Materials & Techniques: brown wash and watercolor / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century

1. Study of a Pilgrim

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, white gouache, gold, black chalk, and graphite on slightly textured, medium, green wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 inches (27.3 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Pastoral Scene

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (9.5 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. S. Pietro Degli Agostiniani. Leonessa.

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, brown wash, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 9 11/16 inches (25.1 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Albania

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: between 1848 and 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink and brown wash over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 9 13/16 inches (13.2 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Government House from St. Andrew's Library - Calcutta

Creator:: Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache, and graphite on thick, moderately textured, blue/gray, wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/16 × 20 15/16 inches (20.8 × 53.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, a Squall

Creator:: Thomas Sully, 1783–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 3/4 inches (17 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Building of Waterloo Bridge

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 15 5/8 inches (25.4 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Well at Bolonchen, Yucatan

Creator:: Frederick Catherwood, 1799–1854
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and scratching out on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 3/16 × 15 5/16 inches (51.3 × 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Henry Schnakenberg

9. Charlton House, Wiltshire

Creator:: John Preston Neale, 1771/80–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, white gouache, graphite on slightly textured, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 1/4 inches (9.8 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Shopping in the Rows, Chester

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown wash and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (19.1 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. After Pinnelli - Group of Peasants Outside a Church

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 3/4 inches (22.9 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. "After Pinnelli" (Group of Peasants Outside a House)

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 x 10 5/8in. (19.8 x 27cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. An Execution, Rome

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, graphite, brown wash, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 18 3/16 inches (25.4 × 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Archers Stalking a Stag

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, and graphite, with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (19.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Fulham Palace, Porter's Lodge

Creator:: John Gendall, 1790–1865
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink with white gouache over graphite on thick, textured, card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 5 15/16 inches (12.7 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Sketch of an Ornate Tombstone

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on thin, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 3 7/8 inches (16 × 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Maya Stela at Copan, Honduras

Creator:: Frederick Catherwood, 1799–1854
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and scratching out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 7/16 × 21 5/8 inches (39.2 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Henry Schnakenberg

18. Portentous Things

Creator:: George Jones, 1786–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, brown wash, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite, with scraping out on smooth, thin, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 3/4 × 19 3/8 inches (60.3 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Entrance Gate to Printers

Creator:: Harry Willson, Active 1813–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphie, brown wash, pen and brown ink and black ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 6 5/8 inches (25.9 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert

20. Ruins at Ephesus

Creator:: Lewis Vulliamy, 1791–1871
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 13 1/8 inches (14 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Design for a Prison

Creator:: Studio of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766–1840
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and blue and black ink with graphite and watercolor and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 29 inches (48.9 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Trees by a River, Cloudy Sky

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black, brown and gray washes over graphite with scratching out on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (17.1 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Boulogne Harbor

Creator:: attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove 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

24. Landscape with Windmill

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 14 1/2 inches (21 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Design for a Cartouche: an Eagle Holding a Shield

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, watercolor, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (29.5 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Lulworth Cove

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown wash and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 7 1/8 x 10 inches (18.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Bovisand, near Plymouth

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown wash and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Entrance to Earlham Park, near Norwich

Creator:: John Crome, 1768–1821
Date:: between 1807 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 x 18 3/16in. (56.2 x 46.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Interior of the Chapel of Saint Julien, near Rouen, Normandy

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash, and watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches (24.1 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Design for a Farm House. Elevations of Two Fronts

Creator:: Joseph Michael Gandy, 1771–1843
Date:: between 1794 and 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 15/16 × 27 7/8 inches (48.1 × 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Edington Church, Wiltshire, England

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 inches (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. View of Monkton House, Seat of S. Whiting

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and brown wash on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 13 3/8 inches (22.9 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

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1. Study of a Pilgrim

2. A Pastoral Scene

3. S. Pietro Degli Agostiniani. Leonessa.

4. Albania

5. Government House from St. Andrew's Library - Calcutta

6. Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, a Squall

7. The Building of Waterloo Bridge

8. Well at Bolonchen, Yucatan

9. Charlton House, Wiltshire

10. Shopping in the Rows, Chester

11. After Pinnelli - Group of Peasants Outside a Church

12. "After Pinnelli" (Group of Peasants Outside a House)

13. An Execution, Rome

14. Archers Stalking a Stag

15. Fulham Palace, Porter's Lodge

16. Sketch of an Ornate Tombstone

17. Maya Stela at Copan, Honduras

18. Portentous Things

19. Entrance Gate to Printers

20. Ruins at Ephesus

21. A Design for a Prison

22. Trees by a River, Cloudy Sky

23. Boulogne Harbor

24. Landscape with Windmill

25. Design for a Cartouche: an Eagle Holding a Shield

26. Lulworth Cove

27. Bovisand, near Plymouth

28. Entrance to Earlham Park, near Norwich

29. Interior of the Chapel of Saint Julien, near Rouen, Normandy

30. Design for a Farm House. Elevations of Two Fronts

31. Edington Church, Wiltshire, England

32. View of Monkton House, Seat of S. Whiting