Materials & Techniques: gray wash / Genre: architectural subject / Subject Terms: cityscape

1. The Tower of London

Creator:: Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/16 × 5 5/8 inches (5.6 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Castello di Smirna

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 x 21 1/4 inches (37 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. View of the Modern City of Pergamon

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 21 5/16 inches (38.3 x 54.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Gierusalemme

Creator:: Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 21 1/2 inches (36.4 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. South View of Bath

Creator:: Print made by John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand colored with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 × 15 inches (28.1 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Design for London Bridge Approach

Creator:: Print made by Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: between 1827 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (22.5 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Various Shaped Roofs in Foreground

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, black ink, graphite, gray wash, and black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 17 3/8 inches (32.4 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Domed Building in Compound....

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, with gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on moderately thick, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 19 15/16 inches (31.3 × 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Views in the Levant: View of Mecca

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 20 3/16 inches (30.6 × 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Windsor Castle

Creator:: John Glover, 1767–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (6.4 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Cheyne Walk, Old Chelsea

Creator:: Henry Greaves, 1850–1900
Date:: 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 × 25 1/4 inches (50.8 × 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Daughters of Jerusalem Weeping by the Waters of Babylon

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 5/16 x 8 inches (16 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Mansion House

Creator:: John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 15 1/4in. (23 x 38.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Bridgenorth Bridge

Creator:: Attributed to Peter Rashleigh, active 1775
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (23.5 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Part of the Monastery of St. Saviours, Southwark

Creator:: C. John M. Whichelo, 1784–1865
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 3/8 inches (22.5 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Rome, A View of the Arch of Constantine with Other Ruins

Creator:: James Barry, 1741–1806
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 16 3/4 inches (15.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. View of London from Richmond House, Whitehall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 18 1/8 inches (27.1 × 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Rome From the Baths of Caracalla

Creator:: Isaac Weld, 1774–1856
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 19 1/8 inches (16 × 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. View of the Pantheon, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Soft ground etching with gray, blue, and yellow wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 3/8 x 21 inches (23.8 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, and pen and brown ink on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. View of Windsor Castle

Creator:: Francis Place, 1647–1728
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/16 × 14 3/16 inches (18.9 × 36 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Arch of Titus from the Forum, Rome

Creator:: Arthur Pond, ca. 1705–1758
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (24.8 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Design for London Bridge Approach

Creator:: Print made by Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867
Date:: between 1827 and 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 18 1/16 inches (21 x 45.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Capriccio of a Venetian Courtyard

Creator:: Follower of Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 10 x 14 1/4 inches (25.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Venetian Fantasy

Creator:: imitator of Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches (29.2 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. At St. Albans

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 14 9/16 inches (27.9 x 37 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand, London

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 15 5/16 inches (50.2 x 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Southhampton, the Watergate and Globe Inn

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 9 inches (12.7 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The South Gate, Exeter

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 7 5/8 inches (12.7 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Baths of Caracalla, Rome

Creator:: Carlo Labruzzi, 1748–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 18 5/8 inches (29.2 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

31. A Panoramic View toward St. Peter's from the Palace of the Caesars

Creator:: Carlo Labruzzi, 1748–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (29.2 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Bramha and Nursingdara Ghat, Varanasi

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: between 1788 and 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 19 inches (29.5 x 48.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Aerial Perspective of a City Square

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (34.3 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift from the Estate of Christopher P. Monkhouse

34. The House of Common Under Fire

Creator:: Dennis Flanders, 1915–1994
Date:: 1942
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, gray and brown washes, watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 16 3/4 inches (56.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Tower of London

2. Castello di Smirna

3. View of the Modern City of Pergamon

4. Gierusalemme

5. South View of Bath

6. Design for London Bridge Approach

7. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Various Shaped Roofs in Foreground

8. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Domed Building in Compound....

9. Views in the Levant: View of Mecca

10. Windsor Castle

11. Cheyne Walk, Old Chelsea

12. The Daughters of Jerusalem Weeping by the Waters of Babylon

13. The Mansion House

14. Bridgenorth Bridge

15. Part of the Monastery of St. Saviours, Southwark

16. Rome, A View of the Arch of Constantine with Other Ruins

17. View of London from Richmond House, Whitehall

18. Rome From the Baths of Caracalla

19. View of the Pantheon, Paris

20. The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

21. View of Windsor Castle

22. The Arch of Titus from the Forum, Rome

23. Design for London Bridge Approach

24. Capriccio of a Venetian Courtyard

25. Venetian Fantasy

26. At St. Albans

27. St. Paul's Cathedral, from St. Martin's-le-Grand, London

28. Southhampton, the Watergate and Globe Inn

29. The South Gate, Exeter

30. The Baths of Caracalla, Rome

31. A Panoramic View toward St. Peter's from the Palace of the Caesars

32. Bramha and Nursingdara Ghat, Varanasi

33. Aerial Perspective of a City Square

34. The House of Common Under Fire