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The Lady of Shalott
Creator:
Walter Crane, 1845–1915, British
Date:
1862
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Falstaff with the Body of Hotspur
Creator:
Attributed to Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:
ca. 1786
Medium:
Oil on paper
Dimensions:
12 x 11 1/4 inches (30.5 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ancient Inscription in the Walls of the Venetian Govenor's House, Mystras
Creator:
Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867, British
Date:
1802-1804
Medium:
Graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.5 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
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
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
Loch Achray
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: 17 × 11 3/8 inches (43.2 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare
Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:
1776
Medium:
Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (21 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for Burying the Royal Children
Creator:
James Northcote, 1746–1831, British
Date:
ca. 1790
Medium:
Oil on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 11 1/4 inches (43.2 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Land of Beulah
Creator:
Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898, British
Date:
1881
Medium:
Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 7/8 x 11 3/8 inches (20 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Caerlaverock Castle
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
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (21 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hermitage Castle
Creator:
Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878, British
Date:
1834
Medium:
Etching; open etched state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (43.8 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:
ca. 1781
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ferdinand and Ariel
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British
Date:
ca. 1781
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 13 13/16 x 11 1/4 inches (35.1 x 28.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Scene from Midsummer's Night Dream? (451a)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (14 × 29.2 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
Saberna, or the Effects of Falshood
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Park, ca. 1760–1834, British
Date:
1786
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (39.4 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
Creator:
Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:
ca. 1777
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Jordan in the Character of the Romp
Creator:
Print made by John Ogborne the Elder, 1755–1795, British
Date:
1788
Medium:
Stipple engraving (first state) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 × 11 5/16 inches (37.8 × 28.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Ella, or the Sweets of Constancy
Creator:
Print made by Thomas Park, ca. 1760–1834, British
Date:
1786
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 1/2 inches (39.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Death's Door
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Robert Blair, The Grave, Title Page
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Christ Descending into the Grave
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Reunion of the Soul & the Body
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Meeting of a Family in Heaven
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Day of Judgment
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Soul Exploring the Recesses of the Grave
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808, published 1813
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Lover

The Lover
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:
1824
Medium:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The School-Boy
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:
1824
Medium:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.6 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Justice
Creator:
Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:
1824
Medium:
Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 1/4 inches (23 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Miss Crockatt as Julia de Roubigné
Creator:
Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British
Date:
1786
Medium:
Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 13/16 x 11 7/16 inches (37.7 x 29 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Phoebe Hoppner as Caroline de Lichtfield
Creator:
Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British
Date:
1786
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (36.3 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of the Merry Wives of Windsor
Creator:
Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823, British
Date:
1780
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/16 × 11 5/16 inches (31.2 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina
Creator:
Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776, British
Date:
1769
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 7/16 x 11 5/16 inches (39.2 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Clara

Clara
Creator:
Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1777
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 3/8 x 11 9/16 inches (44.2 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Dugald Stewart Esq.
Creator:
Charles Turner, 1774–1857, British
Date:
1808
Medium:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 × 11 3/8 inches (38.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Dryburgh Abbey
Creator:
Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882, British
Date:
1833
Medium:
Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (24.1 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Lear, from King Lear, Act III, Scene ii
Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:
1776
Medium:
Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 11/16 inches (42.9 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Venus and Cupid
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash and gouache on medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper mounted to medium slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (19.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Professor Richard L. Purdy
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Prints made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching and letterpress, bound in contemporary publisher's paper-covered boards, rebacked on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737, Dutch
Date:
1704
Medium:
Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (41.3 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810, Italian
Date:
1808
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
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