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Prints and Drawings
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Webber, John, 1752–1793
5
Girtin, Thomas, 1775–1802
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Byron, Frederick George, 1764–1794
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Cosway, Richard, 1742–1821
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
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Wyatt, James, 1746–1813
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Alexander, William, 1767–1816
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Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797
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Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
1
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
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Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819
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Day, William, 1764–1807
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Dayes, Edward, 1763–1804
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Downman, John, 1750–1824
1
Gore, Charles, 1729–1807
1
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
1
Rooker, Michael "Angelo", 1746–1801
1
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
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1757
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1733
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1744
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1830
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1600
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1675
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1685
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1697
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1699
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On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
78
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77
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Classification
Prints
49
Drawings & Watercolors
25
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
2
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
2
Creator Gender
male
77
unknown
2
Collective Title
Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F
17
Songs of Innocence, Copy G
17
The Book of Thel, Copy R
8
The Book of Thel, Copy B
7
Views in the South Seas 1776-1780
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Period
18th century
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Materials & Techniques
watercolor
73
wove paper
61
relief etching
49
black ink
30
ink
25
graphite
19
laid paper
14
pen
12
gray ink
6
brown ink
5
gouache
3
gray wash
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ivory
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scraping
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drawing
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relief print
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frontispiece
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sketchbook
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travel literature
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literary theme
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historical subject
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landscape
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religious and mythological subject
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architectural subject
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genre subject
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portrait
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sporting art
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cityscape
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marine art
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Subject Terms
text
47
leaf
39
vines
37
children
35
trees
35
literary theme
32
women
31
branches
30
men
25
historical subject
16
vegetation
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mother
13
religious and mythological subject
13
flowers (plants)
12
nudes
11
hills
10
landscape
10
infant
9
sheep
9
shepherd
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United Kingdom
9
England
8
Europe
8
Kent
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Cobham
2
Cobham Hall
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Aberconwy and Colwyn
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Appleby
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Belgium
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Brabant (Belgium)
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Campania
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City of Westminster
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Conway
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Conway Castle
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Conwy
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Cumbria
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Cymru
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Derbyshire
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Dover
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Dover castle
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Associated People
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
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Johnstone, James Hope-, third earl of Hopetoun and de jure fifth earl of Annandale and Hartfell (1741–1816), landowner and army officer
1
Exhibition History
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)
18
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
18
William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04)
13
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
7
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13)
5
John Webber, R. A. (1752-1793) (Kunstmuseum Bern, 1996-03-26 - 1996-05-27)
4
John Webber, R. A. (1752-1793) (Whitworth Art Gallery, 1996-07-04 - 1996-09-15)
4
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11)
4
Thomas Girtin (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-01-21 - 1986-03-30)
3
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
2
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
2
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
2
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
2
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
2
Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018-09-21 - 2018-12-09)
2
Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2019-02-16 - 2019-05-12)
2
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
2
Richard and Maria Cosway - Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (National Portrait Gallery, 1996-11-17 - 1997-02-18)
2
Richard and Maria Cosway - Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1995-08-11 - 1995-10-29)
2
The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
76
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson in honor of Kasha Jenkinson
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Language
English
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Autumn Sowing of the Grain
ca. 1794
2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Villa in a Valley near Vietri sul Mare
ca. 1794
3
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
III, "But he that loves the lowly, pours his oil upon my head..." (Plate 7)
1789
4
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks..." (Plate 3)
1789
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
II. "O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee tell to me..." (Plate 5)
1789
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
III. "Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed..." (Plate 6)
1789
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
III, "But he that loves the lowly, pours his oil upon my head..." (Plate 7)
1789
8
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
IV. "The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar..." (Plate 8)
1789
9
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)
1789
10
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Cradle Song (Plate 26)
1789
11
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night (Plate 30)
1789
12
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Infant Joy (Plate 28)
1789
13
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)
1789
14
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Introduction (Plate 3)
1789
15
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Shepherd (Plate 4)
1789
16
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 10)
1789
17
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Girl Lost (Plate 20)
1789
18
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Black Boy (Plate 6)
1789
19
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Ecchoing Green (Plate 8)
1789
20
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Spring (Plate 12)
1789
21
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Laughing Song (Plate 14)
1789
22
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Lamb (Plate 18)
1789
23
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Divine Image (Plate 24)
1789
24
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Boy Lost (Plate 16)
1789
25
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Girl Found (Plate 22)
1789
26
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Songs of Innocence, Frontispiece (Plate 1)
1789
27
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Ecchoing Green (Plate 10)
1789
28
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Infant Joy (Plate 14)
1789
29
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night (Plate 16)
1789
30
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Cradle Song (Plate 18)
1789
31
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Songs of Innocence, Title Page (Plate 2)
1789
32
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Boy Lost (Plate 20)
1789
33
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Introduction (Plate 3)
1789
34
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Girl Found (Plate 6)
1789
35
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Lamb (Plate 8)
1789
36
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
On Anothers Sorrow (Plate 24)
1789
37
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Spring (Plate 26)
1789
38
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Laughing Song (Plate 28)
1789
39
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
A Dream (Plate 4)
1789
40
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Thel's Motto (Plate 1)
1789
41
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Title Page, The Book of Thel (Plate 2)
1789
42
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Title Page, The Book of Thel (Plate 2)
1789
43
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Thel I. "The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks..." (Plate 3)
1789
44
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
I, "Why should the mistress of the vales of Har, utter a sigh..." (Plate 4)
1789
45
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
III. "Then Thel astonish'd view'd the Worm upon its dewy bed..." (Plate 6)
1789
46
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
IV. "The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar..." (Plate 8)
1789
47
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
II. "O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee tell to me..." (Plate 5)
1789
48
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Divine Image (Plate 12)
1789
49
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Nurse's Song (Plate 22)
1789
50
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Little Black Boy (Plate 30)
1789
51
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
I, "Why should the mistress of the vales of Har, utter a sigh..." (Plate 4)
1789
52
John Webber, 1752–1793
View from Renard's Hole, Dovedale, Derbyshire
1789
53
unknown artist
A Toopapaoo of a Chief, with a Priest Making his Offering to the Morai, in Huoheine
1789
54
Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Konigstein
1789
55
Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger
1789
56
John Webber, 1752–1793
Hob Thursts Houses, Monsoldale, Derbyshire
1789
57
James Wyatt, 1746–1813
Cobham Hall, Kent: Plan of Ld. Darnely's Bedchamber as a Proposed to be Altered
1789
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Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Conway Castle
1789
59
John Webber, 1752–1793
Landscape in Derbyshire
1789
60
John Webber, 1752–1793
Rocks in Derbyshire
1789
61
James Wyatt, 1746–1813
Cobham Hall, Kent: Elevation of the Stables
1789
62
Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
The Mosque at Juanpore Built by Sultan Hussain Sherki | Taken in December 1789
1789
63
Frederick George Byron, 1764–1794
Shooting Party Setting Out
1789
64
Frederick George Byron, 1764–1794
Shooting Party Returning Home
1789
65
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
A Merchant's Office
1789
66
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Approach to Belle Grange Park
1789
67
William Day, 1764–1807
Renard's Hole, Dovedale, Derbyshire
1789
68
Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Appleby, Westmoreland
1789
69
William Alexander, 1767–1816
One of the Embassy Yachts
ca. 1794
70
Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun
1789
71
Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown
1789
72
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex
ca. 1794
73
attributed to Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Dover
undated
74
follower of Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Guisborough Priory
undated
75
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Three Clerical Scholars
1789
76
John Downman, 1750–1824
Miss Nott
1789
77
Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Spring - "From the Plains from the Woodlands and Groves, What Strains of Wild Melody Flow!"
1789
78
Ireland, Samuel, died 1800
Original watercolors for A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France,
1789