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1. The Launch of "La Sorciére" on the Lake of Geneva

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 × 11 3/8 inches (19.4 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Greenland Fishery

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 20 3/16 inches (36.3 x 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. A Small Breeze

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Boydell, active 1750–1751
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 20 1/16 inches (36.2 x 50.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Morning

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 20 1/16 inches (36.2 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Evening

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 20 3/16 inches (36.3 x 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Noon

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, hand colored with watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 x 21 inches (39.2 x 53.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Night

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (39.7 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A Calm

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, hand colored with watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/16 x 21 1/8 inches (38.9 x 53.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Taking of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 × 18 5/8 inches (34.2 × 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 x 21 3/16 inches (39.6 x 53.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Windsor Bridge

Creator:: Print made by Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 3/8 inches (30.4 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Sea-Faring Men

Creator:: John Glover, 1767–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (20 x 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Ships and Hulks Moored in an Estuary

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 × 18 13/16 inches (28.4 × 47.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink over graphite with gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/8 x 23 3/4 inches (46 x 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. 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

16. Somerset House, London

Creator:: Print made by Stanley Anderson, 1884–1966
Date:: 1910
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on medium, smooth, beige Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 13/16 inches (29.8 x 47.8 cm)
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

17. The Pilot

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.4 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

18. The Wheel

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1927
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 11/16 inches (28.7 x 42.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

19. Brightlingsea Hard, Landing Oysters

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 16 inches (26.4 x 40.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

20. Somerset House

Creator:: Print made by Sir Muirhead Bone, 1876–1953
Date:: 1905
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 15 9/16 inches (43.9 x 39.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

21. The Main Tack

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1928
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches (38.8 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

22. Securing the Boats

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1928
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 11/16 x 10 7/16 inches (42.4 x 26.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

23. In the Tropics

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1928
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 10 15/16 inches (40.9 x 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

24. Notre Dame

Creator:: Print made by Andrew Fairbairn Affleck, 1874/7–1936
Date:: 1908
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 11/16 x 15 inches (52.5 x 38.1 cm)
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

25. Aloft

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1929
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 inches (29.9 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

26. Dutch Shipping

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thin, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 5/8 inches (19.8 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Figure Study for the Painting of the Victory of Lord Duncan: Study for Sailor Bearing the Dutch Flag

Creator:: John Singleton Copley, 1738–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black and white chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches (27 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. An East Indiaman Moored, Small Boats Alongside, Other Boats Further Off

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 3/16 inches (19.2 × 25.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. A Harbour; Breakwater Left, Small Boats Moored Alongside a Quay with Figures Right

Creator:: Follower of Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, green-beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 13/16 inches (11.7 × 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Shipping Off the Coast

Creator:: follower of François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, pasted on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches (14.9 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Boats on a Calm Sea

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 3/8 inches (10.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Harbour Scene

Creator:: Print made by Charles Golding Constable, 1821–1879
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 8 11/16 inches (15.3 x 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor Giles Constable

33. Black Lion Wharf

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, slightly textured, beige China paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 14 inches (23.1 × 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

34. Mr. B seeking the Bubble reputation - Plate 5

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 14 inches (25.5 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Men-of-War and other Shipping on the Thames (most probably at Deptford)

Creator:: Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (10.8 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Visitors' Boat

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 15/16 inches (17.9 × 12.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

37. Tilbury

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 6 15/16 inches (8.3 × 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

38. A View of the Mole and the New Castle at Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 x 12 9/16 inches (25.4 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Palace of Mont Alto at Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches (23.1 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 3/8 inches (37.5 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Bunting

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches (17.7 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

42. A View of Part of the Royal Gardens at Naples Towards the Sea

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches (24.4 x 31.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Finding things not exactly what he expected - Plate 2

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 14 inches (25.3 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (21.6 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Mr. B. on the Middle Watch--"Cold blows the wind & rain's coming on's - Plate 3

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 15/16 inches (25.5 x 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Fishing Boats at Hastings

Creator:: Print made by James Dobie, 1849–1911
Date:: 1882
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 16 11/16 inches (31.4 x 42.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

47. Barges Heading out to Sea

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (18.4 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

48. Warships Passing in the Channel

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on moderately textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

49. Folkestone

Creator:: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1821–1906
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/2 × 12 3/8 inches (24.2 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

50. Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor. pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 inches (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Fisherpeople on a Junk

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 inches (14.9 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Sketch for the Passions: Jealousy

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 10 1/8 inches (35.5 x 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

53. View Near the City of Tientsin

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 14 5/16 inches (22.9 x 36.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. The Passing of 1880

Creator:: Thomas Danby, 1818–1886
Date:: ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping out on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19in. (31.4 x 48.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. One of the Embassy Yachts

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: ca. 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 8 inches (25.1 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Dumbarton Rock and Castle

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and scraping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, pasted on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 13/16 x 11 3/4 inches (22.4 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. 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.

58. A Trading Brig Preparing to Set Sail on the Thames, Warships Running Down the Estuary Beyond

Creator:: Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808
Date:: between 1787 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 1/4 inches (23.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

59. The Calm

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/16 x 9 5/8 inches (10.3 x 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles Nagel Jr., BA 1923, BFA 1926, MFA 1928

60. The Futtock Shrouds

Creator:: Print made by Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, 1873–1943
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 11/16 x 7 15/16 inches (29.7 x 20.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Harold Hugo, Hon. M.A. 1963

61. Evening Calm

Creator:: Print made by Charles William Cain, 1893–1962
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 15 5/16 inches (25 x 38.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

62. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: after 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 21 7/8 inches (38.6 x 55.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

63. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: after 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 22 1/16 inches (38.3 x 56.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

64. View of a Sea Port

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 3/4 inches (27.6 x 42.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer

65. An Essex Farm

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 13 7/16 inches (21.5 x 34.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

66. Shortened Canvas

Creator:: Print made by Charles William Cain, 1893–1962
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 9/16 inches (25.1 x 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

67. Before the Breeze

Creator:: Print made by Charles William Cain, 1893–1962
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches (25.1 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

68. The Hindostan at Anchor in the Strait of Mi-a-tau of the City of Ten-choo-fou at the Entrance to the Gulf of Pekin

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 15 1/16 inches (20.6 x 38.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Left Bank, Meuse

Creator:: Print made by George Arnald, 1763–1841
Date:: between 1818 and 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (22.2 × 28.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

70. Marine Study No. 3

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 9/16 x 14 1/16 inches (31.9 x 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Marine Study No. 1

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 13 7/8 inches (31.2 x 35.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Marine Study No. 4

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (31.4 x 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Coastal Scene

Creator:: Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/16 x 16 9/16 inches (28.8 x 42.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

74. Left Bank, Meuse

Creator:: Print made by George Arnald, 1763–1841
Date:: between 1818 and 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 10 7/8 inches (21.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

75. Left Bank, Meuse

Creator:: Print made by George Arnald, 1763–1841
Date:: between 1818 and 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/8 inches (22.2 × 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

76. Left Bank, Meuse

Creator:: Print made by George Arnald, 1763–1841
Date:: between 1818 and 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 11 5/8 inches (23 × 29.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

77. Study for Fishermen and Bathers

Creator:: Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977
Date:: ca. 1951
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, watercolor and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 7 9/16 inches (15.9 x 19.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942

78. Barges of the Embassy Being Raised from One Canal to Another on Their Way from Han-Tcheou-Foo to Tchu-San, 16 November 1793

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 14 5/8 inches (26.5 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The Traveling Barge

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (36.8 × 47 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. The Fire in H.M. Dockyard at Devonport on the Morning of the 27th of September 1840

Creator:: Print made by William Clerk, ? 19th c.
Date:: after 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 18 3/4 inches (38.6 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 18 9/16 inches (31.1 x 47.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Verona, Hay Barge on the Medway, and a Calvary (three prints)

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: after 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Transfer lithograph on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches (26.4 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Marine Study No. 2

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 14 inches (31.8 x 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Morning

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 7/8 inches (38.1 x 55.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Night and a Ship on Fire

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 7/16 inches (37.9 x 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Noon

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 21 1/4 inches (38.3 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (30.2 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Sun Under a Cloud

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 21 9/16 inches (38.3 x 54.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Shipwreck

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Evening

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 1/4 inches (37.9 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. View with several Vessels lying close to the Shore

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 16 15/16 inches (28.1 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer

92. Presages of the Millenium

Creator:: James Gillray, 1756–1815
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 14 13/16 inches (33 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Penzance, Cornwall

Creator:: Print made by James C. Allen, active 1821–1831
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Plate: 5 11/16 x 9 inches (14.5 x 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Tellicherry

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: 18 x 23 1/2in. (45.7 x 59.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Fort St. George

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: 18 1/8 × 23 3/4 inches (46 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Lac de Killin

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 13 1/16 inches (25.5 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. The South View of Berwick Upon Tweed

Creator:: Samuel Buck, 1696–1779
Date:: ca. 1743-1745
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 31 7/8 inches (31.1 x 81 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

98. Yarmouth, Norfolk

Creator:: Edward Francis Finden, 1791–1857
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.3 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

Creator:: John William Edy, 1760–1820
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 11/16 inches (35.9 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Northumberland

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Comte, 1760–1851
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (15.5 x 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Launch of "La Sorciére" on the Lake of Geneva

2. Greenland Fishery

3. A Small Breeze

4. Morning

5. Evening

6. Noon

7. Night

8. A Calm

9. The Taking of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

10. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

11. Windsor Bridge

12. Sea-Faring Men

13. Ships and Hulks Moored in an Estuary

14. The Ranger, Private Ship of War, with her Prizes

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

16. Somerset House, London

17. The Pilot

18. The Wheel

19. Brightlingsea Hard, Landing Oysters

20. Somerset House

21. The Main Tack

22. Securing the Boats

23. In the Tropics

24. Notre Dame

25. Aloft

26. Dutch Shipping

27. Figure Study for the Painting of the Victory of Lord Duncan: Study for Sailor Bearing the Dutch Flag

28. An East Indiaman Moored, Small Boats Alongside, Other Boats Further Off

29. A Harbour; Breakwater Left, Small Boats Moored Alongside a Quay with Figures Right

30. Shipping Off the Coast

31. Boats on a Calm Sea

32. Harbour Scene

33. Black Lion Wharf

34. Mr. B seeking the Bubble reputation - Plate 5

35. Men-of-War and other Shipping on the Thames (most probably at Deptford)

36. Visitors' Boat

37. Tilbury

38. A View of the Mole and the New Castle at Naples

39. The Palace of Mont Alto at Naples

40. Moonlight

41. Bunting

42. A View of Part of the Royal Gardens at Naples Towards the Sea

43. Finding things not exactly what he expected - Plate 2

44. Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

45. Mr. B. on the Middle Watch--"Cold blows the wind & rain's coming on's - Plate 3

46. Fishing Boats at Hastings

47. Barges Heading out to Sea

48. Warships Passing in the Channel

49. Folkestone

50. Fort Opposite the Factory, Canton

51. Fisherpeople on a Junk

52. Sketch for the Passions: Jealousy

53. View Near the City of Tientsin

54. The Passing of 1880

55. One of the Embassy Yachts

56. Dumbarton Rock and Castle

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

58. A Trading Brig Preparing to Set Sail on the Thames, Warships Running Down the Estuary Beyond

59. The Calm

60. The Futtock Shrouds

61. Evening Calm

62. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

63. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

64. View of a Sea Port

65. An Essex Farm

66. Shortened Canvas

67. Before the Breeze

68. The Hindostan at Anchor in the Strait of Mi-a-tau of the City of Ten-choo-fou at the Entrance to the Gulf of Pekin

69. Left Bank, Meuse

70. Marine Study No. 3

71. Marine Study No. 1

72. Marine Study No. 4

73. Coastal Scene

74. Left Bank, Meuse