Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Associated Places: France / Subject Terms: buildings

1. A View of the Harbour at Cannes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1869
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and scraping out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 20 1/8 inches (16.7 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Notre Dame, Paris

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (16.8 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Mantes

Creator:: follower of Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 inches (10.4 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Calais Harbour

Creator:: Attributed to James Holland, 1799–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 1/2 inches (16.8 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Pont des Arts, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: between 1831 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and brown ink, graphite and watercolor on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches (16.8 x 33.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Versailles

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (8.3 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Waterworks at Marly and St. Germain-en-Laye Seen in the Distance

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 x 18 1/8 inches (14.5 x 46 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper (original mount)
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 1/4 × 23 7/8 inches (43.8 × 60.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Seine with Notre Dame

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 10 3/4 inches (17.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Le Château de Blois

Creator:: attributed to Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite with gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 25 5/16 inches (45.7 x 64.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. View of the Pantheon from the Arsenal

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over soft-ground etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 17 5/16 inches (15 x 43.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Larchant near Fontainebleau

Creator:: Ambrose Poynter, 1796–1886
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slgihtly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 1 13/16 inches (8.3 × 4.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Beauvais

Creator:: attributed to William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (42.5 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Blois on the Loire

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 x 13 3/8 inches (13.5 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. View of Paris from Charenton

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 13 inches (11.7 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Notre Dame, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: between 1831 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 7/16 inches (15.9 x 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Porch, Reims Cathedral

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, and graphite, with scratching out on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 10 3/4 inches (42.2 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. View of the Pont Royal

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: ca. 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, graphite, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 19 13/16 inches (33.7 × 50.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. On the Seine

Creator:: Mary Mitford, active 1770
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 13 7/16 inches (15.4 × 34.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Rodes Near Prades

Creator:: John Piper, 1903–1992
Date:: 1958
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, sharpie and acrylic on very thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (36.2 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

21. The Paris Diligence

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black, gray and red-brown ink over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 x 14 1/8 inches (23.3 x 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper, (two sheets mounted together)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 12 3/4 inches (19.5 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Avignon: Bridge over a River

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 10 inches (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

24. The Pont Neuf

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (19.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. L'Institut de France, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 7/16 inches (35.6 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper, pasted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 12 7/16 inches (14 x 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Ile de la Cité, the Pont au Change, and the Conciergerie, Paris, 1837

Creator:: Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (25.7 × 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

28. Travelling in France

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1785 and 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 17 1/2 inches (28.7 x 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. View of Nice

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches (21.3 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

30. Place St. Barthélemy, Rouen

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches (26.4 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Villefranche

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (16.9 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

32. Le Pont Royal, Paris

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: ca. 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches (14.3 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. View from the Pont Neuf

Creator:: William Henry Lake Price, ca. 1810–ca. 1896
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (16.5 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. View of the Pantheon taken from the Arsenal

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored with watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 21 1/2 inches (23 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Nantes

Creator:: William Wyld, 1806–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 5/8 inches (17.1 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

36. On the Seine

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite with gum arabic on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (14.6 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Castle at Dieppe, Normandy

Creator:: John William Upham, 1772–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, pasted on contemporary mount made of thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 11/16 x 21 3/4 inches (42.4 x 55.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A View of the Harbour at Cannes

2. Notre Dame, Paris

3. Mantes

4. Calais Harbour

5. The Pont des Arts, Paris

6. Versailles

7. The Waterworks at Marly and St. Germain-en-Laye Seen in the Distance

8. Nîmes from the Tour Magne

9. The Seine with Notre Dame

10. Le Château de Blois

11. View of the Pantheon from the Arsenal

12. Larchant near Fontainebleau

13. Beauvais

14. Blois on the Loire

15. View of Paris from Charenton

16. Notre Dame, Paris

17. The Porch, Reims Cathedral

18. View of the Pont Royal

19. On the Seine

20. Rodes Near Prades

21. The Paris Diligence

22. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

23. Avignon: Bridge over a River

24. The Pont Neuf

25. L'Institut de France, Paris

26. The Watermill Above the Bridge at Charenton

27. Ile de la Cité, the Pont au Change, and the Conciergerie, Paris, 1837

28. Travelling in France

29. View of Nice

30. Place St. Barthélemy, Rouen

31. Villefranche

32. Le Pont Royal, Paris

33. View from the Pont Neuf

34. View of the Pantheon taken from the Arsenal

35. Nantes

36. On the Seine

37. The Castle at Dieppe, Normandy