On-site Access: Not on view / Subject Terms: costume and river

1. The Avon Gorge

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: between 1816 and 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 × 9 3/4 inches (33 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1829 to 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 39 inches (61 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Ploughing Scene in Suffolk

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1824 to 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 3/4 x 30 inches (42.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. A Repose after Shooting

Creator:: George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/4 x 50 1/2 inches (102.2 x 128.3 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

6. John and Elizabeth Jeffreys and Their Children

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 1/4 x 35 3/4 inches (71.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. A Gentleman and his Dog in a Landscape

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 × 25 inches (76.8 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Salmon Leap, Leixlip

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 25 1/2 inches (67.6 x 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. A View of Tivoli

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: between 1750 and 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/8 x 45 5/8 inches (81.6 x 115.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

Creator:: Nicholas Condy, 1793–1857
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.9 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. 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

13. View on the River Thames at Richmond

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches (33.7 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Medway at Rochester

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 31 inches (55.2 x 78.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Ely Cathedral

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 5/8 x 29 7/16 inches (54.9 x 74.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. 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

17. View on the Medway

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1776
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

18. Classical Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785
Date:: 1767 to 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 7/8 x 18 3/16 inches (32.7 x 46.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

19. Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, of Hales Place, Hackington, Kent

Creator:: Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760
Date:: 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 81 1/2 x 51 7/8 inches (207 x 131.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. The Old Water Mill

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/2 x 49 1/8 inches (100.3 x 124.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Buck Washing on Datchet Mead from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' III, v

Creator:: John S. Clifton, active 1852–1869
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

22. Jaques and the Wounded Stag: 'As You Like It,' Act II, Scene I

Creator:: Landscape by William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 48 1/2 inches (92.1 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

23. An Imaginary Italianate Landscape with Classical Figures and a Waterfall

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 3/16 x 20 7/8 inches (36 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: William Owen, 1769–1825
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 83 1/2 x 55 inches (212.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Exercising the Royal Horses

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: between 1847 and 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 3/4 x 44 inches (85.7 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Reeve & Elizabeth Boies Schley
On View:: Not on view