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Yale University Art Gallery

191 works

Pencil and ink sketch of a branch with pink blossoms arching across a pale sheet of paper.

Sketch of a flowering tree

Edwin Austin Abbey

Brown wash drawing of a windmill beside a canal with a second windmill on the flat horizon under cloudy sky.

Windmills in a Landscape

Etching of a ruined arched building beside a river, with a woman near a well and a distant tower on the right.

Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1741

Pen and ink sketch of a forest clearing with tall tree trunks, dense foliage, and sparse grass in the foreground.

Forest scene

Edwin Austin Abbey

Engraved landscape with a large tree, a covered wagon on a road, a village church tower, and birds in the sky.

Wooded Region, from The Large Landscapes

the Elder Johannes van Doetecum, 1555

Engraving of a couple beneath a large oak with cattle, donkeys, a dog, and a watermill beside a river in the distance.

The Rural Lovers

François Vivarès, 1760

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

Landscape

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor of a snowy winter field with bare trees and evergreens under a gray-purple sky, with distant buildings at left.

Untitled [Winter landscape - New Jersey]

Charles Warren Eaton, 1896

Pencil drawing of two large spreading trees over a fenced lawn, with a sapling, a white building and small figures behind.

The Trees & Lawn at College and Elm Streets, New Haven

R. Bakewell, 1856

Watercolor fall landscape with two birch trees, autumn foliage, a small pool, evergreens and distant hills under grey sky.

Fall landscape

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a large gnarled tree with sprawling branches above tall grass and shrubs, with birds flying in a pale sky.

Gnarled Tree

Robert Swain Gifford

Engraved landscape with travelers, a horse cart, sheep, haystacks and a distant city under a cloudy sky.

View of Malines, from the Set of the Large Landscapes

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, 1638

Pen and ink landscape drawing of a stream lined with trees, rocks, and a wooden post, with a small figure on a path.

Landscape with figure

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and brown ink drawing of a striding man with a tall staff in a sketched landscape with trees.

Saint Christopher (or Saint Roch?) in a Landscape

Ludovico Carracci, 1600

Etching of the Holy Family under a palm tree, with the Virgin on a donkey, angels above, and figures resting in the foregroun

The Holy Family under a Palm Tree, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil sketch of a country road through grassy fields, with tall trees on the right and a fence and buildings in the distance

Landscape with road running through

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of the Roman Forum with ruined arches, columns and temples, the Colosseum visible on the distant horizon.

Veduta di Campo Vaccino (View of the Campo Vaccino [the Forum Romanum, from the Capitoline Hill]), from Vedute di Rom…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

Engraved battle scene of soldiers with flags and muskets, wounded men in the foreground, and smoke over the field.

The Battle of Bunker's Hill Near Boston (La Bataille de Bunker's Hill pres de Boston.)

James Mitan, 1808

Pencil sketch of cypress trees, rolling hills and a domed building in a rural landscape, with handwritten notes below.

Roman(?) landscape as seen from balcony (recto); Seascape (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored print of a steam train crossing a long truss bridge over a river, with mountains and workers in the foreground.

View of Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge over Susquehanna River

Jr Benjamin F. Smith, 1850

Etching of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome with ruined columns and a stairway to the Capitoline Hill.

Tav. 13 Arco di Settimio Severo 1. Tempio della Concordia 2. Salita di Campidoglio (Pl. 13 Arch of Septimius Severus…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Pencil landscape of mountains, a river with an arched stone bridge, trees, and a small figure on a path.

"Grange" - landscape with river, bridge, mountains in distance

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of rolling hills with bare trees, farm buildings and a winding path under a cloudy sky, signed C. Pissarro.

Landscape at Osny

Camille Pissarro, 1887

Etching of three thatched cottages beside a dirt road, with a large tree on the right and figures near the doorways.

Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages beside a Road

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Pen and blue ink sketch of three figures, two seated and one standing with an outstretched arm, on pale paper.

Studies of seated figures. Landscape on reverse

Edwin Austin Abbey

Two etched views: an ox wagon crossing an arched bridge, and a small monument under a tree beside a canal.

The Wagon Passing over a Bridge [and] The Little Monument (under a Tree), from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1735

Etching of the Holy Family with an angel leaving a river bank toward a boat, with reeds and birds in the background.

The Holy Family Leaving the Bank of the River, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into…

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil sketch of a bare tree with a thick trunk and spreading leafless branches on pale paper.

Sketch of a tree

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of cows resting and standing under trees beside a pond, with a herd in the distance and a figure near a fence.

Untitled [Cows by a River]

Charles Courtry, 1875

Black and white woodcut print with bold abstract angular shapes and white linear forms on thin paper.

The Forest

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, 1914