Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Collection: Prints and Drawings / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Exhibition History: Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: landscape

1. Rocky Landscape in Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1835 or 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor with gum and black chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 18 7/8 inches (38.1 × 47.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1835 or 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, graphite and black chalk on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 18 1/8 inches (38.1 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Conway Castle

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, brown wove paper on heavy card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches (32.4 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Borrowdale: Evening after a Fine Day, 1 October 1806

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 1/2 inches (17.8 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Pont-y-Pier near Llanroost, Denbighshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (19.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Chepstow Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 25 1/4 inches (30.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Goodrich Castle on the Wye

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 × 14 1/2 inches (27.9 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Distant view of Llandrillo

Creator:: Moses Griffith, 1747–1819
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite; verso: graphite traced over with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 16 5/8in. (27 x 42.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Head of Ullswater, With the Lodge of Patterdale on the Left

Creator:: Thomas Sunderland, 1744–1828
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 x 33 inches (61 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, varnish and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (11.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Harlech

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1805-1811
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (9.5 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Near Penrith

Creator:: attributed to Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (15.9 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. View of Lakes Buttermere and Crummock Water

Creator:: William Green, 1760–1823
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gum over graphite on medium, smooth wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 19 7/8 inches (37.1 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

15. Cader Idris, North Wales

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and white gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (14.6 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Llanberis, North Wales

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (16.2 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Druidical Stone at Strather, near Barvas, Isle of Lewis

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (15.9 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Lakes of Llanberis - from the Road from Caernarfon Going to Llanberis, Caernarfonshire

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: July 14, 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (13 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 9/16 x 20 1/16 inches (29.4 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. View near Tal-y-Llyn

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches (48.9 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Birnam Wood

Creator:: Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Date:: before 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 19 3/4 inches (38.1 × 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Dawn

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: between 1826 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, scraping out and gum on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (45.1 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Matlock High Tor

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 inches (23.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Harlech Castle and Twgwyn Ferry

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (41 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 8 9/16 inches (16.8 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 3/4 × 24 7/8 inches (32.4 × 63.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Lake Windermere

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (15.6 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (14 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Windermere at Sunset

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on medium moderately textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (15.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Meeting of the Rivers Severn and Wye, near Chepstow

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 13/16in. (32.4 x 42.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Harvest Time: Cumberland

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 17 inches (16.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Haweswater, Westmoreland

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30 x 44.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Matlock High Tor, Derbyshire

Creator:: John Emes, 1762–1810
Date:: ca. 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 12 1/2 inches (37 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Mouth of the Cavern at Castleton in the Peak of Derby

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (26.7 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Windermere During the Regatta

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, brown ink, gray ink, gouache, graphite, gum arabic, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 24 inches (45.1 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. View of Skiddaw and Derwentwater

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 × 26 inches (49.2 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. 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

38. Village of Stonethwaite and Eagle Cragg, Borrowdale

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (34.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Ullswater, Looking toward Patterdale

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Lake Windermere from Calgarth with Belle Isle

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper in contemporary line mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 20 1/8 inches (34.6 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Junction of Lyon and Tay

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 5/8 inches (30.8 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, blue chalk, graphite, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (64.8 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Rocky Landscape in Wales

2. Llwyngwynedd and Part of Llyn-y-ddina Between Capel Curig and Beddegelert, North Wales

3. Conway Castle

4. Borrowdale: Evening after a Fine Day, 1 October 1806

5. Pont-y-Pier near Llanroost, Denbighshire

6. Chepstow Castle

7. Goodrich Castle on the Wye

8. Distant view of Llandrillo

9. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

10. The Head of Ullswater, With the Lodge of Patterdale on the Left

11. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

12. Harlech

13. Near Penrith

14. View of Lakes Buttermere and Crummock Water

15. Cader Idris, North Wales

16. Llanberis, North Wales

17. Druidical Stone at Strather, near Barvas, Isle of Lewis

18. The Lakes of Llanberis - from the Road from Caernarfon Going to Llanberis, Caernarfonshire

19. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

20. View near Tal-y-Llyn

21. Birnam Wood

22. Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Dawn

23. Matlock High Tor

24. Harlech Castle and Twgwyn Ferry

25. Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire

26. View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire

27. Lake Windermere

28. Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

29. Windermere at Sunset

30. The Meeting of the Rivers Severn and Wye, near Chepstow

31. Harvest Time: Cumberland

32. Haweswater, Westmoreland

33. Matlock High Tor, Derbyshire

34. The Mouth of the Cavern at Castleton in the Peak of Derby

35. Windermere During the Regatta

36. View of Skiddaw and Derwentwater

37. Shipping off Staffa

38. Village of Stonethwaite and Eagle Cragg, Borrowdale

39. Ullswater, Looking toward Patterdale

40. Lake Windermere from Calgarth with Belle Isle

41. The Junction of Lyon and Tay

42. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

43. A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc