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1. Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 17 7/8in. (28.9 x 45.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Ship's Boat

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (15.9 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Untitled [frigates, possibly after a battle]

Creator:: unknown artist
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

4. Part of the Crew of H.M.S. Guardian

Creator:: Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 3/4in. (47 x 62.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The taking of the Princessa a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740 by His Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent, and Oxford

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18in. (31.8 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The taking of the St. Joseph a Spanish Carracca Ship, Sept. 23 1739, by the Chester and Canterbury Men of War, this Prize was Valued at upwards of 150,000 pounds.

The taking of the St. Joseph a Spanish Carracca Ship, Sept. 23 1739, by the Chester and Canterbury Men of War, this Prize was Valued at upwards of 150,000 pounds.

Creator:: Print made by Remi Parr, 1743–after 1750
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 1/16 inches (31.8 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Fishery of Great Britain in its three different Branches vizt. Herring, Cod, and Whale Fishing

Creator:: Print made by Elisha Kirkall, ca. 1682–1742
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Evening, or Sun setting

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18in. (31.8 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Mouth of the Thames, Isle of Sheppey in Distance

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

10. The Cape of Good Hope

Creator:: Print made by Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 × 26 inches (49 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Shipping off the Isle of Wight

Creator:: Alfred Gomersal Vickers, 1810–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 13 1/16 inches (19.1 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Figures in Boats

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (14 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Sailors Raising a Boom

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (13.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Wreck of the Apollo Frigate, 1803

Creator:: William H. Overend, 1851–1898
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, white gouache, and pen and black ink on very thick, smooth, cream wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 3/8 inches (35.6 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

15. Sailing Ships and Small Boats in Rough Sea off the Coast

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (13.3 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Ships on a Stormy Sea

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (14 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. In the Channel

Creator:: Augustus William Reeve, active 1831–1888
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (16.2 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Sebastopol, Sketched From The Deck of H. M. S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 20 5/8 inches (33 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Ship Study

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 8 3/8 inches (45.7 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. View at Caernarvon, Wales

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 1/2 inches (17.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Do Your Duty to our Boys

Creator:: Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 29 3/4 inches (46.7 x 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

22. Night & a Ship on fire

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red brown and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 18 1/4 inches (20.5 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906

24. The Landing of Columbus

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 1/4 × 8 1/2 inches (15.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift

25. The Launching of a Ship

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted on thick, rough, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John and Carmen Dugdale

26. Shipwrecked Sailors

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 9 3/16 inches (16.7 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. 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

28. Sebastopol from the sea, sketched from the deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

Creator:: Thomas Picken, 1815–1870
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover

2. A Ship's Boat

3. Untitled [frigates, possibly after a battle]

4. Part of the Crew of H.M.S. Guardian

5. The taking of the Princessa a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740 by His Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent, and Oxford

6. The taking of the St. Joseph a Spanish Carracca Ship, Sept. 23 1739, by the Chester and Canterbury Men of War, this Prize was Valued at upwards of 150,000 pounds.

7. The Fishery of Great Britain in its three different Branches vizt. Herring, Cod, and Whale Fishing

8. Evening, or Sun setting

9. The Mouth of the Thames, Isle of Sheppey in Distance

10. The Cape of Good Hope

11. Shipping off the Isle of Wight

12. Figures in Boats

13. Sailors Raising a Boom

14. The Wreck of the Apollo Frigate, 1803

15. Sailing Ships and Small Boats in Rough Sea off the Coast

16. Ships on a Stormy Sea

17. In the Channel

18. Sebastopol, Sketched From The Deck of H. M. S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

19. Ship Study

20. View at Caernarvon, Wales

21. Do Your Duty to our Boys

22. Night & a Ship on fire

23. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

24. The Landing of Columbus

25. The Launching of a Ship

26. Shipwrecked Sailors

27. A View at Blackwall

28. Sebastopol from the sea, sketched from the deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855