Period: 19th century / Exhibition History: Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)

1. Devil's Bridge, Saint Gotthard's Pass

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white wax crayon and scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 41 5/8 x 29 7/8 inches (105.7 x 75.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Landscape with figures

Creator:: William Havell, 1782–1857
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, scraping out and gum, over graphite on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 15 7/8 inches (43.8 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Pale Melancholy

Creator:: William Havell, 1782–1857
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 15 5/8 inches (27.9 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 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

5. Ouse Bridge, York

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite, with scratching out on medium, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 20 5/8 inches (32.9 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1802 to 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and scraping out on slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 7/8 x 44 5/8 inches (73.3 x 113.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Thames at Isleworth

Creator:: John Glover, 1767–1849
Date:: ca. 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 7/8 x 40 1/8 inches (68.3 x 101.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Distant View of Maidstone, from Lower Bell Inn, Boxley Hill

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 x 30 1/2 inches (55.9 x 77.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Colosseum, Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Mer de Glace, in the Valley of Chamonix

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gum, scraping out and stopping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 27 3/4 x 41 inches (70.5 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile

Creator:: Samuel Shelley, 1750–1808
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted to moderately thick, smooth cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 7/8 × 15 1/4 inches (55.6 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (14.3 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Hilly Landscape with River and Cattle

Creator:: John Glover, 1767–1849
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderateley thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches (21 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Millbank

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, graphite, and scratching out on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (29.2 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Robbing a Market Girl

Creator:: Thomas Heaphy, 1775–1835
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, pen and ink and gum over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 5/8 × 17 7/8 inches (60 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Inattention

Creator:: Thomas Heaphy, 1775–1835
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink, sponging, and gum over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 3/8 x 19 3/4 inches (64.5 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Landscape with Limekiln

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum, white gouache, and graphite, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 3/4 inches (23.2 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Tivoli

Creator:: Andrew Wilson, 1780–1848
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite with scraping out on moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches (74.9 x 118.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Fishermen Hauling their Net Ashore on the Bay of Naples

Creator:: Ramsay Richard Reinagle, 1775–1862
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum arabic, graphite, and scraping on moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 37 1/2 × 55 inches (95.3 × 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Artist and his Family

Creator:: Adam Buck, 1759–1833
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and graphite, with gum arabic and scraping on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 9/16 × 16 11/16 inches (44.6 × 42.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Color Guide, Based on Varley's List of Colors

Creator:: Thomas Sully, 1783–1872
Date:: between 1814 and 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (29.2 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Color Guide, Based on Varley's List of Colors

Creator:: Thomas Sully, 1783–1872
Date:: between 1814 and 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 9 3/8 inches (29.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer

Creator:: Alfred Edward Chalon, 1780–1860
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (31.8 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Harvesters in Landscape in Sussex

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scraping out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 7/8 × 38 3/4 inches (65.7 × 98.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (29.2 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Young Woodcutter

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, laid on thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/8 x 14 3/16 inches (39 x 36.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Village Snow Scene

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite with scraping out on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 16 15/16 inches (32 x 43.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Tenth Day of the Decameron

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 8in. (27 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A View of London from Highgate

Creator:: George Barret Jr., 1767–1842
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scraping and gum on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 32 1/8 inches (52.1 × 81.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 15 1/2 inches (33 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Gil Blas Practicing Medicine Under Dr. Sangrado

Creator:: Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857
Date:: between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with brown pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, laid in contemporary mount made of moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 3/8 x 20 1/2 inches (44.2 x 52 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Portia and Bassanio

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (16.5 x 13 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Mrs. William Wilberforce and Child

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and scored gesso ground on panel
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 1/4 inches (35.6 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Figures and Animals in a Vineyard

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with gum over graphite, with scratching out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (41.9 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Romantic Landscape

Creator:: Samuel Jackson, 1794–1869
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (21.9 × 29.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Dawn

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: between 1826 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, scraping out and gum on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (45.1 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Tryfan, Carnarvonshire

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 29 15/16 inches (46.4 x 76 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Lalla Rookh

Creator:: James Stephanoff, 1787–1874
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove apper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 16 1/2 inches (35.2 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Music: Composition in a Garden

Creator:: John James Chalon, 1778–1854
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash, graphite on textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 17 5/8 inches (32.4 × 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. St. Paul's from Southwark by Sunset

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/4 × 35 1/4 inches (59.1 × 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

42. View of the Pont Royal

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, graphite, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 13/16 inches (33.7 × 50.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Study for 'Elijah'

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 11 inches (18.1 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

44. Study for 'Elijah'

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 16 inches (25.1 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. French Coast Scene with Fisherboy

Creator:: James Duffield Harding, 1798–1863
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and red ink, pen and gray ink, graphite, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (37.8 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Religious Ceremony in Ancient Greece

Creator:: Francis Oliver Finch, 1802–1862
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, gum arabic, graphite, and scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/16 × 25 5/16 inches (46.5 × 64.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Highland Hospitality

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, gum, and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 x 29 7/8 inches (56.2 x 75.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Antwerp, Morning

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (18.1 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, blue chalk, graphite, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (64.8 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Pistil Mawddach, North Wales

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1835 and 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 x 21 inches (44.1 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Devil's Bridge, Saint Gotthard's Pass

2. Landscape with figures

3. Pale Melancholy

4. Pale Melancholy

5. Ouse Bridge, York

6. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

7. Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc

8. The Thames at Isleworth

9. A Distant View of Maidstone, from Lower Bell Inn, Boxley Hill

10. The Colosseum, Rome

11. Mer de Glace, in the Valley of Chamonix

12. Prince Rasselas and His Sister Conversing in Their Summer Palace on the Banks of the Nile

13. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

14. Hilly Landscape with River and Cattle

15. Millbank

16. Robbing a Market Girl

17. Inattention

18. Landscape with Limekiln

19. Tivoli

20. Fishermen Hauling their Net Ashore on the Bay of Naples

21. The Artist and his Family

22. Color Guide, Based on Varley's List of Colors

23. Color Guide, Based on Varley's List of Colors

24. Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer

25. Harvesters in Landscape in Sussex

26. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

27. Young Woodcutter

28. A Village Snow Scene

29. The Tenth Day of the Decameron

30. A View of London from Highgate

31. Gil Blas, While Practising Medicine under Dr. Sangrado, Encounters Dr. Cuchillo at the Bedside of the Grocer

32. Gil Blas Practicing Medicine Under Dr. Sangrado

33. Portia and Bassanio

34. Mrs. William Wilberforce and Child

35. Figures and Animals in a Vineyard

36. Romantic Landscape

37. Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Dawn

38. Tryfan, Carnarvonshire

39. Lalla Rookh

40. Music: Composition in a Garden

41. St. Paul's from Southwark by Sunset

42. View of the Pont Royal

43. Study for 'Elijah'

44. Study for 'Elijah'

45. French Coast Scene with Fisherboy

46. Religious Ceremony in Ancient Greece

47. Highland Hospitality

48. Antwerp, Morning

49. A View of Snowdon from the Sands of Traeth Mawr, taken at the Ford Between Pont Aberglaslyn and Tremadoc

50. Pistil Mawddach, North Wales