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1. Corfu from Ascension

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Date:: ca. 1860
Medium:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sophie and Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

2. Mrs. Robinson

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792, British
Date:: ca. 1784
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 7/8 × 28 1/4 inches (93.7 × 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Alexander Pope Profile, Crowned with Ivy

Creator:: Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:: ca. 1721
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 23 inches (71.8 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Margaret Wimsatt in memory of William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr.

4. Alexander Pope

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745, British
Date:: 1738
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 x 33 inches (99.1 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. James Thomson (1700-1748)

Creator:: Stephen Slaughter, 1697–1765, British
Date:: 1736
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches (77.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Death of Chatterton

Creator:: Henry Wallis, 1830–1916, British
Date:: ca. 1856
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 15/16 x 11 7/8 inches (22.7 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Samuel Butler

Creator:: Gilbert Soest, ca. 1600–1681, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1657)
Date:: ca. 1675
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Bard

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: ca. 1817
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:: 1915
Medium:: Oil and collage on panel
Dimensions:: 21 9/16 x 11 3/4 inches (54.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Pope's Villa, Twickenham

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755, British
Date:: ca. 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/16 x 32 1/8 inches (44 x 81.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 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

12. Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons

Creator:: Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839, British
Date:: 1794
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches (77.2 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. William Congreve

Creator:: Unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1715
Medium:: Pearwood
Dimensions:: Overall: 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (16.5 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Alexander Pope

Creator:: Louis François Roubiliac, 1702–1762, French, active in Britain (from 1730)
Date:: 1741
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 24 3/4 x 17 x 9 inches (62.9 x 43.2 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of the British art historian Basil Taylor (1922–1975)

15. Oliver Goldsmith

Creator:: John Henry Foley, 1818–1874, Irish
Date:: 1863
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 39 x 15 x 13 inches (99.1 x 38.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Brian P. Burns

16. William Hayley

Creator:: Thomas Alphonso Hayley, 1780–1800, British
Date:: 1795
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches (10.8 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Gift of Charles Ryskamp

17. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 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

18. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Alexander Pope, Profile

Creator:: Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667–1745, British
Date:: 1738
Medium:: Etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 11.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Florence and Maynard Mack

20. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

Creator:: Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962, British
Date:: 2011
Medium:: Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:: Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund

21. Anne Killigrew

Creator:: Print made by Abraham Blooteling, 1640–1690, Dutch
Date:: ca. 1680
Medium:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (26.3 × 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Joan Murray

Creator:: Bill Jay, 1940–2009, British
Date:: 2004
Medium:: Digital Ink jet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

23. Design for a Frontispiece: Bust of a Roman Man

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Red chalk and graphite, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (19.1 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Designs for an Ornamental Cartouche: for the Engraved Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773, French, active in Britain (1733–45)
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 8 11/16 inches (35.6 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896, British
Date:: between 1843 and 1845
Medium:: Iron gall ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (22.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard J. Mammana Jr., Yale MAR 2012, in memory of Cynthia McFarland

26. Sappho

Creator:: attributed to Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838, British
Date:: 1826
Medium:: Brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 1/4 inches (22.9 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wilton

27. A Grub Street Poet

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Pen and black, gray, and brown ink with gray wash over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 1/16 inches (24.8 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Henry More

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne, ca. 1620–1691, British
Date:: 1675
Medium:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 7 5/16 inches (33 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. William L. Harkness

29. William Butler Yeats, Poet (1865-1939)

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:: 1919
Medium:: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (29.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts

30. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703, British
Date:: between 1690 and 1703
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 13/16 x 11 1/8 inches (40.1 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

31. William Drummond of Hawthornden

Creator:: John Finlayson, 1730–1776, British
Date:: 1766
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (39 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

32. John Armstrong, M.D.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: between 1760 and 1780
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 15/16 x 11 1/8 inches (43 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 11 inches (37.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Portrait of William Blake

Creator:: John Flaxman, 1755–1826, British
Date:: ca. 1804
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 8 1/8 inches (17.8 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. William Drummond of Hawthorne

Creator:: Richard Gaywood, active 1650–1680
Date:: 1654
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 1/16 inches (19.9 × 12.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Hay Whitney, Yale BA 1926, Yale MA (HON.) 1956, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

36. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857, British
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 inches (19.8 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

37. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.1 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. The Poet

Creator:: John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 7 5/8 inches (25.4 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 × 10 15/16 inches (38.2 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Edwin

Creator:: Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1776
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 1/16 inches (36 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 11 3/4 inches (39.7 x 29.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by Charles Heath, 1785–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 3/16 inches (18.4 × 13.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Robert Burns

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Cousins, 1801–1887, British
Date:: 1830
Medium:: Mezzotint, published state
Dimensions:: Plate: 20 1/2 x 16 7/16in. (52.1 x 41.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Mr. Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by William Doughty, 1757–1782, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid in mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 inches (15 × 10.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: 1775
Medium:: Etching, published state
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. James Beattie, LL.D.

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812, French
Date:: 1805
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 1/8 inches (19.8 × 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Lovelace in Prison

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1788
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 17 7/16 inches (39 x 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Samuel Johnson

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (26 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Mary Robinson

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823, British
Date:: 1785
Medium:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 13/16 inches (44.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Reverend William Mason

Creator:: Robert Cooper, ca. 1800–1836, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 9/16 inches (17.1 × 14.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Reverend. William Mason

Creator:: Edward Scriven, 1775–1841, British
Date:: 1813
Medium:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 12 11/16 inches (38.7 × 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857, British
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 9 15/16 inches (34.2 × 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

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1. Corfu from Ascension

2. Mrs. Robinson

3. Alexander Pope Profile, Crowned with Ivy

4. Alexander Pope

5. James Thomson (1700-1748)

6. The Death of Chatterton

7. Samuel Butler

8. The Bard

9. In Memoriam: Rupert Brooke

10. Pope's Villa, Twickenham

11. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

12. Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons

13. William Congreve

14. Alexander Pope

15. Oliver Goldsmith

16. William Hayley

17. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

18. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

19. Alexander Pope, Profile

20. Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)

21. Anne Killigrew

22. Joan Murray

23. Design for a Frontispiece: Bust of a Roman Man

24. Designs for an Ornamental Cartouche: for the Engraved Portrait of Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)

25. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

26. Sappho

27. A Grub Street Poet

28. Henry More

29. William Butler Yeats, Poet (1865-1939)

30. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

31. William Drummond of Hawthornden

32. John Armstrong, M.D.

33. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

34. Portrait of William Blake

35. William Drummond of Hawthorne

36. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

37. Edwin

38. The Poet

39. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

40. Edwin

41. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

42. Thomas Gray

43. Robert Burns

44. Mr. Thomas Gray

45. 'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'

46. James Beattie, LL.D.

47. Lovelace in Prison

48. Samuel Johnson

49. Mary Robinson

50. Reverend William Mason

51. Reverend. William Mason

52. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)