Exhibition History: Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25) / Image Available: Available / Subject Terms: trees

1. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh

Creator:: Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840
Date:: between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Borrowdale: Evening after a Fine Day, 1 October 1806

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 10 1/2 inches (17.8 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Llanberis, North Wales

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (16.2 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Near Penrith

Creator:: attributed to Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches (15.9 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, varnish and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (11.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 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

8. View near Tal-y-Llyn

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches (48.9 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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

10. The Head of Ullswater, With the Lodge of Patterdale on the Left

Creator:: Thomas Sunderland, 1744–1828
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 x 33 inches (61 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 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

12. Matlock High Tor

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 inches (23.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Roslyn Castle - a wooded river landscape

Creator:: Thomas Peploe Wood, 1817–1845
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with brown and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 5/8 inches (24.1 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/8 inches (46 x 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 9/16 x 20 1/16 inches (29.4 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Birnam Wood

Creator:: Hugh William "Grecian" Williams, 1773–1829
Date:: before 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 19 3/4 inches (38.1 × 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Lake Windermere

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: 6 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (15.6 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (14 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (24.8 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. View of Tintern Abbey on the River Wye

Creator:: Francis Jukes, 1747–1812
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Colored aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 17 1/8in. (32.1 x 43.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Cader Idris

Creator:: Print made by John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: between 1824 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 7/16 inches (13.9 x 18.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Tan-y-Bwlch, Merionethshire, North Wales

Creator:: Print made by John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: between 1810 and 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching on medium, rough, dark blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 inches (18.1 x 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Snowden Hill

Creator:: William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 21 3/8in. (40 x 54.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Windermere at Sunset

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

25. View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 3/4 × 24 7/8 inches (32.4 × 63.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. 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

27. Cumberland Landscape

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, blue wash, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 inches (27.6 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Meeting of the Rivers Severn and Wye, near Chepstow

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 13/16in. (32.4 x 42.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Haweswater, Westmoreland

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 17 5/8 inches (30 x 44.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Castleton - The Peak

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 1/8 inches (26.4 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

31. Stepping Stones on the River Duddon, Lake District

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, black ink, gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 9/16 inches (29.5 × 44.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Ullswater, Looking toward Patterdale

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Village of Stonethwaite and Eagle Cragg, Borrowdale

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (34.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Matlock High Tor, Derbyshire

Creator:: John Emes, 1762–1810
Date:: ca. 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 × 12 1/2 inches (37 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Dovedale

2. Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh

3. Borrowdale: Evening after a Fine Day, 1 October 1806

4. Llanberis, North Wales

5. Near Penrith

6. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

7. Goodrich Castle on the Wye

8. View near Tal-y-Llyn

9. Chepstow Castle

10. The Head of Ullswater, With the Lodge of Patterdale on the Left

11. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

12. Matlock High Tor

13. Roslyn Castle - a wooded river landscape

14. Roslin Castle, Midlothian

15. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

16. Birnam Wood

17. Lake Windermere

18. Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

19. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

20. View of Tintern Abbey on the River Wye

21. Cader Idris

22. Tan-y-Bwlch, Merionethshire, North Wales

23. Snowden Hill

24. Windermere at Sunset

25. View of Lake Coniston, Lancashire

26. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

27. Cumberland Landscape

28. The Meeting of the Rivers Severn and Wye, near Chepstow

29. Haweswater, Westmoreland

30. Castleton - The Peak

31. Stepping Stones on the River Duddon, Lake District

32. Ullswater, Looking toward Patterdale

33. Village of Stonethwaite and Eagle Cragg, Borrowdale

34. Matlock High Tor, Derbyshire