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Yale University Art Gallery

1,301 works

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

Pencil sketch of a man standing by a well with a crane and bucket, bare trees and hills behind, and a small head study.

Sketch of a man by a well

Edwin Austin Abbey