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1. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:: 1938
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

2. The Taming of the Shrew

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:: ca. 1937
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum

3. Design for the Dust Jacket of 'Between the Acts' by Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961, British
Date:: ca. 1941
Medium:: Pen and black ink and graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (30.2 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Lucia Woods Lindley

4. An Unwritten Novel

Creator:: Print made by Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961, British
Date:: 1921
Medium:: Woodcut on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 3/4 inches (18.4 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin

5. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Pellissier & Allen, active late 19th century, British
Date:: 1900
Medium:: Photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Aeneas With The Sibyl

Creator:: Print made by Pellissier & Allen, active late 19th century, British
Date:: 1900
Medium:: Photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1990
Medium:: Composite of twenty mixed intaglio plate (various sizes): lift-ground aquatint, photogravure, drypoint, hard and soft-ground etching, burin, stipple, mezzotint, line engraving and roulette on medium, smooth, cream Hahnemuhle wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

8. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1960s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

9. Gordon Jackson and Alec Guinness in 'Wild Child'

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1967
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on glossy, resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

10. Council of Love Contact Sheet

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1970
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 12 1/8 inches (25.4 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

11. Leopold Bloom

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1983
Medium:: Soft ground etching, roulette, line engraving and aquatint on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 × 22 3/8 inches (76.2 × 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

12. Finn MacCool

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1983
Medium:: Heliogravure, lift-ground etching, spit-bite aquatint, line engraving and burnisher on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 7/8 × 22 3/8 inches (75.9 × 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

13. Bronze by Gold

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1985 to 1987
Medium:: Soft-ground etching, lift-ground aquatint, line engraving, scraper and burnisher in twenty-three colors from five plates on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

14. The Transmogrifications of Bloom

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1984 to 1985
Medium:: Soft-ground etching and aquatint on medium, smooth, white Hahnemuhle wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 5/16 inches (76 × 56.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

15. He Foresaw his Pale Body

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1990
Medium:: Heliogravure, line engraving and roulette in twenty-three colors from four plates on medium, smooth, white Zerkall wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

16. The Heaventree of Stars

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1998
Medium:: Iris print on medium, smooth, white Somerset wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (76 × 56 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

17. In Horne's House

Creator:: Print made by Richard Hamilton, 1922–2011, British
Date:: 1982
Medium:: Etching, aquatint, soft-ground etching, stipple engraving, line engraving, lift-ground, and spit-bite on medium, smooth, white Rives wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 3/4 × 22 1/8 inches (75.6 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, Yale BA 1975

18. Front of House Display, Hadrian the Seventh

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1960s
Medium:: Chromogenic color print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (34.9 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

19. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1960s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 12 inches (40.3 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

20. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:: 1960s
Medium:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/2 inches (30.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

21. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

Creator:: David Jones, 1895–1974, British
Date:: ca. 1940
Medium:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 x 19 inches (61.6 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Je Dus Voyager

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977, British
Date:: 1949
Medium:: Gouache and watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 12 1/8 inches (49.8 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

23. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977, British
Date:: 1949
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (26.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

24. Dog and the Shadow

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828, British
Date:: 1909
Medium:: Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/16 x 4 1/8 inches (8.1 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

Creator:: Roger Furse, 1903–1972, British
Date:: ca. 1952
Medium:: Graphite and pastel on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 23 1/16 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (58.6 × 40 × 2.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gregory F.W. Todd, Yale BA 1976, in memory of Joan Castle Sitwell

26. Lady MacBeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on heavy board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 3/4 × 21 inches (103.5 × 53.3 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

27. Wife of Bath's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (80 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

28. Chanticleer and Pertelote

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1970
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 × 23 3/8 inches (40.3 × 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

29. The Franklin's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

30. The Nun's Priest Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

31. Prologue

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

32. The Miller's Tale II

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1974
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/8 × 15 1/2 inches (59.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

33. The Reeve's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

34. The Squire's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

35. The Miller's Tale I

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1974
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/2 × 15 3/4 inches (59.7 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

36. The Merchant's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

37. The Shipman's Tale

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 1/2 × 23 inches (80 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

38. Unbound Facsimile Edition of William Blake's Illustrations for "The Poems of Thomas Gray"

Creator:: Print made by Trianon Press, 1917–1979, British
Date:: 1972
Medium:: Facsimile printed in color
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 13/16in. (41.9 x 32.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. First Uncorrected Proof of Arnold Fawcus's Facsimile of Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979, British
Date:: 1967
Medium:: Hand-colored collotype on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 12 7/8 inches (42.2 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Wine Drinkers

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921, British
Date:: 1904
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 3/8 inches (42.2 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

41. A Tragedy of Sophocles Performed before the Emperor Hadrian

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943, British
Date:: 1913
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slighly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 × 26 inches (64.8 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

42. The Trojan Horse

Creator:: Print made by William Walcot, 1874–1943, British
Date:: 1914
Medium:: Etching, open biting, and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 3/4 × 34 1/2 inches (70.5 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

2. The Taming of the Shrew

3. Design for the Dust Jacket of 'Between the Acts' by Virginia Woolf

4. An Unwritten Novel

5. Venus and Adonis

6. Aeneas With The Sibyl

7. How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out

8. Front of House, Hadrian the Seventh

9. Gordon Jackson and Alec Guinness in 'Wild Child'

10. Council of Love Contact Sheet

11. Leopold Bloom

12. Finn MacCool

13. Bronze by Gold

14. The Transmogrifications of Bloom

15. He Foresaw his Pale Body

16. The Heaventree of Stars

17. In Horne's House

18. Front of House Display, Hadrian the Seventh

19. Front of House, Saint Joan of the Stockyards

20. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

21. Sir Gareth and Lady Lionesse

22. Je Dus Voyager

23. Faim, Soif, Cris, Danse, Danse, Danse

24. Dog and the Shadow

25. Sketch for Costume Design of Portia in Merchant of Venice

26. Lady MacBeth

27. Wife of Bath's Tale

28. Chanticleer and Pertelote

29. The Franklin's Tale

30. The Nun's Priest Tale

31. Prologue

32. The Miller's Tale II

33. The Reeve's Tale

34. The Squire's Tale

35. The Miller's Tale I

36. The Merchant's Tale

37. The Shipman's Tale

38. Unbound Facsimile Edition of William Blake's Illustrations for "The Poems of Thomas Gray"

39. First Uncorrected Proof of Arnold Fawcus's Facsimile of Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

40. The Wine Drinkers

41. A Tragedy of Sophocles Performed before the Emperor Hadrian

42. The Trojan Horse