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1. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: 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

2. The Cypress Grove

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1880 and 1883
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (25.7 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

3. The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1751, printed 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 x 19 1/4 inches (63.2 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell

4. Tenth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: 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

5. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: 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

6. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: 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

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

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: 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

8. The Deluge

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1813 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: 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

9. Tenth Plague of Egypt

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: 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

11. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 inches (28.3 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Figures Mourning at the Bier of a Woman

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 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

13. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 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 line 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. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 16 9/16 inches (31.2 × 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

16. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. "And One stood forth from the Divine Family..." (Plate 37)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. "Albion cold lays on his Rock..." (Plate 94)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line 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

21. "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother & my sister" (Plate 18)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. "Fear & hope are -- Vision" (Plate 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Chapter IV, "Los smitten with astonishment..." (Plate 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Death of Juliet

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (24.4 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

27. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1786 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (18.7 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Death of Cordelia

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, red crayon, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. The Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 5 1/8 x 6 11/16 inches (13 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Melville and Naomi Stone

31. The Spoiled Child, Scene II

Creator:: Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 x 20 3/8 inches (39.1 x 51.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Deposition

Creator:: Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959
Date:: 1910
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 9 3/4 inches (36.4 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphis (four of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 8 3/8 inches (35.6 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Greatheart's Battle with Grim

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 4 inches (12.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A Dying Hindu Brought to the River Ganges

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches (27 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (16.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: between 1760 and 1763
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 inches (17.5 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Celadon and Amelia from Thomson's 'The Seasons'

Creator:: Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (15.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (35.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Murder of Kenith Hossack by Captain Lowry

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 inches (16.2 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Murder in the Carriage (Probably a Design for The Tyburn Chronicle)

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Study for 'Finding of the Body of Bassanio'

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 inches (30.8 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Burial of Sarah

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 3 7/8 x 5 13/16 inches (9.8 x 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Cain and Abel

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Death of Ananias

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Death of - set by William Etty R.A.

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 9/16 inches (13.3 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Adonis dies in the arms of Venus

Creator:: Print made by Wallerant Vaillant, 1623–1677
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 × 12 3/16 inches (38.3 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. The Brothers of Joseph Showing his Bloody Coat

Creator:: Print made by John Murphy, ca. 1748–1820
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 9/16 × 25 3/4 inches (54.8 × 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 inches (26.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Sigismonda

Creator:: Print made by John Blackmore, active 1740–1780
Date:: between 1769 and 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (42.8 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

51. Pieta

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: between 1681 and 1688
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 6 15/16 inches (14.4 × 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Creator:: Print made by John Smith, the mezzotinter, 1652–1743
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 15/16 inches (16.8 × 12.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. The Death of the Good Old Man

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

Creator:: Print made by Luigi Schiavonetti, 1765–1810
Date:: 1808, published 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 inches (28.9 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. What's Humane Life, Where Nothing Long Can Stand? Time Flyes, Our Glory Fades, and Death's at Hand.

Creator:: Print made by William Faithorne the Younger, ca. 1669–1703
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 9 3/16 inches (18.5 x 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. De Kruisiging

Creator:: Print made by Frederik Christiaan Bierweiler, active 1800–1831
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 × 19 3/4 inches (66.7 × 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. De Begraving

Creator:: Print made by Frederik Christiaan Bierweiler, active 1800–1831
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 3/8 × 20 1/2 inches (67 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

59. "Sporting Notions": 'All He Is Fit For Sir, Now is to Be Cut Up. I Have a Notion That He Can't Be Cut up More Than Myself'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 5/16 inches (17.3 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Modern Puritan, Hanging a Cat on a Monday for Killing a Mouse on a Sunday!!!

Creator:: Print made by Charles Jameson Grant, active 1830–1852
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 15 13/16 inches (27.8 x 40.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Bindman

61. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 1/2 inches (23.5 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Death of the First Born

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 inches (55.6 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Edward Calvert, 1799–1883
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on medium, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches (9.4 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 inches (21.8 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

65. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink, graphite, brown wash, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 20 3/4 inches (41.9 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. Death of the First Born of Egypt

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and red and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 19 15/16 x 27 15/16 inches (50.6 x 70.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

67. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut by Mockler on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, orange-beige wove card
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 x 6 5/16 inches (22.9 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. The Death: The Fox Hoist to a Fence

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 17 5/16 inches (26 × 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. The Death: Yokels Watching in Foreground

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (23.2 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Foxhunting: The Death

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. The Murder on the Thames

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (23 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

73. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut by Mockler on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, orange-beige wove card
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 7/8 x 6 inches (22.5 x 15.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut done by an unknown later printer on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, yellow card
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19.1 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut done by an unknown later printer on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, yellow card
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House:The Death, Engraved as Plate 40 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 11/16 × 13 11/16 inches (24.6 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Fatal Bellman

Creator:: Print made by George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 x 5 3/8 inches (17.3 x 13.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

78. [Animals: an eagle with a dead pheasant, watched by a fox]

Creator:: Print made by John Murphy, ca. 1748–1820
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 24 1/4 inches (49.2 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut by Mockler on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, orange-beige wove card
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 7/8 x 6 5/16 inches (22.6 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. A Landscape, with the Story of Apollo and Marsyas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches (27.6 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

81. Views in the Levant: Death of Wolfe, Study of a Gem

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper,
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 × 6 13/16 inches (22.4 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1852 or 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, laid on dome-shaped gold paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/8 x 13 1/16 inches (21.2 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. The Body of Lucretia Exposed to the Romans

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784
Date:: between 1777 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 x 37 inches (63.2 x 94 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

84. After Sun-Set

Creator:: Print made by John Browne, 1741–1801
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 16 5/8 inches (32.1 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. The Destruction of Job's Sons

Creator:: circle of John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (13.3 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Imitator of George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving; color woodcut done by an unknown later printer on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, yellow card
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches (19 x 14.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791–1873
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; finished state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 18 inches (34 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Column at Yarmouth to the Memory of Lord Nelson

Creator:: Print made by John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches (47.9 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Procris and Cephalus

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (26 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

90. St. Nil

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 9/16 x 12 15/16 inches (49.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Monumentum hoc ad austrum in choro Ecclesiae cathedralis Worcestiae positum

Creator:: Print made by James Basire II, 1769–1822
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 13/16 inches (22.2 × 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. The Death of Cora

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 x 10 3/16 inches (34.4 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Death on a Pale Horse

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (62.5 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Cephalus and Procris

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 11 inches (19.6 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Romeo and Juliet: Act IV, Scene III (A Monument Belonging to the Capulets)

Creator:: Print made by Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, etching, and aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/8 × 29 3/8 inches (51.1 × 74.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. "Scraps", No. 26: Hunting - The Kill, Fox About to be Thrown to the Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 5/16 inches (18.3 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Symptoms: of Unwelcome Guests, of Being Off the Curb, of Can't Exactly Say: No Consulation of Physicians, of W'ont Exactly Say: No Consultations of Lawyers.

Symptoms: of Unwelcome Guests, of Being Off the Curb, of Can't Exactly Say: No Consulation of Physicians, of W'ont Exactly Say: No Consultations of Lawyers.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 8 13/16 inches (17 × 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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1. The Cypress Grove

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3. The Third Stage of Cruelty: Cruelty in Perfection - The Murder

4. Tenth Plague of Egypt

5. Procris and Cephalus

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

8. The Deluge

9. Tenth Plague of Egypt

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

11. Procris and Cephalus

12. Figures Mourning at the Bier of a Woman

13. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

14. Death's Door (Plate 17)

15. Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V

16. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

17. 'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)

18. "And One stood forth from the Divine Family..." (Plate 37)

19. "Albion cold lays on his Rock..." (Plate 94)

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

21. "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother & my sister" (Plate 18)

22. "Fear & hope are -- Vision" (Plate 15)

23. Chapter IV, "Los smitten with astonishment..." (Plate 12)

24. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

25. 'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)

26. The Death of Juliet

27. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

28. Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons

29. The Death of Cordelia

30. The Royal Sport, Pit Ticket

31. The Spoiled Child, Scene II

32. Deposition

33. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphis (four of four)

34. Greatheart's Battle with Grim

35. A Dying Hindu Brought to the River Ganges

36. One of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis

37. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus

38. Celadon and Amelia from Thomson's 'The Seasons'

39. Illustration to Tonson's Ovid Metamorphosis (three of four)

40. The Murder of Kenith Hossack by Captain Lowry

41. Murder in the Carriage (Probably a Design for The Tyburn Chronicle)

42. Study for 'Finding of the Body of Bassanio'

43. Burial of Sarah

44. Cain and Abel

45. The Death of Ananias

46. The Death of - set by William Etty R.A.

47. Adonis dies in the arms of Venus

48. The Brothers of Joseph Showing his Bloody Coat

49. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

50. Sigismonda

51. Pieta

52. Judith with the Head of Holofernes

53. The Soul Hovering over the Body reluctantly Parting with Life

54. The Death of the Good Old Man

55. The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child, in the Tomb

56. What's Humane Life, Where Nothing Long Can Stand? Time Flyes, Our Glory Fades, and Death's at Hand.

57. De Kruisiging

58. De Begraving

59. "Sporting Notions": 'All He Is Fit For Sir, Now is to Be Cut Up. I Have a Notion That He Can't Be Cut up More Than Myself'

60. The Modern Puritan, Hanging a Cat on a Monday for Killing a Mouse on a Sunday!!!

61. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

62. Death of the First Born

63. The Ploughman

64. The Last Scene: 'Jack Sheppard's Farewell to Mr Wood / Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard / The Body of Jack Sheppard carried off by the Mob'

65. Death on a Pale Horse

66. Death of the First Born of Egypt

67. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

68. The Death

69. The Death: The Fox Hoist to a Fence

70. The Death: Yokels Watching in Foreground

71. Foxhunting: The Death

72. The Murder on the Thames

73. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington

74. Funeral of the Late Duke of Wellington