Medium: black chalk / Genre: portrait / Subject Terms: figure study

1. Study of a Woman Sewing

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784, British
Date:: ca. 1761
Medium:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 12 inches (49.5 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Lady Maynard

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809, British
Date:: ca. 1757
Medium:: Black and red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 4 1/16 inches (17.1 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: 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

5. Head of a Young Woman

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British
Date:: between 1838 and 1840
Medium:: 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

6. Head of a Lady

Creator:: John Russell, 1745–1806, British
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Pastel, white chalk, black chalk, and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (31.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Portrait

Creator:: unknown artist, seventeenth century-eighteenth century
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 15/16in. (30.3 x 22.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Head of a Young Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk, red chalk, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 10 7/16in. (31.1 x 26.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Head of a Man

Creator:: Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723, German, active in Britain (from 1676)
Date:: 1732
Medium:: Black chalk, red chalk, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 1/8in. (42.9 x 28.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Portrait of a Young Girl

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk, with stumping on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 11 inches (40.6 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Portrait of a Gentleman

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

12. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–81)
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

13. Lady with a Veil

Creator:: unknown artist, nineteenth century
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

14. George IV, When Prince of Wales

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 8 3/4 inches (25.4 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Study of a Woman

Creator:: Nathaniel Smith, 1740–1787
Date:: 1743
Medium:: Black chalk and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 10 1/4 inches (42.5 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: 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

17. Portrait of a Lady

Creator:: John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black and red chalk with stumping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 6 1/8 inches (18.7 × 15.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Portrait of a Girl Holding a Garland

Creator:: attributed to John Downman, 1750–1824, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black and red chalk with graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 3/8 × 9 1/2 inches (31.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Girl in a Pinafore

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859, British
Date:: between 1840 and 1849
Medium:: 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

20. Portrait of Vanessa Bell

Creator:: Duncan Grant, 1885–1978, British
Date:: between 1912 and 1914
Medium:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/2 × 23 1/4 inches (67.3 × 59.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 4 inches (11.4 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

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

Creator:: George Frederic Watts, 1817–1904, British
Date:: ca. 1860
Medium:: 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

23. Portrait of a Woman

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915, French
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Medium:: Black chalk on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches (29.5 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Horace Brodsky

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915, French
Date:: 1913
Medium:: Black chalk on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (34.3 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Portrait of a Woman

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915, French
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Medium:: Black chalk on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches (29.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Katherine Mansfield

Creator:: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891–1915, French
Date:: between 1910 and 1915
Medium:: Black chalk on thin, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (35.9 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 6 inches (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Study of Mrs. Nash

Creator:: Paul Nash, 1889–1946, British
Date:: ca. 1916
Medium:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (20.6 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

29. Study of Gwen John

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:: ca. 1900
Medium:: Black chalk and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 5 5/8 inches (25.1 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Dorelia Asleep

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961, British
Date:: 1903
Medium:: Black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 13/16 × 11 11/16 inches (35.1 × 29.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey at Work

Creator:: George Percy Jacomb-Hood, 1857–1929, British
Date:: 1898
Medium:: 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

32. Head of a Woman Called Ruth Herbert

Creator:: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828–1882, British
Date:: 1876
Medium:: 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. Study of a Woman Sewing

2. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

3. Lady Maynard

4. Portrait of a Man

5. Head of a Young Woman

6. Head of a Lady

7. Portrait

8. Head of a Young Man

9. Head of a Man

10. Portrait of a Young Girl

11. Portrait of a Gentleman

12. Self-Portrait

13. Lady with a Veil

14. George IV, When Prince of Wales

15. Study of a Woman

16. Portrait of a Lady

17. Portrait of a Lady

18. Portrait of a Girl Holding a Garland

19. Girl in a Pinafore

20. Portrait of Vanessa Bell

21. Portrait of a Man

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

23. Portrait of a Woman

24. Horace Brodsky

25. Portrait of a Woman

26. Katherine Mansfield

27. Portrait of a Man

28. Study of Mrs. Nash

29. Study of Gwen John

30. Dorelia Asleep

31. Portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey at Work

32. Head of a Woman Called Ruth Herbert