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Yale University Art Gallery

1,302 works

Charcoal and chalk study of two figures clasping hands, drawn on brown paper, by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Study of two figures shaking hands in the "Penn's Treaty," mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsyl…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

Chiaroscuro woodcut in an oval of a draped reclining woman among flowers and foliage, with a second figure at right.

The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Antonio da Trento, 1527

Etching of tall birch and poplar trees on a riverbank, with a small boat in the grass and calm water beyond.

Trembles au bord de la Seine (Aspens on the Bank of the Seine)

Félix Bracquemond, 1884

Pen and ink drawing of two 18th-century figures in a panelled room, one gesturing toward a seated woman on a sofa.

"Am I in Face To-day?," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1884

Engraved ornamental panel with a bearded grotesque mask framed by a laurel wreath and acanthus scrolls.

Panel with a Mascaron (ornament with a mask)

Sebald Beham, 1543

Etching of a ruined Doric temple at Paestum with grazing cattle, workmen and a shepherd in the foreground.

Vue d'un autre temple, dans la ville de Pesto, que l'on croit communement avoir été dédié à Junon . . . (View of Anot…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778

Loose pencil sketch of a seated figure and small figure beneath hatched shadows, with architectural guidelines on cream paper

Unidentified illustration- Study for Shakespearean scene, possibly early study for Mariana in "Measure for Measure"

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a gnarled oak over a pond with a fallen trunk and two travelers in hats on the right bank.

The Travelers

Jacob Salomons z. Ruysdael, 1660

Etching of the Lateran Basilica facade with tall columns, roof statues, a crowded piazza, and carriages.

Veduta della Facciata della Basilica di S. Giovanni Laterano . . . (View of the Façade of the Basilica of San Giovann…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

Etching of a seated man in a hat beside a gnarled tree, with a rural building and hedgerows under a stormy sky.

Chateau des Revenants

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a mounted bullfighter grappling with a bull in an arena, spectators in the stands behind, by Goya.

Mariano Ceballos, alias el Indio, mata el toro desde su caballo (Mariano Ceballos, Alias the Indian, Kills the Bull f…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etched interior view of a basilica nave with tall columns, coffered ceiling, distant altar, and small figures on the floor.

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore (Interior View of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore), from Vedu…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1768

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji reflected in a calm lake, with a thatched village, pine trees and a rowboat in the foreground.

Reflection of Fuji in Lake Misaka in Kai Province, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai, 1831

Brown wash drawing of a shepherd resting under a tree with sheep, a goat, wooded hills and boats on water.

Pastoral Landscape

called Claude Lorrain Claude Gellée, 1639

Etching of a cutaway ruined Roman temple with columns, brick walls, overgrown plants and small figures in the foreground.

Veduta del Tempio delle Camene anticamente circondato da un bosco nella valle Egeria . . . (View of the Temple of the…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1773

Lithograph of a stern schoolmaster at a desk ignoring a pupil with raised hand, other students behind, from Daumier's Profess

M'sieu . . . . M'sieu . . . . . M'siiieu . . . . . christi que c'est tannant d'avoir la colique quand le Pion pionse!…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Etching of a figure walking a path beside a pond, with tall poplar trees and rolling hills under a hatched sky.

Sentier au Bord d'un Etang

Adolphe Appian, 1865

Etching of the nave of Saint Peter's Basilica with colonnades, coffered vaults, distant altar and small figures on the floor.

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (Interior View of the Basilica of Saint Peter's in the Vatican…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Etching of a bullfighter with cape and banderilla facing a bull in an arena, with spectators in the stands.

Origen de los arpones ó banderillas (Origin of the Harpoons or Banderillas), Plate 7 from La tauromaquia

Francisco Goya, 1816

Lithograph of a horse team pulling a loaded coal cart up a rocky hill, with a driver walking beside the lead horse.

Le Chariot de Charbon (The Coal Wagon)

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Etching of a ruined Roman arch with ivy-covered masonry, an inscription tablet, small figures and a statue niche at right.

Tav. 8 Arco di Druso alla Porta di Sebastiano in Roma (Pl. 8 Arch of Drusus at the Porta di Sebastiano in Rome), from…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Lithograph of two horsemen galloping at night past a gallows, with a French dialogue caption below the image.

Faust and Mephistopheles Galloping on the Night of the Witches' Sabbath, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Etching of a landscape with a tower, ruined pillars, a weeping tree, a church spire and small figures on a road.

Landscape with Tower and Two Ruined Pillars, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1735

Engraving of a sleigh overturning in snow, passengers tumbling out, horses racing, a dog running, bare trees behind.

The Sleighing Season-- The Upset, from Harper's Weekly, January 14, 1860

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etched street view of a large baroque palazzo with a sculptural group on its roof and pedestrians in the foreground.

Veduta del Palazzo fabbricato sul Quirinale per le Segreteria de Brevi et della Sacra Consulta (View of the Palazzo B…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1729

Etching of a bull charging a cape-wielding bullfighter in an arena, with a figure on the ground at right.

Capean otro encerrado (They Play Another with the Cape in the Enclosure), Plate 4 from La tauromaquia

Francisco Goya, 1816

Ink sketch on tan paper of a cyclist's fragmented forms in motion, with sweeping radiating lines.

Study II for Dynamism of a Cyclist

Umberto Boccioni, 1913

Charcoal sketch of two figures, one seated reading in the foreground and one standing behind, among dark trees.

Two figures - (unidentified illustration)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored lithograph panorama of troops in battle near a river, with cannon smoke, a red-roofed house, and a cloudy sky.

Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815

H. Ladotte, 1840

Engraving of many people skating on ice before city buildings, with a sled and a fallen skater in the foreground.

Skating at Boston, from Harper's Weekly, March 12, 1859

Winslow Homer, 1859

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a dark hat with ribbon, resting her hand near her face, on cream paper.

Portrait of Jane Renouardt

Edouard Vuillard, 1926

Watercolor of a winding river valley with eroded cliffs, a white wagon, a rifleman, and a line of travelers on distant ridges

Near Mouse River

John Mix Stanley, 1854

Etching of a quayside scene with a seated woman, men beside an easel, a dog, and sailboats on water at right.

Quai Scene

Émile Frédéric Nicolle, 1885

Loose brown wash landscape of rolling hills with faint pencil figure sketch in the sky area.

Landscape

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of ruined Doric columns and fallen stones with workmen and a dog in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

Vue des restes du Pronaos de l'édifice, que l'on peut considérer comme le Collège des Anfictions . . . (View of the R…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778

Black and white woodcut of a bearded man leading a bear, with a woman in a tree, a monkey, and a hilltop building.

Bear Trainer (Bärenführer)

Maria Uhden, 1918

Engraving of a winter village scene with skaters on a frozen canal, a church tower, a wooden bridge, and bare trees.

Winter, from a series of the four seasons

Jan van de Velde II

Loose pen and graphite sketch of robed figures and a crowd on tan paper, study for a painted series by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Galahad and the Captive Virtues, study for The Quest of the Holy Grail (series of fifteen paintings for the Boston Pu…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Engraving of a city sacked by soldiers, with burning buildings, smoke, fleeing crowds and horsemen in the streets.

'S Graavenhaage geplonderd, door Maarten van Rossem, in't jaar 1528

Etching of the Arch of Titus in Rome with a large tree, ruins, and small figures in the street.

Veduta dell'Arco di Tito. Esso fu eretto a questo Imperadore dopo la di lui morte in memoria della distruzione di Ger…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1760

Pen and ink sketch of a smiling woman in a bonnet on a rock by the sea, holding a book, with gulls overhead.

Woman on beach holding book, sketch for The Lay of the Lobster

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1886

Hand-colored engraving of Nathan Hale at his execution under a tree, with a British officer, soldiers, and onlookers.

Last Words of Captain Nathan Hale...

Alexander Hay Ritchie, 1858

Etched print of a Roman triumphal arch with carved reliefs and an inscription, with figures and a carriage on a road at right

Veduta dell'Arco di Benevento nel Regno di Napoli (View of the Arch of Beneventum in the Kingdom of Naples), from Ved…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778

Pen and ink sketch of two men in period dress talking beside a woman, with a small dog and a distant boat.

Study of two men, woman, and a dog, from Love's Labour's Lost (?)

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891

Black-and-white print of snowy Paris with the Seine, a bridge, barges, and Notre-Dame cathedral seen from above.

Paris sous la neige, vu du haut de St. Gervais (Paris under Snow, Seen from the top of St. Gervais)

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1890

Etching of a vast vaulted prison interior with arches, a staircase, a wooden sawhorse, and small figures at work.

The Sawhorse, plate 12 from Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Pen and ink drawing of robed figures in alarm across a classical colonnade with columns, a pedestal, and dark trees.

The Oracle Defied, Act III, Scene ii, The Winter's Tale

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1892

Hand-colored print of two frigates firing broadsides at each other amid gunsmoke on choppy sea, with a small ship in the dist

Combat soutenu le 23 Aout 1812 par la Frigate le President des Etats-Unis...

Adrien Victor Auger, 1812

Soldier in a shako pointing from atop an artillery caisson beside a dead horse, with mountains and mounted troops behind.

Le Caisson d'artillerie (Artillery Caisson)

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Pencil and chalk studies of a seated woman in a yellow dress and white headdress on a grey-blue sheet.

Two studies for Ophelia and Hamlet in the Play Scene in Hamlet

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored lithograph of a rocky canyon with tall pines, rock walls and distant hazy mountains, with a mule train at lower

Can(y)on Jesus Maria

Charles Gildemeister, 1851

Etching by Goya showing grotesque, laughing figures gathered around a seated woman and a dog against a dark background.

La lealtad (Loyalty), also known as El que no te ama, burlando te difama (He Who Does Not Like Thee Will Defame Thee…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Hand-colored print of a funeral procession on a city street seen through an arch, with mourners and a draped hearse.

High Street from the Country Market Place, Philadelphia, with the Commemoration of the Death of General Washington

William Russell Birch, 1807

Etching of an ox cart loaded with hay on a rocky wooded road, with a man guiding oxen beside gnarled trees.

Chemin des roches (environs de Creys)

Adolphe Appian, 1863

Loose watercolor and pencil study of a sunlit landscape with storm clouds, distant spires, and a small chapel by the water.

Composition study for "The Arthurian Round Table and the Fable of the Seat Perilous," the third in a series of fiftee…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1893

Etching of thatched cottages and grazing sheep beside a wooden fence, with a shepherdess under a cloudy sunset sky.

Les bergeries, soleil couchant (The Sheepfolds, Sunset)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1881

Etching of Roman ruins with Corinthian columns, a stone arch, and overgrown walls, with small figures near the arch.

[Tav.] 15 Foro di Augusto ([Pl.] 15 Forum of Augustus), from Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inal…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Etching of a chaotic crowd of hooded figures pressing forward over fallen bodies, from Goya's Disasters of War.

Todo va revuelto (Everything is Topsy-turvy), Plate 42 from Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War)

Francisco Goya, 1863

Watercolor sketch of a woman working at a churn beside a seated man in a blue coat on stone steps.

Woman churning butter, man in Revolutionary dress watching - (unidentified illustration)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of the Lateran square in Rome with an obelisk, a long palace facade, a twin-spired basilica, and small figures and ca

Veduta della Piazza, e Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano (View of the Square, and Basilica of San Giovanni in Later…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

Hand-colored print of a Piekann Indian encampment with rows of tepees, mounted riders, dogs and mountains behind.

Encampment of the Piekann Indians, from the book Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North Ameri…

Charles Traugott Beyer, 1839

Watercolor sketch of a figure in a blue coat and hat beside stone steps and a wall, surrounded by green trees.

Sketch for "The Vicar," from The Quiet Life (book published by Harper in 1890 and 1899, previously published in Harpe…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1890

Etching of Piazza Navona in Rome showing an obelisk, a central fountain, a domed church, palazzi, and crowds in the square.

Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo Agonale (View of Piazza Navona Above the Ruins of the Circus of Dom…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1751

Loose pencil sketch on tan paper of villagers in an interior, a woman with a basket and a man carrying a bundle.

Unidentified illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New York: 1902)

Edwin Austin Abbey