Materials & Techniques: watercolor / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: landscape / Associated Places: France

1. Corsica

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1830 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1802 to 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and scraping out on slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 7/8 x 44 5/8 inches (73.3 x 113.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A View of the Harbour at Cannes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 1/8 inches (16.7 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Nice from the Genoa Road

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 3/4 inches (14.3 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

5. A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gumming with pen in brown and blue ink, and scraping out, over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 3/16 inches (16.7 x 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. View of Paris from Charenton

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 13 inches (11.7 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Seine at St. Cloud

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 × 9 5/8 inches (10.2 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Mantes

Creator:: follower of Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 inches (10.4 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Versailles

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: between 1831 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 3/16 inches (13 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Mer de Glace

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1831–1895
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 9/16in. (26.4 x 37cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Landscape near Ageles - Gazost at the foot of the Pyrenees

Creator:: Edward John Poynter, 1836–1919
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 8 3/8 inches (14.1 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Showery June, Picardy

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1831–1895
Date:: between 1870 and 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with some scratching out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 15 1/4 inches (28.1 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 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

14. On the Seine

Creator:: Mary Mitford, active 1770
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 13 7/16 inches (15.4 × 34.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Boulogne, France - a Mill in a Wooded Valley

Creator:: Robert Streatfeild, 1786–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Chamonix, Mer de Glace

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: between 1778 and 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, pasted on thick, rough, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 16 13/16in. (25.6 x 42.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Waterworks at Marly and St. Germain-en-Laye Seen in the Distance

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 x 18 1/8 inches (14.5 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Versailles

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (8.3 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Mont-Valérien from Bois de Boulogne

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite, with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (11.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Near St. Malo

Creator:: Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, 1779–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk with scratching out on medium, slightly textured white wove paper, mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 inches (18.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Landscape, Corsica

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and pen and gray-blue ink with wash, white wax crayon and pastel on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 1/2 inches (38.1 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. The Obelisk in the Garden at Versailles

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving hand-coloured in watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 18 1/16 inches (31.2 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Champagnole

Creator:: John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given in honor of Patrick Noon, Curator of Prints, Drawings & Rare Books (1979-97), from the collection of Iola S. Haverstick

24. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, (two sheets mounted together)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 12 3/4 inches (19.5 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Grande Chartreuse

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 3/8 × 17 3/16 inches (34 × 43.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

26. On the Seine

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite with gum arabic on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (14.6 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon

Creator:: Gwen John, 1876–1939
Date:: between 1920 and 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (31.8 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. View of Nice

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches (21.3 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

29. Green and White - Dieppe

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: ca. 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches (12.4 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given in Memory of John B. Oliver, Yale BA 1941, by his Widow and Children

30. Rodes Near Prades

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, sharpie and acrylic on very thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (36.2 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

31. Between Chamonix and Martigny

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, watercolor, graphite, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 15/16 x 17 11/16 inches (32.8 x 45 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. On the Coast of Brittany

Creator:: Alexander T. Francia, 1820–1884
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 12 3/8 inches (19.1 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Calais Sands

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove 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

34. Terrace at St. Germain-en-Laye

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: between 1817 and 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 16 3/4 inches (18.1 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Mont Saint-Michel

Creator:: Charles Reginald Aston, 1832–1908
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 16 × 25 3/4 × 1 1/4 inches (40.6 × 65.4 × 3.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert and Pauline Knoll

36. A Southeast View of the Castle of Grigan in Provence near Dauphine

Creator:: Michel Vincent Brandoin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches (31.8 × 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. A French Canal Scene

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (12.1 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Wooded Glade near St. Tropez

Creator:: Roger Fry, 1866–1934
Date:: ca. 1922
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 3/4 inches (27.3 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mitchell Bobkin

39. Château Navarre, near Evreux, Normandy

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (24.4 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper, pasted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 12 7/16 inches (14 x 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Night Sky , France

Creator:: William Lionel Wyllie, 1851–1931
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (25.7 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

42. Night Sky over Silhouette Landscape, France

Creator:: William Lionel Wyllie, 1851–1931
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (25.7 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

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1. Corsica

2. Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc

3. A View of the Harbour at Cannes

4. Nice from the Genoa Road

5. A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes

6. View of Paris from Charenton

7. The Seine at St. Cloud

8. Mantes

9. Versailles

10. Mer de Glace

11. Landscape near Ageles - Gazost at the foot of the Pyrenees

12. Showery June, Picardy

13. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

14. On the Seine

15. Boulogne, France - a Mill in a Wooded Valley

16. Chamonix, Mer de Glace

17. The Waterworks at Marly and St. Germain-en-Laye Seen in the Distance

18. Versailles

19. Mont-Valérien from Bois de Boulogne

20. Near St. Malo

21. Landscape, Corsica

22. The Obelisk in the Garden at Versailles

23. Champagnole

24. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

25. Grande Chartreuse

26. On the Seine

27. Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon

28. View of Nice

29. Green and White - Dieppe

30. Rodes Near Prades

31. Between Chamonix and Martigny

32. On the Coast of Brittany

33. Calais Sands

34. Terrace at St. Germain-en-Laye

35. Mont Saint-Michel

36. A Southeast View of the Castle of Grigan in Provence near Dauphine

37. A French Canal Scene

38. Wooded Glade near St. Tropez

39. Château Navarre, near Evreux, Normandy

40. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

41. Night Sky , France

42. Night Sky over Silhouette Landscape, France