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1. Rocky Landscape in Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1835 or 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor with gum and black chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 18 7/8 inches (38.1 × 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Cavern on the South Sands, Tenby

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 1/8 inches (21.9 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Study of Rocks, near Pencerrig, Wales

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 inches (15.9 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Cader Idris, North Wales

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and white gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (14.6 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Newcastle Emlyn

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches (13.6 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

6. Beddgelert

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Black and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (9.8 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

7. Chepstow Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 25 1/4 inches (30.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Landscape Composition, Dolbadern

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (18.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Monnow Bridge, Monmouthshire

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: before 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with brown ink and gum arabic on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 20 3/8 inches (39.7 × 51.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Specimens of Rocks. Proof of an Illustration for Wright's 'Globe Prepared for Man'.

Creator:: Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, etching and color woodcut on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 × 4 13/16 inches (18.5 × 12.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Welsh Mountain Stream

Creator:: David Cox Jr., 1809–1885
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gouache, graphite, and scratching out on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 20 3/4 inches (37.1 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Aberdulais Mill, Glamorganshire

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (26 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Beddgelert Church

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 16 1/4 inches (25.4 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Mountain Landscape, North Wales

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 17 inches (26.7 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Lakes of Llanberis - from the Road from Caernarfon Going to Llanberis, Caernarfonshire

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: July 14, 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, 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

16. Landscape in Wales with Castle, Lake, and Rocky Foreground

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 18 1/4 inches (17.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, varnish and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (11.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Newcastle Emlyn

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8 7/16 inches (15.3 x 21.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

19. Harlech, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, drypoint and mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 14 7/8 inches (27.5 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

20. View of the Rhydaer

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (29.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Lydstep, Natural Arch

Creator:: Francis Frith & Co., 1859–1971
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Platinum print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 3/8 inches (19.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

22. The Slate Quarries at Bron Llwyd

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 8 1/4 inches (12.7 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (14 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Looking Upwards from Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire, Wales

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 x 23 3/4 inches (35.2 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Study of Rocks at Mumbles

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (26 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. On the Conway River, North Wales

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gouache, and gum arabic on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 1/2 × 18 11/16 inches (34.3 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

28. The Eligug-stack, near St. Gowans Head, Pembrokeshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (16.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Penman-maur, Taken from near Aber, North Wales

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (16.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Falls on the River Conwy, North Wales

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and gray-blue ink, over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 11 5/16 inches (19.5 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Valley of the Conway

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink, over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige cardtridge paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 20 11/16 inches (23.5 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen

Creator:: imitator of Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (21 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (29.2 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

34. Ruins of Criccieth Castle and Part of the Town on the Bay on Cardigan. East View, Caernarfonshire

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches (13.7 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Near Pontaberglaslyn

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches (14.3 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Tenby, Castle Hill, &c.

Creator:: Francis Frith & Co., 1859–1971
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Platinum print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 3/8 inches (18.7 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

38. Rocks and Tide, North Wales

Creator:: John Blakemore, born 1936
Date:: 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Selenium toned gelatin silver print on photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 9 3/8 inches (20.3 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of The Hyman Collection, London (Claire and James Hyman)

39. Lydstep, Pembrokeshire

Creator:: Francis Frith & Co., 1859–1971
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Platinum print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 3/8 inches (19.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

40. St. Catherine's Rock, Tenby

Creator:: Francis Frith & Co., 1859–1971
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 3/8 inches (19.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

41. The Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth

Creator:: Rev. Charles Annesley, 1787–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 inches (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. The Valley of Nant Ffrancon, Caernarvonshire

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 11 9/16 inches (17.1 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Bridge in Wales

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 18 1/4 inches (30.3 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/16 inches (58.5 x 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Rocky Landscape in Wales

2. A Cavern on the South Sands, Tenby

3. Study of Rocks, near Pencerrig, Wales

4. Cader Idris, North Wales

5. Newcastle Emlyn

6. Beddgelert

7. Chepstow Castle

8. Landscape Composition, Dolbadern

9. The Monnow Bridge, Monmouthshire

10. Specimens of Rocks. Proof of an Illustration for Wright's 'Globe Prepared for Man'.

11. Welsh Mountain Stream

12. Aberdulais Mill, Glamorganshire

13. Beddgelert Church

14. Mountain Landscape, North Wales

15. The Lakes of Llanberis - from the Road from Caernarfon Going to Llanberis, Caernarfonshire

16. Landscape in Wales with Castle, Lake, and Rocky Foreground

17. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

18. Newcastle Emlyn

19. Harlech, no. 2

20. View of the Rhydaer

21. Lydstep, Natural Arch

22. The Slate Quarries at Bron Llwyd

23. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

24. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

25. Looking Upwards from Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire, Wales

26. Study of Rocks at Mumbles

27. On the Conway River, North Wales

28. The Eligug-stack, near St. Gowans Head, Pembrokeshire

29. Penman-maur, Taken from near Aber, North Wales

30. Falls on the River Conwy, North Wales

31. Valley of the Conway

32. Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen

33. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

34. Ruins of Criccieth Castle and Part of the Town on the Bay on Cardigan. East View, Caernarfonshire

35. Near Pontaberglaslyn

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

37. Tenby, Castle Hill, &c.

38. Rocks and Tide, North Wales

39. Lydstep, Pembrokeshire

40. St. Catherine's Rock, Tenby

41. The Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth

42. The Valley of Nant Ffrancon, Caernarvonshire

43. A Bridge in Wales

44. Imogen in the Cave, 'Cymbeline', Act III, Scene VI