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1. 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

2. 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

3. John Eardley Wilmot

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 1/2 x 58 1/4 inches (105.4 x 148 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 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

5. The Sense of Smell

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716)
Date:: 1744 to 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 52 x 60 1/2 inches (132.1 x 153.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775, British
Date:: ca. 1764
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

8. Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore

Creator:: Thomas Hickey, 1741–1824, Irish
Date:: ca. 1801
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 39 1/2 inches (127 × 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

Creator:: Unknown artist, sixteenth century
Date:: ca. 1590
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 45 × 71 3/4 inches (114.3 × 182.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810, German, active in Britain (from 1760)
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 38 1/2 inches (78.7 x 97.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Cave of Despair

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1772
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 30 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: ca. 1718
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Allegory of Trade

Creator:: John Theodore Heins, 1697–1756, German, active in Britain (from 1720)
Date:: 1743
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 x 54 inches (74.9 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Health and Wealth

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942, British, born in Germany
Date:: 1932 to 1935
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 26 inches (76.2 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum

16. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Sea, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

Creator:: Attributed to Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: ca. 1720
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 x 21 inches (45.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Apotheosis of Nelson

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1807
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/2 x 29 inches (100.3 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Old Age

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 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

23. Birth of Man

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 inches (13.7 x 17.8 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Preparatory Study for the decoration "Equestrian Portrait of George I"

Creator:: John Vanderbank, 1694–1739, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite with brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 12 3/8 inches (28.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Design for a decoration incorporating motifs allusive to the Arts, Arms, and Religion

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches (17.1 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Nature unveils herself to the infant Shakespeare: Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III.1

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 inches (29.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. 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

31. 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

32. Design for a Medal: Britannia Ruling the Waves

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: 1736
Medium:: Pen and black ink and graphite, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 × 7 3/4 inches (27.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Greatheart's Battle with Grim

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 4 inches (12.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. 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

35. 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

36. Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 x 15 5/8 inches (32.2 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Sir Godfrey Kneller

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: 1735
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/16 x 12 inches (45.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Rather a Dangerous Kind of Hug

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 3/16 x 17 5/16 inches (31 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 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

40. 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

41. Design for an Engraving: Parlement de Paris Reassembling with Figure of Justice

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: 1762
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk, incised and squared for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige 19th century laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 x 11 1/16 inches (30.5 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. An Allegory of America Carrying the Cap of Liberty

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink, graphite, and red chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 1/16 inches (8.3 × 5.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Mausoleum

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 8 11/16 inches (12.7 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Death Turned Pilot

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: between 1815 and 1816
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (14.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Family of Children

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 7 1/4 inches (11 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. 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

47. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

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 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (31 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. 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

49. Time and Death and Goody Barton

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 8 3/8 inches (13.2 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Death and the Debauchee

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: between 1814 and 1816
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 8 1/2 inches (13.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. 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

52. 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

53. Six Venice Etchings, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 1/16 inches (32.7 x 23 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

54. Porta della Carta

Creator:: Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 x 12 7/8 inches (46.5 x 32.7 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. Geography

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

59. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

Creator:: Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704–1767
Date:: undated
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 11 3/8 inches (41.8 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

60. Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans

Creator:: John Bacon, 1740–1799, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 4 inches (18.1 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Allegorical Female Figure: holding a flaming torch

Creator:: John Bacon, 1740–1799, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 3 inches (17.8 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Allegory of Painting and Literature

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 inches (21 × 17.8 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. The Web

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (20.6 x 16.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Diavoli Pescatori

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895, British
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 14 15/16 inches (28.2 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70. 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

71. The Fishery

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785, British
Date:: 1768
Medium:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 11/16 inches (46.4 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1720
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 3/16 inches (32.7 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. 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

74. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Peaceful Reign of James I

Creator:: Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733, French, active in Britain
Date:: 1720
Medium:: Line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (31.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. 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

76. 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

77. And Ah! Let Pity Turn Her Dewy Eyes...

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1801
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 x 10 9/16 inches (35.7 x 26.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Peace Embracing Plenty

2. The Rock of Salvation

3. John Eardley Wilmot

4. The Three Graces

5. The Sense of Smell

6. The Fishery

7. Aeneas and the Sibyl

8. Purniya, Chief Minister of Mysore

9. An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII

10. Hope

11. The Gore Family with George, third Earl Cowper

12. The Cave of Despair

13. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Land, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

14. Allegory of Trade

15. Health and Wealth

16. Allegory of the Power of Great Britain by Sea, design for a decorative panel for George I's ceremonial coach

17. The Apotheosis of Nelson

18. A Sketch of Gratitude Crowned by Peace, with Other Allegorical Figures of Industry, Fame and Plenty

19. Allegory of Fortune

20. Allegory of Geometry

21. The Stowe Reliefs: Allegorical scene, possibly Truth revealing herself to the Liberal Arts

22. Old Age

23. Birth of Man

24. Allegory of Sea Trades

25. Allegory of Drawing

26. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

27. Preparatory Study for the decoration "Equestrian Portrait of George I"

28. Design for a decoration incorporating motifs allusive to the Arts, Arms, and Religion

29. Nature unveils herself to the infant Shakespeare: Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III.1

30. Britannia in Distress

31. Allegory of Steam

32. Design for a Medal: Britannia Ruling the Waves

33. Greatheart's Battle with Grim

34. Classical Scene: Minerva as the Goddess of Arts and Sciences

35. An Allegory of Love

36. Britannia's Protection, or Loyalty Triumphant

37. Sir Godfrey Kneller

38. Rather a Dangerous Kind of Hug

39. Another Saint Sebastian, Shot at by Cruel Archers

40. Dido and Aeneas Sheltering in a Cave

41. Design for an Engraving: Parlement de Paris Reassembling with Figure of Justice

42. An Allegory of America Carrying the Cap of Liberty

43. The Mausoleum

44. Death Turned Pilot

45. The Family of Children

46. Telemachus and Mentor

47. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

48. Time raising Truth, after Rubens’s “The Triumph of Truth”

49. Time and Death and Goody Barton

50. Death and the Debauchee

51. Britannia Allegory

52. Hope Nursing Love

53. Six Venice Etchings, Title Page

54. Porta della Carta

55. Epiphany

56. Allegory for Spring

57. Allegory for Fall

58. Geography

59. Grammatica. Die Sprachkunst.

60. Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans

61. Allegorical Female Figure: holding a flaming torch

62. Allegory of Painting and Literature

63. Erato and Pan

64. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

65. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Temperance

66. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Justice

67. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Faith

68. The Web

69. Diavoli Pescatori

70. The Triumph of Britannia

71. The Fishery

72. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland

73. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Prudence

74. The Ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall: The Peaceful Reign of James I