On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: buildings / Topic subjectplace ss: Thames

1. 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

2. Perspective View: the New Houses of Parliament

Creator:: Sir Charles Barry, 1795–1860
Date:: ca. 1840-1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over traces of graphite, with gouache, pen and black and brown ink on medium, smooth, weige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 30 1/8 inches (40.3 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. View from the Round Tower, Windsor Castle

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 20 5/16 inches (31.3 × 51.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Thames, Early Morning, Towards St. Paul's

Creator:: John William Inchbold, 1830–1888
Date:: ca. 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/4 inches (25.7 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 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

7. Lambeth from York House

Creator:: Francis Place, 1647–1728
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink; verso: graphite with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 × 9 11/16 inches (9.7 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Old Walton Bridge seen from the Middlesex Shore

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 26 3/4 inches (28.9 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Design for London Bridge Approach

Creator:: Print made by Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: between 1827 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (22.5 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Chelsea Bridge with Men in a Barge

Creator:: Walter Greaves, 1846–1930
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink on smooth, thick, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 9 1/2 inches (13.7 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Design for London Bridge Approach

Creator:: Print made by Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: between 1827 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 18 1/16 inches (21 x 45.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Thames from the Ship Inn, Greenwich

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black ink, gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches (17.1 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Greenwich, London in the Distance

Creator:: F. Norice, 19th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, white gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (15.9 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Chiswick

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 21 5/8 inches (24.4 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequeathed by Weyland Wells Williams, Yale BA 1910, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

15. Battersea Bridge

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 19 1/2 inches (30.4 × 49.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View on the Thames at Battersea

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gum arabic on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 20 7/8 inches (33.3 × 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Somerset House, Saint Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriar's Bridge

Creator:: Jean Louis Desprez, 1743–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 71 inches (64.8 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Eton College from Datchet Road

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite with gray wash border on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 23 1/16 inches (46.4 x 58.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Canterbury-Dover Coach Passing Vanbrugh Castle

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1795 and 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, in pen with brown ink and gray ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 17 15/16 inches (29.2 x 45.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Thames at Windsor

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (16.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Design for Approaches to London Bridge

Creator:: Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen with brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches (24.8 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Greenwich

Creator:: pupil of Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (33.3 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. London from Greenwich Hill

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches (37.8 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A Thames Barge

Creator:: James Stark, 1794–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 6 1/16 inches (8.6 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

2. Perspective View: the New Houses of Parliament

3. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

4. View from the Round Tower, Windsor Castle

5. The Thames, Early Morning, Towards St. Paul's

6. York Water Gate

7. Lambeth from York House

8. Old Walton Bridge seen from the Middlesex Shore

9. Design for London Bridge Approach

10. Chelsea Bridge with Men in a Barge

11. Design for London Bridge Approach

12. The Thames from the Ship Inn, Greenwich

13. Greenwich, London in the Distance

14. Chiswick

15. Battersea Bridge

16. View on the Thames at Battersea

17. Somerset House, Saint Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriar's Bridge

18. Eton College from Datchet Road

19. The Canterbury-Dover Coach Passing Vanbrugh Castle

20. The Thames at Windsor

21. The Thames with Montagu House and Westminster Bridge

22. A Thames Wharf with Westminster Bridge in the Distance

23. A Town House on the Thames

24. Design for Approaches to London Bridge

25. Greenwich

26. London from Greenwich Hill

27. A Thames Barge