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Gemmarum Series
Collection: Art Works Institution: Yale University Libraries Creator: Mynde, James Date: 1745 Topics: Androgyny, Intersex people, Nude art Description: Etching of Roman Empire era jewelry cameos. Figure II depicts a person with breasts and a penis with satyrs. -
Hannah Snell the female soldier
Collection: Art Works Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Boitard, Louis-Philippe Date: 1750 Topics: Crossdressers, LGBTQ+ people in the military, Soldiers in art Description: Copper-engraving by B. Cole after Boitard; full-length portrait in military dress, military and naval battles in background. Hannah Snell (1723-1792) was an English soldier who served under the nam... -
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. -
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... -
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. -
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... -
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... -
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 -
Nancy: Miss Walpole
Collection: Art Works Institution: Brown University Library Creator: Date: 1790 Topics: Crossdressing, Theater Subject: Charlotte Walpole Description: Color stipple-engraving numbered 3 (after Bunbury); standing figure of young person in infantry uniform with gun, standing on a hill pointing towards a tent encampment in left distance, cottage in ... -
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 (Transgender) 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"
