Period: 18th century / Genre: landscape / Subject Terms: science

1. Otley Bridge on the River Wharfe

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 15/16 x 43 15/16 inches (60.8 x 111.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance

Creator:: Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782
Date:: between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches (44.5 x 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Colgon Rocks

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 72 inches (127 × 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Corfe Castle, Dorset

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/8 x 18 inches (33.3 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Vesuvius from Posillipo

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 25 × 33 inches (63.5 × 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, ca. 1712–1782
Date:: 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Rainbow

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: 1784
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: between 1760 and 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 7/8 × 38 1/4 inches (73.3 × 97.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Chepstow Castle

Creator:: Hendrik Frans de Cort, 1742–1810
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 33 inches (67.3 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire

Creator:: Balthazar Nebot, active 1730–1762
Date:: between 1750 and 1762
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 44 inches (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Landscape with Waterfall

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 3/8 inches (27.6 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil and the Cascades

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1794–97
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches (41.9 x 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1751
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (12.4 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Isle of Nisida

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 9 3/4 inches (12.7 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 1/2 inches (15.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Engraved by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

17. Niobe

Creator:: Figures engraved by William Sharp, 1749–1824
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

Creator:: Edward Fisher, 1722–1785
Date:: 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (50.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Fields in Foreground, Town and Volcanic Mountains

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper laid down on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 22 1/4 inches (35.6 × 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Celadon and Amelia

Creator:: Print made by William Woollett, 1735–1785
Date:: 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (46 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 15/16 x 12 9/16 inches (22.7 x 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: between 1772 and 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (27.3 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 21 3/8 inches (38.1 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 inches (31.1 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Fishing near a Waterfall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 7 5/16 inches (16.2 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

27. On the Banks of the Lago di Como

Creator:: Monro School
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (35.9 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Ascent of Vesuvius

Creator:: Henry Tresham, 1751–1814
Date:: 1785 to 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/8 x 27 5/8 inches (44.8 x 70.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. In the Via Mala, Between Coire and Splugen

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 5/8 inches (38.1 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Near Chiavenna

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gray wash and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 9 1/2in. (38.1 x 24.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. View of the Rhydaer

Creator:: Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (29.8 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches (14 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

Creator:: John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:: ca. 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 32 inches (52.1 x 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, laid down on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with drawn border
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 25 1/8 inches (41.3 × 63.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

35. The Falls of the Reichenbach

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash and green wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (24.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. A Waterfall

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (22.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Waterfall at Terni

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Otley Bridge on the River Wharfe

2. Lago d'Agnano with Vesuvius in the distance

3. Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Colgon Rocks

4. Corfe Castle, Dorset

5. Vesuvius from Posillipo

6. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

7. The Rainbow

8. Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland

9. Chepstow Castle

10. Aysgarth Falls, Yorkshire

11. Landscape with Waterfall

12. Tivoli with the Temple of the Sybil and the Cascades

13. Lord Hopetoun's Lead Mines

14. Isle of Nisida

15. Part of Mt. Vesuvius from the Loggia at the Villa, Portici, August 22

16. Celadon and Amelia

17. Niobe

18. Admiral Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel

19. Views in the Levant: Landscape with Fields in Foreground, Town and Volcanic Mountains

20. Celadon and Amelia

21. A View of the Salfatara, a Remarkable Mountain Near Naples

22. View from Skiddaw over Derwentwater

23. Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls

24. Landscape with Rainbow, View near Chesterfield

25. Rochester, Kent: from the North

26. Fishing near a Waterfall

27. On the Banks of the Lago di Como

28. The Ascent of Vesuvius

29. In the Via Mala, Between Coire and Splugen

30. Near Chiavenna

31. View of the Rhydaer

32. Craig y Ladron - The Thieves Precipice

33. A View of Tivoli Looking Towards Rome

34. A View of the Valley of Stones, Devon, with a scene in the Tempest, Act 1

35. The Falls of the Reichenbach

36. A Waterfall

37. Waterfall at Terni