Period: 18th century / Genre: landscape / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: sky

1. Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon Course

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Limekiln at Coalbrookdale

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: between 1773 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 7/8 x 35 3/4 inches (70.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

4. Winter Landscape with Figures

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches (72.4 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Landscape, with Dover Castle in the Distance

Creator:: Arthur Nelson, active 1765–1773
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 43 inches (57.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. A Distant View of Hythe Village and Church, Kent

Creator:: Arthur Nelson, active 1765–1773
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 43 inches (57.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. Knock Ninney and Lough Erne from Bellisle, County Fermanagh, Ireland

Creator:: Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Lake Albano

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 47 1/8 x 65 1/4 inches (119.7 x 165.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches (39.1 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Lough Erne from Knock Ninney, with Bellisle in the distance, County Fermanagh, Ireland

Creator:: Thomas Roberts, 1748–1778
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/2 x 36 inches (57.2 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Classical Landscape: Morning

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Classical Landscape: Evening

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: between 1740 and 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 x 43 inches (109.2 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Italian Landscape (Morning)

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1760 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 5/8 x 37 1/4 inches (70.2 x 94.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Winter Landscape

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches (69.9 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Dunkerswell Abbey, August 20, 1783

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (18.7 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink and touches of gold paint over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 33 1/4 inches (42.5 x 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Views in the Levant: Temple Ruins at Paestum

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, brown laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (36.8 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The City of Bath taken from the London Road

Creator:: Print made by John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand colored with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 15 inches (28.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. St. Nicholas's Island off Mount Edgecombe

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 14 1/2in. (21.6 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove

23. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle, Buildings on a Hill, and Rustic Lovers

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, gray wash and stumping on thin, slightly textured, light blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 13 inches (26.7 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Iola S. Haverstick Fund

25. A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite on handmade Whatman wove paper laid down on canvas on a wooden stretcher
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/16 x 40 3/16 inches (69.3 x 102 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Craig yr Aderyn, near Llanfihangel-y-Pennant

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (21 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Near Ambleside

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown and gray ink with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 1/8 inches (15.2 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Lincoln Cathedral

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, pen and black ink and graphite on moerately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (16.8 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 5 inches (34.9 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A Temple in Harewood Park

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 7 inches (21.3 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Turver's Farm, Wimbish, Essex

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 16 3/8 inches (30.2 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The New Walk, York

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and brown ink over graphite with gouache on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 21 13/16 inches (31.3 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Trees and Pond near Bromley, Kent

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 x 12 5/16 inches (20.8 x 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum, touched with gouache over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 x 21 3/4 inches (41.6 x 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth, Devon

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 12 13/16 inches (19.4 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Modern Bridge at Narni

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (21 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Northern Boundary of St. Bride's Bay

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (13 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Country Lane with Gypsies Resting

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1760 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite and black chalk; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream prepared wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Ullswater, Looking toward Patterdale

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Approach to Belle Grange Park

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (34.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Landscape and Cattle

Creator:: imitator of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over traces of graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper laid down on old mount with black ruled lines, in turn laid on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches (28.6 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Cattle Watering by a Stream

Creator:: imitator of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with black chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 14 1/4 inches (29.5 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Bay Scene in Moonlight

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 7/8 inches (34 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon Course

2. Limekiln at Coalbrookdale

3. West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex

4. Winter Landscape with Figures

5. Landscape, with Dover Castle in the Distance

6. A Distant View of Hythe Village and Church, Kent

7. Knock Ninney and Lough Erne from Bellisle, County Fermanagh, Ireland

8. Lake Albano

9. Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

10. Lough Erne from Knock Ninney, with Bellisle in the distance, County Fermanagh, Ireland

11. Classical Landscape: Morning

12. Classical Landscape: Evening

13. Italian Landscape (Morning)

14. Winter Landscape

15. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

16. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

17. Dunkerswell Abbey, August 20, 1783

18. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

19. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

20. Views in the Levant: Temple Ruins at Paestum

21. The City of Bath taken from the London Road

22. St. Nicholas's Island off Mount Edgecombe

23. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

24. Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle, Buildings on a Hill, and Rustic Lovers

25. A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills

26. Craig yr Aderyn, near Llanfihangel-y-Pennant

27. Near Ambleside

28. Lincoln Cathedral

29. Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

30. A Temple in Harewood Park

31. Turver's Farm, Wimbish, Essex

32. The New Walk, York

33. Rochester, Kent: from the North

34. Trees and Pond near Bromley, Kent

35. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

36. Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth, Devon

37. Modern Bridge at Narni

38. The Northern Boundary of St. Bride's Bay

39. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

40. Country Lane with Gypsies Resting

41. Ullswater, Looking toward Patterdale

42. Approach to Belle Grange Park

43. Landscape and Cattle

44. Cattle Watering by a Stream

45. Bay Scene in Moonlight