Genre: cityscape / Associated Places: England / Subject Terms: people

1. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches (51.1 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Aldwych

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 x 32 inches (62.2 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1831 to 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (21 x 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1829 to 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 39 inches (61 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Warwick Castle

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1748 to 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 37 3/4 × 56 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (95.9 × 142.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

6. The Thames at Twickenham

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 36 1/2 inches (45.7 x 92.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Westminster Abbey and Bridge

Creator:: Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/8 x 28 inches (92.4 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. 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

10. A View of the Cathedral and City of Lincoln from the River

Creator:: Joseph Baker of Lincoln, active 1742–1770
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 9/16 x 43 1/4 inches (82.7 x 109.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Merton College, Oxford

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 x 35 5/8 inches (70.5 x 90.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. The Thames at Westminster Stairs

Creator:: Claude de Jongh, ca. 1600–1663
Date:: 1631
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (46.4 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 43 5/8 x 56 x 3 inches (110.8 x 142.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Great Fire of London

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 5/8 × 32 inches (60 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. 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

16. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1684
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 7/8 inches (71.1 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Lambeth Palace

Creator:: Henry Pether, active 1828–1865
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (46.4 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1670
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 53 × 43 5/8 inches (134.6 × 110.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. Frost on the Thames

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Date:: 1788 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/16 × 48 3/16 inches (76.7 × 122.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. 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

22. 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

23. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1705
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 3/16 x 48 inches (91.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Shrewsbury and the River Severn

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1720
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/2 x 71 1/2 inches (77.5 x 181.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/2 x 49 1/4 inches (87.6 x 125.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. Somerset House, London

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on artist's board
Dimensions:: 5 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (14.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. London from Islington Hill

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on artist's board
Dimensions:: 5 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (14.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Restoration Procession of Charles II at Cheapside

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. St. Mawes, Cornwall

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (14.3 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. King Charles's Statue, Whitehall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 9 inches (13.7 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Greenwich, London in the Distance

Creator:: F. Norice, 19th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, white gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (15.9 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Ramsgate Harbour, Kent

Creator:: John Monro, 1801–1880
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 1/8 inches (15.4 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1792–1864
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink, brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 5/8 inches (13.5 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The City and St. Paul's from the South Bank

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (11.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 1/16 inches (16.5 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Winchester Tower, Windsor Castle

Creator:: Thomas Malton, 1726–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 inches (18.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Knaresborough

Creator:: Alexander Monro, 1802–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 1/2 inches (7.9 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. A Perspective View of Tower Hill and the Place of Execution of the Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino on Monday 18 of August 1746.

Creator:: Print made by John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 10 × 16 1/2 inches (25.4 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Greenwich

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1795 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 x 18 5/16 inches (28.4 x 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (20 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

43. Greenwich Hospital

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, aquatint and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 7/8 inches (14.3 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 15/16 x 13 7/8 inches (20.1 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

45. Sketch for the Eidometropolis: Panorama, Great Surrey Street and Christchurch, Southwark

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1797 and 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and brown ink, squared for transfer on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (29.2 x 50.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Weigh House, Cumberland Market

2. Aldwych

3. Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead

4. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

5. Warwick Castle

6. The Thames at Twickenham

7. St. Paul's Cathedral

8. Westminster Abbey and Bridge

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

10. A View of the Cathedral and City of Lincoln from the River

11. Merton College, Oxford

12. The Thames at Westminster Stairs

13. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

14. The Great Fire of London

15. Greenwich, with London in the distance

16. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

17. Whitehall

18. Lambeth Palace

19. The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's

20. Frost on the Thames

21. Rochester

22. Launching at Deptford

23. Covent Garden

24. Pierrepont House, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

25. Northumberland House, London

26. Shrewsbury and the River Severn

27. The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

28. Somerset House, London

29. London from Islington Hill

30. Restoration Procession of Charles II at Cheapside

31. St. Mawes, Cornwall

32. King Charles's Statue, Whitehall

33. Greenwich, London in the Distance

34. Ramsgate Harbour, Kent

35. St. Paul's Cathedral

36. The City and St. Paul's from the South Bank

37. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire

38. Winchester Tower, Windsor Castle

39. Knaresborough

40. A Perspective View of Tower Hill and the Place of Execution of the Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino on Monday 18 of August 1746.

41. Greenwich

42. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

43. Greenwich Hospital

44. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

45. Sketch for the Eidometropolis: Panorama, Great Surrey Street and Christchurch, Southwark