Genre: genre subject / Associated Places: Greater London / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: buildings

1. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1829 to 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 39 inches (61 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 7/8 inches (71.1 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 21 × 34 1/2 inches (53.3 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1684
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 50 1/4 inches (88.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Old Smithfield Market

Creator:: Jacques-Laurent Agasse, 1767–1849
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 27 1/2 inches (50.8 x 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Scene in a London Street

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 inches (95.3 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836

Creator:: Attributed to H. J. Aveling, active 1839–1842
Date:: exhibited 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 x 32 inches (55.9 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Chiswick

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 21 5/8 inches (24.4 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequeathed by Weyland Wells Williams, Yale BA 1910, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

14. The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: before 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted in moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/2 x 12 5/16 inches (26.6 x 31.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. View on the Thames at Battersea

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gum arabic on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 20 7/8 inches (33.3 × 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View of New Street, near London Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (18.4 x 26.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Greenwich Hospital

Creator:: John Glover, 1767–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 5/8 inches (15.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Night Watchman

Creator:: Print made by John Bogle, 1746–1804
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 11 15/16 inches (45.1 x 30.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. St. Martin's Church

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1731 and 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 3/4 inches (49 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The South Sea House

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1720 and 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 19 3/4 inches (36.7 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Hyde Park Corner

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 x 24 7/16 inches (22.7 x 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Part of Waterloo Bridge with the Shot Tower, &c.

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 11 13/16 inches (44.5 x 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Green Park

Creator:: Charles Heath, 1785–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 12 1/8 inches (25 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (35 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Black Lion Wharf

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, slightly textured, beige China paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 14 inches (23.1 × 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

28. View of Queen Square

Creator:: Engraved by Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 7/16 inches (49.5 × 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Westminster Abbey, Hospital &c.

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with tint on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 11/16 inches (37.8 x 55.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

30. A View from Richmond Hill Up the River

Creator:: Charles Grignion, 1717–1810
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 18 1/16 inches (31.6 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 18 9/16 inches (31.1 x 47.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Kew

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (21 x 15.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

33. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

Creator:: Print made by Paul Angier, active 1749
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 18 7/8 inches (31.4 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

34. St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with tint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches (55 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

35. Buckingham Palace from St. James's Park

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 13/16 inches (37.9 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

36. Covent Garden Market

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1795 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown ink, and graphite, with pen and gray line and gray wash on border; verso: watercolor blots and pen and ink lines on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 9/16 inches (15.7 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Queen Square, London

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Clapham

Creator:: Print made by William Ellis, 1747–1810
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (14.6 × 19.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

2. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

3. Whitehall

4. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

5. Northumberland House, London

6. Covent Garden

7. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

8. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

9. Arches of Westminster Bridge

10. Old Smithfield Market

11. Scene in a London Street

12. First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836

13. Chiswick

14. The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch

15. View on the Thames at Battersea

16. View of New Street, near London Bridge

17. Greenwich Hospital

18. Night Watchman

19. St. Martin's Church

20. The South Sea House

21. Hyde Park Corner

22. Part of Waterloo Bridge with the Shot Tower, &c.

23. Green Park

24. A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures

25. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

26. The Royal Palace of St. James's next the Park

27. Black Lion Wharf

28. View of Queen Square

29. Westminster Abbey, Hospital &c.

30. A View from Richmond Hill Up the River

31. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

32. Kew

33. A Perspective View of the Building for the Fireworks in the Green Park, Taken from the Reservoir

34. St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill

35. Buckingham Palace from St. James's Park

36. Covent Garden Market

37. Queen Square, London

38. Clapham