Exhibition History: Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

1. The destruction of the Spanish Armada

Creator:: Bijlaer, Gerard van, active 1540?-1617
Date:: 1588
Physical Description:: 1 medallion : silver ; 51 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Sketch of a Man-O-War firing Guns

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Elder, ca. 1611–1693
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 6 3/16 inches (22.5 × 15.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Dover Castle

Creator:: Print made by Henry Hulsberg, active 1700s–died 1729
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 × 23 13/16 inches (48 × 60.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. An English Frigate at Anchor Viewed from the Port Quarter

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 16 3/8 inches (20.3 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. An English Man-of-War, Port View from the Stern

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: ca. 1675
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 1/4 x 26 7/16 inches (43.8 x 67.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. English Warships Heeling in the Breeze Offshore

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: between 1673 and 1707
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 28 inches (45.7 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
On View:: Not on view

7. Greenwich, with London in the distance

Creator:: Jan Vorsterman, ca. 1643–after 1685
Date:: ca. 1680
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 1/2 × 57 1/2 inches (74.9 × 146.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Celebration on the Thames near Whitehall

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Elder, ca. 1611–1693
Date:: 1685
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite, and gray wash on two joined sheets of medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 17 3/8 inches (28.3 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: ca. 1695
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches (32.1 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

10. A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707
Date:: ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 44 3/4 x 72 1/2 inches (113.7 x 184.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: ca. 1703
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Shipping in a Calm

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: between 1700 and 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 12 1/4 inches (40.6 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Revolt of the Fleet, 1642

Creator:: John Harris, active 1686–1740
Date:: ca. 1710
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 19 5/16 inches (42.2 × 49 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

Creator:: Greenwood, Jonathan
Date:: [1715?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Charles Howard, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624)

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 3/8 x 11 inches (39.1 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Two Boats with Crews, Study for The Royal William at Sea

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, gray wash and graphite; verso: graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (14.6 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Westminster Bridge under Construction

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 28 3/8 inches (35.9 x 72.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

18. A Wood Yard on the Thames at Nine Elms

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches (34.9 x 89.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

19. Thames Side Buildings

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 x 33 inches (36.5 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

20. The Thames with Montagu House and Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper with medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper border, mounted on linen, backed with medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 x 36 inches (43.8 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

21. British Men-of-War and a Sloop

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: between 1720 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 x 35 1/2 inches (71.1 x 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Ships

Creator:: Print made by Elisha Kirkall, ca. 1682–1742
Date:: 1720-1730
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, printed in blue-green colored ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 × 12 13/16 inches (45.7 × 32.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Marine View

Creator:: Print made by Elisha Kirkall, ca. 1682–1742
Date:: between 1720 and 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, printed in blue-green colored ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 16 5/16 inches (33.4 × 41.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. An English Royal Yacht Standing Offshore in a Calm

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 37 7/8 inches (70.5 × 96.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends
On View:: Not on view

25. Samuel Scott

Creator:: John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Date:: between 1731 and 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 9 7/16 inches (31.6 × 23.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (24.4 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. The Cape of Good Hope

Creator:: Print made by Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 × 26 inches (49 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Fort St. George

Creator:: Print made by Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 × 23 3/4 inches (46 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Tellicherry

Creator:: Print made by Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 23 1/2in. (45.7 x 59.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Building of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 47 inches (68.6 x 119.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Warships Passing in the Channel

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

32. A Sea Engagement between the English and Algerines

Creator:: Print made by Paul Fourdrinier, 1698–1758
Date:: ca. 1743
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 × 18 inches (31 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.

The tapestry hangings of the House of Lords : representing the several engagments between the English and Spanish fleets in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII ... : to which are added, from a book entitled, Expeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio, A.D. 1588 ... ten charts of the sea coasts of England, and a general one of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, &c. shewing the places of action between the two fleets ... : also an historical account of each day's action, collected from the most authentic manuscripts and writers / by John Pine, engraver.

Creator:: Pine, John, 1690–1756
Date:: [1739]
Physical Description:: [6], 23, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (36.8 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. A Lugger and a Smack in Light Airs

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (30.2 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Night and a Ship on Fire

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 7/16 inches (37.9 x 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Shipwreck

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Morning

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 7/8 inches (38.1 x 55.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1747 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

41. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 71 inches (101.6 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

42. English Ships Running before a Gale

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: before 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

43. Shipping in the English Channel

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

44. Ship on Fire at Night

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

45. Launching at Deptford

Creator:: John Cleveley the elder, ca. 1712–1777
Date:: ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 × 72 1/8 inches (106 × 183.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

46. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, at Woolwich

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 28 9/16 inches (56.2 × 72.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Geometrical plan of his Majesty's Dockyard near Portsmouth

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/4 x 25 1/4in. (47.6 x 64.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, Deptford

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 × 28 9/16 inches (54.6 × 72.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, at Chatham

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 28 13/16 inches (56.2 × 73.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's dockyard, at Sheerness

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 28 11/16 inches (56.2 × 72.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. A Storm

Creator:: Print made by James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/8 × 21 inches (47.3 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

52. A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1756 and 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (36.8 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

53. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, near Plymouth

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/16 × 28 13/16 inches (56 × 73.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

55. A Brisk Gale

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/8 × 21 1/8 inches (43.5 × 53.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. An English Frigate and Other Shipping in the Solent off Calshot Castle

Creator:: John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

57. A Calm Day in the Anchorage

Creator:: John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (26 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

58. Captain William Locker

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 12 inches (36.8 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

59. The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Creator:: Francis Holman, 1760–1790
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 57 inches (76.2 x 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

60. A View of the Tower of London, Supposed on his Majesty's Birthday

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 3/4 x 76 inches (101 x 193 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

61. Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 18 inches (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

62. Sailors Carousing and Frying Watches

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 3/8 inches (30.2 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. Dover Castle, North East, 1/2 North (one of five drawings on one mount)

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 10 3/8 inches (7.6 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Bristol

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/2in. (24.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

66. The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/8 x 23 3/4 inches (46 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. An English Man-of-War Taking Possession of a Ship

Creator:: Robert Cleveley, 1747–1809
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 19 3/4 inches (34.3 × 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. The River Avon: with Passing Vessels

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 22 1/8 inches (41.6 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Men-of-War and other Shipping on the Thames (most probably at Deptford)

Creator:: Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (10.8 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 x 30 1/4 inches (51.8 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

71. Madiera, South East Extremity, 10 October

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Teneriffe, to the East of Santa Cruz, 22 October

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Marine sketch

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 9 3/16 inches (9.3 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Island of Mayo, Cape de Verde, 2 November

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Off Rio de Janeiro

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 9 3/16 inches (9.5 × 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. St. Jago, Cape de Verde, 3 November

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Fort Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 9 3/16 inches (9.3 × 23.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Porto Praya, St. Jago, November

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 9 1/8 inches (9.5 × 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. St. Jago, Cape de Verde and Port Praya from the Anchorage, November

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 9 inches (9.5 × 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. An Album of Sketches on the Voyage from England to China with Lord Macartney's Embassy

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1792-1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Cover: 4 1/8 × 10 13/16 inches (10.5 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Hussars Embarking at Deptford

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

82. Panorama, Leicester-Square [graphic] : (by Royal Patent) is open every day (Sundays excepted) from ten till seven : admittance one shilling : the present subject is a view of the Grand Fleet, moored at Spithead, being the Russian armament in 1791, taken from the centre, together with Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, and entire surrounding objects / the painting, by Mr. Barker, contains above ten thousand square feet, and every object appears as large as reality, by effect of the pencil only.

Panorama, Leicester-Square [graphic] : (by Royal Patent) is open every day (Sundays excepted) from ten till seven : admittance one shilling : the present subject is a view of the Grand Fleet, moored at Spithead, being the Russian armament in 1791, taken from the centre, together with Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, and entire surrounding objects / the painting, by Mr. Barker, contains above ten thousand square feet, and every object appears as large as reality, by effect of the pencil only.

Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: 1 print : engraving ; 27.5 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Tristan d' Acunha, January

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 9 1/8 inches (9.5 × 23.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Straits of Sunda

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Island of St. Pauls

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 9 inches (9.4 × 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Island of St. Pauls

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 × 9 inches (9.4 × 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Seascape with Two Boats

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Three Views of the Strait of Sunda

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Watering Place of Nauka Islands, off Banca, 1 May

Creator:: Henry William Parish, active 1792
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 10 7/16 inches (10.5 × 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. On a Man-o'-War

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: between 1794 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 × 10 1/2 inches (43.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. A Married Sailor's Adieu

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 3/4 x 10 inches (17.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

92. Howe's Victory off Ushant

Creator:: Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 30 1/8 inches (53.1 × 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. View of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, with Shipping

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 26 1/4 inches (23.8 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Howe's Victory off Ushant

Creator:: Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 30 inches (53 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

Creator:: Poggi, A. C. de
Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: 1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A Frigate Awaiting a Pilot

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches (20 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. 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

98. A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth : performed by a student there 177[blank].

Creator:: Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
Date:: approximately 1798-1799
Physical Description:: 518 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798 : a transparent print / R.M.

Creator:: R. M
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 1 print on wove paper : aquatint ; plate mark 21 x 21 cm, on sheet 44 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile : ... The view of Margate is in the upper circle : open from eight till dusk, 1799.

Creator:: Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : ill. ; 42 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Exhibition History Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

Search Results

1. The destruction of the Spanish Armada

2. Sketch of a Man-O-War firing Guns

3. Dover Castle

4. An English Frigate at Anchor Viewed from the Port Quarter

5. An English Man-of-War, Port View from the Stern

6. English Warships Heeling in the Breeze Offshore

7. Greenwich, with London in the distance

8. Celebration on the Thames near Whitehall

9. An Action between English Ships and Barbary Corsairs

10. A Battle of the Third Anglo Dutch War, Probably the London at the Battle of the Texel, August 1673

11. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

12. Shipping in a Calm

13. The Revolt of the Fleet, 1642

14. The sailing and fighting instructions, or, Signals as they are observed in the Royal Navy of Great Britain.

15. Charles Howard, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624)

16. Two Boats with Crews, Study for The Royal William at Sea

17. Westminster Bridge under Construction

18. A Wood Yard on the Thames at Nine Elms

19. Thames Side Buildings

20. The Thames with Montagu House and Westminster Bridge

21. British Men-of-War and a Sloop

22. Ships

23. Marine View

24. An English Royal Yacht Standing Offshore in a Calm

25. Samuel Scott

26. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

27. The Cape of Good Hope

28. Fort St. George

29. Tellicherry

30. The Building of Westminster Bridge

31. Warships Passing in the Channel

32. A Sea Engagement between the English and Algerines

34. An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze

35. A Lugger and a Smack in Light Airs

36. Moonlight

37. Night and a Ship on Fire

38. Shipwreck

39. Morning

40. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

41. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre

42. English Ships Running before a Gale

43. Shipping in the English Channel

44. Ship on Fire at Night

45. Launching at Deptford

46. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, at Woolwich

47. Geometrical plan of his Majesty's Dockyard near Portsmouth

48. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, Deptford

49. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, at Chatham

50. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's dockyard, at Sheerness

51. A Storm

52. A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River

53. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, near Plymouth

54. The Fishery

55. A Brisk Gale

56. An English Frigate and Other Shipping in the Solent off Calshot Castle

57. A Calm Day in the Anchorage

58. Captain William Locker

59. The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

60. A View of the Tower of London, Supposed on his Majesty's Birthday

61. Saint Vincents, near West Malling, Kent

62. Sailors Carousing and Frying Watches

63. Dover Castle, North East, 1/2 North (one of five drawings on one mount)

64. Bristol

65. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

66. The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes

67. An English Man-of-War Taking Possession of a Ship

68. The River Avon: with Passing Vessels

69. Men-of-War and other Shipping on the Thames (most probably at Deptford)

70. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

71. Madiera, South East Extremity, 10 October

72. Teneriffe, to the East of Santa Cruz, 22 October

73. Marine sketch

74. Island of Mayo, Cape de Verde, 2 November

75. Off Rio de Janeiro

76. St. Jago, Cape de Verde, 3 November