Materials & Techniques: brown wash / Period: 19th century / Genre: marine art

1. Study of Waves

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown washes with white gouache over graphite on thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 7/8 inches (14.8 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Shipping Scene, with Fishermen

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1815 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, brushed brown ink and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (21.6 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Study for Tynemouth Pier - Lighting the Lamps at Sundown

Creator:: Alfred William Hunt, 1830–1896
Date:: ca. 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 inches (27.3 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. Arch of Trajan, Ancona, Italy

Creator:: Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, blue wash, gray wash, brown wash, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 × 8 15/16 inches (27.8 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The "Victory" Coming Up Channel

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Etching printed in brown ink, with graphite, pen and black ink, gouache, and brown wash (touched proof) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (21.6 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Daniel Bell

6. Harbor

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 1/4in. (14.6 x 23.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Port of Spain, from the Harbour

Creator:: Michel Jean Cazabon, 1813–1888
Date:: 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 11 1/2 inches (16.2 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A Seascape

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 6 inches (9.8 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Illanoan Pirates of Tampassook (Borneo)

Creator:: Samuel Francis Marryat, 1826–1855
Date:: 1848
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 18 1/2 inches (13.3 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Wreck and the Merchant Vessel, St. George, at Deal, Kent

Creator:: John Samuel Hayward, 1778–1822
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 6 5/8 inches (13.3 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Waterloo Bridge from the Garden of M. A. Taylor, Esq.

Creator:: William Parrott, 1813–ca. 1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 8 3/8 inches (11 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Entrance to the Hudson Highlands

Creator:: William Henry Bartlett, 1809–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash with white gouache over graphite with scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 inches (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. John Hill Morgan

13. Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, a Squall

Creator:: Thomas Sully, 1783–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 × 10 3/4 inches (17 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Caernarvon Castle

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 19 1/2 inches (31.4 × 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Caernarvon (Castle) Eagle Tower

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: ca. 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and gum arabic on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 × 20 3/4 inches (38.4 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Plymouth Harbor

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 x 11 13/16 inches (21.1 x 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Margate Hoy

Creator:: Joseph Clarendon Smith, 1778–1810
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash, and pen and black ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 5/8 inches (23.2 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Carlisle Bay, Barbados

Creator:: Lt. Paul Sandby, ca. 1820
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 19 inches (14.9 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Study of Fishermen and Gear

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite, and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 18 5/16 inches (30.3 × 46.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Sailing Barges and Boats in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: George Chambers, 1803–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray wash and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 11 1/8 inches (17.5 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Fishing off Hastings

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: early 1810s
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash and red chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 inches (12.4 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Theater at Tien-Sin

Creator:: Thomas Allom, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink, graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/2 inches (12.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Study for Quay at Straddon Point Near Plymouth

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, white gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 3/8 inches (16.2 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert Storr in honor of Amy Meyers

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1. Study of Waves

2. Shipping Scene, with Fishermen

3. Study for Tynemouth Pier - Lighting the Lamps at Sundown

4. Arch of Trajan, Ancona, Italy

5. The "Victory" Coming Up Channel

6. Harbor

7. Port of Spain, from the Harbour

8. A Seascape

9. Illanoan Pirates of Tampassook (Borneo)

10. Wreck and the Merchant Vessel, St. George, at Deal, Kent

11. Waterloo Bridge from the Garden of M. A. Taylor, Esq.

12. Entrance to the Hudson Highlands

13. Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, a Squall

14. Caernarvon Castle

15. Caernarvon (Castle) Eagle Tower

16. Plymouth Harbor

17. Margate Hoy

18. Carlisle Bay, Barbados

19. Study of Fishermen and Gear

20. Sailing Barges and Boats in a Choppy Sea

21. Fishing off Hastings

22. The Theater at Tien-Sin

23. Study for Quay at Straddon Point Near Plymouth