Period: 18th century / Work Type: drawing / Subject Terms: costume

1. Costume Study for a Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 5 5/8 inches (20.3 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Uncle George in the Dress of a Highland Herdsman

Creator:: George Walker, active 1792–died 1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream 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

3. Scotsman with Sword; Modern Dress of a Highland Chieftan

Creator:: George Walker, active 1792–died 1795
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 2 15/16 inches (11.1 × 7.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Study for a Portrait of a Woman

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk with graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (21.6 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. A Lady in a Picture Hat

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured. cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (16.8 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Unidentified Sitter

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and oil paint on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (23.8 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

7. Design for the Parterre at Hampton Court

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: early 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink with watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 19 15/16 inches (16 × 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Seamstresses, St. Kitts, Carribean

Creator:: William Hay, active 1776–1797
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (16.8 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Study for "Seeing -- La Vue" ( One of the Five Senses)

Creator:: Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 3/4 inches (9.8 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 inches (17.5 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. An Old Fisherwoman with Two Women Digging for Bait

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with watercolor; verso: graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (8.6 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Costume Note

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/4 × 2 5/8 inches (5.7 × 6.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Donnybrook Fair, 1782

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink with watercolor on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 21 1/2 inches (32.1 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (19.1 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

15. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 inches (32.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Views in the Levant: Study of a Woman Wearing Turkish Costume

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 9/16 × 7 11/16 inches (34.4 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

18. Costume Study

Creator:: David Allan, 1744–1796
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond

19. Two Sketches of Man

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, verso: red chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/16 × 8 5/16 inches (33.2 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Double Portrait of a Figure in Both Male and Female Attire

Creator:: Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769–1830
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 6 3/4 inches (14.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Place des Victoires, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor in pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 inches (34.9 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (23.8 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Prospect Before Us

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 12 1/8 inches (22.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Statue Bust

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

25. Vauxhall Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 x 20 11/16 inches (38.3 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Thomas, Second Baron Bruce, Later First Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814)

Creator:: Katharine Read, 1723–1778
Date:: ca. 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 14 1/2 inches (46.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Seated Woman with a Book

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 7 7/8 inches (30.5 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Ingamells

28. 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

29. Figure Costume Study: French Lady of Quality in 1501

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1793 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and violet chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (11.4 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Figure Costume Study of Edward VI in 1550

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1793 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 2 3/4 inches (10.2 × 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Figure Costume Study: Persian Lady in 1568

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1793 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 inches (11.4 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Figure Costume Study: English Nobleman

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1793 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (10.8 x 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Figure Costume Study of Henry VIII

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1793 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 2 7/8 inches (10.8 x 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A Woman Seated

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (32.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet near his camp at the folks of Muskingum in North America in November 1764, 1765

The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet near his camp at the folks of Muskingum in North America in November 1764, 1765

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: between 1765 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches (25.7 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle

Creator:: Rosalba Carriera, 1675–1757
Date:: 1741
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on slightly textured, blue laid paper stretched on linen canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 28 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 1 7/8 inches (72.4 × 59.4 × 4.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (47 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Kennington Common

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gray ink and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (33.7 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Charles Howard, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624)

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/8 x 11 inches (39.1 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. A Seated Man

Creator:: Attributed to John Dunthorne, active 1783–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 6 1/8 inches (20 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk with stumping on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 7 3/16 inches (22.9 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Portrait of a Lady, Facing Front

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black, red, yellow, and blue chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 8 inches (24.4 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Lady and a Gentleman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 5 3/8 inches (15.9 × 13.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Costume Study for a Portrait of a Man

2. Uncle George in the Dress of a Highland Herdsman

3. Scotsman with Sword; Modern Dress of a Highland Chieftan

4. Study for a Portrait of a Woman

5. A Lady in a Picture Hat

6. Unidentified Sitter

7. Design for the Parterre at Hampton Court

8. Seamstresses, St. Kitts, Carribean

9. A Study for "Seeing -- La Vue" ( One of the Five Senses)

10. Illustration to Beaumont and Fletcher

11. An Old Fisherwoman with Two Women Digging for Bait

12. Costume Note

13. Donnybrook Fair, 1782

14. Costume Study

15. Rosebud, or the Judgement of Paris

16. Views in the Levant: Study of a Woman Wearing Turkish Costume

17. Costume Study

18. Costume Study

19. Two Sketches of Man

20. Double Portrait of a Figure in Both Male and Female Attire

21. Place des Victoires, Paris

22. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

23. The Prospect Before Us

24. Statue Bust

25. Vauxhall Gardens

26. Thomas, Second Baron Bruce, Later First Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1814)

27. Seated Woman with a Book

28. Figure Costume Study: Noble Virgin of Bologna

29. Figure Costume Study: French Lady of Quality in 1501

30. Figure Costume Study of Edward VI in 1550

31. Figure Costume Study: Persian Lady in 1568

32. Figure Costume Study: English Nobleman

33. Figure Costume Study of Henry VIII

34. A Woman Seated

35. The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet near his camp at the folks of Muskingum in North America in November 1764, 1765

36. Portrait of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln and second Duke of Newcastle

37. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

38. Kennington Common

39. Charles Howard, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624)

40. A Seated Man

41. Portrait of a Lady

42. Portrait of a Lady, Facing Front

43. A Lady and a Gentleman