On-site Access: Not on view / Associated Places: Europe / Subject Terms: river

1. The Avon Gorge at Sunset

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 5 7/16 x 6 7/16 inches (13.8 x 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Boat Building near Dinan, Brittany

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (23.5 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Flatford Lock

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Somerset House Terrace from Waterloo Bridge

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches (15.6 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Flatford Mill

Creator:: Attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 5/16 x 11 9/16 inches (16 x 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Flatford Mill

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: between 1810 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (16.5 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by Paul Mellon in memory of his friend James Cox Brady, Yale College, Class of 1929
On View:: Not on view

8. Newark Abbey

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1806 and 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 1/2 inches (91.4 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. David Garrick and his wife Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) by his Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton

Creator:: Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733–1810
Date:: ca. 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 43 1/4 x 53 inches (109.9 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. A View Near Arundel, Sussex, with Ruins by Water

Creator:: George Smith, 1714–1776
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches (41 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. A Bridge Over the River Wye

Creator:: John Taylor of Bath, 1735–1806
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 13 inches (25.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. A Thames Barge running downwind off Tilbury Fort

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 36 1/4 inches (61 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Buckenham Ferry, on the River Yare, Norfolk

Creator:: Joseph Stannard, 1797–1830
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 15 3/4 x 24 inches (40 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Low Lighthouse, North Shields

Creator:: Robert Salmon, 1775–ca.1845
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 16 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches (41.9 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: between 1743 and 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Pulteney Bridge, Bath

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: between 1916 and 1917
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/2 x 45 1/4 inches (72.4 x 114.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 1/8 x 43 5/8 inches (117.2 x 110.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Lambeth from the River looking towards Westminster Bridge

Creator:: James Stark, 1794–1859
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 3/4 x 54 inches (88.3 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. 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

21. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Greenwich Hospital from the Observatory with a Distant View of London

Creator:: Thomas Christopher Hofland, 1777–1843
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid to panel
Dimensions:: 9 7/16 x 13 3/16 inches (24 x 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. Durham

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 41 inches (50.8 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. An Imaginary View of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 × 36 1/4 inches (71.8 × 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1670
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 53 × 43 5/8 inches (134.6 × 110.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Westminster Abbey and Bridge

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/8 x 28 inches (92.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Opposite my House at Barnes

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880
Date:: 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 11 15/16 x 18 15/16 inches (30.3 x 48.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. 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

29. Llannerch, Denbighshire, Wales

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1667
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 45 x 59 3/4 inches (114.3 x 151.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Otley Bridge on the River Wharfe

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 15/16 x 43 15/16 inches (60.8 x 111.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Westminster Bridge and Abbey

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 12 1/16 x 18 11/16 inches (30.6 x 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Greenwich, with London in the distance

Creator:: Jan Vorsterman, ca. 1643–after 1685
Date:: ca. 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 × 57 1/2 inches (74.9 × 146.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. London Bridge, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (16.2 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. A View of Richmond Bridge, on the Thames

Creator:: Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, 1779–1844
Date:: between 1807 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (19.1 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches (55.2 x 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. View near Wynnstay, the Seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, fourth Bt.

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1770 to 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 71 x 96 3/8 inches (180.3 x 244.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

38. A View of Westminster Bridge and the Abbey from the South Side

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 3/8 x 12 9/16 inches (16.2 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

39. The Building of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 47 inches (68.6 x 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

40. A View of Lambeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches (31.1 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and oil on paper laid down on panel
Dimensions:: 17 7/8 x 25 inches (45.4 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view