Genre: religious and mythological subject / Subject Terms: Greek

1. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

Creator:: William Artaud, 1763–1823, British
Date:: 1788 to 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 95 x 80 1/2 inches (241.3 x 204.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Education of Achilles

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806, Irish
Date:: ca. 1772
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/2 x 50 3/4 inches (102.9 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 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

5. 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

6. Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown ink and graphite on medium moderately textured beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (32.1 x 52.4 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

7. Laocoon

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite; verso: pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 inches (43.8 x 30.5 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

8. Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1815
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 inches (32.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Study of classical scultpure of Laocoon

Creator:: Giles Hussey, 1710–1788, British
Date:: between 1730 and 1768
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream tracing paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 1/4in. (31.4 x 23.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Neptune and Britannia

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 6 1/4 inches (15.2 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Sheet of Figure Studies for The Odyssey

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (13.3 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard T. Godfrey

12. Hermes Leading Persephone out of the Underworld

Creator:: unknown artist, ([?sic] Hugh Hambleton)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 17 inches (35.9 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Deane Keller, B.A. 1923

13. Alcides

Creator:: Rev. William Warren Porter, 1776–1804, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (24.1 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W

14. Laocoon And His Sons Wrestling With Two Snakes

Creator:: Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1765
Medium:: Line engraving and stipple engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690, Dutch
Date:: between 1680 and 1690
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 11/16 inches (36 × 27.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Paris and Oenone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 7/16 inches (30.2 x 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Niobe

Creator:: Print made by William Sharp, 1749–1824, British
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1804
Medium:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 3/16 inches (50.4 x 38.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Cleone

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1784
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (32.7 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Sections

Creator:: Edmund Turrell, active 1835–1860, British
Date:: 1828
Medium:: Line engraving with graphite on thin, smooth, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches (29.8 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 12 3/8 inches (21.9 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Longitudinal Section of Platform and Cave

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British
Date:: 1860
Medium:: Line engraving with graphite on smooth, thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 11 3/4 inches (17.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Structural Details

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British
Date:: after 1832
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 14 1/2 inches (22.9 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 12 3/8 inches (21.9 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. 'The Triumph of Mercy,' from Collins' 'Ode To Mercy'

2. The Education of Achilles

3. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

4. Venus

5. Adonis

6. Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"

7. Laocoon

8. Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia

9. Study of classical scultpure of Laocoon

10. Neptune and Britannia

11. Sheet of Figure Studies for The Odyssey

12. Hermes Leading Persephone out of the Underworld

13. Alcides

14. Laocoon And His Sons Wrestling With Two Snakes

15. Hercules before the Temple of Janus

16. Paris and Oenone

17. Niobe

18. Cupid Disarmed by Venus

19. Cleone

20. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Sections

21. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View

22. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Longitudinal Section of Platform and Cave

23. The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Structural Details

24. The Temple of Apollo Epikourios: Distant View