Period: 18th century / Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: clouds

1. Jacob's Dream

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: 1705
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (163.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Angel Binding Satan

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (45.1 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches (36 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Louis Laguerre, 1663–1721, French, active in Britain (from ca. 1684)
Date:: ca. 1704
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/8 x 30 inches (107 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

Creator:: Attributed to Michael Chuke, 1679–1742, British
Date:: ca. 1715
Medium:: Bronzed limewood
Dimensions:: Overall: 54 5/16 x 37 13/16 inches (138 x 96 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Tail Piece, or the Bathos

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: 1764
Medium:: Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (31.4 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

7. 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

8. Moses Receiving the Law

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. America. A Prophecy, Plate 13, "Fiery the Angels Rose...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 24, "Time, in Advance, behind Him Hides His Wings"

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

15. America. A Prophecy, Plate 1, Frontispiece

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. America. A Prophecy, Plate 10, "The Terror Answered...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in green-black ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. America. A Prophecy, Plate 16, "In the Flames Stood...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in green-black ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. America. A Prophecy, Plate 2, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "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

20. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 95, "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

21. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 59, "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

22. America. A Prophecy, Plate 6, "Appear to the Americans...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. America. A Prophecy, Plate 8, "The Morning Comes...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in green-black ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 86, "His Hand the Good Man Fastens on the Skies"

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

25. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

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

26. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

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

27. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 49, "As If the Sun Could Envy, Check'd His Beam"

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

28. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun Beheld it -- No, the Shocking Scene"

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

29. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

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

30. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

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

31. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 16, "Two Nostrils Bent Down to the Deep...." (Bentley 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 4, "Unwilling I look up . . . . " (Bentley 5)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper inlaid to size
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Albions Angel rose . . . . " (Bentley 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 6, "The shrill winds wake . . . . " (Bentley 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 9, "Arise O Rintrah . . . ." (Bentley 11)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Sketch for the Oil Painting "The Conversion of St. Paul"

Creator:: unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brushed black ink, gray wash and gouache on medium, moderately textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (44.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Design for a Ceiling

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (22.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 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

40. Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723, British
Date:: 1723
Medium:: Gray wash, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 5 inches (12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. 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

42. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Medium:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (one of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Medium:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. 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

45. Winchester Cross

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Powell, 1780–1834, British
Date:: 1800
Medium:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 10 1/2 inches (37.1 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Drawing after The Transfiguration

Creator:: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830, British
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Pastel on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 46 1/4 x 29 inches (117.5 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. A Scene on Mount Olympus

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1720)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4in. (21 x 28.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: before 1791
Medium:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 5 11/16 inches (22.2 × 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Triumph of Galatea

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, 1652–1743, British
Date:: 1701
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 9 7/8 inches (43.2 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobé, 1733–1797, Austrian
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 × 21 1/4 inches (71.1 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

51. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (61.6 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Hebe

Creator:: Print made by Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 3/4 × 15 5/8 inches (62.9 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. The Calling of Samuel

Creator:: Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: Mezzotint (second state) on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/16 × 12 3/16 inches (41.4 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

54. Guardian Angels

Creator:: Print made by Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Mezzotint (second state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (54.6 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. The Infant Jupiter

Creator:: Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812, British
Date:: 1775
Medium:: Mezzotint (third state) on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 14 15/16 inches (53 × 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

56. Sisters Contemplating on Mortality

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811, British
Date:: 1770
Medium:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 14 1/4 inches (50.8 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) Countess of Castlemaine

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 11/16 × 13 1/16 inches (42.4 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Angel Contemplating the Mystery of the Cross

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 24 3/4 inches (50.5 × 62.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Part of Clouds From the Nativity Scene

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/16 × 18 7/16 inches (58.6 × 46.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Adoration of the Shepherds, From the Nativity Scene

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 15/16 × 18 1/8 inches (68.4 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Juno

Creator:: Print made by Alexander van Haecken, 1701–1758, Flemish
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (25.1 × 17.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

62. Mrs. Blake as Juno

Creator:: Print made by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811, Irish
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Mezzotint (third state) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 26 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (67.3 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

63. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823, British
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint (first state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 × 15 inches (52.4 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

64. Mary Hale (née Chaloner) as Euphrosyne in 'L'Allegro'

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790, British
Date:: between 1762 and 1764
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 3/8 × 17 3/4 inches (67 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

65. Mrs. Jordan in the Character of the Comic Muse

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Park, ca. 1760–1834, British
Date:: 1787
Medium:: handcolored, mezzotint (second state) on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 7/16 × 17 7/8 inches (69.7 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Miss Elliot

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 × 15 5/8 inches (63.5 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. Fortune

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: 1796
Medium:: Mezzotint with drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (40.3 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. Mrs. Sophia (née Heywood) Musters as Hebe

Creator:: Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/4 × 15 1/16 inches (60.3 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Temperance

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/16 inches (63.7 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Clouds, Part of the Nativity Scene

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/16 × 18 1/16 inches (58.9 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Justice

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/16 inches (63.7 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Faith

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. The Virgin in the Clouds and Six Saints

Creator:: Print made by John Baptist Jackson, 1701–1780, British
Date:: 1742
Medium:: Chiaroscuro woodcut
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Ralph Kirkpatrick, Yale MA (HON.) 1965

74. Venus Childing Cupid

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 × 12 7/8 inches (43.3 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Hope

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 3/8 inches (63.8 × 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Juvenis auscultans seni de divinis admonenti

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1764
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (46.6 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Atalanta and Hippomanes

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1763
Medium:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 11/16 x 11 5/16 inches (42.4 x 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. 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

79. 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

80. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: before 1791
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 7 3/8 inches (22.3 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. St. Cecilia

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (30.8 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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

85. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: Pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (62.5 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter

Creator:: Print made by Luke Sullivan, 1705–1771, British
Date:: 1752
Medium:: Line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 20 5/8 inches (42.2 × 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

87. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire as 'Cynthia'

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 9/16 × 16 5/16 inches (65 × 41.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Jacob's Dream

2. The Angel Binding Satan

3. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

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

5. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

6. Tail Piece, or the Bathos

7. Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos

8. Moses Receiving the Law

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

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

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

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

13. America. A Prophecy, Plate 13, "Fiery the Angels Rose...."

14. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 24, "Time, in Advance, behind Him Hides His Wings"

15. America. A Prophecy, Plate 1, Frontispiece

16. America. A Prophecy, Plate 10, "The Terror Answered...."

17. America. A Prophecy, Plate 16, "In the Flames Stood...."

18. America. A Prophecy, Plate 2, Title Page

19. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "The Bard."

20. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 95, "Ode for Music."

21. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 59, "The Bard."

22. America. A Prophecy, Plate 6, "Appear to the Americans...."

23. America. A Prophecy, Plate 8, "The Morning Comes...."

24. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 86, "His Hand the Good Man Fastens on the Skies"

25. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 35, "Teaching, We Learn; and Giving, We Retain"

26. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 41, "One Radiant Mark; the Deathbed of the Just"

27. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 49, "As If the Sun Could Envy, Check'd His Beam"

28. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 75, "The Sun Beheld it -- No, the Shocking Scene"

29. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 65, Night the Fourth, "The Christian Triumph."

30. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 1, "Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe"

31. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 16, "Two Nostrils Bent Down to the Deep...." (Bentley 13)

32. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 4, "Unwilling I look up . . . . " (Bentley 5)

33. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Albions Angel rose . . . . " (Bentley 14)

34. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 6, "The shrill winds wake . . . . " (Bentley 7)

35. Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 9, "Arise O Rintrah . . . ." (Bentley 11)

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

37. Sketch for the Oil Painting "The Conversion of St. Paul"

38. Design for a Ceiling

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

40. Design for a Ceiling Decoration

41. Illustration to Homer's Iliad

42. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

43. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (one of four)

44. The Birth of Venus

45. Winchester Cross

46. Drawing after The Transfiguration

47. A Scene on Mount Olympus

48. Ticket to Westminster Abbey

49. The Triumph of Galatea

50. Hebe

51. Hebe

52. Hebe

53. The Calling of Samuel

54. Guardian Angels

55. The Infant Jupiter

56. Sisters Contemplating on Mortality

57. Barbara Palmer (née Villiers) Countess of Castlemaine

58. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Angel Contemplating the Mystery of the Cross

59. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Part of Clouds From the Nativity Scene

60. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Adoration of the Shepherds, From the Nativity Scene

61. Juno

62. Mrs. Blake as Juno

63. Mrs. Sheridan as 'St. Cecilia'

64. Mary Hale (née Chaloner) as Euphrosyne in 'L'Allegro'

65. Mrs. Jordan in the Character of the Comic Muse

66. Miss Elliot

67. Fortune

68. Mrs. Sophia (née Heywood) Musters as Hebe

69. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Temperance

70. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford, Clouds, Part of the Nativity Scene

71. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Justice

72. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Faith

73. The Virgin in the Clouds and Six Saints