Materials & Techniques: black chalk / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Subject Terms: portrait

1. Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 37 and 38

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 inches (15.6 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Keith C., Yale BA 1968, and Mildred B. Marshall

2. Lady with a Veil

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 7/16 inches (24.8 × 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black, red, and white chalk over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (41.9 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. A Boy with a Basket

Creator:: Samuel De Wilde, 1748–1832
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (29.5 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Study of a Cossack: Gregory Yellowstuff

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk and varnish on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (36.8 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Study for the head of a boy in "Peasants of the Campagne" during the Vintage

Creator:: George Frederic Watts, 1817–1904
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. George Graham and His Wife, Margaret, Making a Balloon Ascent, London, 1823

Creator:: John Hayter, 1800–1895
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, white chalk, black chalk, brushed black ink, and watercolor on thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (37.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Bryant Edward Duffay, 1833, Oct. 19th

Creator:: Bryant Edward Duffay
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 × 9 5/16 inches (33.8 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Portrait of a Gentleman (W. Winston?)

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 15/16 × 16 3/8 inches (53.2 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. 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

11. Study of a Woman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (30.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Portrait Study

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 10 9/16 inches (37 × 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

13. Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1842 and 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, red chalk, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (51.1 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: John Hayter, 1800–1895
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, white chalk, blue chalk, and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/4 × 18 inches (59.1 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Man in Egyptian Dress

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, black chalk, red chalk, and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 11 1/2 inches (43.2 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Seated Turk

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1840 and 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 11 5/8 inches (43.2 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Head of a Young Woman

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1838 and 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (34.6 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Woman in Egyptian Dress

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on heavy card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches (42.2 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. 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

20. Girl in a Pinafore

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: between 1840 and 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 1/8 inches (32.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Portrait Study of a Man's Facial Expression

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (11.7 × 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Study of a Man's Facial Expression

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 3 1/16 inches (9.5 × 7.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Study of the Face of Jesus

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: 1814 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 2 15/16 inches (7.6 × 7.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Facade of a House, possibly executed at Dieppe

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: late 1890s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor; verso: black chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted on heavy card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 7 1/8 inches (27.3 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Archdeacon Forster

Creator:: William Haydon Fuge, active ca. 1849–1866
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, red chalk, and blue chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/4 × 18 5/8 inches (61.6 × 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor S.W. Jackman in recognition of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 1994.

26. Rev. Charles Forster

Creator:: William Haydon Fuge, active ca. 1849–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, red chalk, and blue chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 × 19 inches (63.2 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor S.W. Jackman in recognition of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 1994.

27. Portrait of Charles Conder at the Academie Julian, 1890

Creator:: Sir William Rothenstein, 1872–1945
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 9 3/8 inches (36.8 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. The Artist's Wife Emma, on her Wedding Day

Creator:: Ford Madox Brown, 1821–1893
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk, white chalk, and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 13 5/8 inches (41.3 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Sir Francis Burdett

Creator:: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830
Date:: After 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 × 14 1/8 inches (55 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Anastasia Gliddon Laurence

Creator:: Samuel Laurence, 1812–1884
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 5/8 × 14 1/4 inches (52.4 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gordon S. Haight

31. Study for the Portrait of Hannah, Countess of Roseberry

Creator:: Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896
Date:: ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (21 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Miss Campbell

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk, and graphite, with stumping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 1/2 inches (30.6 x 24.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Portrait of a Lady, Facing Right

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black chalk and stumping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 6 5/8 inches (20.3 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles

Creator:: Comte Alfred d' Orsay, 1801–1852
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, charcoal, black chalk, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 1/8 inches (28.3 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

35. Portrait of a Youth (The Painter's Eldest Son)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black and white chalk with stumping on medium, smooth, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 11 inches (37.8 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Ursula Tyrwhitt

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961
Date:: ca. 1899
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 9 7/8 inches (33 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Portrait Study of Thomas Hearne

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: between 1803 and 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (23.8 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Profile of Woman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 7 3/8 inches (23 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Man in 17th Century Costume

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, verso, black chalk on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 7 15/16 inches (16.5 × 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey at Work

Creator:: George Percy Jacomb-Hood, 1857–1929
Date:: 1898
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 11 1/8 inches (37.8 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection

41. Study of Man with Turban

Creator:: Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956
Date:: 1897
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper mounted to board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 10 inches (50.2 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Ella Forster

Creator:: Mary Newton Severn, 1832–1866
Date:: ca. 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and pastel on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 1/4 inches (49.8 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor S.W. Jackman in recognition of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

43. Edith Forster

Creator:: Mary Newton Severn, 1832–1866
Date:: ca. 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and pastel on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 1/4 inches (50.2 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor S.W. Jackman in recognition of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

44. Head of a Woman Called Ruth Herbert

Creator:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882
Date:: 1876
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and black chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 37 and 38

2. Lady with a Veil

3. Portrait of a Gentleman

4. A Boy with a Basket

5. Study of a Cossack: Gregory Yellowstuff

6. Study for the head of a boy in "Peasants of the Campagne" during the Vintage

7. George Graham and His Wife, Margaret, Making a Balloon Ascent, London, 1823

8. Bryant Edward Duffay, 1833, Oct. 19th

9. Portrait of a Gentleman (W. Winston?)

10. Henry Sass

11. Study of a Woman

12. Portrait Study

13. Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son

14. Portrait of a Gentleman

15. Man in Egyptian Dress

16. Seated Turk

17. Head of a Young Woman

18. Woman in Egyptian Dress

19. Johnny and His Pony

20. Girl in a Pinafore

21. Portrait Study of a Man's Facial Expression

22. Study of a Man's Facial Expression

23. Study of the Face of Jesus

24. Facade of a House, possibly executed at Dieppe

25. Archdeacon Forster

26. Rev. Charles Forster

27. Portrait of Charles Conder at the Academie Julian, 1890

28. The Artist's Wife Emma, on her Wedding Day

29. Sir Francis Burdett

30. Anastasia Gliddon Laurence

31. Study for the Portrait of Hannah, Countess of Roseberry

32. Miss Campbell

33. Portrait of a Lady, Facing Right

34. Portrait of James Sheridan Knowles

35. Portrait of a Youth (The Painter's Eldest Son)

36. Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Ursula Tyrwhitt

37. Portrait Study of Thomas Hearne

38. Profile of Woman

39. Man in 17th Century Costume

40. Portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey at Work

41. Study of Man with Turban

42. Ella Forster

43. Edith Forster

44. Head of a Woman Called Ruth Herbert