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Exhibition History The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

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City of Lin Tsin, Shantung, with a View of the Grand Canal
Creator:
William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (28.6 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Nymphs Bathing in a Wooded Glade
Creator:
William Taverner, 1703–1772
Date:
ca. 1765-1770
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 15 1/4 inches (30.5 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Tassisudon
Creator:
Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and gouache on very thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (51.8 × 76.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum
Creator:
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, 1748–1810
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 7/8 x 29 1/8 inches (53 x 74 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
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
View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater
Creator:
Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:
between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sarsden House and Gardens, Oxfordshire: Bird's-eye View
Creator:
Humphry Repton, 1752–1818
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches (24.1 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Nîmes from the Tour Magne
Creator:
William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:
ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
North West View of Wakefield Lodge in Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire
Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:
1767
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and gray ink and touches of gold paint over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/4 x 33 1/4 inches (42.5 x 84.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hilly Landscape with Figures Approaching a Bridge
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
ca. 1763
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, on contemporary mount
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, James W. and Mary C. Fosburgh Collection

12. Stromboli

Stromboli
Creator:
Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:
1750
Materials & Techniques:
Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 3/8 x 14 15/16 inches (54.3 x 37.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View of the Ruined Baths at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli
Creator:
Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 x 21 5/16 inches (38.1 x 54.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A View of Boxhill from Norbury Park, Surrey
Creator:
Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:
ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 39 1/8 inches (30.8 × 99.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Figures by a stream with cattle watering
Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 20 inches (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital
Creator:
Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:
ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo
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: 17 x 24 3/8 inches (43.2 x 61.9 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
A View of the Rotunda in the Garden at Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Creator:
Jean B. C. Chatelain, 1710–1771
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (23.2 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Bay Scene in Moonlight
Creator:
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:
1787
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 7/8 inches (34 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Matlock Baths, Derbyshire
Creator:
William Day, 1764–1807
Date:
ca. 1789
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 17 3/8 × 22 1/2 inches (44.1 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Forest Scene
Creator:
Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:
1771
Materials & Techniques:
Gray and brown wash with pen and brown ink over graphite with gum on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper prepared with brown wash, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 20 13/16 x 15 7/8 inches (52.9 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
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
The Lake of Albano and Castle Gandolfo
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/2 x 25 1/8 inches (44.5 x 63.8 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
Near Chiavenna in the Grisons
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black ink, graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (42.5 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
London from Greenwich Hill
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 1/8 inches (37.8 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sankrydroog, Madras
Creator:
William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 5/8 x 21 1/8 inches (44.8 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wooded Landscape with Figures
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk and stumping, with touches of white and red chalk, gray and brown wash, heightened with gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
No cover image available
Creator:
Bernard Lens III, 1682–1740
Date:
1717
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and gum arabic on vellum
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 10 1/4 inches (19.4 × 26 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund