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Yale University Art Gallery

681 works

Study of a boy, study of faces

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink drawing of a young man in a cap supporting an older stooped man with a walking stick.

Orlando and Adam, illustration for Act II, Scene iv, As You Like It

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1889

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of a rustic interior with a long table, several chairs, a window, and plank walls.

Interior Study

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of two figures in a tight embrace, drawn loosely on torn tan paper.

Study for Twelfth Night (?)

Edwin Austin Abbey

"In all the glaring impotence of dress" - illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New Yo…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink sketch of a smiling elderly man with round spectacles and curly hair, wearing a cravat and coat.

"At all his jokes, for many a joke had he," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1889

Dark night scene of a man in a tricorn hat gesturing to a hooded woman on a muddy road, with a lit carriage behind.

"My dear Constance, why will you deliberate thus?" study for Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1885

Pen etching of a jester pointing at a doorway beside a bed where a man lies, with a second figure in a cap nearby.

Clown: "Come away, come away, death," illustration for Act II, Scene iv, Twelfth Night

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891

Pencil sketch of seated figures on a bench in front of a loosely drawn townscape with buildings and poles.

Figures on a bench, townscape behind

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal study of a seated, bare-chested male figure with bowed head and arms folded, drawn on blue-grey paper.

Study for "Science Revealing the Treasures of the Earth," mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylv…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Sheet of sketches of medieval figures

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch sheet with four studies of a man in a wide-brimmed hat, one with arm raised.

Studies of a farmer

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a woman in a doorway of a horse-drawn cart, captioned "Aunt Eunice comes home".

"Aunt Eunice comes home" - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal and white chalk sketch on brown paper of a bearded man seated with his hand raised to his head.

Study for one of the murals from The Quest of the Holy Grail (a series of 15 paintings for the Boston Public Library,…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1883

Pen drawing of a classical banquet under Ionic columns, with a bearded man in the foreground and women dancing with garlands.

Apemantus: "Hoy-day! what a sweep of vanity comes this way! They dance! They are mad women!" - Act I, Scene II, Timon…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a young boy lying on his side with one arm stretched out, on torn-edge paper.

Study of a young boy, lying down

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal and white chalk study of hands on blue-grey paper, drawn as preparation for a painting.

Study of hands for "A Pavane" (oil painting)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil costume sketch of a standing figure in a long robe with ruffled collar, with handwritten notes on sleeves and braid.

Miscellaneous study, costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Production of King Richard II

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded 18th-century ale house with men drinking, smoking, and a waiter serving drinks.

An Ale House Room - "Tony sings the Three Pigeons," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1884

Pen and ink drawing of a decorative calligraphic page with red illuminated initials and a pen-drawn circular seal below.

Title page design, Scribner's Magazine, 1894

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1894

Pencil sketch of a horse standing beside a wooden barn, with a stone wall, milk can and trough in a farmyard.

Sketch of a farmyard, with a horse

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal study of a standing man in a long cloak gazing upward, with a small hand sketch at lower left, on grey paper.

Figure study for King Arthur's Round Table (recto); Figure study for The Departure (verso), from The Quest of the Hol…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of an industrial workshop with a riveted tank machine on wheels beneath timber roof beams.

Sketch of "Tank Department" [industrial interior]

Edwin Austin Abbey

Costume sketch of two standing figures in dark tunics, red hoods and yellow stockings, labeled Richard II servant and gaoler.

Sewart to Gaoler, costume sketch for King Richard II

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink drawing of an 18th-century woman with a cane and a man in breeches leaning toward her in a garden.

Illustration for "Sweet Nell - My Heart's Delight," from Old Songs

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1887

Medieval street scene with a man in red standing over a fallen figure beside a striped Gothic church, onlookers and swordsmen

The Death of Mercutio - Act III, Scene I, Romeo and Juliet

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

Pen and ink drawing of a man leaning on a fence above a boy with a fishing rod beside a stream bank.

"I knew him well, and every truant knew," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New Yo…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Ink and wash drawing of a man in a wide-brimmed hat on a rearing horse beside a wooden fence.

Unidentified illustration [Man on horseback]

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a plumed rider on horseback with a lance, and rough sketches of sailing ships above on tan paper.

Study for Columbus in the New World(?) (oil painting)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Grey wash drawing of two seated women on a grassy slope, with a white fence, a cottage and swallows over a sandy bank.

Study for "Two Wives"

Edwin Austin Abbey