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The Seven Ages of Man: Second Childishness, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:
between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and ink and oil on panel
Dimensions:
15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii
Creator:
Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:
ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:
8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (21 x 26 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
Susannah Maria Cibber (née Arne) as Cordelia
Creator:
Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:
1755
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
84 x 82 inches (213.4 x 208.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
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
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 thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 1/2 inches (16.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lonely Tower
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (26.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Cypress Grove
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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 medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (15.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Homeward Star
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
begun ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 5/16 inches (16.8 x 23.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lonely Tower
Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/16 inches (26.1 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
The Fifth Plague of Egypt
Creator:
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
What is Man!, Frontispiece (Plate 1)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face..." (Design 49)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray..." (Design 51)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
'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
"One hair nor particle of dust..." (Plate 14)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Hecate

Hecate
Creator:
George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:
1815
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 inches (21.9 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Lear in the Storm
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, peach wove paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 30 1/16 x 24 15/16 inches (76.3 x 63.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:
1766
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath
Creator:
George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (19 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:
1782
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (26 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Garrick as Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist"
Creator:
Print finished by John Dixon, ca. 1740–1811
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (42.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mr. Garrick and Miss Bellamy in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet
Creator:
Simon François Ravenet, 1706–1774
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (42.9 × 55 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Celadon and Amelia
Creator:
Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:
1766
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pirate's Isle
Creator:
David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with stopping out, and scraping out on moderately thick slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 30 3/4 x 42 1/2 inches (78.1 x 108 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with drawn border
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (41.3 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Three Witches from Macbeth: Though the Bark Cannot be Lost...
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Contemporary drawn border: 11 11/16 × 11 5/16 inches (29.7 × 28.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Prospero and Miranda
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Antigonus Disposing of Perdita
Creator:
Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:
ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:
Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857
Date:
between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash with brown pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, laid in contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches (44.2 x 52 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection