Genre: marine art / Associated Places: United Kingdom / Subject Terms: sea and ships

1. Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1833 and 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 5/8 x 47 9/16 inches (90.5 x 120.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 x 20 inches (33 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (69.9 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

Creator:: Thomas Mellish, ca.1748–1782
Date:: between 1761 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches (46 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. 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

6. Brighton

Creator:: William Henry Stothard Scott, 1783–1850
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 5/16 x 28 3/16 inches (54.1 x 71.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig

Creator:: William Clark, 1803–1883
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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. Off Portsmouth: Boats Loading or Unloading a Large Hulk, Small Craft Nearby

Creator:: Follower of Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 3/16 inches (16.9 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Hulks at Plymouth

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (26 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Ryde, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Frederick Calvert, ca. 1785–ca. 1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (13.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Men of War off Sheerness

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 7 1/2 inches (15.6 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Landing of William of Orange at Tor Bay

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749
Date:: 1688
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and black ink, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 14 3/8in. (23.8 x 36.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Island of Portland

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 4 3/8 inches (7.6 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Study of Boats on Shore

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (41.9 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: after 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 22 1/16 inches (38.3 x 56.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

20. Tilbury

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 6 15/16 inches (8.3 × 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

21. Storm, Representing that Violent one, which drove his Majesty King George I into Rye

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Plan of the West India Docks

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Baker, 1766–1841
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 16 1/4 inches (30.5 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. His Majesty's Ship Britannia Leaving Hamoaze with the Lord High Admiral On Board

Creator:: Louis Haghe, 1806–1885
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 19 3/16 inches (36.9 x 48.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Barmouth, Merionethshire

Creator:: Print made by William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 15/16 inches (26.8 x 38 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Lamson Warren, Class of 1935

25. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 3/16 inches (39.6 x 53.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. An Essex Farm

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 13 7/16 inches (21.5 x 34.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

27. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 1

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 18 3/4 inches (27.6 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

28. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: after 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 21 7/8 inches (38.6 x 55.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

29. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

Creator:: John William Edy, 1760–1820
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 11/16 inches (35.9 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Visitors' Boat

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 15/16 inches (17.9 × 12.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

31. Troop Ships

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 7/8 inches (13 × 17.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

32. Monitors

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 11/16 inches (14.3 × 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

33. Bunting

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches (17.7 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

34. Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth, Devon

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 12 13/16 inches (19.4 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Dry Dock, Southampton

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 × 6 7/8 inches (6.8 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

36. Portsmouth Children

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 × 3 7/8 inches (7 × 9.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

37. Return to Tilbury

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thin, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 × 3 3/4 inches (13.1 × 9.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

38. Dipping the Flag

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 6 7/8 inches (8 × 17.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

39. The Fleet: Evening

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 9/16 x 8 11/16 inches (14.1 x 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

40. Off Whitby

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gouache, and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 × 21 inches (25.4 × 53.3 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

41. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (29.2 x 41.9 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

42. Deptford Dockyard, Kent

Creator:: John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (14 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Custom House, London

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 3/4 inches (12.7 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Shipping on the Medway, Kent

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 13 3/4 inches (18.1 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

2. Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill

3. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

4. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

5. Hussars Embarking at Deptford

6. Brighton

7. The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig

8. Shipping in the English Channel

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

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

11. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

12. Off Portsmouth: Boats Loading or Unloading a Large Hulk, Small Craft Nearby

13. Hulks at Plymouth

14. Ryde, Isle of Wight

15. Men of War off Sheerness

16. Landing of William of Orange at Tor Bay

17. The Island of Portland

18. Study of Boats on Shore

19. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

20. Tilbury

21. Storm, Representing that Violent one, which drove his Majesty King George I into Rye

22. Plan of the West India Docks

23. His Majesty's Ship Britannia Leaving Hamoaze with the Lord High Admiral On Board

24. Barmouth, Merionethshire

25. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

26. An Essex Farm

27. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 1

28. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

29. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

30. Visitors' Boat

31. Troop Ships

32. Monitors

33. Bunting

34. Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth, Devon

35. Dry Dock, Southampton

36. Portsmouth Children

37. Return to Tilbury

38. Dipping the Flag

39. The Fleet: Evening

40. Off Whitby

41. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

42. Deptford Dockyard, Kent

43. The Custom House, London

44. Shipping on the Medway, Kent