Materials & Techniques: black wash and laid paper / Image Use: Free to Use / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Moses Receiving the Law

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Howard Visiting a Prison

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: between 1790 and 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Black and gray wash with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches (31.8 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

4. Gates of the Alhambra: Puerta de los Siete Suelos

Creator:: Henry Swinburne, 1743–1803
Date:: 1775 to 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 5/16 × 11 3/16 inches (41.4 × 28.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Cupboard in the Hall of the Embassadors

Creator:: Henry Swinburne, 1743–1803
Date:: 1775 to 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink and black wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 × 16 5/16 inches (23.7 × 41.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. View from a Riverbank

Creator:: Captain John Bernard Gilpin, 1701–1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 18 1/8 inches (30.3 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

7. South Mimms Church, Hertfordshire

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, black wash, and graphite, squared for transfer on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2in. (24.1 x 31.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove

8. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls and Goats

Creator:: Henry Swinburne, 1743–1803
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 3/8 × 11 1/16 inches (41.6 × 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Landscape with Ruins

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, brown wash, black chalk, graphite and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 18 1/8 inches (40.6 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Commencement of the Passage/ Towards the Gemmi/ from the Bernese Side

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 15/16 × 16 3/4 inches (40.5 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Grisons/ Looking to Glarnisch (Switzerland) Mountains

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, black wash, gray wash, graphite, and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 13/16 × 16 3/8 inches (52.9 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Ferry

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brushed gray ink, gray wash, and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Harmonious Family

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brushed gray ink, gray wash, and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 7/8 inches (16.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Wychwood Forest

Creator:: Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Black and gray wash and gouache over pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 × 25 inches (50.8 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. No. 2. A. Table of Hieroglyphics found at Axum

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and black wash on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (27.3 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View of the Cappuccini Mount, the Po River and the Bridge from the Road to the Palentine

Creator:: Henry Swinburne, 1743–1803
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wasn, black wash, graphite, pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 1/8 × 16 3/8 inches (28.3 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Wooded Landscape with Cattle, Figures and a House

Creator:: Charlotte Warren, 18th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, black wash, graphite, black chalk, pen and black ink, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Mountain Landscape with Castle Ruins on a Cliff

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and black wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 17 inches (27.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Plan of the Mesquita of Cordova

Creator:: Henry Swinburne, 1743–1803
Date:: 1775 to 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, black wash, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 1/8 × 16 7/16 inches (28.3 × 41.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Boats in a Rainstorm

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, sponging, graphite, pen and brown ink and black ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 9 1/4 inches (15.2 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

21. Tree and Lake

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: between 1762 and 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 3/4 inches (12.7 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

22. East View of Furness Abbey

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, graphite, pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 9 1/2 inches (17.3 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

23. Abbey Ruin

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and black wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2in. (14 x 19.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

24. Dwelling on a Riverbank

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, graphite, pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/4 inches (17.1 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

25. Mountainous Landscape with Inscription to Salomon Gessner (Switzerland)

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: ca. 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash, black wash, graphite, and white grouache on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 × 17 inches (26.5 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Design for a Book Illustration: ? A Sacrifice before a Battle

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 7 inches (7.6 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa below Shiva and Parvati

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 1/8 inches (27.3 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Tower of London

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/16 × 5 5/8 inches (5.6 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Rocky Crag

Creator:: Rev. William Henry Barnard, 1767–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and black wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 × 22 inches (38.3 × 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Castle Inhabited by Petrarch, Vaucluse

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 inches (17 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Cavalry Battle with a Distant view of a Town

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with black, brown & gray washes on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (21.6 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rutgers Barclay, Yale BA 1957

32. Fantastic Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: 1780 to 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, graphite and buff ground on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches (40 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Mountainous Landscape

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: 1770s
Materials & Techniques:: Black gouache, white gouache, graphite, black wash and buff ground on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (12.1 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Wooded Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with black and gray wash, heavily varnished on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid down on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (17.5 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Open Landscape with Horsemen and Covered Cart

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1780 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and black wash, with traces of black and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 inches (27.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and black wash with black chalk, pen and black ink, heightened with white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, set into contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 14 1/4 inches (27.6 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Mountain Landscape with Figures, Sheep and Fountain

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1785 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash, white wash and black chalk with varnish on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid onto wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (21.6 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Views in the Levant: Interior of a Ruined Byzantine Church

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 9/16 × 11 1/2 inches (31.9 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Arched Bridge in Left Foreground and Town on Horizon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite, gray wash, and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 12 1/2 inches (20.6 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Lady MacBeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on heavy board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 40 3/4 × 21 inches (103.5 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938, to the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. Moses Receiving the Law

2. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

3. Howard Visiting a Prison

4. Gates of the Alhambra: Puerta de los Siete Suelos

5. Cupboard in the Hall of the Embassadors

6. View from a Riverbank

7. South Mimms Church, Hertfordshire

8. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls and Goats

9. Landscape with Ruins

10. Commencement of the Passage/ Towards the Gemmi/ from the Bernese Side

11. Grisons/ Looking to Glarnisch (Switzerland) Mountains

12. The Ferry

13. The Harmonious Family

14. Wychwood Forest

15. No. 2. A. Table of Hieroglyphics found at Axum

16. View of the Cappuccini Mount, the Po River and the Bridge from the Road to the Palentine

17. Wooded Landscape with Cattle, Figures and a House

18. Mountain Landscape with Castle Ruins on a Cliff

19. Plan of the Mesquita of Cordova

20. Boats in a Rainstorm

21. Tree and Lake

22. East View of Furness Abbey

23. Abbey Ruin

24. Dwelling on a Riverbank

25. Mountainous Landscape with Inscription to Salomon Gessner (Switzerland)

26. Design for a Book Illustration: ? A Sacrifice before a Battle

27. Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa below Shiva and Parvati

28. The Tower of London

29. A Rocky Crag

30. The Castle Inhabited by Petrarch, Vaucluse

31. Cavalry Battle with a Distant view of a Town

32. Fantastic Landscape

33. Mountainous Landscape

34. Wooded Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep

35. Open Landscape with Horsemen and Covered Cart

36. Wooded Landscape with Herdsman and Cows

37. Mountain Landscape with Figures, Sheep and Fountain

38. Views in the Levant: Interior of a Ruined Byzantine Church

39. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Arched Bridge in Left Foreground and Town on Horizon

40. Lady MacBeth