Exhibition History: British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) / Subject Terms: trees

1. A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gumming with pen in brown and blue ink, and scraping out, over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 3/16 inches (16.7 x 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Oxcart in the Grotto at Posillipo

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 13/16in. (27 x 37.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Falls at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 7/8 inches (26.7 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Castle in a Landscape

Creator:: Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 15 7/8 inches (27.5 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. View from the Dean's Garden, Christ Church, Oxford

Creator:: William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (27.3 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/4 × 23 1/2 inches (26 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

8. The Gunpowder Magazine, Hyde Park

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches (37.1 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Italianate Landscape with Travellers no. 2

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 21 inches (36.8 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Showery June, Picardy

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1831–1895
Date:: between 1870 and 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with some scratching out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 15 1/4 inches (28.1 x 38.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 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

12. Tivoli

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 1/4 inches (27.6 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Goodrich Castle on the Wye

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 11 × 14 1/2 inches (27.9 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. In Richmond Park

Creator:: John William Inchbold, 1830–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with scraping on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 7/8 inches (17.1 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Almshouses in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Wells

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 inches (22.5 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 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

17. Ambleside

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (23.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The New Walk, York

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and brown ink over graphite with gouache on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 21 13/16 inches (31.3 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Hafod: Upper Part of Cascade

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34.6 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Landscape with Windmill

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 14 1/2 inches (21 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Girl Peeling Vegetables

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 inches (45 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Bromley Hill

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 7/8 inches (32.1 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Interlaken

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 7/8 inches (23.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Summer Day

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1827 to 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on Medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18 3/8 inches (31.8 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Kennington Common

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gray ink and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (33.7 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Sketch for the Passions: Love

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. The Lake of Nemi

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: between 1783 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 21 1/8 inches (37.1 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Shepherd - Evening

Creator:: Francis Oliver Finch, 1802–1862
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gum, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 3/4 inches (20.3 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A View of the Pine Woods Above Cannes

2. Oxcart in the Grotto at Posillipo

3. The Falls at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

4. Castle in a Landscape

5. View from the Dean's Garden, Christ Church, Oxford

6. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

7. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

8. The Gunpowder Magazine, Hyde Park

9. Italianate Landscape with Travellers no. 2

10. Showery June, Picardy

11. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

12. Tivoli

13. Goodrich Castle on the Wye

14. In Richmond Park

15. Almshouses in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Wells

16. Remains of Purton Hall, Staffordshire

17. Ambleside

18. The New Walk, York

19. Hafod: Upper Part of Cascade

20. Landscape with Windmill

21. A Girl Peeling Vegetables

22. Bromley Hill

23. Interlaken

24. A Summer Day

25. Kennington Common

26. Sketch for the Passions: Love

27. The Lake of Nemi

28. The Shepherd - Evening