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A View at Hampstead with Stormy Weather
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:
ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:
6 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches (15.6 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Cloud Study with Trees
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper on board
Dimensions:
6 3/4 x 12 inches (17.1 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
11 3/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Tummel Bridge, Perthshire
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
between 1802 and 1803
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
11 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches (28.9 x 46.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Off the Nore
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
between 1840 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1840
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper laid on card
Dimensions:
9 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (24.4 x 34 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
A Scene on the Coast, Merionethshire - Storm Passing Off
Creator:
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:
1818
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
53 x 78 1/4 inches (134.6 x 198.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Westminster Abbey from Tothill Fields
Creator:
John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:
1832
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
7 1/4 x 10 inches (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Drainage Mills in the Fens, Croyland, Lincolnshire
Creator:
John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:
ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
21 3/4 x 36 1/8 inches (55.2 x 91.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
On the Kennet, Reading
Creator:
William Havell, 1782–1857
Date:
1807
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on card
Dimensions:
4 5/8 x 8 9/16 inches (11.7 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view
An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink and oil on paper laid down on panel
Dimensions:
17 7/8 x 25 inches (45.4 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with a Lake
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (26.7 x 34 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with a Castle
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (27 x 34 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Oxford from the River with Christ Church in the Foreground
Creator:
William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
11 × 18 3/4 inches (27.9 × 47.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A View along the Thames towards Chelsea Old Church
Creator:
John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:
between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
8 x 11 1/2 inches (20.3 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Landscape with Figures
Creator:
Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:
1798
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
20 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches (52.1 x 67.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Italianate Landscape
Creator:
John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 5/8 x 24 inches (42.2 x 61 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
On the Isis, Waterperry, Oxfordshire
Creator:
William Alfred Delamotte, 1775–1863
Date:
1805
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on artist's board mounted to panel
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.3 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
On the Isis, Waterperry, Oxfordshire
Creator:
William Alfred Delamotte, 1775–1863
Date:
1806
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on artist's board mounted to panel
Dimensions:
14 1/4 x 17 3/8 inches (36.2 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Guisborough Priory
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:
between 1800 and 1802
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (34.9 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:
Not on view

21. Rochester

Rochester
Creator:
Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:
1799
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Old Walton Bridge
Creator:
Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 11/16 x 30 3/4 inches (39.8 x 78.1 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with Chestnut Tree
Creator:
Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:
ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on card
Dimensions:
12 1/4 x 12 1/8 inches (31.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Cleve Toot, near Bristol
Creator:
William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
6 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches (15.9 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An Imaginary Wooded Village with Drovers and Cattle
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1771 and 1772
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and mixed media on paper on canvas
Dimensions:
24 1/2 x 29 3/8 inches (62.2 x 74.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with cottage and church
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1771 and 1772
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas with some black chalk
Dimensions:
16 1/4 x 19 7/16 inches (41.3 x 49.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Going to the Hayfield
Creator:
David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:
1853
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on millboard
Dimensions:
10 x 13 1/4 inches (25.4 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Vale of Pencerrig
Creator:
Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper
Dimensions:
9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches (23.5 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A View of Eton and the Fellows Eyot
Creator:
William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:
6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (16.5 x 26 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt
Creator:
John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:
1876
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
24 1/2 x 29 1/4 inches (62.2 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Landscape with a Horseman
Creator:
John Middleton, 1826–1856
Date:
ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
19 x 19 inches (48.3 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Hanham Lock on the Avon
Creator:
William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
8 x 18 1/8 inches (20.3 x 46 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape at East Bergholt
Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:
ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Evening Landscape with Castle and Bridge in Yorkshire
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
between 1798 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (18.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Dartmoor: The Source of the Tamar and the Torridge
Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:
ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid 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
Gozo, near Malta
Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:
1866
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 5/16 x 9 3/4 inches (16 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
London from the Thames
Creator:
John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches (14 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Landscape with Gypsies
Creator:
Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16in. (27.6 x 40.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Donati's Comet
Creator:
William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:
between 1858 and 1859
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 3/8 inches (25.7 x 36.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Pines on Hampstead Heath
Creator:
William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:
1842
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 5/8 x 13 inches (49.8 x 33 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study of Rocks, near Pencerrig, Wales
Creator:
Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:
ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 inches (15.9 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View at Charlton, Kent
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and watercolor on thin paper mounted on panel
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 17 3/8 inches (29.2 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Welsh Mountain Study
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
between 1800 and 1809
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 19 5/8 inches (22.9 x 49.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Abbey Mill, Knaresborough
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:
1801
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, and white gouache with scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 11/16 x 20 11/16 inches (32.2 x 52.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Rochester, Kent: from the North
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Island of Hoy, the Orkneys
Creator:
Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen, brown ink, graphite, gray ink, and gray wash on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.3 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View from Stokenchurch Hill, Buckinghamshire
Creator:
William Alfred Delamotte, 1775–1863
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 13 5/8 inches (22.5 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
On Lancaster Sands, Low Tide
Creator:
David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:
1840s
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (26 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Close of the Day: Sunset on the Coast
Creator:
Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:
between 1768 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and graphite on thick, moderately textured, laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches (24.4 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Woodland Pool with Rocks and Plants
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black and white chalk, and oil paint, with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, backed with laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 11 3/8 inches (22.9 x 28.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Travellers on Horseback Approaching a Village with a Spire
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over black chalk and gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid down on (laminated wove paper) card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches (21.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Warwick Castle
Creator:
David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:
1840s
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash, gray wash, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 inches (24.8 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Villa Medici, Rome
Creator:
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches (34.6 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. The Wagon

The Wagon
Creator:
Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches (22.2 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mountainous Landscape
Creator:
Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Brown ink, black ink, gray wash, brown wash and pale brown ground on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View from a Wood, Overlooking the River and Hills at Teignmouth, Devon
Creator:
John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:
1810
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, pen, gray ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 5/8 inches (18.4 × 27 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection