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1. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 12 7/8 inches (26.9 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Sepulchre

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1800; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 13/16 inches (24 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Homeward Star

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

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

5. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

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

6. '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

7. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

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

8. 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)

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

9. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

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

10. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

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

11. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

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

12. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

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

13. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

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. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

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

15. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

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

16. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

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

17. '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

18. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

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

19. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

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

20. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

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

21. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

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

22. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

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

23. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

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

24. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

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

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

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. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

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

27. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

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

28. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

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

29. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

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

30. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

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

31. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

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

32. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

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

33. 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)

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

34. '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

35. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

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

36. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

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

37. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

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

38. Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page

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

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

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

40. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

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

41. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

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

42. '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

43. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

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

44. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

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

45. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

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

46. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

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

47. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

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

48. 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)

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

49. 'The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)

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

50. '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

51. Venus Presenting Armour to Aeneas

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 13 1/16 inches (25.4 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"

Creator:: Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: 1739
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 inches (27.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. 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

54. Saberna

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Park, ca. 1760–1834
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 12 13/16 inches (42.9 × 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. The Brides of Venice

Creator:: Print made by Charles Rolls, 1800–active 1830
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 7/8 inches (44.1 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. "Here, I and sorrows sit; here is my throne, bid kings come and bow to it"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 inches (42.8 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

57. Dr. Goldsmith

Creator:: Print made by Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 13 inches (46 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. O Evening thou Bringest All

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 7/8 inches (22.9 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Caliban, from The Tempest

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
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

60. Lear, from King Lear, Act III, Scene ii

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, published state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 11/16 inches (42.9 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Griselda Returning to her Father

Creator:: Print made by Amedeo Gabrielli, 1749–1817
Date:: after 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 13 inches (43.4 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. "This is fairy gold, boy, and will prove so"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (42.7 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

63. The Goddess of Discord

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Abiel Prior, 1809–1886
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 7/8 inches (23.2 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Dido and Aeneas

Creator:: Print made by James Tibbits Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 inches (23.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 inches (23.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Reverend Thomas Warton

Creator:: Charles Howard Hodges, 1764–1837
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 14 3/16 inches (49.2 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. King Henry VI, Second Part, Act 3, Scene 3

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 13 inches (42.2 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. 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

69. Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

Creator:: John Watts, active 1766–1786
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/16 × 14 3/4 inches (51.3 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

70. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/4 inches (24.9 × 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. "We come to visit you: and purpose now, to lead you to our court: vouchsafe it then."

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 13 inches (42.8 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

72. Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley) as St. Cecilia

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 9/16 × 12 15/16 inches (42.1 × 32.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. George Colman, The Elder

Creator:: Edward Scriven, 1775–1841
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 13 inches (41.3 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Samuel Dyer

Creator:: Giuseppe Marchi, ca. 1735–1808
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 13 1/8 inches (44.8 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Samuel Foote

Creator:: John Blackmore, active 1740–1780
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 × 13 1/4 inches (45.1 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. "Then go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (42.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

77. "Hubert, let me not be bound!"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (42.7 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

78. "Mark your divorce young sir, whom son I dare not call"

Creator:: James Heath, 1757–1834
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (42.7 x 33.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

79. Opera Reminiscences: Desdemona and Otello

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 7/8 inches (26 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

80. Opera Reminiscences: Desdemona and Othello

Creator:: Print made by William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 1/8 inches (25.2 × 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

81. John Hawkesworth

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 13 inches (43.2 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Tancred Entering the Enchanted Forest, Vide "Jerusalem Delivered"--Canto XIII

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (31 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Reclining Nude, Possibly Titania

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 13 inches (17.8 x 33 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, to the Yale University Art Gallery

84. James Graham Marquess of Montrose

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/16 × 12 13/16 inches (53.5 × 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

85. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (47 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

86. The Apparition of the Armed Head: Macbeth

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 × 13 inches (40.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Unbound Facsimile Edition of William Blake's Illustrations for "The Poems of Thomas Gray"

Creator:: Print made by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979
Date:: 1972
Materials & Techniques:: Facsimile printed in color
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 13/16in. (41.9 x 32.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. The Right Reverend Thomas Newton, D.D. Lord Bishop of Bristol, and Dean of St. Paul's

Creator:: Thomas Watson, 1743–1781
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 14 5/16 inches (49.2 × 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. First Uncorrected Proof of Arnold Fawcus's Facsimile of Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

Creator:: Print made by Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979
Date:: 1967
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored collotype on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 12 7/8 inches (42.2 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Opening the Fold

2. The Sepulchre

3. The Homeward Star

4. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

5. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

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

7. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

8. 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)

9. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

10. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

11. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

12. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

13. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

14. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

15. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

16. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

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

18. 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)

19. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

20. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

21. Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page

22. 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)

23. 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)

24. 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)

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

26. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

27. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

28. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

29. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

30. 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)

31. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

32. The Christian Triumph; Title Page

33. 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)

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

35. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

36. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

37. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

38. Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page

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

40. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

41. 'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)

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

43. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

44. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

45. 'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)

46. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

47. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

48. 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)

49. 'The thunder, if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)

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

51. Venus Presenting Armour to Aeneas

52. Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"

53. Sigismonda

54. Saberna

55. The Brides of Venice

56. "Here, I and sorrows sit; here is my throne, bid kings come and bow to it"

57. Dr. Goldsmith

58. O Evening thou Bringest All

59. Caliban, from The Tempest

60. Lear, from King Lear, Act III, Scene ii

61. Griselda Returning to her Father

62. "This is fairy gold, boy, and will prove so"

63. The Goddess of Discord

64. Dido and Aeneas

65. Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

66. Reverend Thomas Warton

67. King Henry VI, Second Part, Act 3, Scene 3

68. Procris and Cephalus

69. Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

70. Weird Sisters; Ministers of Darkness; Minions of the Moon (Thurlow, Pitt, and Dundas)

71. "We come to visit you: and purpose now, to lead you to our court: vouchsafe it then."

72. Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (née Linley) as St. Cecilia

73. George Colman, The Elder

74. Samuel Dyer