Materials & Techniques: graphite / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: play

1. A Sheet of Sketches - Theatrical Studies

Creator:: Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 7 inches (17.5 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Faust and Margaret

Creator:: Theodor von Holst, 1810–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (24.8 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Cavalry Officer (Henry IV) Leading a Charge Outside a Castle

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 15 13/16 inches (50.8 × 40.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Sleepwalking Scene in Macbeth

Creator:: Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, graphite and traces of white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (50.5 x 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. The Death of Cordelia

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, red crayon, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. Enter Malvolio, Crossgartered...

Creator:: Sir John Gilbert, 1817–1897
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, red ink, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 29 3/4 inches (48.9 × 75.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Virgilia and Volumnia Plead with Coriolanus

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 12 1/8 inches (29.8 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Unidentified Periodical/Play Illustration

Creator:: Isaac Taylor, 1730–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 3 15/16 inches (16.5 × 10 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Stephano and Trinculo with Caliban

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with gouache and oil over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 4 1/4 inches (15.2 x 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 14 x 18 5/8 inches (35.6 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Falstaff Disguised as Herne

Creator:: John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 10 3/16 inches (28.9 x 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Cleopatra on the Cydnus to Meet Antony

Creator:: Alfred Edward Chalon, 1780–1860
Date:: ca. 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with gray wash and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (49.6 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban with Prospero's Magic Wardrobe

Creator:: Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink with brown wash and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches (16.8 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Rustics Perform from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Creator:: John Massey Wright, 1777–1866
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 x 9 9/16 inches (14.4 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets

Creator:: Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896
Date:: 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 20 3/4 inches (39.6 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. 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

17. Winter

Creator:: Richard Corbould, 1757–1831
Date:: ca. 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 5 inches (17.1 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. 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

19. Fluellen Forcing Pistol to Eat His Leek

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 × 10 1/8 inches (35.6 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Lady Macbeth, Sleepwalking

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink, scraping, and gouache over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/16 x 14 1/2 inches (53.5 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 3/4 x 24 3/16 inches (52.7 x 61.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Lady Percy Watching the Sleeping Hotspur

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 24 x 19 1/8 inches (61 x 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Lear and Cordelia

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 22 15/16 x 17 1/4 inches (58.3 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Ophelia's Death

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper with reminants of contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 22 9/16 x 17 13/16 inches (57.3 x 45.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Apparition of the Armed Head: Macbeth

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 × 13 inches (40.6 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Sheet of Sketches - Theatrical Studies

2. Faust and Margaret

3. A Cavalry Officer (Henry IV) Leading a Charge Outside a Castle

4. The Sleepwalking Scene in Macbeth

5. The Death of Cordelia

6. Enter Malvolio, Crossgartered...

7. Virgilia and Volumnia Plead with Coriolanus

8. Unidentified Periodical/Play Illustration

9. Stephano and Trinculo with Caliban

10. Design for the Haymarket Theatre: "The Battle of Hexham", by Colman the Younger

11. Falstaff Disguised as Herne

12. Cleopatra on the Cydnus to Meet Antony

13. Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban with Prospero's Magic Wardrobe

14. The Rustics Perform from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

15. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets

16. An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

17. Winter

18. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

19. Fluellen Forcing Pistol to Eat His Leek

20. Lady Macbeth, Sleepwalking

21. The Three Witches from Macbeth: Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

22. Lady Percy Watching the Sleeping Hotspur

23. Lear and Cordelia

24. Ophelia's Death

25. The Apparition of the Armed Head: Macbeth