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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
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
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
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

5. Edwin

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

6. Edwin

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Joan Murray
Creator:
Bill Jay, 1940–2009
Date:
2004
Materials & Techniques:
Digital Ink jet print on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 inches (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
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
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
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
William Butler Yeats, Poet (1865-1939)
Creator:
Print made by Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961
Date:
1919
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (29.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts
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
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
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
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

29. Sappho

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
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
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
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
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
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
No cover image available
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