Materials & Techniques: etching (printing process) / Collection: Prints and Drawings / Genre: historical subject

1. Columbus Breaking the Egg

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 7 5/8 inches (20.6 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

2. I Found Him Beneath a Tree (Plate 3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell (Plate 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. I Want! I Want! (Plate 11)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Does Thy God O Priest Take such Vengeance as This? (Plate 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Fear & Hope Are -- Vision (Plate 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening (Plate 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. I Have Said to the Worm, Thou Art My Mother & My Sister (Plate 18)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. For Children. The Gates of Paradise; Title Page (Plate 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Fire (Plate 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Alas! (Plate 9)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Help! Help! (Plate 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Death's Door (Plate 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Water (Plate 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Earth (Plate 5)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Air (Plate 6)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 21 7/8 inches (44.5 × 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

19. Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1814-1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etched state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 3/4 inches (30.2 × 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1814-1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; engraver's proof (1) on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 5/8 inches (21.6 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Pendennis Castle, and Entrance of Falmouth Harbour

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1814-1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 × 17 1/4 inches (28.4 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Medici Vase

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 1/8 inches (44.1 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Petrarch's House at Arqua

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 1/8 inches (44.1 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Borghese Vase

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 inches (44.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Orford Castle and Church

Creator:: Print made by James C. Allen, active 1821–1831
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 × 11 13/16 inches (43.3 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1814-1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; first published state on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 inches (29.5 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Hannibal Passing the Alps

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (44.5 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Pendennis Castle, and Entrance of Falmouth Harbour

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1814 to 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, with chine collé, scraping out, and white gouache; touched engraver's proof 6(a) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 3/4 inches (22.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Pendennis Castle, and Entrance of Falmouth Harbour

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1814-1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etched state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 14 1/16 inches (25.6 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Petrarch's Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 inches (44.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Funeral of a Doge in St. Mark's Place

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Allen, active 1830s
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/8 inches (44.5 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Giovanni and Garcia De' Medici

Creator:: Print made by Frederick Christian Lewis the Elder, 1779–1856
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (44.5 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Brienne

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 7/8 inches (28.9 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Vincennes

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 11 7/8 inches (43.8 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. "It's Auld Ailie Hersell"

Creator:: Print made by James Charles Armytage, 1802–1897
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 16 1/8 inches (29.8 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Killiecrankie

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 11 1/4 inches (43.2 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Fontainebleau

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (42.9 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Field of Waterloo, with Lightning

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 inches (28.6 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Simplon

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 11 7/8 inches (43.8 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Killiecrankie

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the Day before He Was Massacred

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, aquatint, and etching with woodcut on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 7/8 inches (22 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Death of Captain Cook

Creator:: Figures engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 23 1/2in. (47 x 59.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Great Exhibition: Exterior View from the Southwest

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, surrounded with gold dome-shaped border, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 12 5/8 inches (14.4 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Murder of James I, King of Scotland

Creator:: Thomas Ryder, 1746–1810
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 × 24 3/8 inches (50.5 × 61.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 15 7/16 inches (26.4 × 39.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (31.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. The Field of Waterloo from Hougoumont

Creator:: Print made by Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; third state on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 5/8 inches (28.9 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee

Creator:: Caroline Watson, 1760–1814
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/16 x 17 13/16 inches (62 x 45.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander

49. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Le Coup de Maitre

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 3/16 inches (26.4 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. The Death of the Great Wolf

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 7/16 inches (34 × 44.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. The Coronation of Queen Victoria

Creator:: Print made by Charles E. Wagstaff, 1808–
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, stipple engraving, and mezzotint with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/4 × 37 3/8 inches (74.3 × 94.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. A View of the Fire in Covent Garden

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 13 1/8 inches (24.6 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

54. The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine-collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 20 inches (34.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Diavoli Pescatori

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
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

56. The City of the Pestilence

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1826 and 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 15 inches (29 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. And This Was Caesar

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: between 1838 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 x 8 1/16 inches (16 x 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. The Boats of His Majesty's Sloop 'Procris' Attacking and Capturing off the Coast of Java on 31st of July 1837

Creator:: Print made by Charles Rosenberg, active 1828–1848
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 9/16 × 25 5/16 inches (47.1 × 64.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The Web

Creator:: Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
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

60. Ten Needle-Box Prints

Creator:: Print made by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814–1885
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint, and stipple engraving with color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 5 1/2 inches (10.6 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. John Howard, Esq. Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Hogg, active 1751
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 1/2 × 24 1/4 inches (49.5 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alexander

62. Military Costumes of the Reign of King Henry VI, 1447

Creator:: Print made by John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 11/16 inches (26.9 x 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

63. Costume of the Reign of King Henry III, 1250

Creator:: Print made by John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches (26 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

64. Duke of Gloucester Taken into the Water Gate of Calais, 1380

Creator:: David Scott, 1806–1849
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and roulette on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/4 × 29 1/2 inches (56.5 × 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of David Bindman

65. The Battle at La Hogue

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 25 1/16 inches (50.2 × 63.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

66. General Washington

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Cheesman, 1760–1834/35
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 3/4 x 19 5/8in. (75.6 x 49.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. General Washington

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Cheesman, 1760–1834/35
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 3/8 × 18 1/2 inches (72.1 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. Constantia

Creator:: Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1750–ca.1790
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. Thais

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving (second state) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 × 13 inches (52.4 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 inches (36.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

71. The Battle Array of Carberry Hill Near Edinburgh with the Surrender of Mary Queen of Scots

Creator:: after George Vertue, 1684–1756
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving, and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/4 × 23 3/16 inches (47.6 × 58.9 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
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: 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. The Ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall

Creator:: Print made by Simon Gribelin, 1662–1733
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 18 5/16 inches (31.6 × 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Sensibility

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 11 7/16 inches (37 × 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a Balloon, June 20, 1785

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. The Spot where Harold Fell

Creator:: Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855
Date:: 1816 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etched state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 1/2 inches (29.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Marengo

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 12 inches (43.2 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Hougoumont

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 7 7/8 inches (31.1 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Placenza

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; early engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 13 1/4 inches (21.9 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Field of Waterloo, with Lightning

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 13 1/4 inches (21.9 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Fontainebleau

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 8 5/8 inches (33.7 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. HMS Bellerophon, Plymouth Sound

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 11 7/8 inches (43.2 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Vincennes

Creator:: Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (34.3 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Heriot's Hospital

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 20 1/16 inches (34.3 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Hannibal Passing the Alps

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etched state (a) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 5 3/8 inches (13.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Hannibal Passing the Alps

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 5 1/4 inches (11.1 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Hannibal Passing the Alps

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (c) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 7 3/8 inches (30.5 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Hannibal Passing the Alps

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, with graphite and scraping out; touched engraver's proof (d) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 6 inches (27.6 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Marengo

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine collé; open etched state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches (29.8 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Hannibal Passing the Alps

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 5 3/8 inches (11.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Marengo

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (44.5 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. William Tell's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (43.8 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. The Arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 8 11/16 inches (14.1 × 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

94. Earl Rivers Presenting His Book and Caxton, His Printer, to Edward IV

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 9 3/16 inches (30 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Glasgow Exhibition: Entrance from the Piazza

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 7 1/4 inches (28.3 × 18.4 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

96. Glasgow Exhibition: Ireland and Russia

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1901
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, beige Asian paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/16 inches (15.9 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

97. Battle Abbey, The spot where Harold Fell

Creator:: Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; later engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 17 3/8 inches (32.1 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Harlech Castle, North Wales

Creator:: Print made by W. R. Smith, active 1819–1851
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; third state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 14 15/16 inches (27.9 × 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. The Riot in Broad Street on the Seventh of June 1780

Creator:: Print made by James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving and etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 19 x 24 7/8in. (48.3 x 63.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Rameses II

Creator:: Print made by Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1909
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 7 1/2 inches (33 × 19.1 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

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1. Columbus Breaking the Egg

2. I Found Him Beneath a Tree (Plate 3)

3. At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell (Plate 8)

4. I Want! I Want! (Plate 11)

5. Aged Ignorance (Plate 13)

6. Does Thy God O Priest Take such Vengeance as This? (Plate 14)

7. Fear & Hope Are -- Vision (Plate 15)

8. The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening (Plate 16)

9. I Have Said to the Worm, Thou Art My Mother & My Sister (Plate 18)

10. For Children. The Gates of Paradise; Title Page (Plate 2)

11. Fire (Plate 7)

12. Alas! (Plate 9)

13. Help! Help! (Plate 12)

14. Death's Door (Plate 17)

15. Water (Plate 4)

16. Earth (Plate 5)

17. Air (Plate 6)

18. Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons

19. Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire

20. Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire

21. Pendennis Castle, and Entrance of Falmouth Harbour

22. The Medici Vase

23. Petrarch's House at Arqua

24. The Borghese Vase

25. Orford Castle and Church

26. Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire

27. Hannibal Passing the Alps

28. Pendennis Castle, and Entrance of Falmouth Harbour

29. Pendennis Castle, and Entrance of Falmouth Harbour

30. Petrarch's Tomb

31. Funeral of a Doge in St. Mark's Place

32. Giovanni and Garcia De' Medici

33. Brienne

34. Vincennes

35. "It's Auld Ailie Hersell"

36. Killiecrankie

37. Fontainebleau

38. Field of Waterloo, with Lightning

39. The Simplon

40. Killiecrankie

41. The Reception of the Rev. J. Williams at Tanna in the South Seas, the Day before He Was Massacred

42. The Death of Captain Cook

43. The Great Exhibition: Exterior View from the Southwest

44. The Murder of James I, King of Scotland

45. The Valley of the Shadow of Death

46. Flannel-Armour; Female-Patriotism, -or- Modern Heroes Accoutred for the Wars

47. The Field of Waterloo from Hougoumont

48. Garrick Reading the Ode at the Shakespeare Jubilee

49. Presages of the Millenium

50. Le Coup de Maitre

51. The Death of the Great Wolf

52. The Coronation of Queen Victoria

53. A View of the Fire in Covent Garden

54. The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay

55. Diavoli Pescatori

56. The City of the Pestilence

57. And This Was Caesar

58. The Boats of His Majesty's Sloop 'Procris' Attacking and Capturing off the Coast of Java on 31st of July 1837

59. The Web

60. Ten Needle-Box Prints

61. John Howard, Esq. Visiting and Relieving the Miseries of a Prison

62. Military Costumes of the Reign of King Henry VI, 1447

63. Costume of the Reign of King Henry III, 1250

64. Duke of Gloucester Taken into the Water Gate of Calais, 1380

65. The Battle at La Hogue

66. General Washington

67. General Washington

68. Constantia

69. Thais

70. The Theatrical Bubble: Being a New Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politico-Punchinello, in the art of Dramatic Puffing

71. The Battle Array of Carberry Hill Near Edinburgh with the Surrender of Mary Queen of Scots

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

73. The Ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall