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1. End of Lake Geneva

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 45 inches (76.2 x 114.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A Mountain Chieftain's Funeral

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 × 21 3/4 inches (35.6 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches (51.1 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/16 x 48 inches (91.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. “And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick”

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: 1872
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches (90.8 x 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. A Landscape with Figures

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches (52.1 x 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. 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

10. Crickhowell, Breconshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 14 inches (23.5 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 7/8 inches (71.1 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Frost on the Thames

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Date:: 1788 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/16 × 48 3/16 inches (76.7 × 122.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Musical Conversation

Creator:: Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 x 30 7/8 inches (66 x 78.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. The Marmalong Bridge

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 36 inches (68.6 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Greenwich Fair

Creator:: Attributed to Maria Spilsbury, 1777–1820
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 3/4 × 23 inches (42.5 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gilbert W. Chapman, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
On View:: Not on view

18. A View in China: Cultivating the Tea Plant

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 1/2 × 72 13/16 inches (123.2 × 184.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the Gazette Announcing the Battle of Waterloo

Creator:: Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841
Date:: ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 x 17 inches (26.7 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. William Orpen Levitating

Creator:: Augustus Edwin John, 1878–1961
Date:: 1897 to 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 32 1/2in. (64.8 x 82.5cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

21. Indian Temple, Said to Be the Mosque of Abo-ul-Nabi, Muttra

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 1/2 x 56 1/4 inches (108 x 142.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. A View of the Cathedral and City of Lincoln from the River

Creator:: Joseph Baker of Lincoln, active 1742–1770
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 9/16 x 43 1/4 inches (82.7 x 109.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. May Day

Creator:: William Collins, 1788–1847
Date:: between 1811 and 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 x 44 inches (94 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jean M. Harford
On View:: Not on view

24. Glover's Island from Richmond Hill

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1932
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 35 inches (58.4 x 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum
On View:: Not on view

25. Oh, it's Nice to be beside the Seaside

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: between 1928 and 1930
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 21 inches (63.5 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Patricia Cornwell and Harvard Art Museum
On View:: Not on view

26. A Day at the Beach

Creator:: Roma Higgins, 1908–1979
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on masonite
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nicholas Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

27. Cafe Tabac

Creator:: Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John, 1906–1993
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 × 23 inches (43.2 × 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view

28. Cafe Tabac #2

Creator:: Cecil Rochfort D'Oyly John, 1906–1993
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker
On View:: Not on view