Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Collection: Prints and Drawings / Period: 18th century / Genre: cityscape / Subject Terms: architectural subject / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Newark - upon - Trent

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 16 1/2 inches (30.5 x 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. York Water Gate

Creator:: Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 × 11 3/4 inches (21.1 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Street in Florence with the Duomo and Campanile in the Background

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches (46.3 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Gate Toward Bursit, Aix-la-Chappelle

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 18 1/2 inches (28.9 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Ruins du Château du Heidelberg

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 3/4 inches (37.8 × 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Old Bridge at Shrewsbury

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches (72.4 x 94.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. A View of Rome Taken from the Pincio

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite and black crayon on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 15/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.5 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 16 3/8 inches (30.6 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Warwick: The Town and Castle from the Priory Gardens

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 36 3/4 inches (36.2 x 93.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Gloucester Cathedral

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 inches (20.6 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Westminster Bridge from Lambeth Walk

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 7/8 × 20 3/16 inches (35.2 × 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (39.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. London Bridge and The Monument

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 3/8 inches (29.5 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. On the Road to Datchet

Creator:: after Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 19 3/8 inches (29.8 × 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches (30.8 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Views in the Levant: Rome with Ruins seen Through an Archway

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and gum arabic on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 14 13/16 inches (48.9 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand, London

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 5/16 inches (50.2 x 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Ripon Minster, Yorkshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and brown ink and scraping over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 17 3/16 inches (27.5 x 43.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Place des Victoires, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor in pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 21 inches (34.9 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. View of the Market Place at Juliers in Westphalia

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown, black, and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 x 21 1/16 inches (31.6 x 53.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Limbourg, Belgium

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1791 and 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches (14.9 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. South East View of the Towers of the Abbey, &c. from College St. Westminster

Creator:: John Carter, 1748–1817
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on slightly textured, medium, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (33.3 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Views in the Levant: View of the domes and spires of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 18 3/4in. (25.1 x 47.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Views in the Levant: Ruins in Rome with Goats, Cows and Herdsmen

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, white gouache, and gum arabic on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 19 1/4 inches (30.8 × 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Views in the Levant: View of Harbor Town With Flagpole at Right, Seen From Sea

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 11 inches (16.2 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. View of Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor heightened with gouache on two sheets of laid paper, laid on a contemporary wash line mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 31 inches (42.7 x 78.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. A Town House on the Thames

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, with thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper border, mounted on linen backed with moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 x 40 1/8 inches (40.6 x 101.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

29. A Wood Yard on the Thames at Nine Elms

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches (34.9 x 89.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

30. The Thames with Montagu House and Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper with medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper border, mounted on linen, backed with medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 36 inches (43.8 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

31. Thames Side Buildings

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 33 inches (36.5 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

32. A Thames Wharf with Westminster Bridge in the Distance

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 35 3/4 inches (36.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

33. Bridgnorth Bridge, Shropshire

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 x 11 7/8 inches (19.2 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London

Creator:: John Chessell Buckler, 1793–1894
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (28.9 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 22 1/4 inches (19.4 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Queen Square, London

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Villa Medici, Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches (34.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. 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

39. Madeira

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 23 5/8 inches (44.5 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Funchal, Madeira: A Square with a Church

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 16 7/8 inches (32.7 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. The Fair at Cheltenham

Creator:: Edward Eyre, active 1771–1792
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 15 1/8 inches (24.4 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Newark - upon - Trent

2. York Water Gate

3. A Street in Florence with the Duomo and Campanile in the Background

4. Gate Toward Bursit, Aix-la-Chappelle

5. Ruins du Château du Heidelberg

6. Old Bridge at Shrewsbury

7. A View of Rome Taken from the Pincio

8. Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum

9. Warwick: The Town and Castle from the Priory Gardens

10. Gloucester Cathedral

11. Westminster Bridge from Lambeth Walk

12. Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

13. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

14. London Bridge and The Monument

15. On the Road to Datchet

16. View of Bath from Spring Gardens

17. Views in the Levant: Rome with Ruins seen Through an Archway

18. St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand, London

19. Ripon Minster, Yorkshire

20. Place des Victoires, Paris

21. View of the Market Place at Juliers in Westphalia

22. Limbourg, Belgium

23. South East View of the Towers of the Abbey, &c. from College St. Westminster

24. Views in the Levant: View of the domes and spires of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

25. Views in the Levant: Ruins in Rome with Goats, Cows and Herdsmen

26. Views in the Levant: View of Harbor Town With Flagpole at Right, Seen From Sea

27. View of Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

28. A Town House on the Thames

29. A Wood Yard on the Thames at Nine Elms

30. The Thames with Montagu House and Westminster Bridge

31. Thames Side Buildings

32. A Thames Wharf with Westminster Bridge in the Distance

33. Bridgnorth Bridge, Shropshire

34. Northumberland House, Charing Cross, London

35. Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore

36. Queen Square, London

37. The Villa Medici, Rome

38. View Near the City of Tientsin

39. Madeira

40. Funchal, Madeira: A Square with a Church

41. The Fair at Cheltenham