Work Type: watercolor / Subject Terms: branches / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. The Weald of Kent

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: between 1833 and 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches (18.7 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Fruit trees, 3 April 1863

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 13/16 x 10 inches (42.7 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

3. Corpo di Cava, 28 June 1838

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Oil and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, green-gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 13/16 inches (35.9 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 21, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 57, "The Bard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 3, "Ode on the Spring."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 65, "The Bard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 97, "Ode for Music."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 inches (14 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Still Life with Gooseberries, Raspberries, Red Currants, Spring Onions, a Gherkin and Foliage

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (25.1 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Castle and Figures in a Landscape

Creator:: Joseph Barber, 1757–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 11 inches (21.9 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Autumn Trees by a Lake

Creator:: Joseph Barber, 1757–1811
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 10 3/8 inches (21.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Chestnut Tree at Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches (19.4 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. A Fallen Oak

Creator:: attributed to William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 21 inches (37.1 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Part of Regent's Park

Creator:: Patrick Nasmyth, 1787–1831
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 5 inches (16.4 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Composition: The Edge of a Wood

Creator:: Dr. Thomas Monro, 1759–1833
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 15/16 × 8 9/16 inches (20.2 × 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Peasants Resting

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 8 1/16 inches (15.1 × 20.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Cottage and Foot Bridge

Creator:: William Henry Pyne, 1769–1843
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and gray ink, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/16 × 6 7/8 inches (12.9 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Landscape waith Figures, Cromach Water

Creator:: Paul Sandby Munn, 1773–1845
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (21.3 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Peasant Girls

Creator:: attributed to John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 1/2 inches (32.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Landscape, Corsica

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: 1947
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and pen and gray-blue ink with wash, white wax crayon and pastel on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 1/2 inches (38.1 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Trees by a Pool

Creator:: John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 5/8 × 21 7/8 inches (42.2 × 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. In Rydal Park

Creator:: Joseph Powell, 1780–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 8 inches (28.6 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Anna lamenting the absence of Tobias (Tobit 10:7)

Creator:: Thomas Carwitham, active 1723
Date:: 1723
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 4 5/8in. (12.4 x 11.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. In Borrowdale

Creator:: Joseph Powell, 1780–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (20 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Woodpecker and Two Birds

Creator:: Richard Brookes, 1721–1763
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 3 5/8 inches (14.3 × 9.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Crowned Eagle and Two Birds

Creator:: Richard Brookes, 1721–1763
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (14.3 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 5in. (7.9 x 12.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Family Group

Creator:: John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 x 14 7/8 inches (50.8 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Lear in the Storm

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping, partially varnished on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, peach wove paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 30 1/16 x 24 15/16 inches (76.3 x 63.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Macrocarpa

Creator:: Sir Walter Thomas Monnington, 1902–1976
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 3/16 inches (33.7 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. The Fish Ponds

Creator:: Henry Morton, ca. 1807–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/16 × 7 1/16 inches (12.9 × 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Tree Study (Autumn Foliage)

Creator:: attributed to John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: ca. 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 12 1/8 inches (25.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Old Olive Tree

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 5 inches (15.2 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Landscape

Creator:: John Minton, 1917–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942

37. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve...'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 × 10 13/16 inches (21.1 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. River Scene and Bridge with Artist Sketching in Foreground

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Group of Peasants with Musical Instruments

Creator:: Attributed to John Absolon, 1815–1895
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen, and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Woody Nightshade

Creator:: Edwin Alexander, 1870–1926
Date:: 1904
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (34.6 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Trees and Barns in Ashstead Park, Surrey

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (34.3 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. A Gate Reflected in a Pool

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite, with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (21.6 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Ruins of a Monastery with Farmyard Animals

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache and scraping on thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 15/16 × 21 1/4 inches (40.5 × 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth

Creator:: Rev. Charles Annesley, 1787–1863
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 inches (34.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. 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

46. Beech Trees

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches (21.3 x 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Woodland Shadow

Creator:: Robert Hills, 1769–1844
Date:: after 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paer
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (19.1 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Brambling

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 6 1/2 inches (17.5 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A Kingfisher

Creator:: Thomas Atwood, active ca. 1761–1766
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 5 3/4 inches (15.2 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Weald of Kent

2. Fruit trees, 3 April 1863

3. Corpo di Cava, 28 June 1838

4. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."

5. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 21, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

6. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 57, "The Bard."

7. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 3, "Ode on the Spring."

8. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 65, "The Bard."

9. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 97, "Ode for Music."

10. The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham

11. Still Life with Gooseberries, Raspberries, Red Currants, Spring Onions, a Gherkin and Foliage

12. Castle and Figures in a Landscape

13. Autumn Trees by a Lake

14. The Chestnut Tree at Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire

15. A Fallen Oak

16. Part of Regent's Park

17. Composition: The Edge of a Wood

18. Peasants Resting

19. Cottage and Foot Bridge

20. Landscape waith Figures, Cromach Water

21. Peasant Girls

22. Landscape, Corsica

23. Trees by a Pool

24. In Rydal Park

25. Anna lamenting the absence of Tobias (Tobit 10:7)

26. In Borrowdale

27. Woodpecker and Two Birds

28. Crowned Eagle and Two Birds

29. Allegory of Napoleonic Battles

30. Family Group

31. Lear in the Storm

32. Macrocarpa

33. The Fish Ponds

34. Tree Study (Autumn Foliage)

35. Old Olive Tree

36. Landscape

37. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve...'

38. River Scene and Bridge with Artist Sketching in Foreground

39. Group of Peasants with Musical Instruments

40. Woody Nightshade

41. Trees and Barns in Ashstead Park, Surrey

42. A Gate Reflected in a Pool

43. Ruins of a Monastery with Farmyard Animals

44. The Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth

45. Wooded Landscape with Figures

46. Beech Trees

47. Woodland Shadow

48. Brambling

49. A Kingfisher