Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: island

1. Corsica

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1830 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches (14 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. From the Isola Borromena, Lago Maggiore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 inches (14.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Mellawi

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches (5.7 x 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Sunset along the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (7.3 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. Philae

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/16 x 5 15/16 inches (8.4 x 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Philae

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 x 5 11/16 inches (8.3 x 14.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Philae

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, wove paper, mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/16 x 3 5/16 inches (5.2 x 8.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. Dhoura Island

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on moderately thick, rough, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 x 6 1/8 inches (5.1 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942

9. Jerusalem, Plate 11, "To labours mighty...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Jerusalem, Plate 50, "The Atlantic Mountains...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Gibraltar, The Signal House

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 12 1/8 inches (15.2 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. View of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, with Shipping

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 26 1/4 inches (23.8 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (26.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Adam and Eve

Creator:: attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (13.6 x 15 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

16. Pirate's Isle

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with stopping out, and scraping out on moderately thick slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 3/4 x 42 1/2 inches (78.1 x 108 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Isola Bella and Lago Maggiore

Creator:: Lady Mary Leighton, active 1832–1864
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 14 3/8 inches (21.9 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

18. Capri

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (18.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

19. Selling Fish on a Beach

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and red-brown ink, and graphite; verso: watercolor blots on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 8 15/16 inches (14 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Isola San Giulio, Lago d'Orta

Creator:: Edward John Poynter, 1836–1919
Date:: 1898
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache on medium, slightley textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/8 x 14 3/8in. (53.7 x 36.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. St. Nicholas's Island off Mount Edgecombe

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 14 1/2in. (21.6 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove

22. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Scene at Colgong on the Ganges

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (17.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

24. Mont Saint-Michel

Creator:: Charles Reginald Aston, 1832–1908
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 16 × 25 3/4 × 1 1/4 inches (40.6 × 65.4 × 3.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert and Pauline Knoll

25. Dumbarton Rock and Castle

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and scraping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 13/16 x 11 3/4 inches (22.4 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. 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

27. Isola Madre, Lago Maggiore

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on original mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/2 inches (31 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Conway Castle, Caernarvonshire

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured cream laid paper mounted to thick beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (14.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Island of Hoy, the Orkneys

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, graphite, gray ink, and gray wash on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.3 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. 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

31. Church Hope, the Island of Portland, Dorset

Creator:: George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (15.6 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Near Weston-Super-Mare with Steep Holme Island

Creator:: George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 7/8 inches (15.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

Creator:: Attributed to Luke Clennell, 1781–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Holy Island and Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 3/16 inches (10.6 × 15.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Ferdinand and Ariel

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 13/16 x 11 1/4 inches (35.1 x 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Sketch for the Passions: Jealousy

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 x 10 1/8 inches (35.5 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Goree

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (29.8 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Distant View of an Island

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: between 1777 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 13 7/8 inches (22.9 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Loch Scavaig, Isle of Skye

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on very thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 × 13 3/8 inches (23.2 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Kilchurn Castle, Argyllshire

Creator:: William Leighton Leitch, 1804–1883
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and scratching out on thick, textured, cream wove paper, mounted on wood
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 × 40 inches (66 × 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Isle Maguleonne Near Montpellier

Creator:: Charles Hamilton Smith, 1776–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 × 12 7/8 inches (41 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Corsica

2. From the Isola Borromena, Lago Maggiore

3. Mellawi

4. Sunset along the Nile

5. Philae

6. Philae

7. Philae

8. Dhoura Island

9. Jerusalem, Plate 11, "To labours mighty...."

10. Jerusalem, Plate 50, "The Atlantic Mountains...."

11. Gibraltar, The Signal House

12. View of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, with Shipping

13. Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight

14. Adam and Eve

15. Castle

16. Pirate's Isle

17. Isola Bella and Lago Maggiore

18. Capri

19. Selling Fish on a Beach

20. Isola San Giulio, Lago d'Orta

21. St. Nicholas's Island off Mount Edgecombe

22. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

23. Scene at Colgong on the Ganges

24. Mont Saint-Michel

25. Dumbarton Rock and Castle

26. Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore

27. Isola Madre, Lago Maggiore

28. Conway Castle, Caernarvonshire

29. The Island of Hoy, the Orkneys

30. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

31. Church Hope, the Island of Portland, Dorset

32. Near Weston-Super-Mare with Steep Holme Island

33. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

34. Holy Island and Castle, Northumberland

35. Ferdinand and Ariel

36. Shipping off Staffa

37. Sketch for the Passions: Jealousy

38. Goree

39. Distant View of an Island

40. Loch Scavaig, Isle of Skye

41. Kilchurn Castle, Argyllshire

42. Isle Maguleonne Near Montpellier