Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund / Period: 18th century / Work Type: watercolor

1. Windsor

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 28 inches (50.8 × 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Spring, from Songs of Innocence

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches (4.8 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. The Shepherd, from Songs of Innocence

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Macbeth and the Witches

Creator:: James Northcote, 1746–1831
Date:: between 1777 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (32.4 x 41.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

5. The South View of Berwick Upon Tweed

Creator:: Samuel Buck, 1696–1779
Date:: ca. 1743-1745
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 31 7/8 inches (31.1 x 81 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

6. 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

7. A Triton holding a Fish

Creator:: Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black chalk and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 11 inches (24.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and graphite on handmade Whatman wove paper laid down on canvas on a wooden stretcher
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 5/16 x 40 3/16 inches (69.3 x 102 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. The Grotto at Posillipo

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and gray ink, and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 5/8 inches (29.2 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. A Temple Perched on a Rocky Outcrop Seen Across a Lake

Creator:: Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785
Date:: ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, blue wash and pen and black ink; verso: red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (14 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Paul Sandby Munn, 1773–1845
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/4 x 20 1/8 inches (40 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Classical Composition

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 17 5/8 inches (33.3 × 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. The Duel: 'Twelfth Night,' Act III, Scene IV

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, red ink, black ink, brown ink, gum arabic, graphite, and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 16 13/16 inches (56.2 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Classical Composition

Creator:: Gavin Hamilton, 1723–1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (31.1 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Receipt for a Set of Six London Views

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1758
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash, incised for transfer on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 x 4 5/8in. (11.7 x 11.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. A View of Boxhill from Norbury Park, Surrey

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 39 1/8 inches (30.8 × 99.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Portrait of a Young Woman

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: 1748
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Frame: 2 3/8 x 2 1/8 x 3/8 inches (6 x 5.4 x 1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Standing Woman with Folded Hands

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 5 3/4in. (24.7 x 14.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Man and Two Women

Creator:: Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 8 1/16 inches (23 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Mr. Kemble, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Creator:: Print made by William Nelson Gardiner, 1766–1814
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 5 1/2 inches (21.8 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. The Body of Lucretia Exposed to the Romans

Creator:: James Jefferys, 1751–1784
Date:: between 1777 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 7/8 x 37 inches (63.2 x 94 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. A View of Hall-head Sugar Plantation, Jamaica

Creator:: Edward Kennion, 1743–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid 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

24. Jedburgh Abbey from the South East

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches (39.4 x 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache heightened with gold on vellum
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 1/4 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (43.8 x 52.1 x 3.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Illustration to the Iliad

Creator:: John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770
Date:: between 1760 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (23.5 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. 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

28. Ludlow Castle

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: between 1765 and 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with a thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper border
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 35 1/2 inches (46.7 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

Creator:: Shaykh Zayn-al-Din, active 1777–1782
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/4 × 29 1/8 inches (54 × 74 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. A Water Rail

Creator:: Isaac Spackman, died 1771
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 8 3/8in. (27.9 x 21.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. A Finch

Creator:: Isaac Spackman, died 1771
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 3/8 inches (27 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. A Starling

Creator:: Isaac Spackman, died 1771
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 x 8 5/8in. (27.8 x 21.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid onto contemporary (wash-line) mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (27 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (47 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. A Great Indian Fruit Bat or Flying Fox (Pteropus giganteus)

Creator:: Bhawani Das, active 18th century
Date:: 1778 to 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink, watercolor with gum arabic, heightened with gouache on watermarked paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 7/8 × 27 inches (45.4 × 68.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. Study of Hercules for 'Crowning the Victors at Olympia'

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: between 1777 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with brown wash over black chalk on medium, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 8 3/8 inches (38.6 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with drawn border
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (41.3 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Design for 'the Houses of both sides of the intended Street to extend in a right line from the Mansion-House to More-Gate humbly proposed to consideration'

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 20 7/8 inches (18.6 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Design for a villa: `The Ground Plan and Elevations of a Villa'

Creator:: Stephen Riou, 1720–1780
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown and black ink, watercolor on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 × 24 7/16 inches (40 × 62 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Death of Ananias

Creator:: Joseph Goupy, 1689–1769
Date:: 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 18 inches (30.2 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

41. Classical Landscape

Creator:: Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:: 1717
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and gum arabic on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 10 1/4 inches (19.4 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material, 1699-1981 (bulk 1811-1899).

Creator:: Carr family
Date:: 1699-1981
Physical Description:: 10 linear ft.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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1. Windsor

2. Spring, from Songs of Innocence

3. The Shepherd, from Songs of Innocence

4. Macbeth and the Witches

5. The South View of Berwick Upon Tweed

6. View of Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

7. A Triton holding a Fish

8. A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills

9. The Grotto at Posillipo

10. A Temple Perched on a Rocky Outcrop Seen Across a Lake

11. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

12. Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight

13. Classical Composition

14. The Duel: 'Twelfth Night,' Act III, Scene IV

15. Classical Composition

16. Receipt for a Set of Six London Views

17. A View of Boxhill from Norbury Park, Surrey

18. Portrait of a Young Woman

19. Standing Woman with Folded Hands

20. Man and Two Women

21. Mr. Kemble, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

22. The Body of Lucretia Exposed to the Romans

23. A View of Hall-head Sugar Plantation, Jamaica

24. Jedburgh Abbey from the South East

25. Victorious Hero Takes Occasion to Conclude Peace

26. Illustration to the Iliad

27. Place des Victoires, Paris

28. Ludlow Castle

29. Asian Openbill Stork (Anastomus oscitans)

30. A Water Rail

31. A Finch

32. A Starling

33. Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane

34. Shakespearean Scene (?): A Pilgrim

35. A Great Indian Fruit Bat or Flying Fox (Pteropus giganteus)

36. Study of Hercules for 'Crowning the Victors at Olympia'

37. A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1

38. Design for 'the Houses of both sides of the intended Street to extend in a right line from the Mansion-House to More-Gate humbly proposed to consideration'

39. Design for a villa: `The Ground Plan and Elevations of a Villa'

40. Death of Ananias

41. Classical Landscape

42. Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material, 1699-1981 (bulk 1811-1899).