Materials & Techniques: brown wash / Period: 19th century / Genre: cityscape

1. A Classical City

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 3/8 inches (12.7 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Rome from San Spirito

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash black chalk and graphite with white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 23 3/8 inches (35.9 x 59.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Study of Old Buildings

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches (19.4 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Reggio, 26 July 1847

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 18 7/8 inches (28.6 x 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. Waterloo Bridge from the Garden of M. A. Taylor, Esq.

Creator:: William Parrott, 1813–ca. 1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 8 3/8 inches (11 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Walls of Jericho

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown wash with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (9.8 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Railway Office, Liverpool

Creator:: Isaac Shaw, active 1830
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 8 5/8 inches (15.4 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Queen Anne's Court, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea

Creator:: Henry Greaves, 1850–1900
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, and graphite on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 25 inches (50.8 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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

10. Palazzi dei Rolli, Genoa

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 16 5/8 inches (27.6 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Coastal Town on a Greek Island

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 11/16 inches (11.9 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Nafplio, From the Port of the Argolic Gulf Near Argos

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 11/16 inches (11.9 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Part of Karytaina

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 1/4 inches (22.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Vicenza

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 3/4 inches (11.7 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Vicenza, Italy

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 9 7/8 inches (19.2 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Old London Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral From the Thames

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with scratching out on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 7 inches (10.5 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Chowringhee Road from No. XI Esplanade

Creator:: Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, brown wash, and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 11/16 × 21 inches (17 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Creator:: Isaac Shaw, active 1830
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brown ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 1/2 inches (15.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. View on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Locomotive "Twin Sisters" in a Siding

Creator:: Isaac Shaw, active 1830
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brown ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 11/16 inches (15.6 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Bridge over the Irwell and Entrance into Manchester

Creator:: Isaac Shaw, active 1830
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brown ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (16.5 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash, scratching out and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 × 24 1/8 inches (40.6 × 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Villa Adrianna, Rome

Creator:: James William Giles, 1801–1870
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and pen and brown ink with touches of white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 16 5/8 inches (27.5 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Fish Market, Hastings

Creator:: William Henry Harriott, active 1811, died 1839
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 3/8 inches (17.8 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Cheyne Walk, Old Chelsea

Creator:: Henry Greaves, 1850–1900
Date:: 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 25 1/4 inches (50.8 × 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Port of Spain, from the Harbour

Creator:: Michel Jean Cazabon, 1813–1888
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 11 1/2 inches (16.2 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Carlisle Bay, Barbados

Creator:: Lt. Paul Sandby, ca. 1820
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 19 inches (14.9 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Girgenti

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 3/8 inches (22.7 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Girgenti, in Sicily, to the South

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 3/8 inches (22.7 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Paris, A View of Pont au Changes

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1800 to 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored soft-ground etching with brown, gray, and blue wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 19 5/16 inches (23.2 × 49.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. View on the River Liris at Isola di Sora

Creator:: Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1758–1838
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 1/8 inches (39.5 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Classical City in Landscape

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/4 x 11 1/16 inches (21 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

32. 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

33. The Theater at Tien-Sin

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink, graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Ruined Gateway at Kilmallock

Creator:: Thomas Crofton Croker, 1798–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (23.2 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. A Classical City

2. Rome from San Spirito

3. Study of Old Buildings

4. Reggio, 26 July 1847

5. Waterloo Bridge from the Garden of M. A. Taylor, Esq.

6. The Walls of Jericho

7. Railway Office, Liverpool

8. Queen Anne's Court, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea

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

10. Palazzi dei Rolli, Genoa

11. Coastal Town on a Greek Island

12. Nafplio, From the Port of the Argolic Gulf Near Argos

13. Part of Karytaina

14. Vicenza

15. Vicenza, Italy

16. Old London Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral From the Thames

17. Chowringhee Road from No. XI Esplanade

18. Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

19. View on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Locomotive "Twin Sisters" in a Siding

20. Bridge over the Irwell and Entrance into Manchester

21. Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

22. The Villa Adrianna, Rome

23. Fish Market, Hastings

24. Cheyne Walk, Old Chelsea

25. Port of Spain, from the Harbour

26. Carlisle Bay, Barbados

27. Girgenti

28. Girgenti, in Sicily, to the South

29. Paris, A View of Pont au Changes

30. View on the River Liris at Isola di Sora

31. Classical City in Landscape

32. Boulogne Harbor

33. The Theater at Tien-Sin

34. Ruined Gateway at Kilmallock