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Landscape near Clifton
Creator:
Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:
1822 to 1823
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children
Creator:
William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:
1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
28 1/4 x 35 3/4 inches (71.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Woman Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
Creator:
Henry Robert Morland, 1730–1797, British
Date:
1766
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Cottage Interior
Creator:
William Ratcliffe, 1870–1955, British
Date:
1911 to 1912
Medium:
Oil on plywood
Dimensions:
15 x 20 inches (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt
Creator:
David Roberts, 1796–1864, British
Date:
1849
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (36.8 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Study of a Nun
Creator:
Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:
ca. 1915
Medium:
Oil on board laid to panel
Dimensions:
23 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches (60.8 × 40.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. and Mrs. Hill
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:
between 1750 and 1751
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Varley
Creator:
John Linnell, 1792–1882, British
Date:
1820
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
12 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (32.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of a Woman as St. Agnes, Traditionally Identified as Catherine Voss
Creator:
Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:
between 1705 and 1710
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 x 26 inches (78.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Lovers in Richmond Park
Creator:
James Smetham, 1821–1889, British
Date:
1864
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
3 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches (9.8 x 15.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.)
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:
1763
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/8 x 25 inches (76.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mr. Ernest Hillman, Jr.
St. Paul before Agrippa
Creator:
Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:
ca. 1710
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
32 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches (81.9 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Book Worm
Creator:
Bertha Herkomer, 1858–1943, American
Date:
1915
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (50.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans and Agnes Platenius
George Robertson
Creator:
Portrait by John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:
1776
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
44 1/4 x 34 5/8 inches (112.4 x 87.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Unknown Man in a Library
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:
between 1740 and 1741
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (50.2 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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

18. Mary Adam

Mary Adam
Creator:
Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784, British
Date:
1754
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
37 x 28 inches (94 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Unknown Man
Creator:
Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716)
Date:
1746
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (90.8 × 70.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:
1749
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/4 × 40 3/4 inches (64.1 × 103.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Christening of the Heir
Creator:
William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828, British
Date:
ca. 1799
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Elizabeth, Countess of Kellie
Creator:
Paul van Somer, ca. 1576–1621, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1616)
Date:
ca. 1619
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
81 x 48 1/2 inches (205.7 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Schoolgirls
Creator:
Sir George Clausen, 1852–1944, British
Date:
1880
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 30 3/8 inches (52.1 x 77.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mrs. Stevens
Creator:
Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Date:
ca. 1795
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 x 18 1/2 inches (66 x 47 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conversation Piece
Creator:
Mason Chamberlin, 1722–1787, British
Date:
1761
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 26 3/4 inches (63.5 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Unknown Woman with a Book
Creator:
Bartholomew Dandridge, baptized 1691–died in or after 1754, British
Date:
ca. 1735
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 7/8 × 16 1/2 inches (53 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Unknown Man
Creator:
John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
14 x 10 1/2 inches (35.6 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Copy after a Painting Traditionally Attributed to Van Dyck of Two Monks Reading
Creator:
unknown artist, 18th century
Date:
late 18th century?
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
20 1/2 × 18 inches (52.1 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
George and Margaret Rogers
Creator:
Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Date:
between 1748 and 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (90.2 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for a Group Portrait
Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:
between 1729 and 1730
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/8 × 18 1/2 inches (35.9 × 47 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Harlowe Family, from Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"
Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:
between 1745 and 1747
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/2 x 30 7/8 inches (64.8 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Seven Ages of Man: Second Childishness, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Date:
between 1798 and 1801
Medium:
Pen and ink and oil on panel
Dimensions:
15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Woman, possibly Anne (née Ward) Morland, Wife of the Artist
Creator:
George Morland, 1763–1804, British
Date:
ca. 1795
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
11 11/16 x 9 11/16 inches (29.7 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of a Boy
Creator:
Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839, British
Date:
ca. 1790
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/16 x 25 3/16 inches (76.4 x 64 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Brown Tea Pot
Creator:
Gwen John, 1876–1939, British
Date:
between 1915 and 1916
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 3/16 × 9 1/8 inches (33.5 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lady Betty Germain Bedroom at Knole, Kent
Creator:
James Holland, 1799–1870, British
Date:
1845
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 x 37 1/2 inches (68.6 x 95.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Unknown Man Seated at a Table
Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Date:
between 1744 and 1746
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of a Woman
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788, British
Date:
ca. 1750
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 7/8 x 26 1/4 inches (75.9 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Brick Piece 1
Creator:
Phillip King, 1934–2021, British
Date:
1974
Medium:
Brick, steel mesh, steel
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 11 inches (39.4 x 41.9 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
A Cleric: rotund figure in white clerical collar and black robes, with a red book tucked under his arm
Creator:
Derby porcelain factory, founded 1756, British
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Derby figure
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6in. (15.2cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1857
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 9/16 inches (30 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1857
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 x 4 1/16 inches (12.2 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Sleeping Shepherd
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:
1857
Medium:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/16 x 7 inches (21.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Simon, Lord Lovat
Creator:
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Medium:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Isabelle Hollister Tuttle for the Emerson Tuttle Memoiral Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:
1764
Medium:
Etching with line engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (31.4 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

46. Sibyl

Sibyl
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (14.6 x 13.7 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
Couple Examining a Book
Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:
undated
Medium:
Pen and brown ink; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (19.7 x 16.5 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
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The longest night though longer far, would fail"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Moses Receiving the Law
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1780
Medium:
Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Half-Length Drawing
Creator:
attributed to William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1800
Medium:
Graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (17.1 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles Rosenbloom
Thomas Hayley (1780-1800)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1800
Medium:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/16 x 8 11/16 inches (28.7 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789-1794
Medium:
Relief etching printed in dark-brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 37, "Ode to Adversity."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 9, "Therefore God becomes . . . . " (Bentley b12)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1788
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 41, "Bath who is Legions...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1804 to 1820
Medium:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O Treacherous Conscience!"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 15, "The Longest Night Though Longer Far, Would Fail"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 1, "The Pindaric Genius Receiving His Lyre"
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 103, "Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 113, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 29, "A Long Story."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 5, "Ode on the Spring."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 63, "The Bard."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 8, "VI The desires & perceptions . . . . " (Bentley a9)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1788
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Jerusalem, Plate 64, "Of the Mundane Shell...."
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1804 to 1820
Medium:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Hayley (1780-1800)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1800
Medium:
Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (22.3 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles J. Rosenbloom, B.A. 1920
Songs of Innocence, Plate 8, "The Lamb" (Bentley 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789
Medium:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though my soul fantastick measures trod"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
ca. 1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1794
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching printed in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 6, "In living creations appear'd . . . ." (Bentley 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1794
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 18, "The Lamb" (Bentley 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789
Medium:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 2, Innocence Title Page (Bentley 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789
Medium:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 28, "Infant Joy" (Bentley 25)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789
Medium:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence, Plate 2, Title Page (Bentley 3)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1789
Medium:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 7, "Till at Death's Toll, Whose Restless Iron Tounge"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 105, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 107, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Medium:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Young's Night Thoughts, Page 4, "What, though My Soul Fantastick Measures Trod"
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1797
Medium:
Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Albions Angel rose . . . . " (Bentley 14)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1794
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching in dark brown ink, with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1794
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 8, "In Living Creations Appear'd...." (Bentley 5)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:
1794
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Aubertus Miræus
Creator:
Print made by Paulus Pontius, 1603–1658, Flemish
Date:
ca. 1635
Medium:
Line engraving and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (27 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Damnation of Obadiah
Creator:
Print made by James Bretherton, ca. 1730–1806, British
Date:
1773
Medium:
Etching on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/16 x 15 11/16 inches (30.6 x 39.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Little Girls
Creator:
John Glover, 1767–1849, British
Date:
ca. 1810
Medium:
Gray wash with pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 6 1/2 inches (22.9 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Child Seated
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 x 3 13/16 inches (15.9 x 9.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sophy Steadman Reading
Creator:
William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864, British
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Romance

Romance
Creator:
Print made by Robert Sargent Austin, 1895–1973, British
Date:
1922
Medium:
Etching with gouache and graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 inches (38 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Alexander Pope
Creator:
John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain
Date:
ca. 1744
Medium:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, pasted on very thick, smooth, brown card
Dimensions:
Mount: 16 7/8 x 12 5/16 inches (42.8 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Florence & Maynard Mack
Le Casaquin de Laine
Creator:
Print made by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, 1890–1978, British
Date:
1923
Medium:
Etching, stipple engraving, and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 inches (28.1 x 21.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
A Lady Reading
Creator:
William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864, British
Date:
ca. 1835
Medium:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
St. Catherine Reading
Creator:
Jacques Christophe Le Blon, 1667–1741, German, active in France
Date:
undated
Medium:
Color mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 7/8 × 19 3/8 inches (58.1 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Costume Study for the Portrait of a Lady
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:
undated
Medium:
Black chalk with white chalk; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 9/16 x 8 1/8 inches (49.7 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Misses Van and Lady Salisbury
Creator:
Lady Salesbury, active 1791, British
Date:
1791
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (16.5 x 21 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Original Frontispiece for 'Book of Ballads' (Bon Gaultier)
Creator:
Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804–1872, British
Date:
ca. 1845
Medium:
Pen and black ink, watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/8 inches (18.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Portrait of a Man with Hat
Creator:
Print made by John James Chalon, 1778–1854, French, active in Britain
Date:
1792
Medium:
Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 9/16 × 4 15/16 inches (14.2 × 12.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman in memory of Richard Godfrey
A Lecture on Gadding
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:
1789
Medium:
Etching, stipple engraving, and mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 7/16 x 15 1/16 inches (46.9 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Benevolent Effects of Abolishing Slavery, or the Planter instructing his Negro
Creator:
Print made by W. Pyott, active late 18th century
Date:
1792
Medium:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches (48.9 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Mr. Wilkinson as Michael in Free & Easy
Creator:
Print made by Robert Cooper, ca. 1800–1836, British
Date:
1822
Medium:
Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 11/16 inches (27.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
David Hockney
Creator:
Michael Childers, born 1944, American
Date:
1978
Medium:
Inkjet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
Ray Davies and Thom Keyes
Creator:
Lewis Morley, 1925–2013, British
Date:
1966
Medium:
Gelatin silver print on resin-coated photographic paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy