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1. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

2. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

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

3. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

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

4. John Armstrong, M.D.

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

5. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

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

6. Anne Killigrew

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

7. A Grub Street Poet

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

8. William Drummond of Hawthorne

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

9. Henry More

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

10. Samuel Johnson

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

11. Sappho

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

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

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

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

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

14. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

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

15. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

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

16. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

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

17. Edwin

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

18. Edwin

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

19. Thomas Gray

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

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

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

21. Robert Burns

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

22. James Beattie, LL.D.

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

23. Mr. Thomas Gray

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

24. Lovelace in Prison

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

25. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

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

26. Alexander Pope, Profile

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

27. The Poet

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

28. Portrait of William Blake

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

29. William Drummond of Hawthornden

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

30. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)

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

31. Mary Robinson

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

32. Reverend William Mason

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

33. Reverend. William Mason

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

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1. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

2. Thomas Shadwell, Esquire, Poet Laureat & Historiographer

3. A Gathering at Fulham Palace

4. John Armstrong, M.D.

5. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

6. Anne Killigrew

7. A Grub Street Poet

8. William Drummond of Hawthorne

9. Henry More

10. Samuel Johnson

11. Sappho

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

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

14. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

15. Hester Lynch Thrale, afterwards, Hester Lynch Piozzi

16. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

17. Edwin

18. Edwin

19. Thomas Gray

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

21. Robert Burns

22. James Beattie, LL.D.

23. Mr. Thomas Gray

24. Lovelace in Prison

25. Laurence Sterne, A.M.

26. Alexander Pope, Profile

27. The Poet

28. Portrait of William Blake

29. William Drummond of Hawthornden

30. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)

31. Mary Robinson

32. Reverend William Mason

33. Reverend. William Mason