Materials & Techniques: gray wash / Genre: military art / Work Type: drawing and watercolor / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Soliders in Costume of the Middle Ages around a Blazing Idol

Creator:: William West of Clifton near Bristol, 1801–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 5/16 inches (22.9 × 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Side View of Battleship Surrounded by Several Others in Heavy Seas

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, brown ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 5/8 × 16 7/8 inches (19.4 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

3. Side View of Corvette

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 3/4 × 13 13/16 inches (19.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

4. Two Sloops of War, One Barque and One Schooner (?), Sterns Forward, in Heavy Seas; Several Sailing Vessels in Background

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 13/16 × 21 inches (37.6 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

5. Low Flying Spitfires over Trees

Creator:: Sir Walter Thomas Monnington, 1902–1976
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 17 3/8 inches (31.4 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Battle Scene: Battleships, Frigates and Corvettes; Sinking Boat and Rowboat

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 22 1/8in. (38.7 x 56.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

7. Soldiers in a Landscape

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite, pen and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (24.8 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

8. Siege at Badajoz

Creator:: Henry Aston Barker, 1774–1856
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and red ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (37.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Cavalry Troops and Camp Followers on the Move

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite; verso: gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 1/8 inches (17 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. An Officer upon a Rampart Directing the Bombardment of a Distant Town

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (16.5 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A Cavalry Battle

Creator:: Jan Wyck, ca. 1645–1700
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (16.5 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Fortified Buildings rising Steeply from a River Bank (in Italy ?) with Boat centre and distant Mountains

Creator:: Thomas Wyck, 1616–1677
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 8 1/8 inches (15.2 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Putting Arms in Hands of the Indians

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 5/8 inches (18.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

14. Avenue and Entrance to St. James Barracks

Creator:: Michel Jean Cazabon, 1813–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, black wash, gray wash, graphite, ang gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 inches (18.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Coat of Arms Design

Creator:: Henry Swinburne, 1743–1803
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 × 16 5/16 inches (23.7 × 41.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Soldier's Knapsack: Two Studies, Side and Front View

Creator:: Michael Angelo Hayes, 1811–1880
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, white gouache, gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 13/16 inches (13.3 × 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Encampment at Maestricht

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 16 1/16 inches (6.4 × 40.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. View of the Tryall in Two Positions

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightley textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 × 21 1/8 inches (38.4 × 53.7 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

19. A Naval Squadron Lying at Spithead

Creator:: Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
Date:: between 1745 and 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 21 inches (35.6 x 53.3 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 Historical Episode: ? A Military Officer Leading other Figures in Taking an Oath upon a Sword on a Table before Churchmen

Creator:: Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/4 inches (11.7 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. March of Troops in India

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/8 × 21 3/4 inches (38.4 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Soliders in Costume of the Middle Ages around a Blazing Idol

2. Side View of Battleship Surrounded by Several Others in Heavy Seas

3. Side View of Corvette

4. Two Sloops of War, One Barque and One Schooner (?), Sterns Forward, in Heavy Seas; Several Sailing Vessels in Background

5. Low Flying Spitfires over Trees

6. Battle Scene: Battleships, Frigates and Corvettes; Sinking Boat and Rowboat

7. Soldiers in a Landscape

8. Siege at Badajoz

9. Cavalry Troops and Camp Followers on the Move

10. An Officer upon a Rampart Directing the Bombardment of a Distant Town

11. A Cavalry Battle

12. Fortified Buildings rising Steeply from a River Bank (in Italy ?) with Boat centre and distant Mountains

13. Putting Arms in Hands of the Indians

14. Avenue and Entrance to St. James Barracks

15. Coat of Arms Design

16. A Soldier's Knapsack: Two Studies, Side and Front View

17. Encampment at Maestricht

18. View of the Tryall in Two Positions

19. A Naval Squadron Lying at Spithead

20. An Historical Episode: ? A Military Officer Leading other Figures in Taking an Oath upon a Sword on a Table before Churchmen

21. March of Troops in India