Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Subject Terms: cityscape / Topic subjectplace ss: France

1. Tours: Sunset: Looking Backwards

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1826 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (12.4 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Nice from the Genoa Road

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 9 3/4 inches (14.3 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

3. A View of the Harbour at Cannes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 1/8 inches (16.7 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Notre Dame, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: between 1831 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 7/16 inches (15.9 x 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Blois on the Loire

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 13 3/8 inches (13.5 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Le Pont Royal, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: ca. 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches (14.3 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Pont Neuf

Creator:: William Henry Lake Price, ca. 1810–ca. 1896
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (16.5 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. View from the Pont Neuf

Creator:: William Henry Lake Price, ca. 1810–ca. 1896
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (16.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Calais Harbour

Creator:: Attributed to James Holland, 1799–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 1/2 inches (16.8 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. View of the Pont Royal

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, graphite, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 13/16 inches (33.7 × 50.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Notre Dame, Paris

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (16.8 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. View of Paris from Charenton

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 13 inches (11.7 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Pont des Arts, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: between 1831 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink, graphite and watercolor on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches (16.8 x 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. View of the Pantheon from the Arsenal

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 17 5/16 inches (15 x 43.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Seine with Notre Dame

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 10 3/4 inches (17.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 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

17. Larchant near Fontainebleau

Creator:: Ambrose Poynter, 1796–1886
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slgihtly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 1 13/16 inches (8.3 × 4.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Cathedral of St. Pierre, Caen

Creator:: Ambrose Poynter, 1796–1886
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 3/16 inches (25.2 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Porch, Reims Cathedral

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite, with scratching out on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 10 3/4 inches (42.2 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. View of the Pantheon taken from the Arsenal

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored with watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 21 1/2 inches (23 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 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

22. Nantes

Creator:: William Wyld, 1806–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 5/8 inches (17.1 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. A View of Paris

Creator:: Print made by Paul Angier, active 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving hand-colored in watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 18 1/16 inches (31.2 x 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Rodes Near Prades

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, sharpie and acrylic on very thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (36.2 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

25. Ile de la Cité, the Pont au Change, and the Conciergerie, Paris, 1837

Creator:: Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (25.7 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Ile de la Cite

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches (20.6 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. On the Banks of the Marne below the Bridge at Charenton

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 × 25 1/8 inches (39.7 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A House with an Open Window, perhaps painted in Brittany

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: late 1890s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on linen mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 8 1/2 inches (12.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Figures Outside a Doorway, possibly painted in Brittany

Creator:: James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: ca. 1893
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 9 1/4 inches (14.6 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Avignon: Bridge over a River

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 inches (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

31. The Pont Neuf

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (19.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. A Southeast View of the Castle of Grigan in Provence near Dauphine

Creator:: Michel Vincent Brandoin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches (31.8 × 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 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

34. The Pont de la Concorde and Tuileries Palace from the Cours la Reine

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (16.5 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. Boulogne Harbor

Creator:: attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (18.7 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Street Scene in Calais

Creator:: John Scarlett Davis, 1804–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scratching out over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 5 5/8 inches (18.4 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Place St. Barthélemy, Rouen

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches (26.4 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. La Halle au Lin, Dieppe

Creator:: Walter Richard Sickert, 1860–1942
Date:: 1902
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and watercolor over a ground on medium, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (27.6 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Tours: Sunset: Looking Backwards

2. Nice from the Genoa Road

3. A View of the Harbour at Cannes

4. Notre Dame, Paris

5. Blois on the Loire

6. Le Pont Royal, Paris

7. The Pont Neuf

8. View from the Pont Neuf

9. Calais Harbour

10. View of the Pont Royal

11. Notre Dame, Paris

12. View of Paris from Charenton

13. The Pont des Arts, Paris

14. View of the Pantheon from the Arsenal

15. The Seine with Notre Dame

16. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

17. Larchant near Fontainebleau

18. The Cathedral of St. Pierre, Caen

19. The Porch, Reims Cathedral

20. View of the Pantheon taken from the Arsenal

21. Place des Victoires, Paris

22. Nantes

23. A View of Paris

24. Rodes Near Prades

25. Ile de la Cité, the Pont au Change, and the Conciergerie, Paris, 1837

26. Ile de la Cite

27. On the Banks of the Marne below the Bridge at Charenton

28. A House with an Open Window, perhaps painted in Brittany

29. Figures Outside a Doorway, possibly painted in Brittany

30. Avignon: Bridge over a River

31. The Pont Neuf

32. A Southeast View of the Castle of Grigan in Provence near Dauphine

33. A French Market Place

34. The Pont de la Concorde and Tuileries Palace from the Cours la Reine

35. Boulogne Harbor

36. Street Scene in Calais

37. Place St. Barthélemy, Rouen

38. La Halle au Lin, Dieppe