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1. La Cava

La Cava
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1838
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige-brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 x 9 13/16 inches (12.2 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
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
The Divine Image (Plate 24)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Infant Joy (Plate 28)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lamb (Plate 8)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Divine Image (Plate 12)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
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
III. "Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed..." (Plate 6)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/8 x 9 inches (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Eragrostis Tef
Creator:
Andrew Fyfe, 1752–1824
Date:
1775
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 7/8 inches (40.3 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Dioecici (botanical specimen)
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 8 13/16 inches (27.9 × 22.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Madonna and Child
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 7/8 × 2 1/8 inches (7.3 × 5.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Brucea antidysenterica J. Miller (James Bruce's Tree): finished drawing of part stem with flowering shoots and leafy shoots
Creator:
Frederick P. Nodder, active 1773–1800
Date:
1777
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 13/16 x 14 1/16 inches (47.8 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Figures Seated at a Table Being Served Food, Crockem Wells, Devonshire
Creator:
John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 7 1/8 inches (11.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View of the Cathedral of Christ Church, and Part of Corpus Christi College
Creator:
Print made by James Basire II, 1769–1822
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 × 19 inches (37.8 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View of the Cathedral of Christ Church, and Part of Corpus Christi College
Creator:
Print made by James Basire II, 1769–1822
Date:
1811
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (35.9 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Christ Church Cathedral and Part of Corpus Christi College
Creator:
Print made by Joseph Skelton, active 1820–1850
Date:
1820
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving; published state on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 16 3/8 inches (29.8 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of a Thistle
Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (18.4 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Siena

Siena
Creator:
Print made by Austin, Robert, 1895-1973, 1895–1973
Date:
1927
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 1/4 inches (27.5 x 20.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
The Dandelion
Creator:
Print made by unknown artist
Date:
1909
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 15/16 x 5 1/16 inches (15.1 x 12.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Plant Study
Creator:
James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Maunoutehn
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/16 × 7 1/16 inches (13.8 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
Milkweed, after the Original by John White in the British Museum [Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia, No. 55 A]
Creator:
Mrs. P. D. H. Page, 20th century
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 8 1/8 inches (35.4 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Plant Sketches
Creator:
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 10 3/8 inches (35.6 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
White Hibiscus
Creator:
Lionel Grimston Fawkes, 1849–1931
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 6 inches (17.8 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Eucharis or Spider Lily
Creator:
Lionel Grimston Fawkes, 1849–1931
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (14.6 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Nutmeg, Trinidad
Creator:
Lionel Grimston Fawkes, 1849–1931
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 6 inches (17.8 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 15 1/8 inches (23.8 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Eryngium foetidum (Prue)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2009
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Pastinaca (Parsnip), Plate 379 from 'A Curious Herbal', volume II, London, 1737
Creator:
Print made by Elizabeth Blackwell, died 1774
Date:
1737
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 1/8 inches (37.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Caryophyllus X. Mercurius. Plate 67 from 'Hortus Nitidissimis Omnem per Annum Superbiens Floribus', Nuremberg, 1768
Creator:
Print made by Adam Ludwig Wirsing, 1733–1797
Date:
1768
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving with original hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Bodmin Cornwall: The Arrival of the Stage-Coach
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 15 inches (23.5 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Blue Passion Flower, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, 'The Temple of Flora', London, 1799-1812
Creator:
Print made by James Caldwall, 1739–1819
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint, stipple and line engraving with hand coloring on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 1/2 x 18 7/8 inches (59.7 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
The Dragon Arum, 1801, from Robert John Thornton, the 'Temple of Flora', 1799-1812
Creator:
Print made by William Ward, 1766–1826
Date:
December 1, 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Color printed mezzotint with hand coloring in waterclor on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (57.2 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
The White Lily with Variegated-Leaves, 1800, from Robert John Thornton, the 'Temple of Flora', 1799-1812
Creator:
Print made by Joseph Constantine Stadler, active 1780–1812
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Aquatint engraving with original hand color on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 3/8 x 16 1/4 inches (51.8 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
Phalaena Aceris. Acer Rubrum (Grey Maple Moth, Red Maple), Plate 93 from James Edward Smith, the 'Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia', London, 1797
Creator:
Print made by John Harris the elder, 1767–1832
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving with original hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 x 12 1/4 inches (40.6 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John D. Viener, Yale AB 1961
A Review in a Market Place
Creator:
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 13 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches (34.3 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Professor Henslow with Plant
Creator:
Richard Dykes Alexander, 1788–1865
Date:
ca. 1855
Materials & Techniques:
Salted paper print from a wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches (17.1 × 14 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Plant Study
Creator:
Robert Burrows, 1810–1883
Date:
1860s
Materials & Techniques:
Albumen print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (10.8 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Fake Death Picture (Death of Chatterton - Henry Wallis)
Creator:
Yinka Shonibare CBE, born 1962
Date:
2011
Materials & Techniques:
Digital chromogenic print on photographic paper mounted on Diasec in black frame
Dimensions:
Frame: 58 5/8 × 71 1/4 × 1 5/8 inches (148.9 × 181 × 4.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, and Friends of British Art Fund
Aristolochia bilobata (Nimine)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2010
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Convolvulus jalapa (Yara)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2010
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Veronica frutescens (Mazerine)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2009
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Poinciana pulcherrima (Lilith)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2009
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 50 × 30 inches (127 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Petiveria aliacea (Mirtilla)
Creator:
Joscelyn Gardner, born 1961
Date:
2011
Materials & Techniques:
Hand-colored lithograph on frosted mylar
Dimensions:
Sheet: 36 × 24 inches (91.4 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
No. 2 from The Group
Creator:
Print made by Ibrahim El-Salahi, born 1930
Date:
2016
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 11 1/8 inches (34.2 × 28.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund