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1. Study of a Gentleman in 17th Century Costume

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: between 1827 and 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 4 1/2 inches (11.7 × 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving and drypoint print on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint print on moderately thick, textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 9/16 inches (28.2 x 39.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 15 1/2 inches (27.8 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Print made by Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 8 3/8 inches (18.2 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. La Conversation

Creator:: Print made by Rose Joseph Lemercier, 1803–1887
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with gray chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 11 inches (36.5 x 28 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Le Retour

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (36.2 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Prince Albert

Creator:: after George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: after 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, etching and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on contemporary cream card with unevenly painted gold border
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/16 x 8 1/16 inches (25.5 x 20.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Hampton Court

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching, and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 1/8 inches (14 × 20.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Queen Victoria

Creator:: after George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, etching, and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 7 1/2 inches (27.5 × 19 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Set of Needle-Box Prints

Creator:: Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, with color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/16 × 4 9/16 inches (5.5 × 11.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Le Silence Favorable

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with gray chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 5/8 inches (36 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Les Plaisirs Paternels

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 x 5 13/16 inches (19.8 x 14.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Darly, active 1754–1778
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 10 1/2 inches (44.9 x 26.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Rivals: Extremes Meet

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 1/16 inches (30.5 x 45.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Materials for a Strong and Adhesive Government: A peep into the Lobby, on the Occasion of a Late Division.

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 15/16 inches (30.8 x 45.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Strong Case for Shortening the Hours of Labour

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 18 1/8 inches (30.4 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Scene From the Farce of "The Critic," a Little Altered.

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 1/16 inches (30.5 x 45.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Man Wot "Whips the House Out"

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 11 13/16 inches (43.8 x 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Fancy Ball, Winding up with Sir Roger de Coverley, in Appropriate Costume.

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 9/16 x 24 5/16 inches (44.6 x 61.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Nicholas Hilliard

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Chambars, ca. 1724–1789
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 11/16 x 9 1/8 inches (29.7 x 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Sales by Auction! - or Provident Children Disposing of their Deceased Mother's Effects for the Benefit of the Creditors!!

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (31.2 x 42 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. George Cruikshank, self-portrait

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 5 1/8 inches (20.7 × 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Entrance to Lincoln Cathedral

Creator:: Print made by Ebenezer Challis, active 1837–1859
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 5/8 inches (14.8 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Seht Ihr denn nichts hier: 'Hamlet,' Act IV, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 inches (16.3 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. ...in ein Nonnen Kloster geh: 'Hamlet,' Act III, Scene IX

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 3 3/4 inches (16.4 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Bonneau, 1741–1786
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 15 1/2 inches (28.8 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Lady Amabel and Lady Mary, Daughters of Lord Royston and the Marchioness of Grey

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 1/4 inches (50.2 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Le Retour de Paris, or, the Niece Presented to her Relatives by her French Governess

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 16 1/8 inches (29 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Lady Rushout and Daughter

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 × 13 1/16 inches (43.3 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 13/16 x 11 15/16 inches (37.7 x 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of the Merry Wives of Windsor

Creator:: Print made by William Dickinson, 1746–1823
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 11 5/16 inches (31.2 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. View of Leiston Abbey

Creator:: Print made by William Byrne, 1743–1805
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 x 11 3/4 inches (24.6 x 29.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina

Creator:: Print made by John Finlayson, 1730–1776
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 x 11 5/16 inches (39.2 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. 'Henry IV, Part I,' Act II, Scene III

Creator:: Print made by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowieki, German, 1726–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/16 × 2 3/8 inches (10.3 × 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Content and Innocence

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored stipple engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/8 x 15 1/4 inches (51.7 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Terrace

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: ca. 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 x 5 1/2 inches (19.8 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. War !!! Commencement of Hostilities --Combined movement of the Allied Powers.

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 17 1/8 inches (30.3 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie

40. A Graceful Speciman of The Retort Courteous

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 17 5/16 inches (30.5 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Brian and Linda Gracie

41. People Promenading in the Country

Creator:: Print made by Edward Gordon Craig, 1872–1966
Date:: 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving on medium, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 4 13/16 inches (17.8 × 12.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

42. Mr. Deputy Dumpling and Family Enjoying a Summer Afternoon

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/8 inches (35.7 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Study of a Gentleman in 17th Century Costume

2. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

3. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

4. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

5. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

6. The Judgement of Paris

7. La Conversation

8. Le Retour

9. Prince Albert

10. Hampton Court

11. Queen Victoria

12. Set of Needle-Box Prints

13. Le Silence Favorable

14. Les Plaisirs Paternels

15. The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady

16. The Rivals: Extremes Meet

17. Materials for a Strong and Adhesive Government: A peep into the Lobby, on the Occasion of a Late Division.

18. A Strong Case for Shortening the Hours of Labour

19. A Scene From the Farce of "The Critic," a Little Altered.

20. The Man Wot "Whips the House Out"

21. A Fancy Ball, Winding up with Sir Roger de Coverley, in Appropriate Costume.

22. Nicholas Hilliard

23. Sales by Auction! - or Provident Children Disposing of their Deceased Mother's Effects for the Benefit of the Creditors!!

24. George Cruikshank, self-portrait

25. Entrance to Lincoln Cathedral

26. Seht Ihr denn nichts hier: 'Hamlet,' Act IV, Scene II

27. ...in ein Nonnen Kloster geh: 'Hamlet,' Act III, Scene IX

28. One of six perspective designs for the Concave Mirror and engraved mirrors in Vauxhall Gardens

29. Lady Amabel and Lady Mary, Daughters of Lord Royston and the Marchioness of Grey

30. Le Retour de Paris, or, the Niece Presented to her Relatives by her French Governess

31. Lady Rushout and Daughter

32. Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley

33. Mrs. Gwynne and Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of the Merry Wives of Windsor

34. View of Leiston Abbey

35. La Signora Zamperini in the Character of Cecchina

36. 'Henry IV, Part I,' Act II, Scene III

37. Content and Innocence

38. The Terrace

39. War !!! Commencement of Hostilities --Combined movement of the Allied Powers.

40. A Graceful Speciman of The Retort Courteous

41. People Promenading in the Country

42. Mr. Deputy Dumpling and Family Enjoying a Summer Afternoon