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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. -
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. -
Mademoiselle de Beaumont, or, the Chevalier d'Eon: Female Minister Plenipo. Capt of Dragoons
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: Sep. 1777 Topics: Clothing, Engraving, Etching, Gender bending, Gender diversity, Military, Portrait prints, British Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée Description: Full length portrait of D'Eon dressed half as a man and half as a woman. The left side of the figure wears a full and elegantly styled dress, with hair piled high in the pyramidal fashion of the ti... -
Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: Jan. 1, 1778 Topics: Animals, Clothing, Social norms, Sports, Visual arts Description: Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?] Two well-dressed young ladies meet before a farm house. On the left, ... -
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 -
Neil Burgess: The Illustrated American Drawing
Collection: Art Works Institution: JD Doyle Archives Creator: The Illustrated American Date: Jan. 14, 1893 Topics: Drawings, Female impersonators Subject: Neil Burgess -
Portrait of Abigail Allen; Portrait of the Female Husband!
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1829? Topics: Drawings, Gender diversity, Marriage, Married people, Passing (Gender), Stealth Subject: Abigail Allen, James Allen Description: Captions below images read: "Portrait of Abigail Allen, Wife to the pretended James Allen, she resided with her Associate for more than 21 years, ignorant of her real sex! and what is more astonis... -
Respect to the Power
Collection: Art Works Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives Creator: Ralph, Yohah Date: Unknown Topics: Leather community, Painting Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, Yohah Ralph Description: Photograph of painting. Handwritten note on back: "Respect to the Power"..."Portrait of Bet Power, Northampton, Massachusetts Painted July, 1987 by Yohah Ralph" -
Rupert Raj Portrait
Collection: Art Works Institution: The ArQuives Creator: Suess, Maya Date: circa 1999 Topics: Drawings, Educators, FtMs, LGBTQ+ activists, South Asian bisexual people, South Asian transgender people, Trans men, Transgender people Subject: Researcher, Rupert Raj, Writer Description: Born in 1952, Rupert Raj is a Eurasian counsellor/psychotherapist, clinical researcher, educator, lecturer, writer, editor, activist and Gender Specialist. He is a trailblazing activist who has bee... -
Scrub
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Sayers, James Date: Feb. 15, 1786 Topics: Actors, Crossdressing, Etching, Male impersonators, Theatre Subject: George Farquhar, Mrs. Abington, The Beaux' Stratagem Description: "Mrs. Abington stands facing three quarters to the right dressed as Scrub in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem', with her hair in tightly curled ringlets (resembling the wig worn by Weston in the part).... -
See here presented to your view
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1799 Topics: Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Soldiers, Visual arts Description: Two people are depicted in a room, one is a Captain and one is dressing herself. -
St. George and the Dragon
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac Date: Oct. 12, 1789 Topics: Boxing, Etching, Politics, Social norms, Visual arts Subject: Chevalier D'Eon Description: "A boxing scene (two couples): the Prince of Wales and Hanger are worsted by d'Eon and St. George. In the foreground (right) Hanger staggers backwards under the attack of St. George; his hat and bl... -
The assaut or fencing match
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas Date: 1787 Topics: Etching, Fencing, Gender diversity, Sporting events, Sports, Stipple engraving Subject: Chevalier D'Eon, Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Joseph Bologne, King George IV Description: A 1787 fencing match between a man and a woman in the elegant rooms of Carlton House, London. In the audience stands the Prince of Wales who had arranged this fencing demonstration between Mademois... -
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men; or, the Lady Turned Serving Man
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Date: 1795? Topics: Change of name, Crossdressing, Household employees, LGBTQ+ poetry, Passing (Gender), Royalty, Wood-engraving -
The Feminine Gender
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Kingsbury, Henry Date: Feb. 2, 1787 Topics: Appearance, Clothing, Crossdressing, Etching, Femininities, Gender, Visual arts Description: A rather feminine-looking man walks to the left. He has a protruding "derrière" which makes his coat tails stand out and a very prominant bosom of ruffles. A large hat is set on top of curled hair...
