Materials & Techniques: brown wash / Period: 19th century / Associated Places: Europe and United Kingdom / Work Type: watercolor

1. Study for Cottage in Cornfield, East Bergholt

Creator:: attributed to John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, beige wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (8.9 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Boxhill

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, green wash, brown wash, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (24.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. An Ancient Barn at Shoreham

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on moderately textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 11 inches (15.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Interior of a Coppersmith's, Shoe Lane

Creator:: Henry William Burgess, active 1809–1860
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (14 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Fulham Palace, Porter's Lodge

Creator:: John Gendall, 1790–1865
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink with white gouache over graphite on thick, textured, card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 5 15/16 inches (12.7 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Hinton St. George, Somerset: Plan of the Dressing Room

Creator:: James Wyatt, 1746–1813
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, gray and pink wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 21 7/8 inches (32.1 × 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Our Blessed Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury: Perspective of the Interior

Creator:: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812–1852
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite with pen and black and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches (31.3 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Wreck and the Merchant Vessel, St. George, at Deal, Kent

Creator:: John Samuel Hayward, 1778–1822
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 6 5/8 inches (13.3 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Stones Found in a Pitt, in Ringfield Near Beccles, Suffolk

Creator:: Isaac Johnson, 1754–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 10 3/4 inches (18.7 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. The Building of Waterloo Bridge

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 15 5/8 inches (25.4 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Harlech Castle

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brown gouache, graphite, and pen and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 7/8 inches (25.7 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. St. Thomas' Church, Winchelsea

Creator:: Henry Morton, ca. 1807–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 7 1/16 inches (37.8 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Charlton House, Wiltshire

Creator:: John Preston Neale, 1771/80–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, white gouache, graphite on slightly textured, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 1/4 inches (9.8 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Tower of the Manor House, East Barsham, Norfolk

Creator:: Joseph Nash, 1808–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 6 3/4 inches (22.9 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 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

17. Hartwell, Buckinghamshire

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 21 1/16 inches (36.4 x 53.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

Creator:: William Henry Bartlett, 1809–1854
Date:: between 1823 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 3/4 inches (16.2 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Trerice Manor, Cornwall: View of the Front

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (17.5 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Kiddlington Church, Oxfordshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches (19.4 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Ashtead

Creator:: Attributed to Hon. Daniel Finch, 1789–1868
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 inches (20.6 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Thorncroft, near Leatherhead

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (13 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Raynham Hall, Norfolk

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (15.9 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Fishing off Hastings

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: early 1810s
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash and red chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 inches (12.4 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. View of Norwich

Creator:: Miles Edmund Cotman, 1810–1858
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Entrance to Earlham Park, near Norwich

Creator:: John Crome, 1768–1821
Date:: between 1807 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 x 18 3/16in. (56.2 x 46.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Newbattle Abbey, Scotland

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on smooth, medium, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 7/8 inches (22.9 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Materials & Techniques brown wash

Period 19th century

Associated Places Europe

Associated Places United Kingdom

Work Type watercolor

Search Results

1. Study for Cottage in Cornfield, East Bergholt

2. Boxhill

3. An Ancient Barn at Shoreham

4. Interior of a Coppersmith's, Shoe Lane

5. Fulham Palace, Porter's Lodge

6. Hinton St. George, Somerset: Plan of the Dressing Room

7. Our Blessed Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury: Perspective of the Interior

8. Wreck and the Merchant Vessel, St. George, at Deal, Kent

9. Stones Found in a Pitt, in Ringfield Near Beccles, Suffolk

10. Fish Market, Hastings

11. The Building of Waterloo Bridge

12. Harlech Castle

13. St. Thomas' Church, Winchelsea

14. Charlton House, Wiltshire

15. The Tower of the Manor House, East Barsham, Norfolk

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

17. Hartwell, Buckinghamshire

18. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

19. Trerice Manor, Cornwall: View of the Front

20. Kiddlington Church, Oxfordshire

21. Ashtead

22. Thorncroft, near Leatherhead

23. Raynham Hall, Norfolk

24. Fishing off Hastings

25. View of Norwich

26. Entrance to Earlham Park, near Norwich

27. Newbattle Abbey, Scotland