Materials & Techniques: graphite / Collection: Prints and Drawings / Genre: marine art / Subject Terms: marine art and waves (natural events)

1. Study of Waves

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown washes with white gouache over graphite on thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 7/8 inches (14.8 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Shipping

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1828 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed brown ink, pen and brown ink, gouache, graphite and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (13.6 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: Follower of William Owen, 1769–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 3/4in. (19.1 x 27.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Thumbnail Sketch of Port City

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 7/16 × 2 1/16 inches (3.7 × 5.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Harbor

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 1/4in. (14.6 x 23.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Scarborough: Shipwreck at the Foot of the Castle Cliff

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 16 1/2in. (30 x 41.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Ships on a Stormy Sea

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (14 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: Follower of William Owen, 1769–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2in. (19.1 x 26.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Beach Scene

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 inches (19.7 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Laying Storm Anchors

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 4 1/2 inches (17.8 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Victory Returning from Trafalgar

Creator:: Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 4 1/2 × 6 3/8 inches (11.4 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell

12. Clovelly, North Devon

Creator:: William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite with scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 29 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches (74.3 x 113 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. View of Sheerness

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 12 inches (16.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Figures on a Beach

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: after 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 × 11 inches (13.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. A Harbour; Breakwater Left, Small Boats Moored Alongside a Quay with Figures Right

Creator:: Follower of Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, green-beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 13/16 inches (11.7 × 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Off Portsmouth: Boats Loading or Unloading a Large Hulk, Small Craft Nearby

Creator:: Follower of Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 3/16 inches (16.9 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Coast Scene with Shipping

Creator:: Charles Bentley, 1806–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite, with scraping out on heavy, moderately textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 14 5/8 inches (23.5 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Running before the Wind

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (14.6 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Fishing Vessels in a Heavy Swell off the Coast

Creator:: George William Crawford Chambers, 1830–ca. 1900
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (24.1 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

20. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (29.2 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

21. Distress

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1790 to 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and red ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/16 inches (31 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. South East View of Fort George, Madras

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: January 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 7/16 × 22 5/8 inches (36.7 × 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

23. Boat at Sea

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 × 6 7/16 inches (9.7 × 16.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

24. Gale of Winds

Creator:: George Jackson, active 1839–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/16 × 4 1/4 inches (8.4 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red brown and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 18 1/4 inches (20.5 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906

26. Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Creator:: Charles Dyce, active 1848
Date:: ca. 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (24.8 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

Creator:: George Cuitt, 1743–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 16 13/16 inches (33.3 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Sailing Wherries and Boats in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches (8.9 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Shipping off Staffa

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, gray ink, black ink, gouache, gum, and graphite, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 3/8 inches (31.1 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Race of Daldey

Creator:: Heneage Finch fourth Earl of Aylesford, 1751–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 7/8 inches (21 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Boats on a Stormy Sea

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 7 inches (10.2 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Sailing Barges and Boats in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: George Chambers, 1803–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 11 1/8 inches (17.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Study for a composition: The Wreck of an East Indiaman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (12.1 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Prospero and Miranda

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:: Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Study of Waves

2. Shipping

3. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

4. Thumbnail Sketch of Port City

5. Harbor

6. Scarborough: Shipwreck at the Foot of the Castle Cliff

7. Ships on a Stormy Sea

8. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

9. Beach Scene

10. Laying Storm Anchors

11. Victory Returning from Trafalgar

12. Clovelly, North Devon

13. View of Sheerness

14. Figures on a Beach

15. A Harbour; Breakwater Left, Small Boats Moored Alongside a Quay with Figures Right

16. Off Portsmouth: Boats Loading or Unloading a Large Hulk, Small Craft Nearby

17. Coast Scene with Shipping

18. Running before the Wind

19. Fishing Vessels in a Heavy Swell off the Coast

20. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

21. Distress

22. South East View of Fort George, Madras

23. Boat at Sea

24. Gale of Winds

25. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

26. Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

27. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

28. Sailing Wherries and Boats in a Choppy Sea

29. Shipping off Staffa

30. The Race of Daldey

31. Boats on a Stormy Sea

32. Sailing Barges and Boats in a Choppy Sea

33. Study for a composition: The Wreck of an East Indiaman

34. Prospero and Miranda

35. Antigonus Disposing of Perdita