Period: 19th century / Subject Terms: ruins and trees / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Chepstow Castle on the Wye

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 17 5/8 inches (21 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Streets of the Tombs, Pompeii

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, beige board
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 1/8 × 6 3/8 inches (13 × 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

3. Barnard Castle

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 16 1/4 inches (29.5 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Andernach

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches (20 x 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Calder Abbey, September 12. 1836

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with stumping and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches (23.2 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Near Dakkeh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/16 x 7 11/16 inches (6.2 x 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Furness Abbey East, 29 August 1836

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 inches (20 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. A Ruined Tower House

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 15/16 inches (23.2 x 32.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

9. Aswan

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper, mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

10. Maharraka Temple

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: February 14, 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink, watercolor and gouache on medium brown moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 17 1/8 x 27 1/2 x 1 inches (43.5 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter R. Spokes, Yale BA 1948, in memory of C.C. and C.B. Hogan, Yale BA 1928

11. St. Thomas' Church, Winchelsea

Creator:: Henry Morton, ca. 1807–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 7 1/16 inches (37.8 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Gateway to Battle Abbey

Creator:: Henry Morton, ca. 1807–1825
Date:: after 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 11 7/16 inches (20.8 × 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Moonlit Landscape with a Ruined Castle

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1820 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 5/8 inches (17.8 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches (27.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum, white gouache, graphite and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 14 inches (19.4 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 20 5/8 inches (37.1 × 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Chepstow Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 25 1/4 inches (30.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 3/8 inches (37.8 × 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1841 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches (32.7 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Bolton Abbey

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 17 inches (26.6 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 15/16 x 5 15/16 inches (10 x 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Landscape with Ruined Castle on the Esk

Creator:: Richard Principle Leitch, 1844–1875
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 15 3/4in. (26.5 x 40cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (14.6 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Ruined Abbey

Creator:: Thomas Crofton Croker, 1798–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (17.1 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

25. Bodiam Castle

Creator:: Henry Morton, ca. 1807–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (21.6 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Ruins at Sabachtsche

Creator:: Frederick Catherwood, 1799–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on slightly textured, medium, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches (38.7 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Collection, Gift of Henry Schnakenberg to Yale University Art Gallery

27. O'Donoghue's Prison, 4 September 1841

Creator:: Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778–1854
Date:: 1841
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (26 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Ruins of a Monastery with Farmyard Animals

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache and scraping on thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 15/16 × 21 1/4 inches (40.5 × 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Nether Hall, Essex

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 5/8 inches (37.8 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Ruins at Chiaravalle near Ancona, Italy

Creator:: Edward Jones, active 1819–1835
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (15.9 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Korn

31. 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

32. 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

33. Bridge and Ruin, after Richard Wilson; On the Tiber

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches (10.5 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. North View of the Refectory Battle Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 x 13 7/8in. (22.7 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Entrance to a Village Below an Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 14 3/16 inches (22.8 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Chepstow Castle on the Wye

2. Streets of the Tombs, Pompeii

3. Barnard Castle

4. Andernach

5. Calder Abbey, September 12. 1836

6. Near Dakkeh

7. Furness Abbey East, 29 August 1836

8. A Ruined Tower House

9. Aswan

10. Maharraka Temple

11. St. Thomas' Church, Winchelsea

12. Gateway to Battle Abbey

13. Moonlit Landscape with a Ruined Castle

14. Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

15. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

16. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

17. Chepstow Castle

18. Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire

19. Temple of Edfou, Upper Egypt

20. Bolton Abbey

21. Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds

22. Landscape with Ruined Castle on the Esk

23. Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

24. Ruined Abbey

25. Bodiam Castle

26. Ruins at Sabachtsche

27. O'Donoghue's Prison, 4 September 1841

28. Ruins of a Monastery with Farmyard Animals

29. Nether Hall, Essex

30. Ruins at Chiaravalle near Ancona, Italy

31. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

32. The Colosseum, Rome

33. Bridge and Ruin, after Richard Wilson; On the Tiber

34. North View of the Refectory Battle Abbey

35. Entrance to a Village Below an Abbey