Materials & Techniques: 3 selected / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 18th century / Work Type: drawing / Subject Terms: river

1. Lorch on the Rhine

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: between 1790 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 21 3/8 inches (19.4 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The River Avon: with Passing Vessels

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 22 1/8 inches (41.6 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A View at Lucerne

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and brown ink over graphite with brown and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 23 1/8 inches (41.9 × 58.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Gypsy Fortune-Teller

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1758
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches (24.4 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Italianate Landscape with Travellers no. 2

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 21 inches (36.8 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Landscape with a man playing a pipe under an old tree

Creator:: style of Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, graphite, black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches (37.5 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. View of Shershah's Tomb at Sasaram in Bihar

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 24 1/16 × 33 inches (61.1 × 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Rocky River Scene with Sepoys

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 21 1/4 × 29 3/8 inches (54 × 74.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Landscape with Two Men and a Castle Ruin on the Riverbank

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (14.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

11. Two Men Walking in a Landscape

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, brown wash, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 × 16 3/8 inches (27.8 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

12. Vauxhall Stairs, from Millbank, July 5, 1797

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 9/16 × 11 inches (24.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Melville Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on very thick, moderately textured, brown wove 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

15. Glasgow Cathedral

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1794 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen in brown and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 9/16 inches (21.9 x 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. London from Highgate Hill

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 1/4 inches (34 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The New Walk, York

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and brown ink over graphite with gouache on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 21 13/16 inches (31.3 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Ludlow Castle

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: between 1765 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with a thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper border
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 35 1/2 inches (46.7 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Eton College from Datchet Road

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite with gray wash border on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 23 1/16 inches (46.4 x 58.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Dumbarton Rock and Castle

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and scraping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 13/16 x 11 3/4 inches (22.4 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Limbourg, Belgium

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1791 and 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches (14.9 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. River Scene and Bridge with Artist Sketching in Foreground

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Barn Elmes

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper (contemporary mount)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 11 3/4 inches (23.8 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. View of Ipswich, Suffolk

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 14 1/16in. (20 x 35.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Hampton Court Church

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 x 12 7/8in. (26.2 x 32.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Lorch on the Rhine

2. The River Avon: with Passing Vessels

3. A View at Lucerne

4. The Gypsy Fortune-Teller

5. Italianate Landscape with Travellers no. 2

6. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

7. Landscape with a man playing a pipe under an old tree

8. View of Shershah's Tomb at Sasaram in Bihar

9. Rocky River Scene with Sepoys

10. Landscape with Two Men and a Castle Ruin on the Riverbank

11. Two Men Walking in a Landscape

12. Vauxhall Stairs, from Millbank, July 5, 1797

13. Rochester, Kent: from the North

14. Melville Castle, Midlothian

15. Glasgow Cathedral

16. London from Highgate Hill

17. The New Walk, York

18. Ludlow Castle

19. Eton College from Datchet Road

20. Dumbarton Rock and Castle

21. Limbourg, Belgium

22. River Scene and Bridge with Artist Sketching in Foreground

23. Barn Elmes

24. View of Ipswich, Suffolk

25. Hampton Court Church