Subject Terms: literary theme / Topic subjectplace ss: United Kingdom

1. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 13 3/4 inches (27.9 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: ca. 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

3. The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe Theatre

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1864 to 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 7/8 x 21 7/8 inches (70.8 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1938
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

5. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 51 1/4 x 65 inches (130.2 x 165.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. 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

7. 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

8. "To chase the rolling circle's speed..." (Design 17)

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

9. Queen Katherine's Dream

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (34.6 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Falstaff Inspecting the Recruits

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: between 1761 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.8 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Here Nature List'ning Stood

Creator:: Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: after 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 7/16 inches (15.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Hamlet in Scotland

Creator:: Print made by Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and stipple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (28.6 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. The Murder of Banquo

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 inches (44.5 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 13/16 inches (44 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759

Creator:: Print made by William Bromley, 1769–1842
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 x 14 13/16 inches (53.4 x 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: after 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 1/8 inches (14.9 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. 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

20. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (36.8 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Boy of Egremond

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 12 inches (44.1 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 11 3/4 inches (43.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Wolf's Hope

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck or the Land of Stones

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1786
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

25. Tom Jones; The Interview of Tom Jones, and Sophia, after the Reconciliation

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

26. Tom Jones

Creator:: Peter Simon, 1750–1810
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

27. Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: after 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 9/16 inches (16.1 × 21.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. 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

29. Scene from Quentin Durward

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Falstaff in the Boar's Head

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil with brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 6 1/4in. (29.8 x 15.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art from the bequest of Mr. and Mrs. John Estabrook

32. A Scene from "The Abbot"

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, Fund

33. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 1/16 inches (35.7 × 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

Creator:: Print made by James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 1/8 inches (50.2 x 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

Creator:: Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:: 1783
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

36. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, open etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, creame wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (36.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Murder on the Thames

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (23 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

38. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

Creator:: Print made by David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 15/16 inches (28.3 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

39. Wolf's Hope

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; 1st state on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 7/8 inches (29.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; 1st state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 5/16 inches (29.5 × 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; early engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 6 3/4 inches (30.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by M. H. Long, active mid-19th century
Date:: 1884
Materials & Techniques:: Color lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Wolf's Hope

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Macbeth and the Witch

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

Creator:: Lewis Morley, 1925–2013
Date:: 1960s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 15 1/2 inches (30.5 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy

47. The Princes in the Tower

Creator:: William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 11/16 inches (27.5 x 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. Design for the Setting of Charles Kean's Production of Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857

Creator:: George Cressal Ellis, ca. 1810–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 inches (20.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

49. Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/16 inches (58.5 x 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. 'The Vicar of Wakefield,' Vol. II, Chap. III: The Return of Olivia

2. Herne's Oak from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' V, v

3. The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe Theatre

4. A Theatrical Incident: "As You Like It"

5. Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerton's "Love in a Village"

6. The Lonely Tower

7. The Lonely Tower

8. "To chase the rolling circle's speed..." (Design 17)

9. Queen Katherine's Dream

10. Falstaff Inspecting the Recruits

11. Here Nature List'ning Stood

12. Another Part of the Field: 'Henry IV Part I,' Act V, Scene IV

13. Hamlet in Scotland

14. The Murder of Banquo

15. St. Herbert's Chapel

16. St. Herbert's Chapel

17. David Garrick as Richard III in the Drury Lane Theatre Performance, 1759

18. London. A Street: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act II, Scene I

19. Lovelace in Prison

20. Bolton Abbey

21. The Boy of Egremond

22. Bolton Abbey

23. Wolf's Hope

24. The Journalist, with a view of Auchinleck or the Land of Stones

25. Tom Jones; The Interview of Tom Jones, and Sophia, after the Reconciliation

26. Tom Jones

27. Gloucestershire. Before Shallow's house: 'Henry IV Part II,' Act III, Scene II

28. Macbeth and Banquo on the Heath

29. Scene from Quentin Durward

30. Falstaff in the Boar's Head

31. Bolton Abbey

32. A Scene from "The Abbot"

33. Blowing up the Pic Nic's: or Harlequin Quioxtte Attacking the Puppets

34. Shakespeare Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

35. Twelve Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe

36. St. Herbert's Chapel

37. The Murder on the Thames

38. Bauldy, Symon and Sir William Worthy

39. Wolf's Hope

40. St. Herbert's Chapel

41. Bolton Abbey

42. Bolton Abbey

43. St. Herbert's Chapel

44. Wolf's Hope

45. Macbeth and the Witch

46. Athol Fugard, Zakes Mokae, John Berry, and Ian Bannen in Rehearsals for 'The Blood Knot', New Arts Theatre, London

47. The Princes in the Tower

48. Design for the Setting of Charles Kean's Production of Richard II at the Princess's Theatre on March 12, 1857

49. Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI