On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: genre subject and water

1. Opposite Beni Hassan

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: 5 15/16 x 9 13/16 inches (15.1 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

2. Howatke

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 x 9 1/16 inches (9.7 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

3. Wady Halfeh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches (11.7 x 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Boats

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches (6.8 x 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. El Ousta

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink and red ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches (9.5 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

6. Gebel Sheikh Eredi

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 6 inches (13.7 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Qaw el Kebir

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. A Landscape with a Portrait of a Lady, Full Length, Holding a Hat

Creator:: Richard Westall, 1765–1836
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 10 inches (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Preparing to lay eel traps

Creator:: J. Tobin, active 1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 9 3/16 inches (17 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 1/8 inches (38.7 x 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Coastal Landscape

Creator:: Frank W. Warwick Topham, 1838–1924
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and gum arabic on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 5/8 inches (38.1 x 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Lismore Castle, Ireland

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches (26 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Family Group

Creator:: John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 14 7/8 inches (50.8 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. 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

15. Rou Water Holder

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (25.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Waterman with his Ox or Bullock

Creator:: Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 7/16 inches (16.8 × 11.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Drifting

Creator:: Philip Richard Morris, 1836–1902
Date:: 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Black gouache and white gouache on medium, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 35 1/2 inches (63.8 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The Edwin Abbey Memorial Collection

18. Man Drinking from a Spout

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 14 9/16 inches (21.3 × 37 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Village Well

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (26.7 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Pale Melancholy

Creator:: Paul Sandby Munn, 1773–1845
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (23.2 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Artist Sketching Mlle. de St. Legier as a Shepherdess

Creator:: James Moore, 1762–1799
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 inches (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. View at Caernarvon, Wales

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 1/2 inches (17.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Arrival of Ferries at London Bridge (?)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches (18.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Dr Syntax Alarmed by a Whale

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite; verso, lower left: splotches of red, green and blue watercolor on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 inches (14.3 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A View at Blackwall

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 5/8 x 10 inches (19.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Netting a Salmon Pool

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (16.5 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Wapping Old Stairs

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 inches (11.4 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Plymouth Dock

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink, pen and red ink, and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beig, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches (17.5 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Potter Returning from Market

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, light blue, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 11 5/16 inches (21.7 x 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Nymphs at a Roman Bath

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 13/16 x 7 7/16 inches (22.4 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Military Escapade

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1794 and 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite; verso: watercolor splotches on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches (38.7 x 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. 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

33. Off to the Fishing Grounds

Creator:: Thomas Sewell Robins, 1814–1880
Date:: between 1830 and 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scratching out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 18 1/2 inches (30.5 x 47 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

34. The Dying Sailor

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 13/16 inches (27.5 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Ivory Coast, West Africa

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 9/16 inches (37.5 x 54.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. A Water-Wheel Driving a Transporter

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and black ink; verso: pen and black ink, gray ink, pastel, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 18 1/4 inches (28.7 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Boy Playing by the Sea

Creator:: Print made by Robert Barnes, 1840–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 3/4 x 8 inches (17.1 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Peasant Girls

Creator:: attributed to John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (32.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Group of Peasants with Musical Instruments

Creator:: Attributed to John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen, and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Open Landscape with Horsemen and Covered Cart

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1780 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and black wash, with traces of black and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 inches (27.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Paddling

Creator:: William Collins, 1788–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches (21.6 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Opposite Beni Hassan

2. Howatke

3. Wady Halfeh

4. Boats

5. El Ousta

6. Gebel Sheikh Eredi

7. Qaw el Kebir

8. A Landscape with a Portrait of a Lady, Full Length, Holding a Hat

9. Preparing to lay eel traps

10. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

11. Coastal Landscape

12. Lismore Castle, Ireland

13. Family Group

14. Torquay

15. Rou Water Holder

16. A Waterman with his Ox or Bullock

17. Drifting

18. Man Drinking from a Spout

19. The Village Well

20. Pale Melancholy

21. The Artist Sketching Mlle. de St. Legier as a Shepherdess

22. View at Caernarvon, Wales

23. The Arrival of Ferries at London Bridge (?)

24. Dr Syntax Alarmed by a Whale

25. A View at Blackwall

26. Netting a Salmon Pool

27. Wapping Old Stairs

28. Plymouth Dock

29. A Potter Returning from Market

30. Nymphs at a Roman Bath

31. A Military Escapade

32. The Canterbury-Dover Coach Passing Vanbrugh Castle

33. Off to the Fishing Grounds

34. The Dying Sailor

35. The Ivory Coast, West Africa

36. A Water-Wheel Driving a Transporter

37. Boy Playing by the Sea

38. Peasant Girls

39. Group of Peasants with Musical Instruments

40. Open Landscape with Horsemen and Covered Cart

41. Paddling