Associated Places: Greece / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. Rhodes

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1823 and 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 8 7/8in. (13.3 x 22.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Corfu

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 19 7/8 inches (35.2 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

3. Vjose, 7:15 p.m. 17 April 1857

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 9/16 inches (12.4 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Vjosa

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on very thick, moderately textured, beige wove cardboard paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches (13 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. Agios Prokopios, Corfu, 12 May 1862

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 21 1/2 inches (38.1 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Sketches of Athens

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 17 7/8 inches (17.1 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

7. Corfu

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: ca. 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gouache, and pastel on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper mounted on very thick cardboard
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 18 5/8 inches (31.4 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. Vjose, 12:30 p.m., 16 April 1857

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly texture, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 x 7 5/8 inches (12.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

9. Salonica, from my Room Window, 11 Sept. 1848, after Sunset

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (17.5 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

10. Val di Roppa, Corfu, 22 May 1868

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 20 inches (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

11. Santa Decca, Corfu, 28 May 1848 (126)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 19 7/8 inches (35.6 x 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

12. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 20 5/8 inches (32.4 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

13. Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and graphite on medium moderately textured beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (32.1 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

14. A Doorway in the Acropolis, Athens

Creator:: William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache on thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (42.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Banishment of Aristides

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 7 5/8 inches (20 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Alcibiades and Timon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 10 5/16 inches (28.1 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Arcadia

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1802-1804
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 1/4 inches (22.7 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Figures with a Bull From Parthenon Frieze

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches (19.4 x 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Sketch of a Horseman, From the Parthenon Frieze

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches (19.1 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Landscape with Temple Ruins at Sunium

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Penand brown ink, gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 18 1/4 inches (29.5 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Views in the Levant: View of a Walled Town and Harbour with Towers Seen From the Sea

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 14 5/16 inches (16.8 × 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. An Arcadian Landscape

Creator:: George Lambert, 1700–1765
Date:: 1742
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 25 7/8 inches (49.5 x 65.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)

23. The Plains of Marathon

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 x 10 5/16 inches (17.3 x 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. The Parthenon

Creator:: Thomas Hartley Cromek, 1809–1873
Date:: ca. 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 7/16 inches (37.4 x 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

25. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: between 1764 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 inches (29.2 × 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Study of Hercules for 'Crowning the Victors at Olympia'

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: between 1777 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with brown wash over black chalk on medium, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 × 8 3/8 inches (38.6 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Argos and Larissa

Creator:: John Fulleylove, 1845–1908
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache and pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 1/2 inches (11.7 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Propylaea from the Northern Edge of the Stylobate of the Parthenon, Athens

Creator:: John Fulleylove, 1845–1908
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scraping out on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (13.7 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Castalian Spring, Delphi

Creator:: John Fulleylove, 1845–1908
Date:: ca. 1895
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scraping out on thick, rough cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (27.6 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Design for an Engraving: Battle of Troy with the Trojan Horse

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, pen and black ink, red chalk, graphite, watercolor and gold leaf on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink, border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 1/8 × 11 inches (30.8 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. [Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]

Creator:: Tennant, Smithson, 1761–1815
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 16 x 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Rhodes

2. Corfu

3. Vjose, 7:15 p.m. 17 April 1857

4. Vjosa

5. Agios Prokopios, Corfu, 12 May 1862

6. Sketches of Athens

7. Corfu

8. Vjose, 12:30 p.m., 16 April 1857

9. Salonica, from my Room Window, 11 Sept. 1848, after Sunset

10. Val di Roppa, Corfu, 22 May 1868

11. Santa Decca, Corfu, 28 May 1848 (126)

12. The Destruction of Niobe's Children

13. Apollo and Diana for "The Destruction of Niobe's Children"

14. A Doorway in the Acropolis, Athens

15. The Banishment of Aristides

16. Alcibiades and Timon

17. Arcadia

18. Figures with a Bull From Parthenon Frieze

19. Sketch of a Horseman, From the Parthenon Frieze

20. Landscape with Temple Ruins at Sunium

21. Views in the Levant: View of a Walled Town and Harbour with Towers Seen From the Sea

22. An Arcadian Landscape

23. The Plains of Marathon

24. The Parthenon

25. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina

26. Study of Hercules for 'Crowning the Victors at Olympia'

27. Argos and Larissa

28. The Propylaea from the Northern Edge of the Stylobate of the Parthenon, Athens

29. The Castalian Spring, Delphi

30. Design for an Engraving: Battle of Troy with the Trojan Horse

31. [Remains of the Spartan monuments seen from the opposite side]