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1. The Ferry

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 7 3/8 inches (10.5 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Two Figures by a River

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: between 1807 and 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (8.9 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Shelaal, 2:30 am, 29 January 1867 (260)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in black ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (7 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Drifting

Creator:: Edward John Gregory, 1850–1909
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 10 inches (35.7 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection

5. Evening

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 4 13/16 inches (18.5 x 12.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

6. The Island Opposite Boyle's Farm

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 11 9/16 inches (20.4 x 29.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

7. Castle Above a Rocky Gorge

Creator:: Print made by John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 x 8 15/16 inches (17.9 x 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Ferry

Creator:: Attributed to Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/16 x 7 7/16 inches (11.2 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink and touches of gold paint over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 33 1/4 inches (42.5 x 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. View of York

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches (13.5 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Beach Scene

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping out on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (13.7 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Study of Boats with Horses and Carts

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (23.5 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Le Hollandois sur la glace

Creator:: Print made by Jacob Gole, 1660–1737
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 3/16 inches (25.7 x 18.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Taormina, Sicily

Creator:: Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 22 7/8 inches (30.2 × 58.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 11/16 x 9 9/16 inches (19.5 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Park Place, Henley on Thames

Creator:: William Westall, 1781–1850
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 11 inches (17.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Boat Sketches

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 × 5 5/8 inches (18.6 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

18. Study for a composition: The Wreck of an East Indiaman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (12.1 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Egyptian View - A Bay

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 7 1/2 inches (10.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. An Arcadian Landscape

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 25 7/8 inches (49.5 x 65.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)

21. At Moorshedubad [Murshidabad]

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (19.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Scene on Brighton Beach

Creator:: Attributed to Agostino Aglio the elder, 1777–1857
Date:: 1847
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (13 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore

23. Coastal scene with Figures, Boats, Lighthouse, etc.

Creator:: James Pattison Cockburn, 1779–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 7 1/8 inches (12.4 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Church Hope, the Island of Portland, Dorset

Creator:: George Cumberland, 1754–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (15.6 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Sailing Boat Becalmed

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 7/8 × 2 1/4 inches (4.8 × 5.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Two Moored Ships and a Fishing Boat

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: ca. 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (18.1 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Coast Scene with a Beached Boat

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: between 1819 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, and brown ink, with scraping on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches (19.4 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Ferry

2. Two Figures by a River

3. Shelaal, 2:30 am, 29 January 1867 (260)

4. Drifting

5. Evening

6. The Island Opposite Boyle's Farm

7. Castle Above a Rocky Gorge

8. The Ferry

9. North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire

10. View of York

11. Beach Scene

12. Study of Boats with Horses and Carts

13. Le Hollandois sur la glace

14. Taormina, Sicily

15. Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland

16. Park Place, Henley on Thames

17. Boat Sketches

18. Study for a composition: The Wreck of an East Indiaman

19. Egyptian View - A Bay

20. An Arcadian Landscape

21. At Moorshedubad [Murshidabad]

22. Scene on Brighton Beach

23. Coastal scene with Figures, Boats, Lighthouse, etc.

24. Church Hope, the Island of Portland, Dorset

25. A Sailing Boat Becalmed

26. Two Moored Ships and a Fishing Boat

27. Coast Scene with a Beached Boat