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  1. A morning frolic

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Mar. 25, 1780
    Topics: Animals, Appearance, Clothing, Couples, Crossdressing, Soldiers, Visual arts
    Description: Two people in a bedroom by a table set for tea. One is wearing a dress, along with a soldier's hat and a sword; conversely, the other is wearing soldier's vestments and has a women's wig and fan.
  2. Accommodation!! A scene in Hyde Park the Grand View Day, June 4, 1799

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Woodward, George Moutard
    Date: 1799
    Topics: Caricatures and cartoons, Crossdressing, Urination
    Description: Hand-colored engraved caricature after Woodward, published June 19, 1799; pipe-smoking canteen worker in feminine clothing extending skirt to afford concealment to young urinating infantry officer.
  3. Accommodation! Or a Field Day! A scene in Hyde Park the Grand Review Day, June 4, 1799

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Woodward, George Moutard
    Date: 1799
    Topics: Caricatures and cartoons, Crossdressing, Urination
    Description: Original unsigned pencil drawing for engraved caricature after Woodward, published June 19, 1799; pipe-smoking canteen worker in feminine clothing extending skirt to afford concealment to young uri...
  4. An Actress at her Toilet, or, Miss Brazen Just Breecht

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: Jun. 24, 1779
    Topics: Actors, Animals, Clothing, Crossdressing, Visual arts
    Description: The interior of a well-furnished dressing-room. A young woman stands in the centre, arms akimbo, putting on a pair of breeches and looking towards the mirror which stands on a dressing-table (right...
  5. Castellfort's heroine

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Lull, Francisco Ferrer
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Portrait painting, Spain--History--Carlist War, 1873-1876--Campaigns
    Subject: Francisca Guarch
    Description: Unsigned ink and watercolor drawing (by F.F. Lull) after document of Lt.-Colonel Villar in Army Museum, Madrid; 3/4-length portrait of soldier in uniform, right hand resting on musket. This image d...
  6. Das tapfere Mädchen

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Amster
    Date: 1813
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ people in the military
    Subject: Eleonore Prochaska
    Description: Original ink and wash drawing by Amster for Das tapfere Mädchen. Dying person in soldier uniform attended by soldiers on woodland road.
  7. Delpini a la Rossi

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Sayers, James
    Date: Apr. 26, 1785
    Topics: Crossdressing, Etching, Opera, Performing arts, Visual arts
    Description: "Delpini, dressed as a woman, both arms held above his head, runs forward in profile to the left imitating a dancer. Beneath the title is etched: "Grace was in all her Steps" &c."--British Muse...
  8. Exquisite Dandies

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Robert, Cruikshank
    Date: Dec. 8, 1818
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Gender, Social norms, Visual arts
    Description: Two men, referred to in the image as "dandies" are pictured dressing themselves. They speak to one another of their appearances. The men are depicted satirically.
  9. I Play the Part

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1888
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Male impersonators, Portrait prints, Stipple engraving, English, Theatre, Visual arts
    Subject: Constant Couple, George Farquhar, Margaret Woffinton, William Hogarth
    Description: Portrait, half-length, looking at the viewer, with her hand in her waistcoat; in the character of Sir Harry Wildair in Farquhar's Constant couple.
  10. Illustration of Mary Jones (1836)

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: H.R. Robinson
    Date: 1836
    Topics: Arrests of LGBTQ+ people, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Crossdressing
    Subject: Mary Jones, Peter Sewally
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains racist and transphobic imagery. Text at the bottom reads: "The Man-Monster, Peter Sewally, alias Mary Jones, &c&c Sentenced 18th June 1836 to 5 years im...
  11. Kit Cavanagh

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator:
    Date: 1706
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ people in the military
    Subject: Kit Cavanagh
    Description: Engraved reprint proof depicting Kit Kavanagh (also known as Christian Cavanagh, Christian Davies, Mother Ross, and other names), an Irish soldier who served as a man during the Nine Years' War.
  12. Lady S---- B------ habited as a clergyman

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1769
    Topics: Appearance, Clergy, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Social norms
    Subject: Sarah Bunbury
    Description: A women is pictured crossdressing as a clergyman.
  13. Lord W- G- habited as a milliner

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator:
    Date: 1769
    Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Visual arts
    Subject: William Gordon
    Description: Lord William Gordon is depicted dressed as a Millener.
  14. Making a Lancer. Suppose anyone could see us now

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Brown University Library
    Creator: Heath, William
    Date: 1830
    Topics: Crossdressing, LGBTQ+ cartoons
    Subject: Louisa Woolford
    Description: One of a collection of 6 hand-colored engraved military caricatures by and after Heath. 'An attractive young lady, Louisa Woolford, is being dressed in the uniform of a lancer by two others; two me...
  15. Mr. Bannister in the Character of Miss Polly Peachum

     
    Collection: Art Works
    Institution: Yale University Libraries
    Creator: Sayers, James
    Date: 1781
    Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Etching, Opera
    Subject: Charles Bannister, John Gay