On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 18th century-19th century / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: boats and marine art / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Coast Scene with White Cliffs and Boats on Shore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (18.4 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Fishing Boats Becalmed off le Havre

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (14 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Small Sailing Ship Drawn Up on the Shore Below Some Fortified Buildings

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with graphite and black ink on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches (18.7 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Shipping Off the Coast

Creator:: follower of François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (14.9 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Boats on a Calm Sea

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 3/8 inches (10.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The City and St. Paul's from the South Bank

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (11.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

8. Hulks at Plymouth

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (26 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Laying Storm Anchors

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 4 1/2 inches (17.8 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Plymouth Roads

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen with black ink over graphite on slightly textured, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 25 inches (22.5 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Fishing Smacks

Creator:: Joseph Powell, 1780–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 x 11in. (19.8 x 28cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Bathing Houses at Margate

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 7/8 inches (19.7 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

13. Fishing Boat on the Beach with a Brig at Sea

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with stumping on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 7 7/8 inches (26.7 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Two Boats at Anchor

Creator:: attributed to Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 12 3/4in. (20.3 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

15. Studies of Boats on a Riverside

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (23.2 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Torquay

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 inches (10.6 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Sailing Ships and Small Boats in Rough Sea off the Coast

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (13.3 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Storm Over a Coast

Creator:: Giles F. Phillips, 1780–1867
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 1/2 inches (15.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Three Ships

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 8 1/8 inches (13 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt

20. Beach Scene

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 inches (19.7 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Fishing Boats on the Beach with Sails Drying

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite, with stumping on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 7 7/8 inches (27 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Lord Penryn's Slate Quarries

Creator:: John Henderson, 1764–1843
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (21 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. On the Thames

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches (34 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Castle at the Waterside

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (18.4 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Traveling Barge

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (36.8 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Carnarvon Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, 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

27. 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

28. Pleasure Boats in an Estuary

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink, over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 8 15/16 inches (12.1 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red brown and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 18 1/4 inches (20.5 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906

30. A River in Ceylon

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 10 3/8 inches (14.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Warship Preparing to Leave the Anchorage

Creator:: Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808
Date:: between 1787 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (34.9 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

32. 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

33. The Blockade Station, Rye

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (16.5 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A View of the Coast of China

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 8 1/8 inches (13.6 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. River View with a Junk (near Rajmahal?)

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: between 1777 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (26.4 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Ships of the Line off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (11.7 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Boats and Men on Shore

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (9.5 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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. Coast Scene

Creator:: John Wilson Ewbank, 1779–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white gouache on medium, smooth cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 3/4 inches (14 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Hill Morgan

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1. Coast Scene with White Cliffs and Boats on Shore

2. Fishing Boats Becalmed off le Havre

3. A Small Sailing Ship Drawn Up on the Shore Below Some Fortified Buildings

4. Shipping Off the Coast

5. Boats on a Calm Sea

6. The City and St. Paul's from the South Bank

7. The Seine with Notre Dame

8. Hulks at Plymouth

9. Laying Storm Anchors

10. Plymouth Roads

11. Fishing Smacks

12. Bathing Houses at Margate

13. Fishing Boat on the Beach with a Brig at Sea

14. Two Boats at Anchor

15. Studies of Boats on a Riverside

16. Torquay

17. Sailing Ships and Small Boats in Rough Sea off the Coast

18. Storm Over a Coast

19. Three Ships

20. Beach Scene

21. Fishing Boats on the Beach with Sails Drying

22. Lord Penryn's Slate Quarries

23. On the Thames

24. A Castle at the Waterside

25. The Traveling Barge

26. Carnarvon Castle

27. Selling Fish on a Beach

28. Pleasure Boats in an Estuary

29. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

30. A River in Ceylon

31. A Warship Preparing to Leave the Anchorage

32. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

33. The Blockade Station, Rye

34. A View of the Coast of China

35. River View with a Junk (near Rajmahal?)

36. Ships of the Line off Dover

37. Boats and Men on Shore

38. Goree

39. Coast Scene