Genre: literary theme / Height [cm]: 18 - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Dr. Syntax: On a Horse, Jumping a Gate

Creator:: Derby porcelain factory, founded 1756, British
Date:: ca. 1810
Medium:: Derby figure
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7in. (17.8cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 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

3. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1920
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed in brown ink by Sir Frank Short) on thin, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 10 1/2 inches (17.6 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1926
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed under the supervision of Sir Frank Short, Martin Hardie and Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1926) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 9/16 inches (18.4 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1819
Medium:: Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 17 inches (28.9 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Engraver's proof (f) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 inches (29.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1811
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Second published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 15 5/8 inches (27.9 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Etched and engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1819
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 1/4 inches (17.8 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1811
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 7/8 inches (29.2 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: ca. 1822
Medium:: White-line metal cut engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 1/8 inches (17.8 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 32, Experience Frontispiece (Bentley 28)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. William Cowper

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1803-1804
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791–1873, British
Date:: 1864
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Finished state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 inches (34 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Gulliver Bound by the Lilliputians

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, rough, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (17.5 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Scene from Quentin Durward

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British
Date:: 1833
Medium:: Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Voyage of Discovery

Creator:: William Finden, 1787–1852, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 9/16 inches (43.5 × 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Murder of Banquo

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833, British
Date:: ca. 1830
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Loch Lomond

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving, early engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 6 3/4 inches (21.9 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Jane Shore

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1790
Medium:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (18.1 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Carlisle

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving; touched engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 inches (18.4 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Hudibras and Rolpho

Creator:: unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 6 inches (17.5 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Scene in Ancient Rome: A Setting for Titus Andronicus, I, ii

Creator:: Joseph Michael Gandy, 1771–1843, British
Date:: ca. 1830
Medium:: Graphite, watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 1/2in. (18.4 x 29.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary mount paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (16.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 4, Scene 1

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, watercolor, heightened with gouache on thin wove paper stained for tracing, laid down on contemporary wove paper mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 inches (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 inches (18.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (21.8 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

29. Audacity of Jack Sheppard

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 15/16 inches (22.2 x 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

30. Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 9/16 inches (21.4 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

31. Jonathan Wild Seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church Yard

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 7 5/16 inches (21.5 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

32. The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 inches (21.8 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

33. Mr. Wood Offers to Adopt Little Jack Sheppard

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 7 7/16 inches (22 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

34. The Murder on the Thames

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (23 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

35. Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 15/16 inches (21 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

36. Jack Sheppard's Escape from the Cage at Willesden

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 7 3/16 inches (21.9 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

37. Jack Sheppard Accuses Thames Darrell of the Theft

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches (22.5 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

38. Jack Sheppard's Irons Knocked off in the Stone Hall at Newgate

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 3/16 inches (21.7 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

39. Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 1/16 inches (21.7 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

40. "May I be Cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard, "if ever I try to be honest again!"

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (21.6 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

41. Jonathan Wild Throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard Down the Well-Hole

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.9 x 19 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

42. The Name on the Beams

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches (21 x 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

43. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Woods Bedroom

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 3/8 inches (21.8 x 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

44. Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878, British
Date:: 1839
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (21 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

45. Loch Katrine

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving; touched engraver's proof with chine-collé on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 9 1/2 inches (17.8 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Theatrical Scene

Creator:: Nathaniel Dance, 1735–1811, British
Date:: after 1804
Medium:: Watercolor, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches (18.4 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 13 inches (17.8 x 33 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

48. Sigismunda

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black wash, graphite and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (18.4 × 23.8 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

49. David Garrick Esq.

Creator:: Samuel Freeman, 1773–1857, British
Date:: 1807
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (27.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Mrs. Robinson

Creator:: Print made by William Birch, 1755–1834, British
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Stipple engraving and acquatint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 5 7/16 inches (17.8 × 13.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Falstaff and his Friends

Creator:: William Greatbach, Born 1802, British
Date:: ca. 1868
Medium:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 inches (22.5 × 28 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Illustration for Don Quixote, Two Figures at a Table

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Oil on wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 3 1/2in. (7.6 x 8.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Skiddaw

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (18.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Designs for Illustrations to Beethoven's Works

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (18.1 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

55. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945, British
Date:: 1896
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (31.1 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Skech for Timon of Athens

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/8 × 9 7/16 inches (13 × 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: 1825
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 5/16 inches (17.7 x 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1627
Medium:: Engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 1/4 inches (17.9 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The Bright Stone of Honour - from LXV - 'The Turner Gallery'

Creator:: Print made by John Cousen, 1804–1880, British
Date:: between 1859 and 1879
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (29.2 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Little Red Riding Hood

Creator:: Print made by imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867, British
Date:: after 1856
Medium:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut done by Le Blond & Co. on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 5 1/8 inches (17.9 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Allegorical Sketch of Victory

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (18.4 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Nathan the Wise

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921, British
Date:: 1893
Medium:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 4 3/8 inches (17.5 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

63. Dido and Aeneas

Creator:: Print made by James T. Willmore, 1800–1863, British
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 inches (23.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870, British
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 inches (23.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Figure Studies for "The Tempest"

Creator:: unknown artist
Medium:: Graphite on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth

66. Hearing the Music of the Spheres

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849, British
Date:: ca. 1831
Medium:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 7 5/16in. (17.6 x 18.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

67. William the Conqueror

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921, British
Date:: 1900
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.8 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood

68. The Mutiny of the Mavericks

Creator:: Print made by William Strang, 1859–1921, British
Date:: 1900
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 8 inches (23.2 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Dr. Harrison Wood

69. Aesacus and Hesperie

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945, British
Date:: 1896
Medium:: Mezzotint printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (31.1 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. 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

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1. Dr. Syntax: On a Horse, Jumping a Gate

2. An Unwritten Novel

3. Opening the Fold

4. Opening the Fold

5. Aesacus and Hesperie

6. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

7. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

8. Aesacus and Hesperie

9. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

10. From Spenser's Fairy Queen

11. The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour

12. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 32, Experience Frontispiece (Bentley 28)

13. William Cowper

14. Procris and Cephalus

15. Gulliver Bound by the Lilliputians

16. Scene from Quentin Durward

17. A Voyage of Discovery

18. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

19. The Murder of Banquo

20. Loch Lomond

21. Jane Shore

22. Carlisle

23. Hudibras and Rolpho

24. A Scene in Ancient Rome: A Setting for Titus Andronicus, I, ii

25. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre, March 12, 1857 - Act 5, Scene 2

26. Design for Setting of Charles Kean's Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857, Act 4, Scene 1

27. To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

28. Jack Sheppard Committing the Robbery in Willesden Church

29. Audacity of Jack Sheppard

30. Jack Sheppard Tricking Shotbolt, the Gaoler

31. Jonathan Wild Seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church Yard

32. The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'

33. Mr. Wood Offers to Adopt Little Jack Sheppard

34. The Murder on the Thames

35. Mrs. Sheppard Expostulating with her Son

36. Jack Sheppard's Escape from the Cage at Willesden

37. Jack Sheppard Accuses Thames Darrell of the Theft

38. Jack Sheppard's Irons Knocked off in the Stone Hall at Newgate

39. Jack Sheppard Exhibits a Vindictive Character

40. "May I be Cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard, "if ever I try to be honest again!"

41. Jonathan Wild Throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard Down the Well-Hole

42. The Name on the Beams

43. Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Woods Bedroom

44. Jack Sheppard Gets Drunk and Orders his Mother off

45. Loch Katrine

46. Theatrical Scene

47. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

48. Sigismunda

49. David Garrick Esq.

50. Mrs. Robinson

51. Falstaff and his Friends

52. Illustration for Don Quixote, Two Figures at a Table

53. Skiddaw

54. Designs for Illustrations to Beethoven's Works

55. Aesacus and Hesperie

56. Skech for Timon of Athens

57. Lady Mortimer's Welsh Song

58. Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban

59. The Bright Stone of Honour - from LXV - 'The Turner Gallery'

60. Little Red Riding Hood

61. Allegorical Sketch of Victory

62. Nathan the Wise

63. Dido and Aeneas

64. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

65. Figure Studies for "The Tempest"

66. Hearing the Music of the Spheres

67. William the Conqueror

68. The Mutiny of the Mavericks

69. Aesacus and Hesperie

70. The Wine Drinkers