Creator Gender: female / Collection: Prints and Drawings / Subject Terms: figure study

1. Young Boy in Blue Shirt

Creator:: Vanessa Bell, 1879–1961
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 6 inches (17.8 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

2. A Sandwich Islands Group

Creator:: Julia Swinburne, ca. 1795–1893
Date:: June 5, 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (19.7 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Allegorical Designs for Medals

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and black ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 8 3/16 inches (11.9 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Allegorical Scene

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/16 × 9 3/4 inches (5.2 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 7/16 inches (6.4 × 11.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 x 4 1/2 inches (16.1 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gouache, and oil, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper pasted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (16.5 x 11.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 15/16 × 9 3/8 inches (10 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 9 9/16 inches (11 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (9.2 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 2 9/16 inches (9.4 × 6.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Study of a Woman and Child

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (18.1 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (21 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Three Figures Resting by a Roadside

Creator:: Evelyn Gibbs, 1905–1991
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, pen and black ink and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 9 inches (21 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Study of a Woman's Head

Creator:: Louisa Anne Beresford, 1818–1891
Date:: 1875
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 5/8 inches (9.5 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

16. Young Woman playing a Violin

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1897 and 1898
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 1/4 inches (19.7 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Study of Two Figures

Creator:: Elizabeth Siddal, 1834–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 x 14 11/16in. (23.7 x 37.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Richard L. Purdy

18. Study of a Nun

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1916 and 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 4 7/8 inches (15.9 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Girl with Large Hat and Straw-Colored Hair

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: ca. 1910
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 9/16 inches (21 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Girl Sewing

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1895 and 1898
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 13/16 inches (19.7 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Girl in an Apron with a Cat on her Lap

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1916 and 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 6 1/16 inches (24.3 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Queen Anne

Creator:: Attributed to Queen Victoria, 1819–1901
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 5/16 inches (17.1 × 13.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, blue wash, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 1/8in. (25.6 x 18.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: Attributed to Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 5/16in. (24.4 x 18.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Head of a Young Woman

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 3/4 inches (28.1 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

26. Girl in Church

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 6 inches (17.1 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

27. Marie Céline Martin (Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face) and Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (St. Thérèse of Lisieux)

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 inches (12.1 × 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

28. Portrait Study of a Man's Face

Creator:: Charles Beale, 1660–1714?
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 5 inches (12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

29. Study of Two Women

Creator:: Maria Hadfield Cosway, 1759–1838
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches (5.4 x 6.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

30. Racing Scene: three racehorses with jockeys up

Creator:: Tessa Pullan, born 1953
Date:: 1994
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 × 22 3/4 inches (39.4 × 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. London Damsels

Creator:: Adelaide Claxton, 1858–1905
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 5 inches (19.1 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Christmas Belles

Creator:: Adelaide Claxton, 1858–1905
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (19.1 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Lady in Green Dress

Creator:: Adelaide Claxton, 1858–1905
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 4 inches (18.4 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Gentleman with Whiskers

Creator:: Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 4 1/2 inches (17.8 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Little Boy with Hands Clasped, wearing a Hat, by Lamplight

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: ca. 1916
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (24.8 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Study of a Nude Girl

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1916 and 1919
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on thin,slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 5/8in. (31.8 x 24.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Five People Praying

Creator:: Louisa Augusta Greville, 1743–active 1762
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Etching in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 9/16 x 18 1/4 inches (31.9 x 46.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Gentleman and a Lady

Creator:: Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 1/4 inches (21 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Miss Mac - Gardening

Creator:: Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to thick, red card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 3 1/4in. (17.1 x 8.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Sketch for Whiskers

Creator:: Florence Claxton, active 1855–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 2 1/4 inches (8.6 × 5.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Two Nuns and a Girl in Church

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1920 and 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (16.5 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

42. Nun with a Group of Orphans

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: ca. 1910
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite; verso: graphite
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 4 7/8 inches (15.9 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. After the Manner of Raphael

Creator:: Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815–1879
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted to board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 3/16 inches (31.4 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Chapin, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

44. The Big Secret II

Creator:: Barbara Walker, born 1964
Date:: 2015
Materials & Techniques:: Conté crayon on thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 56 1/4 × 71 inches (142.9 × 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

45. The Big Secret IV

Creator:: Barbara Walker, born 1964
Date:: 2015
Materials & Techniques:: Conté crayon and white paint on thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 62 5/8 × 76 3/4 inches (159 × 195 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

46. Basuto (Lesotho) Herd Boy Dancing, 1941

Creator:: Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000
Date:: 1947, printed 1993
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

47. South African Soldier, Grezzana, Italy, 1944

Creator:: Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000
Date:: 1944, printed 1993
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

48. A Kneeling Knight with a Female Figure and Child

Creator:: Queen Charlotte, 1744–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 14 inches (40.6 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, anonymous gift in honor of John Morton Morris

49. Young Miner Watchin the Sunday Mine Dancers, near Johannesburg, 1948

Creator:: Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1914–2000
Date:: 1948, printed 1993
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Young Woman with Coral Necklace and Crucifix

Creator:: Anne Mee, ca. 1760–1851
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Overall: 3 1/8 × 2 1/2 × 1/4 inches (7.9 × 6.4 × 0.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

51. Goggled Head

Creator:: Print made by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1930–1993
Date:: 1974
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed etching and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 36 1/4 × 25 5/8 inches (92.1 × 65.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

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1. Young Boy in Blue Shirt

2. A Sandwich Islands Group

3. Allegorical Designs for Medals

4. Allegorical Scene

5. Study of a Woman, being Taken Away by a Winged Being

6. Capulet Railing at his Daughter, Juliet

7. Juliet About to Take her Sleeping Draught

8. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

9. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

10. Figure Study of a Bacchanalia Celebration in a Wooded Landscape

11. Study of Abraham Being Tested by God

12. Study of a Woman and Child

13. Five Vignettes of Scenes from Antiquity

14. Three Figures Resting by a Roadside

15. Study of a Woman's Head

16. Young Woman playing a Violin

17. Study of Two Figures

18. Study of a Nun

19. Girl with Large Hat and Straw-Colored Hair

20. Girl Sewing

21. Girl in an Apron with a Cat on her Lap

22. Queen Anne

23. Self-Portrait

24. Portrait of a Lady

25. Head of a Young Woman

26. Girl in Church

27. Marie Céline Martin (Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face) and Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (St. Thérèse of Lisieux)

28. Portrait Study of a Man's Face

29. Study of Two Women

30. Racing Scene: three racehorses with jockeys up

31. London Damsels

32. Christmas Belles

33. Lady in Green Dress

34. Gentleman with Whiskers

35. Little Boy with Hands Clasped, wearing a Hat, by Lamplight

36. Study of a Nude Girl

37. Five People Praying

38. Gentleman and a Lady

39. Miss Mac - Gardening

40. Sketch for Whiskers

41. Two Nuns and a Girl in Church

42. Nun with a Group of Orphans

43. After the Manner of Raphael

44. The Big Secret II

45. The Big Secret IV

46. Basuto (Lesotho) Herd Boy Dancing, 1941

47. South African Soldier, Grezzana, Italy, 1944

48. A Kneeling Knight with a Female Figure and Child

49. Young Miner Watchin the Sunday Mine Dancers, near Johannesburg, 1948

50. Young Woman with Coral Necklace and Crucifix

51. Goggled Head