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1. London from the Thames

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (14 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Trees Overhanging a River

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches (14 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Fisherman

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (8.6 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. River Landscape with Figures

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (8.9 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Thames at Windsor

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (16.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

6. Mountainous Landscape, with River Flowing to Bridge in Distance, a Figure Right

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches (29.2 x 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Merida, Spain

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 x 20 1/4 inches (18.2 x 51.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. River Landscape

Creator:: imitator of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (21.2 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Chepstow Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 25 1/4 inches (30.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Chiswick

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 21 5/8 inches (24.4 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequeathed by Weyland Wells Williams, Yale BA 1910, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

11. The Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 14 7/8 inches (43.2 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Under the Ouse Bridge, Bathing

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: between 1803 and 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 21 3/8 inches (41.9 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. View of York

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches (13.5 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. River Landscape with Two Figures, Lake and Distant Mountains

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 9 5/8 inches (12.7 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. River, Trees and Distant Town

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (12.1 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View on the Thames at Battersea

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gum arabic on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 20 7/8 inches (33.3 × 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 9/16 x 20 1/16 inches (29.4 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Ouse Bridge, York

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches (13.4 x 16.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Ships on a River with Buildings in the Distance

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on medium, rough, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 7/16 x 9 7/16 inches (29.1 x 23.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Trees and Cottages at the Bend of a River

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 4 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (11.4 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (29.2 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Ludlow, Shropshire

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 10 5/8 inches (20.3 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Richard L. Purdy

23. Landscape with a Distant Tower

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches (15.9 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Richard L. Purdy

24. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Barge on the Thames near Fulton

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (12.1 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. London from the Thames

2. Trees Overhanging a River

3. The Fisherman

4. River Landscape with Figures

5. The Thames at Windsor

6. Mountainous Landscape, with River Flowing to Bridge in Distance, a Figure Right

7. Merida, Spain

8. River Landscape

9. Chepstow Castle

10. Chiswick

11. The Bridge

12. Under the Ouse Bridge, Bathing

13. View of York

14. River Landscape with Two Figures, Lake and Distant Mountains

15. River, Trees and Distant Town

16. View on the Thames at Battersea

17. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

18. Ouse Bridge, York

19. Ships on a River with Buildings in the Distance

20. Trees and Cottages at the Bend of a River

21. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

22. Ludlow, Shropshire

23. Landscape with a Distant Tower

24. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

25. A Barge on the Thames near Fulton