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1. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1787
Medium:: 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

2. Sheet of Classical Figure Studies

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

3. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

4. 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, British
Date:: ca. 1715
Medium:: 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

5. Diana

Creator:: William Taverner, 1703–1772, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Henry Holland, 1745–1806, British
Date:: ca. 1787
Medium:: 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

8. Hecate

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819, British
Date:: 1815
Medium:: 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

9. Helios

Creator:: William Pitts, 1790–1840, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: follower of Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

11. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: James Wyatt, 1746–1813, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

13. Romance

Creator:: Print made by Robert Sargent Austin, 1895–1973, British
Date:: 1922
Medium:: Etching with gouache and graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 inches (38 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

14. Fall of a City

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

16. Apollo and the Muses

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

17. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723, British
Date:: 1723
Medium:: 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

18. The Birth of Venus

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

19. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

Creator:: John Sanderson, active 1730; died 1774, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

21. An Allegory of Love

Creator:: Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1734–1808, British
Date:: Undated
Medium:: 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

22. Cassandra

Creator:: Print made by Reg Butler, 1913–1981, British
Date:: 1952
Medium:: Lithograph with crayon on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches (38 x 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Minotaur

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903, American, active in Britain (from 1859)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 5/8 inches (22.5 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

24. 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, Irish
Date:: 1847
Medium:: 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

25. 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, Irish
Date:: 1847
Medium:: 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

26. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1799
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (14.6 x 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Bluebeard Giving the Keys to Fatima

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Doyle, 1824–1883, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (21.6 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Classical Figures in Battle

Creator:: Attributed to Mauritius Lowe, 1746–1793, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (26.7 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert

29. Design for an Engraving: Battle of Troy with the Trojan Horse

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, red chalk, graphite, watercolor and gold leaf on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink, border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 1/8 × 11 inches (30.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786, British
Date:: 1751
Medium:: 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

31. Telemachus and Mentor

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:: 1847
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:: 1847
Medium:: 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

33. The Centaur Nessus Carrying off Deianira

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:: 1847
Medium:: 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

34. The Fates

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:: 1847
Medium:: 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

35. The Harpies Attacking the Daughters of Pandarus

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:: 1848
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: 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

37. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1799
Medium:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 9/16 inches (10.8 × 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898, British
Date:: ca. 1870
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache and pastel on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/8 x 19 inches (70.2 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund

39. Study for Bacchanal

Creator:: Giulio Aristide Sartorio, 1860–1932, Italian
Date:: ca. 1894
Medium:: Pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (21 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

40. Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (22.2 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

41. Cupid Overpowering a Satyr

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches (27.6 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

42. Venus and Mars

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches (22.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Design for Ceiling

Creator:: Sir William Chambers, 1723–1796, British
Date:: ca. 1765
Medium:: Pen and black and brown ink, watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 9 3/8 inches (33 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Britannia Allegory

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810, British
Date:: between 1743 and 1747
Medium:: 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

45. Benjamin West, P.R.A.

Creator:: James Fittler, 1758–1835, British
Date:: 1817
Medium:: 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

46. Hope Nursing Love

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: 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

47. David Hume

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Collyer, 1748–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

48. Putto Holding a Torch

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Fuller, 1606/20–1672, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 4 inches (11.4 × 10.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Studies for a Hand in The Godhead Fires

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

50. Venus, after Masters of Tarrochi

Creator:: Print made by Arthur Burgess, 1844–1886
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: 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

52. Sylvio and Dorinda

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:: between 1752 and 1768
Medium:: 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

53. Cupid and Psyche

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1784
Medium:: 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

54. Vertumnus et Pomona

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

55. Elijah Casting off His Mantle

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

56. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690, Dutch
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Medium:: 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

57. Sylvio and Dorinda

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:: between 1680 and 1703
Medium:: 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

58. Mercury

Creator:: Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British
Date:: 1777
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: 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

64. Miss Ann Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811, British
Date:: 1777
Medium:: 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

65. Cupid's Tent

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Beckett, 1652/3–1719, British
Date:: 1680s
Medium:: 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

66. Aeneas Entering Hades

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690, Dutch
Date:: between 1675 and 1680
Medium:: 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

67. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690, Dutch
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Medium:: 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

68. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, seventeenth century-eighteenth century
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

69. Lucretia Romana

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, (?), ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:: between 1678 and 1717
Medium:: 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

70. Vertumnus and Pomonae

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Medium:: 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

71. Vertumnus and Pomonae

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Medium:: 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

72. Augustus

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737, Dutch
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

73. Intemperance

Creator:: Print made by Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804–1866, French
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

74. Charon's Boat

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895, British
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Medium:: 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

75. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Medium:: 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

76. Silenus

Creator:: Print made by Robert Blyth, 1750–1784
Date:: 1779
Medium:: 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

77. A Mythological Battle

Creator:: George C. Finden, 1811–1885, British
Date:: 1853
Medium:: 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

78. Rinaldo and Armida

Creator:: Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1775
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815, British
Date:: 1789
Medium:: 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

80. Vulcan's Forge

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1802
Medium:: 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

81. Flora

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

82. The Satyrs

Creator:: Stephen Frederick Gooden, 1892–1955, British
Date:: 1937
Medium:: 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

83. 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, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1720
Medium:: 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

84. Cephalus and Procris

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: 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

85. Paris and Oenone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1780
Medium:: 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

86. Venus Chiding Cupid

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1784
Medium:: 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

87. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

Creator:: Henry Heath, active 1824–1835, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

88. Mrs. Abington as Thalia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: ca. 1783
Medium:: 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

89. Tancred and Clorinda

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1785
Medium:: 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

90. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1799
Medium:: 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

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

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810, British
Date:: 1749
Medium:: 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

92. Statue of Achilles in Hyde Park

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857, British
Date:: 1827
Medium:: 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

93. Ceyx and Alcyone

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1769
Medium:: 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

94. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1804
Medium:: 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

95. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1782
Medium:: 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

96. Cleone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1784
Medium:: 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

97. 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

98. At Rome

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801, Italian, active in Britain
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

99. At the City of Albano

Creator:: Print made by Placido Columbani, born ca. 1744, active 1801, Italian, active in Britain
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

100. [One of] 25 drawings and prints for ceilings

Creator:: George Richardson, ca.1738–ca.1813, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (42.9 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

2. Sheet of Classical Figure Studies

3. Design for a Ceiling

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

5. Diana

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

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

8. Hecate

9. Helios

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

11. Design for a Ceiling

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

13. Romance

14. Fall of a City

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

16. Apollo and the Muses

17. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

18. The Birth of Venus

19. [One of] Five Ceiling Designs

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

21. An Allegory of Love

22. Cassandra

23. Minotaur

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

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

26. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

27. Bluebeard Giving the Keys to Fatima

28. Classical Figures in Battle

29. Design for an Engraving: Battle of Troy with the Trojan Horse

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

31. Telemachus and Mentor

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

33. The Centaur Nessus Carrying off Deianira

34. The Fates

35. The Harpies Attacking the Daughters of Pandarus

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

37. Ticket: For the Benefit of Mr. Salpietro

38. Cupid and Psyche

39. Study for Bacchanal

40. Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ

41. Cupid Overpowering a Satyr

42. Venus and Mars

43. Design for Ceiling

44. Britannia Allegory

45. Benjamin West, P.R.A.

46. Hope Nursing Love

47. David Hume

48. Putto Holding a Torch

49. Studies for a Hand in The Godhead Fires

50. Venus, after Masters of Tarrochi

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

52. Sylvio and Dorinda

53. Cupid and Psyche

54. Vertumnus et Pomona

55. Elijah Casting off His Mantle

56. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

57. Sylvio and Dorinda

58. Mercury

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

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

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

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

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

64. Miss Ann Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne

65. Cupid's Tent

66. Aeneas Entering Hades

67. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

68. Lucretia Romana

69. Lucretia Romana

70. Vertumnus and Pomonae

71. Vertumnus and Pomonae

72. Augustus

73. Intemperance

74. Charon's Boat