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Peace Embracing Plenty
Creator:
Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1577–1640, Flemish
Date:
between 1633 and 1634
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
24 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches (62.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Rock of Salvation
Creator:
Samuel Colman, 1780–1845, British
Date:
1837
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches (61.3 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Three Graces
Creator:
William Edward Frost, 1810–1877, British
Date:
1856
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 1/4 × 28 3/8 inches (92.1 × 72.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Melville P. Roberts
Aeneas and the Sibyl
Creator:
Unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:
ca. 1800
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Hope

Hope
Creator:
George Frederic Watts, 1817–1904, British
Date:
1891
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
26 × 19 inches (66 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Claire and Albert J. Zuckerman, Yale School of Drama MFA 1961, DFA 1962
A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty
Creator:
Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:
between 1712 and 1713
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 3/16 x 7 3/4 inches (36 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Allegory of Fortune
Creator:
Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762, Spanish, active in Britain (from 1729)
Date:
ca. 1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 5/16 x 35 1/8 inches (71.9 x 89.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Allegory of Geometry
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1796
Medium:
Stoneware ('Coade Stone')
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 8 inches (54 × 107.3 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts
Creator:
Attributed to Michael Chuke, 1679–1742, British
Date:
ca. 1715
Medium:
Bronzed limewood
Dimensions:
Overall: 54 5/16 x 37 13/16 inches (138 x 96 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Allegory of Sea Trades
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (9.2 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Allegory of Drawing
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and black ink, graphite, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/4 x 4 3/4in. (8.3 x 12.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Allegory of Napoleonic Battles
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/8 x 5in. (7.9 x 12.7cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Britannia in Distress
Creator:
Anthony Walker, 1726–1765, British
Date:
1756
Medium:
Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (32.1 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Allegory of Steam
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 7/8 x 5in. (9.8 x 12.7cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Medium:
Gray wash with black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (38.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Allegory of Love
Creator:
Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1734–1808, British
Date:
Undated
Medium:
Watercolor and colored chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 24 7/16 inches (49.5 x 62.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Another Saint Sebastian, Shot at by Cruel Archers
Creator:
Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:
1847
Medium:
Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 17 9/16 inches (30.5 x 44.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave
Creator:
Francis Cleyn, 1582–1658, German
Date:
undated
Medium:
Gray wash and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Telemachus and Mentor
Creator:
Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868, Irish
Date:
1847
Medium:
Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 5/16 inches (30.8 x 44 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”
Creator:
Attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 x 11 15/16 inches (20.3 x 30.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Britannia Allegory
Creator:
Charles Grignion, 1717–1810, British
Date:
between 1743 and 1747
Medium:
Etching and line engraving; verso: letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper (page in book)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 x 6 1/16 inches (15.8 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection
Hope Nursing Love
Creator:
Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:
1771
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/8 inches (50.5 × 35.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Epiphany

Epiphany
Creator:
Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938, British
Date:
1919
Medium:
Etching; 2nd state on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 × 7 1/4 inches (25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Allegory for Spring
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 × 11 1/8 inches (12.7 × 28.3 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
Allegory for Fall
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper mounted to moderately thick, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 x 11in. (12.7 x 27.9cm)
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
Erato and Pan
Creator:
Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 4 7/8 inches (9.5 × 12.4 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
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude
Creator:
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:
1782
Medium:
Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Temperance
Creator:
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:
1782
Medium:
Stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/16 inches (63.7 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Justice
Creator:
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:
1782
Medium:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/16 inches (63.7 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Faith
Creator:
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:
1781
Medium:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Triumph of Britannia
Creator:
Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774, French, active in Britain
Date:
ca. 1765
Medium:
Engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 x 20 1/2in. (38.1 x 52.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Prudence
Creator:
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:
1782
Medium:
Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 24 1/2 × 18 1/8 inches (62.2 × 46 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Charity
Creator:
George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:
1781
Medium:
Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 1/16 × 18 1/8 inches (63.7 × 46 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:
1803
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 5/8 × 16 3/4 inches (65.1 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection