Genre: literary theme / Height [cm]: 28 / Subject Terms: literary theme

1. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. I, Chap. VIII: Dining in the Hayfields' (Surprised by Mr. Thornhill's Chaplain)

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Bellman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1879
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 x 16 7/8 inches (28.4 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. 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 on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/4 inches (28.3 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.3 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Battle of the Cataplasm

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811, British
Date:: between 1773 and 1817
Medium:: Hand-colored etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 17 3/4 inches (28.2 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Alcibiades and Timon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 10 5/16 inches (28.1 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Study for 'Finding of the Body of Bassanio'

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1804
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 inches (30.8 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. St. Cecilia

Creator:: James Henry Watt, 1799–1867, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine-collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 13/16 inches (44 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (36.8 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving, open etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (36.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Arviragus, Bearing Imogen as Dead in his Arms, 'Cymbeline', Act IV, Scene II

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Watercolor with brown ink and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 5/8 x 16 9/16 inches (37.1 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving, engraver's proof (early) on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 6 3/4 inches (30.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Boy of Egremond

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 1/16 inches (38.7 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

Creator:: Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796, British, born in Scotland
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (28.3 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

20. Junction of the Greta and the Tees

Creator:: Print made by John Pye, 1782–1874, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Etching; open etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. John Henderson as Iago

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 1/16 inches (27.5 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 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

23. Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head

Creator:: William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829, British
Date:: ca. 1820
Medium:: Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 15/16 inches (28.1 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. The Princes in the Tower

Creator:: William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829, British
Date:: ca. 1820
Medium:: Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (27.5 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1771
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

26. Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: 1739
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 inches (27.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. A Great Actor between Tragedy and Comedy

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 x 16 5/16 inches (28.4 x 41.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Come Gentle Night: "Romeo and Juliet," Act III, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by James H. Baker, born 1829
Date:: between 1839 and 1849
Medium:: Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches (28.2 x 21.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. "Antony and Cleopatra," Act III, Scene XI

Creator:: Georg Goldberg, 1830–1894, German
Date:: undated
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/16 inches (28.2 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. The Damnation of Obadiah

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811, British
Date:: between 1773 and 1817
Medium:: Hand-colored etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 17 1/2 inches (27.5 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Tempest

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:: 1821
Medium:: Line engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7 1/2 inches (27.9 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Tancred and Clorinda

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 9 3/16 inches (28.3 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. John Henderson as Iago

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: before 1786
Medium:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 inches (27.8 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Ophelia: There's Rue for You, and Here's Some for Me

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 9/16 inches (27.9 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 16 inches (40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 14 inches (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Day of Judgment

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (50.2 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Christ Descending into the Grave

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 13 3/4 inches (49.5 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (51.4 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening thou Bringest All)

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1802
Medium:: Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 12 1/2 inches (22.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Pan and Syrinx, No. 2

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945, British
Date:: 1896
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink, with gouache; touched proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 15 inches (27.6 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell

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1. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

2. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. I, Chap. VIII: Dining in the Hayfields' (Surprised by Mr. Thornhill's Chaplain)

3. The Bellman

4. The Cypress Grove

5. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

6. Procris and Cephalus

7. The Battle of the Cataplasm

8. Alcibiades and Timon

9. Study for 'Finding of the Body of Bassanio'

10. St. Cecilia

11. St. Herbert's Chapel

12. Bolton Abbey

13. St. Herbert's Chapel

14. Bolton Abbey

15. St. Herbert's Chapel

16. Arviragus, Bearing Imogen as Dead in his Arms, 'Cymbeline', Act IV, Scene II

17. Bolton Abbey

18. The Boy of Egremond

19. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

20. Junction of the Greta and the Tees

21. John Henderson as Iago

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

23. Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head

24. The Princes in the Tower

25. Mrs. Yates in the Character of Medea

26. Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"

27. A Great Actor between Tragedy and Comedy

28. Come Gentle Night: "Romeo and Juliet," Act III, Scene II

29. "Antony and Cleopatra," Act III, Scene XI

30. The Damnation of Obadiah

31. Tempest

32. Tancred and Clorinda

33. John Henderson as Iago

34. Ophelia: There's Rue for You, and Here's Some for Me

35. Christ Descending into the Grave

36. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

37. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

38. The Day of Judgment

39. The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death

40. The Day of Judgment

41. Christ Descending into the Grave

42. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven

43. A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening thou Bringest All)

44. Pan and Syrinx, No. 2