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Blake, William, 1757–1827
101
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
47
Unknown artist
43
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
38
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
22
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811
22
Ireland, A. M., active before 1801
20
Stubbs, George Townly, 1748–1815
15
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
15
Howitt, Samuel, 1756–1822
14
Cumberland, George, 1754–1848
12
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
9
Laurie, Robert, 1755?–1836
9
Porter, William Warren Rev., 1776–1804
9
Wheatley, Francis, 1747–1801
9
Canaletto, 1697–1768
8
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
8
Newton, Richard, 1777–1798
8
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
7
Gillray, James, 1756–1815
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Prints
350
Drawings & Watercolors
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Books
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Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
6
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
6
Archives & Manuscripts
3
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
2
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks
1
Maps & Atlas (printed)
1
Creator Gender
male
425
unknown
128
female
5
Collective Title
The First Book of Urizen, Copy A
29
Picturesque Views with an Historical Account of the Inns of Court in London and Westminster
28
The First Book of Urizen, Copy C
26
Europe. A Prophecy, Copy A
17
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F
17
Thoughts on Outline
12
Cries of London
6
'The Copper-Plate Magazine' and 'The Itinerant,' 1794-1798
4
Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
4
Propagation of a Lie
3
The Cries of London
2
Macklin's British Poets
1
The Copper-Plate Magazine' and 'The Itinerant, 1794-1798
1
The Pocket Magazine
1
The Tragedy of Macbeth
1
Period
18th century
483
18th century-19th century
35
19th century
7
20th century
1
Materials & Techniques
wove paper
225
watercolor
162
color printing
93
relief etching
88
graphite
72
black ink
64
laid paper
33
stipple engraving
31
line engraving
27
etching (printing process)
22
mezzotint
22
pen
22
brown ink
17
oil paint
17
aquatint
12
brown wash
12
gouache
10
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9
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intaglio print
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drawing
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relief print
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aquatint
15
auction catalog
8
engraving
8
drawing book
5
map
4
armorial bookplates (provenance)
3
conder token
3
etching
3
game
3
halfpennie
3
recreation
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soft-ground etching
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token
3
board game
2
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literary theme
71
architectural subject
55
religious and mythological subject
52
genre subject
39
landscape
36
historical subject
26
portrait
24
marine art
11
animal art
9
sporting art
7
cityscape
4
figure study
4
military art
3
botanical subject
2
still life
2
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men
69
text
66
literary theme
57
architectural subject
52
religious and mythological subject
49
nudes
46
trees
41
women
35
landscape
34
vines
28
flames
27
fire
25
historical subject
22
beard
21
leaf
20
branches
18
children
18
clouds
18
portrait
16
man
15
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18th century
5
17th century
1
19th century
1
Associated Places
England
42
United Kingdom
35
Europe
21
Great Britain
17
London
14
Kent
7
Greater London
6
France
5
London (England)
5
Wales
5
Hampshire
3
Lambeth
3
River Medway
3
Rochester
3
Scotland
3
Southwark
3
Vauxhall Gardens
3
Wye
3
Bristol (England)
2
Chepstow
2
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Associated People
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
18
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815
2
Bannister, John (1760–1836), actor
1
Barret, George (1732?–1784), landscape painter
1
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver
1
Bligh, William, 1754–1817
1
Bodimeade, William, -1794
1
Bourgeois, Peter Francis, Sir, 1756–1811
1
Burch, Edward (bap. 1730, d. 1814), gem-engraver
1
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713–1792
1
Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734–1802
1
Carlini, Agostino (c.1718–1790), sculptor
1
Catton, Charles, the younger (1756–1819), landscape painter and book illustrator
1
Chamberlin, Mason (bap. 1722, d. 1787), portrait painter
1
Chambers, Sir William (1722–1796), architect
1
Christian, Edward, -1823
1
Christian, Fletcher, 1764–1793
1
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727–1785), decorative painter and draughtsman
1
Close, Sir Barry, baronet (1756–1813), army officer in the East India Company and political officer in India
1
Cook, James, 1728–1779
1
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Exhibition History
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)
47
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
47
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04)
43
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
34
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
31
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30)
8
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)
7
William Blake (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-03-26 - 2000-07-05)
6
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15)
5
Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
5
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
5
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11)
4
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13)
3
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
3
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
3
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
2
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
2
Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)
2
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
2
Stubbs & The Horse (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-11-14 - 2005-02-06)
2
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
346
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection
44
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
23
Yale Center for British Art
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W
6
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of William S. Konecky
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr. Yale BE 1945W, and John Charles Street, Yale BA 1951, MA 1952, PhD 1955 in memory of our fathers Edward Porter Street, Yale 1920, and Charles Larrabee Street, Yale 1914
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
2
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Rhyne
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David M. Doret in memory of William Ferguson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mrs. Anitha E. Deitch
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Yale University Library
1
Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906
1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth
1
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Hill Morgan
1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, Bequest of Doris M. Brixey
1
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Bequest of Doris M. Brixey
1
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English
80
French
4
German
1
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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after William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Sketches from Pen and Ink Drawings, Character and Caricatura
1794
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
The Angler
1794
10
George Romney, 1734–1802
Figure Composition Study 1
1794
11
George Romney, 1734–1802
Plans for the House to be Built at Hampstead
1794
12
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IV, "From the caverns of his jointed spine..." (Plate 10)
1794
13
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter VII, "Stretch'd for a work of eternity..." (Plate 19)
1794
14
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Fly (Plate 48)
1794
15
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Human Abstract (Plate 46)
1794
16
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
My Pretty Rose Tree (Plate 47)
1794
17
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Earth's Answer (Plate 35)
1794
18
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Holy Thursday (Plate 38)
1794
19
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Nurses Song (Plate 37)
1794
20
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Songs of Experience, Frontispiece (Plate 32)
1794
21
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
London (Plate 39)
1794
22
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Tyger (Plate 42)
1794
23
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Little Girl Lost (Plate 44)
1794
24
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Little Boy Lost (Plate 43)
1794
25
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 45)
1794
26
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2)
1794
27
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Angel (Plate 40)
1794
28
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Songs of Experience, Title Page (Plate 33)
1794
29
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Introduction (Plate 34)
1794
30
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Clod & the Pebble (Plate 36)
1794
31
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Poison Tree (Plate 41)
1794
32
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter VIII, "Of life on his forsaken mountains..." (Plate 20)
1794
33
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Urizen (Plate 22)
1794
34
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"The Ox in the slaughter house moans..." (Plate 23)
1794
35
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Urizen (Plate 14)
1794
36
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 24)
1794
37
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Urizen (Plate 21)
1794
38
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Title Page, The First Book of Urizen (Plate 1)
1794
39
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter II, "Muster around the bleak desarts..." (Plate 4)
1794
40
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter I, "Lo, a shadow of horror is risen..." (Plate 3)
1794
41
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Preludium. "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2b)
1794
42
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Urizen Swims through Dark Waters (Plate 5)
1794
43
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"In living creations appear'd..." (Plate 6)
1794
44
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter III, "As the stars are apart from the earth..." (Plate 7)
1794
45
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Urizen (Plate 8)
1794
46
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IV, "Ages on ages roll'd over him..." (Plate 9)
1794
47
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 11)
1794
48
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter V, "Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided..." (Plate 13)
1794
49
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Fettered Urizen Weeping (Plate 12)
1794
50
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
From a Globe of Blood Rises Enitharmon (Plate 16)
1794
51
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter V, "The globe of life blood trembled..." (Plate 15)
1794
52
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"They call'd her Pity, and fled..." (Plate 17)
1794
53
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Los with the child Orc and Enitharmon (Plate 18)
1794
54
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IX, "They lived a period of years..." (Plate 25)
1794
55
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"In thoughts perturb'd they rose..." (Plate 11)
1794
56
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Plague (Plate 13)
1794
57
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"And the clouds & fires pale rolld round in the night of Enitharmon"... (Plate 14)
1794
58
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"The red limb'd Angel siez'd in horror and torment..." (Plate 15)
1794
59
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Ethinthus queen of waters, how thou shinest in the sky..." (Plate 16)
1794
60
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Famine (Plate 8)
1794
61
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Arise 'O Rintrah eldest born..." (Plate 9)
1794
62
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Title Page, The First Book of Urizen (Plate 1)
1794
63
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Los howld in a dismal stupor..." (Plate 10)
1794
64
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Shot from the heights of Enitharmon..." (Plate 17)
1794
65
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"The shrill winds wake!..." (Plate 6)
1794
66
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Now comes the night of Enitharmons joy!..." (Plate 7)
1794
67
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
From a Globe of Blood Rises Enitharmon (Plate 11)
1794
68
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Frontispiece, The Ancient of Days (Plate 1)
1794
69
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Preludium, "The nameless shadowy female rose from out the breast of Orc..." (Plate 3)
1794
70
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Enitharmon slept. ..." (Plate 10)
1794
71
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Praying Child and Howling Dog (Plate 25)
1794
72
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IX, "They lived a period of years..." (Plate 27)
1794
73
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Fettered Urizen Weeping (Plate 3)
1794
74
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 4 (Bentley 24)
1794
75
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter I, "Lo, a shadow of horror is risen..." (Plate 5)
1794
76
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter III, "As the stars are apart from the earth..." (Plate 9)
1794
77
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"The Ox in the slaughter house moans..." (Plate 26)
1794
78
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 28 (Bentley 27)
1794
79
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"In living creations appear'd..." (Plate 8)
1794
80
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter VII, "Stretch'd for a work of eternity..." (Plate 22)
1794
81
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter VIII, "Of life on his forsaken mountains..." (Plate 24)
1794
82
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 23 (Bentley 9)
1794
83
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter II, "Muster around the bleak desarts..." (Plate 6)
1794
84
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Urizen Swims through Dark Waters (Plate 7)
1794
85
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter V, "Two Nostrils bent down to the deep..." (Plate 16)
1794
86
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Los with the child Orc and Enitharmon (Plate 18)
1794
87
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"They call'd her Pity, and fled..." (Plate 19)
1794
88
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter V, "The globe of life blood trembled..." (Plate 17)
1794
89
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Preludium to the First Book of Urizen, "Of the primeval Priests assum'd power..." (Plate 2)
1794
90
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter V, "Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided..." (Plate 20)
1794
91
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Los Falls through Fire (Plate 21)
1794
92
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Title Page, Europe a Prophecy (Plate 2)
1794
93
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Unwilling I look up to heaven! unwilling count the stars!..." (Plate 4)
1794
94
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Prophecy. "The deep of winter came..." (Plate 5)
1794
95
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
"Albions Angel rose upon the Stone of Night..." (Plate 12)
1794
96
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IV, "Los smitten with astonishment..." (Plate 12)
1794
97
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IV, "Ages on ages roll'd over him..." (Plate 13)
1794
98
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Chapter IV, "From the caverns of his jointed spine..." (Plate 14)
1794
99
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 15 (Bentley 14)
1794
100
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The First Book of Urizen
1794
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