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Yale University Art Gallery

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Charcoal sketch of a carved architectural capital with scrolls and leaf ornament on blue-grey paper, with faint chalk outline

Sketch of a capital

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etched bookplate with a seated woman beside a rock and ivy-covered tree in an oval, with a blank label panel below.

Bookplate for Albert Schmidt

Heinrich Vogeler, 1920

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

Lithograph of a woman with finger to lips beside a child, as a man in a patterned robe slips behind a curtain at a doorway.

Apres diner maman, n'est-ce pas?...

Black and white lithograph of a bowing top-hatted man speaking to a bonneted woman in dark dress by the sea.

Dieu! que voila donc un m'sieu qu'est comme il faut!...

Charcoal sketch of two intertwined hands with shaded fingers and loose hatching on a pale paper background.

Sketch of two hands

Edwin Austin Abbey

Lithograph of a standing bearded man in a top hat, dark frock coat and striped trousers, hands on hips.

COSTUME DE HUMANN.Chapeau de Guitar, rue Richelieu, 101

Paul Gavarni, 1841

Hand-colored print of Niagara Falls seen from the upper bank, with mist, a rainbow, trees, and grazing sheep in the foregroun

The Falls of Niagara. This View From the Upper Bank, English Side, is by Special Permission...

Charles Hunt Sr., 1833

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded elderly man in glasses at a draped table, with a sleeping dog and curtains in a stone inter

Study for "The Man with Glasses Speaks"

Adriaen van de Venne, 1654

Etching of a vast imaginary prison with arches, stairs, heavy chains, and small figures among stone piers.

The Pier with Chains, plate 16 from Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Engraved oval portrait of a man with curled hair, armor, lace collar and medal, within a laurel frame above an inscription.

Edward Lord Montagu, Earl of Sandwich

Abraham Blooteling

Etching of the overgrown ruins of an octagonal domed temple with broken arches, small figures, and a cloudy sky.

Veduta del Tempio ottangolare di Minerva Medica (View of the Octagonal Temple of Minerva Medica [now considered to ha…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1764

Lithograph of two women in masks and long dresses talking beside a stone balustrade and column.

Le Carnival a Paris. Il n'est pas ici! Madame....

Engraved print of two frigates in battle at sea inside an ornate rococo frame with sea creatures and laurel wreath.

Struck with the Gallentry, Skillby Broke of the Shannon

Watercolor of three dandies in top hats beside a wall of theater playbills, with a pig and a water spout on a city street.

The Soap-Locks or Bowery Boys

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Chalk study of a female nude with raised arm against blue hatched background on black paper, by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Study for figure of 4 pm in "The Hours" mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

Charcoal and white chalk study of three male figures in dynamic poses, one arm raised, on dark grey paper.

Figure study for "The Spirit of Vulcan," mural in the rotunda of the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvan…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1905

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

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

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

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long hair and a white collar, with inscription and coat of arms below.

Portrait of Le Cardinal de Coislin

Robert Nanteuil, 1666

Sepia wash and pencil drawing of a standing female nude in side view, signed A. Rodin in the lower right.

Nude Standing, Side View

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

Lithograph of an elderly bearded man with a staff and a young man holding an open book, by Eugène Delacroix, 1833.

Polonius and Hamlet (Act. II Sc. II), from Shakespeare's Hamlet

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Lithograph of a reclining man beside a shovel on a wall while a woman in a striped dress looks through a spyglass.

La voisine a sa robe a gros boutons...

Two women with dark hair read a large newspaper together against a shaded drapery background, drawn in lithographic crayon.

"Voir aux annonces" (pour l'edification des jeunes personnes)

Pourtant, grand-pere, so Polichinelle de Seraphin n'existe pas....?

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Engraved bust portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark cloak and white cravat, with a printed caption below.

James J. Mapes, L.L.D.

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