Genre: landscape / Subject Terms: sunset / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Sunset over a River Landscape

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: early 1840s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches (31.2 x 44.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Tintern Abbey at Sunset

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and varnish over graphite with scratching out on heavy card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 27 3/4 inches (33.3 x 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Sunset

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: ca. 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, gum, and graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 15 1/4 inches (27 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and gum arabic on London board: a high-quality pasteboard sheet made of Whatman's finest drawing paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 27 7/8 inches (51.4 x 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Opposite Melaghara, 5:20 PM

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches (5.9 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Sunset along the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 15/16 x 8 1/2 inches (7.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Sunset along the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (7.3 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. Near Edfu

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/16 x 6 1/16 inches (6.2 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

9. Golosoneh, 5:10 p.m., January 3, 1867 (58)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 7 inches (7.6 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

10. Near Mesghouneh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 5/16 x 12 3/16 inches (3.3 x 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

11. Shelaal, 5:30 am, 29 January 1867 (264)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 10 5/8 inches (7.6 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

12. Below Ekhmim

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 x 7 1/16 inches (6.4 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

13. Marine Pier, Brighton - Sunset

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, red ink, graphite, and gum on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (16.5 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Sky Study, No. 8

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Lindsay, 1793–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (6.4 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Allahabad, from the Right Bank of the Jumna

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches (37.1 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Figure Seated by a Stream at Sunset

Creator:: John Le Capelain, 1812–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 8in. (24.8 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Sunset Sky

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (7.9 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, 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

19. Mill on the Tavy

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 5/8 inches (29.5 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Ganges

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/2 x 20 5/8 inches (36.8 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A Tropical Coast, Sunset

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1840 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and brown ink over graphite with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (15.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. View near Auckland: Evening-Trees and Ferns

Creator:: Lt. Gen. Charles Emilius Gold, 1803?–1871
Date:: ca. 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 5/8 inches (19.7 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Chamonix, Mer de Glace

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: between 1778 and 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, pasted on thick, rough, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 16 13/16in. (25.6 x 42.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Stormy Sunset, Legh Park, Wiltshire

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches (14.6 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Cattle Watering at Sunset

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches (10.8 x 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum, white gouache, graphite and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 14 inches (19.4 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Evening

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and varnish on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (29.8 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Dartmouth Castle

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:: Mount: 19 3/4 x 28 1/8 inches (50.2 x 71.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Sunset

Creator:: Alan Reynolds, 1926–2014
Date:: 1957
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

30. The Pool at Evening

Creator:: George Barret Jr., 1767–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (9.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. 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

32. View of the Terrace at Windsor

Creator:: attributed to Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 15/16 x 21 13/16 inches (35.4 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Sunset in the Cotswolds

Creator:: Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938
Date:: 1936
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on very thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 inches (19.7 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Adelaide C. Roberts and Alexandra C. Dane

34. Twilight

Creator:: Albert Goodwin, 1845–1932
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

35. Landscape

Creator:: David Charles Read, 1790–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 7 1/8 inches (11.1 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

36. Clouds at Sunset

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on thick, rough, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (9.8 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Crossing Lancaster Sands

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: mid-1830s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 5/16 × 20 1/16 inches (36.4 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Seacoast, Sunset with Harlech Castle

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 8 3/8 inches (7.6 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Lake Windermere from Calgarth with Belle Isle

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper in contemporary line mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 20 1/8 inches (34.6 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Coast Scene

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Folds

41. Temple by the Lake

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown and black ink over pencil on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 2 3/8 × 6 7/8 inches (6 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Sunset Landscape with Windmill

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (10.8 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Bolton Castle

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Mountainous Landscape with Clouds

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 15 inches (25.7 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Shepherd - Evening

Creator:: Francis Oliver Finch, 1802–1862
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gum, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 3/4 inches (20.3 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Erne River, Ireland

Creator:: Edward Thompson Davis, 1833–1867
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (12.1 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. 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

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1. Sunset over a River Landscape

2. Tintern Abbey at Sunset

3. Sunset

4. The Lonely Tower

5. Opposite Melaghara, 5:20 PM

6. Sunset along the Nile

7. Sunset along the Nile

8. Near Edfu

9. Golosoneh, 5:10 p.m., January 3, 1867 (58)

10. Near Mesghouneh

11. Shelaal, 5:30 am, 29 January 1867 (264)

12. Below Ekhmim

13. Marine Pier, Brighton - Sunset

14. Sky Study, No. 8

15. Allahabad, from the Right Bank of the Jumna

16. Figure Seated by a Stream at Sunset

17. Sunset Sky

18. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

19. Mill on the Tavy

20. The Ganges

21. A Tropical Coast, Sunset

22. View near Auckland: Evening-Trees and Ferns

23. Chamonix, Mer de Glace

24. Stormy Sunset, Legh Park, Wiltshire

25. Cattle Watering at Sunset

26. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

27. Evening

28. Dartmouth Castle

29. Sunset

30. The Pool at Evening

31. Windermere at Sunset

32. View of the Terrace at Windsor

33. Sunset in the Cotswolds

34. Twilight

35. Landscape

36. Clouds at Sunset

37. Crossing Lancaster Sands

38. Seacoast, Sunset with Harlech Castle

39. Lake Windermere from Calgarth with Belle Isle

40. Coast Scene

41. Temple by the Lake

42. Sunset Landscape with Windmill

43. Bolton Castle

44. Mountainous Landscape with Clouds

45. The Shepherd - Evening

46. Erne River, Ireland

47. Close of the Day: Sunset on the Coast