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1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:: ca. 1843
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 5 x 7 1/2 inches (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 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

3. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1814 and 1815
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches (71.8 x 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Virgin and Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Date:: 1825
Medium:: Tempera on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838, British
Date:: ca. 1801
Medium:: Pen and ink and oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (37.5 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: between 1719 and 1720
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (43.8 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British
Date:: between 1800 and 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 17 3/4 inches (35.6 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. 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

9. The Lady of Shalott

Creator:: Walter Crane, 1845–1915, British
Date:: 1862
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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

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

11. Mary and Joseph Outside the Inn

Creator:: John Runciman, 1744–1768, British
Date:: 1763 to 1768
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 11 1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. "The Lady of Shalott"

Creator:: John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893, British
Date:: ca. 1875
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 36 inches (61 × 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew

13. 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

14. Lucretia

Creator:: Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:: between 1672 and 1675
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 Fund

15. Jacob's Dream

Creator:: Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734, British
Date:: 1705
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (163.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 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

17. Diana at the Bath

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:: 1830
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 1/2 inches (76.2 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Venus Rising from her Couch

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859, British
Date:: 1828
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 25 3/4 inches (76.2 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Cupid Armed

Creator:: William Hilton, 1786–1839, British
Date:: ca. 1833
Medium:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

20. 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

21. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

Creator:: John Rogers Herbert, 1810–1890, British
Date:: 1877
Medium:: Oil on millboard
Dimensions:: 13 3/8 x 21 7/8 inches (34 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Indian Landscape with Figures near a Stream

Creator:: Attributed to William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Date:: ca. 1830
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 45 inches (80 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Agony in the Garden

Creator:: George Richmond, 1809–1896, British
Date:: 1858
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 x 46 inches (106 x 116.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Venus and Cupid

Creator:: Henry Howard, 1769–1847, British
Date:: 1809
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 28 1/4 inches (91.4 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. 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

26. The Angel Binding Satan

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Date:: ca. 1797
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (45.1 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Liberation of St Peter

Creator:: Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger, ca. 1580–1649, Flemish, active in Britain from 1617
Date:: 1617
Medium:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 13 3/4 × 16 1/8 inches (34.9 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 3/4 x 63 3/16 inches (123.8 x 160.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Good Samaritan

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776, British
Date:: between 1751 and 1752
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 78 1/2 × 48 1/2 inches (199.4 × 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. The Deluge

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 66 1/4 x 101 3/4 inches (168.3 x 258.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Diana and her Nymphs at a Fountain

Creator:: Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680, Dutch, active in England (from 1643)
Date:: ca. 1648
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 × 36 1/2 inches (74.9 × 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. The Death of Orpheus

Creator:: Landscape by Thomas Jones, 1742–1803, British, active in Italy (1776–83)
Date:: ca. 1770
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 51 inches (95.3 x 129.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Man attacking a monster

Creator:: Attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 14 inches (29.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Crucifixion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1830 and 1840
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 24 inches (38.1 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Belshazzar's Feast

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 1/2 x 47 1/2 inches (80 x 120.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Pool of Bethesda

Creator:: Robert Bateman, 1842–1922, British
Date:: 1877
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 × 29 inches (50.8 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. 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

38. 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

39. Cymon and Iphigenia

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: ca. 1766
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 32 1/2 inches (61.3 x 82.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. The Education of Achilles

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

41. The Last Judgement (study)

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: between 1851 and 1853
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 12 inches (19.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Venus and Anchises

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846, British
Date:: 1826
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

43. The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 20 x 25 1/2 inches (50.8 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Angel of Mercy

Creator:: Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Date:: ca. 1746
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/2 x 19 inches (59.7 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Death of Lucretia

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798, British, active in Italy (1744–48 and 1756 on)
Date:: 1763 to 1767
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 84 x 104 inches (213.4 x 264.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Christ Disappearing at Emmaus

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1792
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 56 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches (143.5 x 118.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The Mandrake: A Charm

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: exhibited RA 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 29 1/2 inches (63.5 × 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. “And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick”

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British
Date:: 1872
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches (90.8 x 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Dido

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: 1781
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 96 3/16 × 72 3/16 inches (244.3 × 183.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: ca. 1840
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 7/8 × 24 5/8 inches (47.9 × 62.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Date:: ca. 1785
Medium:: Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. 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

53. 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

54. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

Creator:: Louis Laguerre, 1663–1721, French, active in Britain (from ca. 1684)
Date:: ca. 1704
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/8 x 30 inches (107 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Date:: between 1800 and 1810
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 7/8 x 32 5/8 inches (103.8 x 82.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. 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

57. Madonna and Child

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1898–1986, British
Date:: 1943
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 6 x 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (15.2 x 6.4 x 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. St. George

Creator:: Alfred Turner, 1874–1940, British
Date:: 1927
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 7 inches (17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miss Jessica Turner through the National Art-Collections Fund

59. Eve

Creator:: Winifred Turner, 1903–1983, British
Date:: 1932
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 20 1/2 inches (52.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Miss Jessica Turner through the National Art-Collections Fund

60. Venus

Creator:: Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British
Date:: 1770s
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (20.6 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Adonis

Creator:: Joseph Nollekens, 1737–1823, British
Date:: 1770s
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 8 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (20.6 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. St. George

Creator:: Alfred Gilbert, 1854–1934, British
Date:: 1891 to 1896
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 21 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (54.6 x 26 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Father Time

Creator:: Unknown artist, eighteenth century
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Stoneware ('Coade Stone')
Dimensions:: Overall: 59 1/2 inches (151.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

64. 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

65. Cupid Disguised as a Shepherd Boy

Creator:: John Gibson, 1790–1866, British, active in Rome, Italy
Date:: commissioned in 1834
Medium:: Carrara marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 51 × 21 × 16 inches (129.5 × 53.3 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Karen S. W. and Edward A. Friedman, Yale BA 1971, Kristin W. and Gary D. Friedman, Yale BA 1973, Ruth and Theodore N. Mirvis, and Darcy Bradbury and Eric Seiler

66. Samson Slaying a Philistine

Creator:: John Cheere, 1709–1787, British
Date:: between 1740 and 1770
Medium:: Lead
Dimensions:: Overall: 79 15/16 inches (203 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)

67. Nymph Entering the Bath

Creator:: Richard James Wyatt, 1795–1850, active in Italy (1821–1850), British
Date:: ca. 1834
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 60 × 19 3/4 × 23 1/2 inches (152.4 × 50.2 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin

Creator:: Unknown artist, fifteenth century (Nottinghamshire)
Date:: 1450 to 1500
Medium:: Alabaster
Dimensions:: Overall: 17 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (44.5 × 26.7 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Brave

Creator:: Nicola Hicks, born 1960, British
Date:: 2012
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 26 3/8 × 19 11/16 × 23 5/8 inches (67 × 50 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist and Friends of British Art Fund

70. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

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

71. 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

72. Pope Clement XIV (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, 1705–1774; reigned 1769–1774)

Creator:: Christopher Hewetson, 1737/38–1798, British, active in Italy (from 1765)
Date:: ca. 1772
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 31 1/2 × 26 × 12 inches (80 × 66 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Sacrifice to Hercules

Creator:: Gaspar van der Hagen, active 1747–died 1769, Flemish, active in Britain (from ca. 1744)
Date:: ca. 1766
Medium:: Marble relief
Dimensions:: Overall: 24 x 28 15/16 inches (61 x 73.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and a Gift from the Parnassus Foundation, Courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

74. Narcissus

Creator:: Edward Bowring Stephens, 1815–1882, British
Date:: 1846
Medium:: Parian porcelain ware
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

75. Sylvia and the Wounded Stag

Creator:: Joseph Gott, 1786–1860, British, active in Italy
Date:: 1824
Medium:: Terracotta
Dimensions:: Overall: 6 11/16 inches (17 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

76. St. George and the Dragon

Creator:: Francesco Fanelli, born 1577, Italian, active in Britain (from ca. 1632)
Date:: ca. 1635
Medium:: Bronze, on a later wooden base with tortoiseshell veneer and gilt bronze mounts
Dimensions:: Overall: 11 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 8 inches (29.2 × 29.2 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)

77. Study for "The Golden Age"

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:: 1827
Medium:: Graphite and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 7/8in. (19.1 x 27.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Wyld in honor of Paul Mellon

78. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1852
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (30 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1852
Medium:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 5/16 inches (12 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1852
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with white watercolor, gouache or chalk on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 8 1/4 inches (29.3 x 20.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. The Vine

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1852
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 9 1/4 inches (32.5 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

82. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. The Morning of Life

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1860-1861
Medium:: Etching, engraving and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches (19 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. George Taylor's Epitaph: Death Giving George Taylor a Cross Buttock

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (22.5 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. George Taylor's Epitaph: George Taylor Breaking the Ribs of Death

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, graphite, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (23.2 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Hymen

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Date:: ca. 1748
Medium:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (49.5 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. The Morning of Life

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Date:: 1860-1861
Medium:: Etching, engraving and drypoint, with plate tone, retouched with white watercolor, gouache or chalk on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 5/16 inches (22.6 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Tenth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1816
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 inches (30.2 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Glaucus and Scylla

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Engraver's proof (h) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 1/2 inches (27.3 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Engraver's proof (f) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 inches (29.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1819
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink First published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/4 inches (28.6 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Glaucus and Scylla

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1813 to 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Modern Impression on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 16 5/8 inches (33.3 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Deluge

Creator:: Engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Mezzotint, printed in brown ink Modern Impression on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 18 inches (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Rispah: 2nd Book of Samuel, Chap. 21

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 inches (21 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

95. Rispah: 2nd Book of Samuel, Chap. 21

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink First published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 7/8 inches (27.9 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (21.6 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1808
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 1/8 inches (20.3 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1812
Medium:: Etching, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (29.8 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. The Deluge

Creator:: Engraved by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Mezzotint; modern impression on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 1/4 inches (28.9 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Apuleia in Search of Apuleius

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Medium:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/4 inches (28.3 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Study for 'Calypso's Grotto'

2. Peace Embracing Plenty

3. Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

4. Virgin and Child

5. The Judgement of Korah, Dathan and Abiram

6. Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

7. An Unfinished Study of Venus and Adonis

8. The Rock of Salvation

9. The Lady of Shalott

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

11. Mary and Joseph Outside the Inn

12. "The Lady of Shalott"

13. The Three Graces

14. Lucretia

15. Jacob's Dream

16. St. Paul before Agrippa

17. Diana at the Bath

18. Venus Rising from her Couch

19. Cupid Armed

20. Aeneas and the Sibyl

21. David, the Future King of Israel, While a Shepherd at Bethlehem

22. Indian Landscape with Figures near a Stream

23. The Agony in the Garden

24. Venus and Cupid

25. Hope

26. The Angel Binding Satan

27. The Liberation of St Peter

28. Rebecca Receiving the Bracelet at the Well

29. The Good Samaritan

30. The Deluge

31. Diana and her Nymphs at a Fountain

32. The Death of Orpheus

33. Man attacking a monster

34. The Crucifixion

35. Belshazzar's Feast

36. The Pool of Bethesda

37. Christening of the Heir

38. The Cave of Despair

39. Cymon and Iphigenia

40. The Education of Achilles

41. The Last Judgement (study)

42. Venus and Anchises

43. The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies

44. The Angel of Mercy

45. The Death of Lucretia

46. Christ Disappearing at Emmaus

47. The Mandrake: A Charm

48. “And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick”

49. Dido

50. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

51. Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ

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

53. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

54. The Rape of Proserpine, design for the staircase of Devonshire House, London

55. Tekemessa and Eurysakes

56. Allegory of Fortune

57. Madonna and Child

58. St. George

59. Eve

60. Venus

61. Adonis

62. St. George

63. Father Time

64. Allegory of Geometry

65. Cupid Disguised as a Shepherd Boy

66. Samson Slaying a Philistine

67. Nymph Entering the Bath

68. The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin

69. Brave

70. The Stowe Reliefs: Mercury conducting Tragic and Comic Poetry to the Hill of Parnassus

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

72. Pope Clement XIV (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, 1705–1774; reigned 1769–1774)

73. Sacrifice to Hercules

74. Narcissus

75. Sylvia and the Wounded Stag