Period: 18th century / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: nude

1. The Good Samaritan

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Date:: between 1751 and 1752
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 78 1/2 × 48 1/2 inches (199.4 × 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:: 1783
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: ca. 1718
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Cymon and Iphigenia

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: ca. 1766
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 32 1/2 inches (61.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 9 7/8 inches (30.5 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. A Leeward Islands Carib family outside a Hut

Creator:: Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (30.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Bathing Place at Ramsgate

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: ca. 1788
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 x 17 1/2 inches (35.6 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Dido

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 3/16 × 72 3/16 inches (244.3 × 183.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: ca. 1720
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Allegory of Fortune

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729)
Date:: ca. 1730
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Venus

Creator:: Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British
Date:: 1770s
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (20.6 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Adonis

Creator:: Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British
Date:: 1770s
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (20.6 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Cleopatra

Creator:: Peter Gaspar Scheemakers, 1691–1781, Flemish, active in Britain (from ca. 1720)
Date:: ca. 1723
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 12 x 28 x 11 1/4 inches (30.5 x 71.1 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Ariadne

Creator:: Laurent Delvaux, 1696–1778, Belgian
Date:: ca. 1723
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 13 × 28 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (33 × 71.8 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Omphale

Creator:: Joseph Wilton, 1722–1803, British
Date:: 1770s
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 22 x 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (55.9 x 44.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

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

18. Sacrifice to Hercules

Creator:: Gaspar van der Hagen, active 1747–died 1769, Flemish, active in Britain (from ca. 1744)
Date:: ca. 1766
Medium:: Marble relief
Dimensions:: Overall: 24 x 28 15/16 inches (61 x 73.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and a Gift from the Parnassus Foundation, Courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

19. Study of a Female Nude

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (26 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Back View of a Standing Classical Male Figure

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite; verso: pen and brownk ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 10 3/8 inches (50.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

21. The Witches' Cavern

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: between 1792 and 1793
Medium:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 3/16 inches (14.3 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

22. Reclining Nude

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 18 inches (26.7 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

23. Howard Visiting a Prison

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and gray ink over graphite on medium moderately textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches (36.5 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

24. Seated Female Nude

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (11.4 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

25. Reclining Figure

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 2 7/8 inches (7.6 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

26. Seated Female Nude, Probably for "Susannah and the Elders"

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (13 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

27. The Bath of Bath-sheba

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 9 inches (27.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Seated Nude Woman (Hygeia at Doctor Graham's)

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (15.9 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

29. Pharmarus and Kunaza

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (11.1 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

30. Charity

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 3 5/8 inches (15.2 x 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

31. Classical Male Nude with a Rearing Horse

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink with graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (45.4 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

32. Classical Male Nude

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite; verso: gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 8 1/4 inches (50.8 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

33. Ladies in Waiting

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (12.7 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

34. Achilles Wounded

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches (42.5 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Borghese Gladiator

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown ink over graphite, verso: graphite, black ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches (41.9 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

36. Standing Male Nude

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (49.2 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, Yale BA 1938

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

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

38. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1789-1794
Medium:: Relief etching printed in dark-brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

40. 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

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

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

42. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold Him, When Past by; What Then Is Seen"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 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

43. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 3, "I Man cannot naturally . . . ." (Bentley a4)

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

44. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 88, "But for the Blessing Wrestle Not with Heaven"

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

45. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That Touch, with Charm Celestial Heals the Soul"

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

46. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 1, "The Pindaric Genius Receiving His Lyre"

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

47. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 3, "Ode on the Spring."

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

48. 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

49. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 5, "Ode on the Spring."

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

50. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, on Time, Death and Friendship"

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

51. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 19, "Emblem of That Which Shall Awake the Dead"

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

52. Songs of Innocence, Plate 8, "The Lamb" (Bentley 8)

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

53. The Book of Thel, Plate 2, Title Page

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

54. Songs of Innocence, Plate 26, "Spring" (Bentley 23)

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

55. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If Angels Tremble, 'Tis at Such a Sight"

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

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

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

57. 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

58. 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

59. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

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

60. The West India Washer-Women

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: 1779
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 13 1/8 inches (50.4 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. 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

62. Study of the Hermaphrodite

Creator:: John Brown, 1749–1787, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (13.7 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723, British
Date:: ca. 1723
Medium:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches (11 x 9.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

64. Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723, British
Date:: ca. 1723
Medium:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 11/16 x 8 3/4 inches (14.5 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

65. Anna lamenting the absence of Tobias (Tobit 10:7)

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723, British
Date:: 1723
Medium:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 5/8in. (12.4 x 11.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Design for Ceiling Walls and Staircase

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: between 1712 and 1713
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches (38.7 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740, British
Date:: 1720
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache heightened with gold on vellum
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 1/4 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (43.8 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. Michael Rysbrack

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (30.1 x 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Standing Classical Male Figure with Spear

Creator:: John Opie, 1761–1807, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black and red chalk with touches of white chalk on thin, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 11 1/2in. (45.7 x 29.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert B. Simon

70. Standing Classical Female Figure

Creator:: John Opie, 1761–1807, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk, white chalk, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 9 1/8in. (46 x 23.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert B. Simon

71. Study of Classical Figures

Creator:: attributed to Mauritius Lowe, 1746–1793, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches (27.6 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert

72. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

Creator:: Carington Bowles, 1724–1793, British
Date:: 1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

73. An Academy

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: ca. 1773
Medium:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches (31.4 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

74. Reclining Female Nude

Creator:: John Opie, 1761–1807, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 16 3/4in. (29.5 x 42.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert B. Simon

75. Illustration from Orlando Furioso: "Che deb'bo sar? che poss'io sar qui sola? / che mi da ajuto, oime, che mi consola?"

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1773
Medium:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. 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

77. William Dodd, L. L. D.

Creator:: John Goldar, 1729–1795, British
Date:: between 1775 and 1795
Medium:: Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 3 15/16 inches (17.1 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

78. David Garrick, Esq.

Creator:: Print made by John Hall, 1739–1797, British
Date:: 1773
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 3 7/16 inches (15.9 × 8.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

79. Seated Male Nude

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739, British
Date:: 1738
Medium:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 3/16 inches (35.9 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Fry Print Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale University Medical Library

80. Miss Cabben

Creator:: Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813, British
Date:: 1770
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 15/16 inches (37.7 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

81. Susanna and the Elders

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1769
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 14 3/16 inches (45.9 x 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

82. The Exposition of Cyrus

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 15 1/4 inches (30.3 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

83. Geography

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

84. Cupid in the Character of Bacchus

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: 1739
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 7/16 inches (39.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

85. Virgin and Child

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822, British
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches (44.1 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

86. 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

87. Bookplate: The Spalding Gentlemen's Society

Creator:: Print made by George Vertue, 1684–1756, British
Date:: 1746
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/16 × 6 3/4 inches (12.9 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

88. Bookplate: The Spalding Gentlemen's Society

Creator:: Print made by George Vertue, 1684–1756, British
Date:: 1746
Medium:: Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line engravng on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 11/16 inches (13 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

89. La galante fille

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 11/16 x 15 9/16 inches (47.4 x 39.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

90. Belinda

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811, British
Date:: 1777
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/16 x 12 5/16 inches (41.4 x 31.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

91. The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl

Creator:: Print made by Agostino Brunias, 1728–1796, Italian, active in Britain (1758–70; 1777-80s)
Date:: 1779
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 12 5/8 inches (49.7 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. 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

93. Annabella, Lady Blake, as Juno, Receiving the Cestus from Venus

Creator:: John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818, British
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 16 7/8 inches (63.8 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. 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

95. The Pool of Bethesda

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 3/8 x 22 5/8 inches (49.2 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. 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

97. The Ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733, French, active in Britain
Date:: ca. 1720
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 18 5/16 inches (31.6 × 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. The Body of Lucretia Exposed to the Romans

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784, British
Date:: between 1777 and 1778
Medium:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 x 37 inches (63.2 x 94 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

99. 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

100. Imogen's Bedchamber in Cymbeline's Palace, 'Cymbeline,' Act II, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 16 3/4 inches (32.5 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Good Samaritan

2. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

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

4. Cymon and Iphigenia

5. West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child

6. A Leeward Islands Carib family outside a Hut

7. Arches of Westminster Bridge

8. The Bathing Place at Ramsgate

9. Dido

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

11. Allegory of Fortune

12. Venus

13. Adonis

14. Cleopatra

15. Ariadne

16. Omphale

17. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

18. Sacrifice to Hercules

19. Study of a Female Nude

20. Back View of a Standing Classical Male Figure

21. The Witches' Cavern

22. Reclining Nude

23. Howard Visiting a Prison

24. Seated Female Nude

25. Reclining Figure

26. Seated Female Nude, Probably for "Susannah and the Elders"

27. The Bath of Bath-sheba

28. Seated Nude Woman (Hygeia at Doctor Graham's)

29. Pharmarus and Kunaza

30. Charity

31. Classical Male Nude with a Rearing Horse

32. Classical Male Nude

33. Ladies in Waiting

34. Achilles Wounded

35. Borghese Gladiator

36. Standing Male Nude

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

38. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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

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

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

42. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 25, "Behold Him, When Past by; What Then Is Seen"

43. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 3, "I Man cannot naturally . . . ." (Bentley a4)

44. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 88, "But for the Blessing Wrestle Not with Heaven"

45. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 90, "That Touch, with Charm Celestial Heals the Soul"

46. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 1, "The Pindaric Genius Receiving His Lyre"

47. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 3, "Ode on the Spring."

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

49. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 5, "Ode on the Spring."

50. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 17, "Night the Second, on Time, Death and Friendship"

51. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 19, "Emblem of That Which Shall Awake the Dead"

52. Songs of Innocence, Plate 8, "The Lamb" (Bentley 8)

53. The Book of Thel, Plate 2, Title Page

54. Songs of Innocence, Plate 26, "Spring" (Bentley 23)

55. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 93, "If Angels Tremble, 'Tis at Such a Sight"

56. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 95, "The Goddess Bursts in Thunder and in Flame"

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

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

59. Young's Night Thoughts, Page 70, "'Till Death, That Mighty Hunter, Earths Them All"

60. The West India Washer-Women

61. The Mighty Mother Sails Through the Air

62. Study of the Hermaphrodite

63. Jupiter and Callisto: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 2

64. Ceres and Abas: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5

65. Anna lamenting the absence of Tobias (Tobit 10:7)

66. Design for Ceiling Walls and Staircase

67. Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace

68. Michael Rysbrack

69. Standing Classical Male Figure with Spear

70. Standing Classical Female Figure

71. Study of Classical Figures

72. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

73. An Academy