Materials & Techniques: graphite and watercolor / Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Asia / Work Type: watercolor

1. Remains of a Bridge at San-Sien-Wey on the Pei-Ho near Tong-Tcheou, August 15, 1793

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 7 7/8 inches (10.2 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Retreat Beating at Poona

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/8 × 5 1/4 inches (10.5 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Drawing of a Column from Ekvera

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (38.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Ruins at Pergamon, Probably of the Amphitheatre

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with gray wash
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 1/4 inches (38 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Hindostan at Anchor in the Strait of Mi-a-tau of the City of Ten-choo-fou at the Entrance to the Gulf of Pekin

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 15 1/16 inches (20.6 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Barges of the Embassy Being Raised from One Canal to Another on Their Way from Han-Tcheou-Foo to Tchu-San, 16 November 1793

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 14 5/8 inches (26.5 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. View of the Valley of Sardis and View of a Ruined Bridge

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Black and brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with gray wash
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/16 x 14 15/16 inches (54.1 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. View of the Theater and Plan of the Ionic Temple at Sardis

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with gray wash
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 x 14 15/16 inches (54 x 38 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. A Raree Show

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: between 1792 and 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (19.4 × 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Bhagulpur

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 20 11/16 inches (32.7 × 52.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

12. Views in the Levant: Gateway in a City Wall With Towers

Creator:: Attributed to Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 19 3/4in. (32.5 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Interior View of the Temple at Ekvera (Karle)

Creator:: Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (38.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Sacred Cave of Archidamus

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 18 7/16 inches (29.5 x 46.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. From Rungpore [Rangpur]

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 11 5/8 inches (25.7 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Siccregully [Sakrigali]

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (18.7 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. View Near the City of Tientsin

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 14 5/16 inches (22.9 x 36.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Mourning at a Tomb

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: between 1792 and 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1792 to 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (19.7 x 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Village of Buxadaur [Buxa Duar] [Thibet]

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 1/4 inches (29.5 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor. pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 inches (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 9/16 x 9 11/16 inches (19.2 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Natives of Cochin Playing Shuttlecock in China

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1792 to 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (17.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Fisherpeople on a Junk

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 inches (14.9 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Remains of a Bridge at San-Sien-Wey on the Pei-Ho near Tong-Tcheou, August 15, 1793

2. Retreat Beating at Poona

3. Drawing of a Column from Ekvera

4. Ruins at Pergamon, Probably of the Amphitheatre

5. City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal

6. The Hindostan at Anchor in the Strait of Mi-a-tau of the City of Ten-choo-fou at the Entrance to the Gulf of Pekin

7. Barges of the Embassy Being Raised from One Canal to Another on Their Way from Han-Tcheou-Foo to Tchu-San, 16 November 1793

8. View of the Valley of Sardis and View of a Ruined Bridge

9. View of the Theater and Plan of the Ionic Temple at Sardis

10. A Raree Show

11. Bhagulpur

12. Views in the Levant: Gateway in a City Wall With Towers

13. Interior View of the Temple at Ekvera (Karle)

14. Sacred Cave of Archidamus

15. From Rungpore [Rangpur]

16. Siccregully [Sakrigali]

17. View Near the City of Tientsin

18. Mourning at a Tomb

19. View in China: Figures with Pagoda and Mountain

20. The Village of Buxadaur [Buxa Duar] [Thibet]

21. Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton

22. View in the Province of Kiang-nan, China, Taken from Nature

23. Natives of Cochin Playing Shuttlecock in China

24. Fisherpeople on a Junk