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Prints and Drawings 300

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Romney, George, 1734–1802 300
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Drawings & Watercolors 300

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The Tragedy of Macbeth 2

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18th century 300

Materials & Techniques

graphite 261
laid paper 178
wove paper 122
brown ink 79
gray wash 29
black ink 11
brown wash 11
pen 11
gray ink 3
watercolor 3
black wash 1

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drawing 300
watercolor 15
frontispiece 5

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figure study 279
genre subject 84
religious and mythological subject 48
historical subject 36
literary theme 26
architectural subject 6
landscape 6
portrait 4
sporting art 3
cityscape 1

Subject Terms

figure study 134
genre subject 77
religious and mythological subject 48
correctional institution 41
prison 41
historical subject 37
woman 36
children 31
figures 31
dark 30
figure 29
man 28
literary theme 26
nude 26
seated 26
standing 26
women 26
men 22
plays by William Shakespeare 20
temptation 17
bodies 16
arches 15
nudes 15
drama 13
movement 13
female 12
child 11
head 11
dress 10
male 10

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Boeotia 2
England 2
Greece 2
Thebes 2
United Kingdom 2
Voíótía 2
Cape of Good Hope 1
Cumbria 1
Europe 1
London 1
South Africa 1
St. Paul's Cathedral 1
Westmorland 1

Associated People

Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE) 12
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet 9
Apollo 3
Mary [Mary Stewart] (1542–1587), queen of Scots 3
Cordelia (character in King Lear) 2
Diana 2
Eve 2
King Lear (character in King Lear) 2
Laocoön 2
Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth) 2
Miranda (character in The Tempest) 2
Niobe 2
Prospero (character in The Tempest) 2
Samson 2
Satan 2
Adam 1
Bulkeley, Elizabeth, viscountess Bulkeley (1757–1826) 1
Chloe, from Longus' novel "Daphnis and Chloe" 1
Daphnis 1
David, biblical king of Israel 1
Delilah 1
Fitzgerald, Pamela [formerly Anne Caroline Stéphanie Sims; Lady Edward Fitzgerald] (1776?–1831), celebrity and associate of Irish nationalists 1
Hayley, William (1745–1820), poet and biographer 1
Hebe 1
Hygeia 1
Lady Macbeth (character in Macbeth) 1
Pearson , Thomas (1740–1781), East India Company Major 1
Sir John Falstaff 1
Susanna 1
The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth) 1

Exhibition History

Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England (Yale University Art Gallery, 2025-03-28 - 2025-10-19) 11
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) 6
Art in Focus : John Flaxman Modeling Bust of William Hayley (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-30) 5
George Romney (1734-1802) (National Portrait Gallery, 2002-05-30 - 2002-08-18) 4
George Romney (1734-1802) (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-09-15 - 2002-12-01) 4
George Romney (1734-1802) (Walker Art Gallery, 2002-02-07 - 2002-04-28) 4
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11) 2
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24) 1
Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02) 1
Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23) 1
Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08) 1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 1
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) 1
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938 300

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Collection: Prints and Drawings
Image Available: available
Image Use: Free to Use
Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
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Keywords: title_s asc, score desc
Keywords: masonry

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Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Seated Figures

ca. 1778-1783
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Standing Female Figure

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Studies of Horses

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Three Seated Figures and a Standing Figure

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Samson Overpowered

mid-1760s–early 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Women at their Toilette

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Lovers

early 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Female Nude

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Figure with Upraised Arm

ca. 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Head

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figure with Hands to Ears

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Pharmarus and Kunaza

late 1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Head of a Girl

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Mother and Children

mid-1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Apparition

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Standing Female Figure

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Aerial Group

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Nude Woman

ca. 1767-1771
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Figure Playing a Harp

ca. 1767-1770
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Standing Figure

1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Figure

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Study of an Animal

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Man and Horse

late 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Charity

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Three Studies

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Man (Unidentified Subject)

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Kneeling Figure

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Carriage on Country Road

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Charging Figure with Shield

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Reclining Figure

late 1780s-early 1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Figure Pronouncing Judgment on a Kneeling Figure

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Group Scene and Two Sketches of a Standing Figure

late 1780s-early 1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Croquet Match Gone Awry

ca. 1770
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Possibly a Fight Scene

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Dancers and Musicians, Probably for "L'Allegro"

ca. 1769-1770
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Female Figure

early 1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Man Bemoaning

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Sketches of a Nude Woman

1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Standing Figure

ca. 1778-1782
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Classical Figure

ca. 1777
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Unidentified Subject: Reclining Woman and Other Figures

mid-1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Women and Children

1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Women and Children Fleeing and Three Sketches of a Standing Female... [Read more]

1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Sketches of Women and Children Fleeing and Standing Female Figure Playing... [Read more]

1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Landscape

mid-1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Standing Figure with Upraised Arms, probably Prospero

late 1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Prison Scene

ca. 1790–92
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Exit Pursued by a Bear, or "The Abandonment of Perdita" from "The... [Read more]

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figure Supporting a Fainting Figure

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Unidentified Subject: Woman, Child, Man and Horse

1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Sketches of a Mother and Child

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Children and a Goat

ca. 1784
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Peasant Girl

late 1780s-early 1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Seated Woman

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Standing Male Figure

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Possibly "Descent of Odin" or "Bolingbroke and Apparition"

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figure Composition Study, Men Driving off an Attack on their Families

early 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Celadon and Amelia or Erminia and Vafrino

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Woman and Two Children

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Landscape, Possibly Eartham

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Satan Surprised at the Ear of Eve

early to mid-1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Fleeing Group of Figures

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Prison Scene

1790-1791
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Howard Visiting a Prison

1790-1791
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Dancer Playing Cymbals

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

A Man with a Horse

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Head of a Man

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Back View of a Standing Classical Male Figure

1773-1775
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Laocoön

ca. 1773
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Study of Tiber River Diety Sculpture

mid-1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Macbeth: Three Witches

late 1770s-early 1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Richard Cumberland Frontispiece

late 1760s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Seated Figures

ca. 1786-1794
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

A Standing Male Figure

1771
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Seated Figures

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Head

late 1770s to mid-1780s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Head of a Man in Profile

ca. 1760-1765
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Mother and Son

late 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figure

late 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Bolingbroke and the Fiend

ca. 1788-89
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Study for the Shipwreck Scene, The Tempest: Prospero, and Miranda

1786–1787
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Studies of a Prostrate Woman, possibly Santa Cecilia

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Prospero and Miranda

ca. 1787
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Lovers (Man Awakening from a Dream)

mid- to late 1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figures Mourning at the Bier of a Woman

1773-1774
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Study of a Head

1770s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Two Sketches of Children at Play

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Group of Figures, Possibly Hell

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Group of Figures, Possibly Women and Children Playing

1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Demon Ruler and Subjects: "The Miserable Effects of War on John Bull..."

1793-1794
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Three Graces and Fiends Deriding Christ for "The Temptation of Christ"

1795-1796
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figure Supporting a Fainting Figure

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Witches' Cavern

1792-1793
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Wolgemuth Rescuing the Shipwrecked off the Cape of Good Hope

1793
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

The Banquet Scene

ca. 1792
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Figure Scene

ca. 1792
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

Witches' Cavern: MacBeth's Second Visit

early 1790s
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

MacBeth: Banquet Scene

ca. 1793
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

MacBeth: Banquet Scene

ca. 1793
Accessible in the Study Room
George Romney, 1734–1802

MacBeth at the Witches' Cave: Second Visit

ca. 1793

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