Subject Terms: boat and genre subject / Classification: Drawings & Watercolors

1. The Ferry

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 7 3/8 inches (10.5 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Shelaal

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches (9.7 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

3. Near Dishna

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches (3.3 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

4. Near Bajoura

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (5.7 x 8.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. Gebel Sheikh Eredi

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 6 inches (13.7 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Two Men in a Boat Clinking Tankards (?)

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 7/8 inches (13.3 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Study for, In Mr. Barnard's Boat, Kingston

Creator:: John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 1/8 inches (19.1 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Boat Building

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum and scraping out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 21 9/16 inches (34.2 x 54.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Staithes, Yorkshire

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 7/16in. (23.2 x 31.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. In Mr. Barnard's Boat, Kingston

Creator:: John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 7 7/8 inches (12.4 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Landscape at Ambleside

Creator:: Thomas Sunderland, 1744–1828
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, blue wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 17 13/16in. (33 x 45.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Figures in a Landscape by a River

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 × 9 5/8 inches (15.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. River Ferry with Many Passengers and Animals

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 17 3/8 inches (12.7 x 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Drifting

Creator:: Philip Richard Morris, 1836–1902
Date:: 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Black gouache and white gouache on medium, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 35 1/2 inches (63.8 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, The Edwin Abbey Memorial Collection

15. Boarding the Ferry

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 8 3/8 inches (11.7 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

16. Woman Fishing

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 12 3/8 inches (23.2 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, B.A. 1905

17. The Moonlit Lake

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Jackson, 1794–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite, with scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (24.1 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Red Pony

Creator:: Jack Butler Yeats, 1871–1957
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink; verso: graphite on very thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (24.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Gypsy Fortune-Teller

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1758
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 1/8 inches (24.4 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. One of a Group of Three Studies of Gondolas

Creator:: Myles Birket Foster, 1825–1899
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 7/8 × 2 5/8 inches (4.8 × 6.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Hastings Beach in August

Creator:: Theodore Casimir Roussel, 1847–1926
Date:: 1924
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 × 6 3/4 inches (12.4 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 1/8 inches (38.7 x 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Upton-on-Severn

Creator:: William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7 1/2 inches (27.9 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Studies of Boats, Figures, Carts, and Buildings

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (24.8 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. On the River Tivy, near Cardigan, Wales

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 1/2 inches (14.8 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Symptoms: of Being Wanted, of Anxiety, of a Has Been, of Duck Catching

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1822 and 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 8 3/4 inches (18.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Boat Sketches

Creator:: Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 × 5 5/8 inches (18.6 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter

28. A Military Escapade

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1794 and 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite; verso: watercolor splotches on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches (38.7 x 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Boatman and Medianero of Garachics, Tenerife

Creator:: Alfred Diston, active 1818–1829
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 inches (24.1 × 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. A View at Blackwall

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 5/8 x 10 inches (19.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Dying Sailor

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 13/16 inches (27.5 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Coast of Sussex, Pushing Off a Boat to a Vessel in Distress

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 x 28 3/4 inches (48.3 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Presented by Andrew Wyld / W.S. Fine Art Ltd.

33. Boat Building

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 8 1/4 inches (13.5 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Fisherman by a Boat with a Dog

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 8 3/4 inches (15.2 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

35. Shipbuilding on the Yorkshire Coast

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (24.1 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Boat Building - Dockyard at Birmingham

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: mid to late 1800s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (21.3 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. One of a Group of Three Studies of Gondolas

Creator:: Myles Birket Foster, 1825–1899
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (3.2 × 3.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The House of a Chinese Merchant near Canton

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink over graphite with white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 5/8 inches (12.7 × 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Ferry

2. Shelaal

3. Near Dishna

4. Near Bajoura

5. Gebel Sheikh Eredi

6. Two Men in a Boat Clinking Tankards (?)

7. Study for, In Mr. Barnard's Boat, Kingston

8. Boat Building

9. Staithes, Yorkshire

10. In Mr. Barnard's Boat, Kingston

11. Landscape at Ambleside

12. Figures in a Landscape by a River

13. River Ferry with Many Passengers and Animals

14. Drifting

15. Boarding the Ferry

16. Woman Fishing

17. The Moonlit Lake

18. The Red Pony

19. The Gypsy Fortune-Teller

20. One of a Group of Three Studies of Gondolas

21. Hastings Beach in August

22. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

23. Upton-on-Severn

24. Studies of Boats, Figures, Carts, and Buildings

25. On the River Tivy, near Cardigan, Wales

26. Symptoms: of Being Wanted, of Anxiety, of a Has Been, of Duck Catching

27. Boat Sketches

28. A Military Escapade

29. Boatman and Medianero of Garachics, Tenerife

30. A View at Blackwall

31. The Dying Sailor

32. Coast of Sussex, Pushing Off a Boat to a Vessel in Distress

33. Boat Building

34. Fisherman by a Boat with a Dog

35. Shipbuilding on the Yorkshire Coast

36. Boat Building - Dockyard at Birmingham

37. One of a Group of Three Studies of Gondolas

38. The House of a Chinese Merchant near Canton