Materials & Techniques: graphite / Period: 19th century / Exhibition History: British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

1. Sunset over a River Landscape

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: early 1840s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches (31.2 x 44.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. On the Mosell, Near Traben Trarbach

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches (23.2 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gumming with pen in brown and blue ink, and scraping out, over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 3/16 inches (16.7 x 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Margate Harbor

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: ca. 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 19 1/8 inches (30.8 × 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Well at Bolonchen, Yucatan

Creator:: Frederick Catherwood, 1799–1854
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and scratching out on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 3/16 × 15 5/16 inches (51.3 × 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Henry Schnakenberg

6. Old Farm Buildings

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 16 5/8 inches (33 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Landscape in North Wales

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 5/8 inches (23.8 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Still Life with a Ginger Jar

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 inches (19.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. In Richmond Park

Creator:: John William Inchbold, 1830–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (17.1 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1842 and 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, red chalk, black chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (51.1 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 3/8 inches (37.8 × 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Showery June, Picardy

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1831–1895
Date:: between 1870 and 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with some scratching out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 15 1/4 inches (28.1 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (29.2 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Market Place, Tanta, Egypt

Creator:: William Paton Burton, 1828–1883
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 × 20 1/2 inches (36.7 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Rialto

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown and black ink, with graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 1/2 inches (36.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Tenth Day of the Decameron

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 8in. (27 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Elephant Battery

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 1/4 inches (27 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Triumph of Music

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 × 18 1/8 inches (31 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Porta S. Giovanni, Rome

Creator:: William Leighton Leitch, 1804–1883
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 18in. (22.9 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. A View of Susa, Italy, from the West

Creator:: John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and black ink on thick, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (29.2 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Road Near Bettws-y-Coed

Creator:: George Price Boyce, 1826–1897
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, gum arabic, graphite, and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches (37.8 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. From under the Portico of the Temple of Edfu, Upper Egypt

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:: 1846
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (34.6 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Landscape with Windmill

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 14 1/2 inches (21 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Girl Peeling Vegetables

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 inches (45 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A French Market Place

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches (24.8 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Sketch for the Passions: Love

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Fisherman Putting Out to Sea

Creator:: John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: between 1800 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (26.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Summer Day

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1827 to 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on Medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (31.8 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Fredegonda at the Deathbed of Praetextatus

Creator:: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1836–1912
Date:: ca. 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 3/8 inches (21.9 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. Bromley Hill

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 7/8 inches (32.1 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Bass Rock at Dawn

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, graphite, gouache, and scratching out on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 19 15/16 inches (20.8 × 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The East End and South Side of the Parthenon

Creator:: John Foster, ca. 1787–1846
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 18 1/4 inches (29.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Tree Study

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: between 1800 and 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 8 7/8 inches (30.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Shepherd - Evening

Creator:: Francis Oliver Finch, 1802–1862
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gum, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 3/4 inches (20.3 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. A Woman and Child by a Hearth

Creator:: William Evans of Bristol, 1809–1858
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (33.7 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Going to the Hayfield

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: early 1850s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, black chalk and scratching out on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 × 22 1/2 inches (40.6 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Thatched Cottages and Cottage Gardens

Creator:: John Fulleylove, 1845–1908
Date:: 1881
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 20 inches (33.7 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Sunset over a River Landscape

2. On the Mosell, Near Traben Trarbach

3. A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes

4. Margate Harbor

5. Well at Bolonchen, Yucatan

6. Old Farm Buildings

7. Landscape in North Wales

8. Still Life with a Ginger Jar

9. In Richmond Park

10. Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son

11. Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire

12. Showery June, Picardy

13. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

14. The Market Place, Tanta, Egypt

15. The Rialto

16. The Tenth Day of the Decameron

17. Elephant Battery

18. The Triumph of Music

19. Porta S. Giovanni, Rome

20. A View of Susa, Italy, from the West

21. A Road Near Bettws-y-Coed

22. From under the Portico of the Temple of Edfu, Upper Egypt

23. Landscape with Windmill

24. A Girl Peeling Vegetables

25. A French Market Place

26. Sketch for the Passions: Love

27. Fisherman Putting Out to Sea

28. A Summer Day

29. Fredegonda at the Deathbed of Praetextatus

30. Bromley Hill

31. The Bass Rock at Dawn

32. The East End and South Side of the Parthenon

33. Tree Study

34. The Shepherd - Evening

35. A Woman and Child by a Hearth

36. Going to the Hayfield

37. Thatched Cottages and Cottage Gardens