Materials & Techniques: black chalk / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Associated Places: Europe

1. Ruin of St. Botolph's Priory, Colchester

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Black and brown chalk over graphite with stumping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches (43.5 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Wooded Slope with a Receding Road

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk with stumping on medium, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34.6 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Boxhill

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, green wash, brown wash, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (24.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Valley of Dolwyddelan

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches (19.4 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1835 or 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, graphite and black chalk on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 18 1/8 inches (38.1 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. A Page from a Cornish Sketchbook: Cornwall 30

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and graphite on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 7 inches (10.6 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Wilmot's Hill, Kent

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: ca. 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 7/8 inches (27.3 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Rock Slip near Boscastle

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, black chalk, yellow chalk, and blue chalk on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (24.1 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Rome from San Spirito

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash black chalk and graphite with white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 23 3/8 inches (35.9 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Scene in Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (8.6 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of George Dix, B.A. 1934

11. Old Cedar Tree in Botanic Garden, Chelsea

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (26.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. 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

13. A View of Boppart, with Figures on the River Bank

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, black chalk and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches (20 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Gardens of the Villa Albani

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches (21.6 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

15. Scene in Kent

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches (29.2 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Pike Pool, Beresford Hall, Derbyshire

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Black and white chalk and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 22 inches (42.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Rowing Boat at Twickenham

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (21.3 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. La Mancha

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 x 6 11/16 inches (18.3 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. At Oxford

Creator:: Edna Kaulbach, active 1874
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 23 3/8 inches (42.5 × 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward I. Elicofon

20. Weymouth Castle

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (24.8 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Study for the Proclamation of Don Carlos

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1834 and 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, black chalk and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (44.5 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black chalk and graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 13 5/8 inches (25.4 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 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

24. Cromer Pier

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (11.1 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

25. Sunrise

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 inches (12.1 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

26. Llanberis

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (11.4 x 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

27. Castleton - The Peak

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 1/8 inches (26.4 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

28. Bridge and Ruin, after Richard Wilson; On the Tiber

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (10.5 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Coast of Sussex from the Downs

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk, and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 14 inches (24.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Dedham Landscape

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (16.5 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Hastings Castle

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 × 11 inches (22.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Two Fishing Boats at Brighton Beach

Creator:: Attributed to Agostino Aglio the elder, 1777–1857
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 10 7/8 inches (13.3 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. View of Windsor from down the River

Creator:: Dr. William Crotch, 1775–1847
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 7 5/8 inches (14.9 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Ruin of St. Botolph's Priory, Colchester

2. Wooded Slope with a Receding Road

3. Boxhill

4. The Valley of Dolwyddelan

5. Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales

6. A Page from a Cornish Sketchbook: Cornwall 30

7. Wilmot's Hill, Kent

8. The Rock Slip near Boscastle

9. Rome from San Spirito

10. Scene in Wales

11. Old Cedar Tree in Botanic Garden, Chelsea

12. Rocky Landscape in Wales

13. A View of Boppart, with Figures on the River Bank

14. The Gardens of the Villa Albani

15. Scene in Kent

16. Pike Pool, Beresford Hall, Derbyshire

17. A Rowing Boat at Twickenham

18. La Mancha

19. At Oxford

20. Weymouth Castle

21. Study for the Proclamation of Don Carlos

22. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon

23. Beddgelert

24. Cromer Pier

25. Sunrise

26. Llanberis

27. Castleton - The Peak

28. Bridge and Ruin, after Richard Wilson; On the Tiber

29. The Coast of Sussex from the Downs

30. Dedham Landscape

31. Hastings Castle

32. Two Fishing Boats at Brighton Beach

33. View of Windsor from down the River