Genre: portrait / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: genre subject / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Study of a Woman Sewing

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 17 inches (34.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

2. Grotesque Male Head

Creator:: attributed to William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 x 1 3/4 inches (5.1 x 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Greek Woodcutter, June 13 /56

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 1/8 inches (23 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Male Head 2

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 2 7/8 inches (7.6 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. Male Head 1

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches (8.6 x 6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Canidia and the Youth

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (15.6 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

7. Self Portrait

Creator:: George John Pinwell, 1842–1875
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/16 × 3 7/16 inches (11.3 × 8.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A Lady Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 8 inches (29.2 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Itinerant Pedlar

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk on medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 4 1/8 inches (17.8 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Landscape with a Portrait of a Lady, Full Length, Holding a Hat

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 10 inches (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Assignation

Creator:: Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (21 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. St. Jerome in his Study

Creator:: Alexander Marshal, active 1651–died 1682
Date:: 1650
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Henry Sass

Creator:: Daniel Maclise, 1806–1870
Date:: between 1830 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, graphite, watercolor, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/16 × 5 1/2 inches (18.9 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. London Cries: A Man with a Basket (Man Selling Pots and Pans)

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash, graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (19.1 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Family Group

Creator:: John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 14 7/8 inches (50.8 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk, black chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk and brown chalk on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Little Gleaner

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: between 1826 and 1866
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches (18.1 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Sophy Steadman Reading

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches (19.7 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. London Cries: Small Coal or Brushes

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 5 3/8 inches (20.3 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. London Cries: Throws for a Ha'penny Have You a Ha'penny

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, graphite, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (19.7 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. London Cries: All Fire and No Smoke

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (19.7 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. London Cries: Boy with a Donkey

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 5 5/8 inches (17.8 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. London Cries: A Girl with a Basket of Oranges

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches (18.8 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. London Cries: Flowers

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and gray ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. London Cries: A Girl with a Basket on Her Head ("Lights for the Cats, Liver for the Dogs")

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches (19.7 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. London Cries: A Man with a Bottle

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (19.7 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. London Cries: A Man with a Bundle, Old Clothes

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (18.7 x 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. London Cries: A Man Swaggering

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (19.7 x 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Head of a Man with a Beard Looking to the Left

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: black ink and brown ink with gray and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (16.8 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Rowlandson and Wigstead on Tour

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 11 7/16 inches (18.6 x 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Johnny and His Pony

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and gray wash, with black chalk, and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches (11.4 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Lord Stanhope (Later Earl of Chesterfield) as a Boy, Riding a Pony

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 8 inches (23.7 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Woman Holding a Mask

Creator:: John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812
Date:: between 1795 and 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on medium, moderately textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/2 inches (33.7 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Lady Francis Scott and Lady Elliot

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 5 1/8 inches (12.7 x 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Miss Templeton, Mr. Holworthy and Miss Crewe, Sketching in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Attributed to James Holworthy, 1780–1841
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 7/8 inches (12.7 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Isaac Willis

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 10 1/4 inches (38.1 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Sinews of Old England

Creator:: George Hicks, 1824–1914
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, gum arabic, and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/2 × 20 7/8 inches (74.9 × 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

39. Figure Costume Study: Noble Virgin of Bologna

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1793 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 3 inches (11.1 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Self-portrait

Creator:: Lady Mary Lowther, 1740–1824
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 38 1/2 × 33 × 3 3/8 inches (97.8 × 83.8 × 8.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lowell Libson Ltd.

41. Portrait of a Woman

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches (18.4 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

42. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches (22.2 x 16.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

43. Mrs. Cosway as the Milkmaid

Creator:: Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (21.6 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld

44. Study of a Woman in a Mob Cap

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches (19.4 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and gouache on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (13.4 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

46. Dr. Messenger Monsey of Chelsea Hospital, 1693-1788

Creator:: John Thomas Smith, 1766–1833
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 9/16 inches (14.9 × 11.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Study of a Lady

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash, brown wash, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Study of a Seated Woman

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and gray ink, gray wash, gouache, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 7 7/8 inches (30.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Loose Drawing: Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/8 x 2 inches (6.7 x 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth

50. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches (8.3 x 5.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth

51. The St. Aubyn Family

Creator:: Johann Heinrich Ramberg, 1763–1840
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, white gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 × 33 1/2 inches (55.9 × 85.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Genre portrait

Image Use Free to Use

Subject Terms genre subject

Classification Drawings & Watercolors

Search Results

1. Study of a Woman Sewing

2. Grotesque Male Head

3. Greek Woodcutter, June 13 /56

4. Male Head 2

5. Male Head 1

6. Canidia and the Youth

7. Self Portrait

8. A Lady Reading

9. The Itinerant Pedlar

10. A Landscape with a Portrait of a Lady, Full Length, Holding a Hat

11. The Assignation

12. St. Jerome in his Study

13. Henry Sass

14. London Cries: A Man with a Basket (Man Selling Pots and Pans)

15. Family Group

16. A Lady Copying at a Drawing Table

17. Portrait of a Man

18. The Little Gleaner

19. Sophy Steadman Reading

20. London Cries: Small Coal or Brushes

21. London Cries: Throws for a Ha'penny Have You a Ha'penny

22. London Cries: All Fire and No Smoke

23. London Cries: Boy with a Donkey

24. London Cries: A Girl with a Basket of Oranges

25. London Cries: Flowers

26. London Cries: A Girl with a Basket on Her Head ("Lights for the Cats, Liver for the Dogs")

27. London Cries: A Man with a Bottle

28. London Cries: A Man with a Bundle, Old Clothes

29. London Cries: A Man Swaggering

30. Head of a Man with a Beard Looking to the Left

31. Rowlandson and Wigstead on Tour

32. Johnny and His Pony

33. Lord Stanhope (Later Earl of Chesterfield) as a Boy, Riding a Pony

34. Woman Holding a Mask

35. Lady Francis Scott and Lady Elliot

36. Miss Templeton, Mr. Holworthy and Miss Crewe, Sketching in a Wooded Landscape

37. Isaac Willis

38. The Sinews of Old England

39. Figure Costume Study: Noble Virgin of Bologna

40. Self-portrait

41. Portrait of a Woman

42. Portrait of a Man

43. Mrs. Cosway as the Milkmaid

44. Study of a Woman in a Mob Cap

45. Portrait of a Man

46. Dr. Messenger Monsey of Chelsea Hospital, 1693-1788

47. Study of a Lady

48. Study of a Seated Woman

49. Loose Drawing: Portrait of a Lady

50. Portrait of a Lady

51. The St. Aubyn Family