraving in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 x 6 7/16 inches (23.6 x 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831, British
Date:: 1797
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (14 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Prospero and Miranda

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: ca. 1781
Medium:: Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Behind Middlesex Hospital

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794, Swiss
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (16.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: ca. 1781
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Near Chiavenna

Creator:: unknown artist, Monro School
Date:: ca. 1796
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 1/2in. (38.1 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. In the Via Mala, Between Coire and Splugen

Creator:: unknown artist, Monro School
Date:: ca. 1796
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 5/8 inches (38.1 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, (de Bois)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 15/16 x 12 9/16 inches (22.7 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. View of the Rhydaer

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816, British
Date:: 1777
Medium:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (29.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 x 14 3/16 inches (24 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

Creator:: Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: 1757
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on medium, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 x 14 1/16 inches (23.6 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. On the Banks of the Lago di Como

Creator:: Monro School
Date:: ca. 1796
Medium:: Watercolor, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (35.9 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A Waterfall

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Graphite, black chalk and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (22.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Waterfall at Terni

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831, British
Date:: ca. 1781
Medium:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Falls of the Reichenbach

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Pen and black ink with gray wash and green wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (24.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with drawn border
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (41.3 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802, British
Date:: ca. 1793
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches (21.7 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Fishing near a Waterfall

Creator:: unknown artist, (BQ)
Date:: 1790
Medium:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 7 5/16 inches (16.2 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

46. The Maniac

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: 1787
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 13/16 x 8 13/16 inches (19.8 x 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. John Armstrong, M.D.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: between 1760 and 1780
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches (43 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Admiral George Edgcumbe, first Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 10 7/8 inches (38.6 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1759
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (50.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 × 18 1/8 inches (63.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/16 × 17 5/16 inches (64.6 × 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

53. A Shepherdess

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/16 x 11 1/8 inches (40.8 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

54. The Purple Heron

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, gouache, and graphite, on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on card
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 11/16 × 26 9/16 inches (52.5 × 67.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. An Egyptian Vulture

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: Undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 9/16 × 26 7/16 inches (52.2 × 67.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. The Engineer

Creator:: Print made by Butler Clowes, active 1768, died 1782, British
Date:: ca. 1770
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 × 10 3/8 inches (36.4 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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

Creator:: Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: 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

58. Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Shipwreck

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1745
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. A Ship in Distress

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1745
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 13/16 inches (37.8 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1774
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 15/16 inches (28.2 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer

62. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Fields in Foreground, Town and Volcanic Mountains

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 22 1/4 inches (35.6 × 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815, British
Date:: 1795
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815, British
Date:: 1791
Medium:: 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

65. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Benjamin Wilson, 1721–1788, British
Date:: 1751
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Ships in Distress

Creator:: Richard Bernard Godfrey, 1728–op.1794, British
Date:: 1796
Medium:: Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 16 11/16 inches (30.8 x 42.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. The Good Samaritan

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1772
Medium:: Line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 22 1/2 inches (48.9 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The Fishery

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1768
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 11/16 inches (46.4 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Gulf of Naples Map

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (11.4 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Isle of Nisida

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 9 3/4 inches (12.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. The Flower Girl

Creator:: John Young, 1755–1825, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches (41 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Dr. John Fothergill

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Stipple engraving in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches (33.3 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Niobe

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

74. Peter and John Going to the Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 9/16 x 9 5/8 inches (47.1 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Three Marys Going to the Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/16 x 9 5/8 inches (46.9 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Garrick, In the Character of Abel Drugger

Creator:: Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835, British
Date:: 1825
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches (58.7 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet

Creator:: Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1753
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"

Creator:: Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811, Irish
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salomon

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 x 4 5/8 inches (9.4 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Ticket: Mr. Cox's Museum

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1772
Medium:: 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

83. The Meteor of August 18, 1783, as seen from the East Angle of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid apper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 19 inches (31.8 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Fourth Stage of Cruelty: The Reward of Cruelty

2. Operation Scene in a Hospital with Subsidiary Sketches in the Margin at the Lower Right

3. Landscape with Waterfall

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, "The Progress of Poesy."

5. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 80, "The Thunder If in That the Almighty Dwells"

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy."

7. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

8. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

9. The Damnation of Obadiah

10. Design for an Ornamental Cartouche: Samuel Garth

11. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

12. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

13. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

14. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

15. Rochester, Kent: from the North

16. The Ascent of Vesuvius

17. Oxford Physic Garden

18. Caryophyllus X. Mercurius. Plate 67 from 'Hortus Nitidissimis Omnem per Annum Superbiens Floribus', Nuremberg, 1768

19. Phalaena Aceris. Acer Rubrum (Grey Maple Moth, Red Maple), Plate 93 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797

20. Pastinaca (Parsnip), Plate 379 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737

21. The Blue Passion Flower, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, 'The Temple of Flora', London, 1799-1812

22. Phalaena Quernaria. Quercus Rubra (American Oak Beauty, Northern Red Oak), Plate 103 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797

23. Lysimachia (Loosestrife), Plate 278 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737

24. The White Lily with Variegated-Leaves, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, the 'Temple of Flora', 1799-1812

25. Distress

26. Dr. John Fothergill

27. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

28. Prospero and Miranda

29. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

30. Behind Middlesex Hospital

31. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...

32. Near Chiavenna

33. In the Via Mala, Between Coire and Splugen

34. A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

35. View of the Rhydaer

36. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

37. For Japaning, Where may be 200 Different Sorts

38. On the Banks of the Lago di Como

39. A Waterfall

40. Waterfall at Terni

41. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

42. The Falls of the Reichenbach

43. A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1

44. Pluscardine Abbey, Elgin

45. Fishing near a Waterfall

46. The Maniac

47. John Armstrong, M.D.

48. Admiral George Edgcumbe, first Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

49. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

50. A Black and White Indian Bird, (one of a pair)

51. An Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

52. Celadon and Amelia

53. A Shepherdess

54. The Purple Heron

55. An Egyptian Vulture

56. The Engineer

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

58. Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22

59. Shipwreck

60. A Ship in Distress

61. Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked

62. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Fields in Foreground, Town and Volcanic Mountains

63. Presages of the Millenium

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

65. Portrait of a Man

66. Ships in Distress

67. The Good Samaritan

68. The Fishery

69. Gulf of Naples Map

70. Isle of Nisida

71. The Flower Girl

72. Dr. John Fothergill

73. Niobe