Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Europe / Subject Terms: ships

1. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

Creator:: Isaac Sailmaker, ca. 1633–1721
Date:: between 1707 and 1708
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 × 30 1/4 inches (51.8 × 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

Creator:: Thomas Mellish, ca.1748–1782
Date:: between 1761 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches (46 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Hussars Embarking at Deptford

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

Creator:: Jan Griffier the Elder, ca. 1645–1718
Date:: Between 1700-1710
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (45.1 x 83.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 × 33 7/8 inches (55.2 × 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 71 inches (101.6 x 180.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Shipping off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Battle of La Hogue

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1778, retouched 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 64 3/4 x 96 1/4 inches (164.5 x 244.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

11. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 43 5/8 x 56 x 3 inches (110.8 x 142.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Shipping in the English Channel

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Hurries: Coal Boats Loading, Whitehaven

Creator:: attributed to Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 14 inches (21.9 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. 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

15. 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

16. The Return of the Fleet to Great Yarmouth in 1797

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 17 inches (27.3 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Ship in Distress

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 7/8 x 21 13/16 inches (37.8 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. From Sir W. Hamilton's Villa, Portici, August 12

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches (15.9 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Salerno, September 18

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (23.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Sirolo

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (14 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Monaco

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches (13.7 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Castello di Portofino

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches (14.6 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Monaco

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (13.3 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Coast Towards Amalfi from Vietri, September 19

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (17.5 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Baia, Italy

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (11.4 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Perspective View of the Town and Fortifications of Malta

Creator:: Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Date:: between 1780 and 1815
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

27. The City of Lisbon as before the dreadful Earthquake of November 1st 1755;...

Creator:: Print made by John Couse, active 1753–1764
Date:: between 1780 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 10 1/4 × 15 3/4 inches (26 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. A Perspective View of Venice

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Date:: between 1780 and 1815
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

29. A Perspective View of the City of Naples

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bowles III, ca. 1712–1767
Date:: undated
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

30. Fairburn's Plan of the Proposed Wet-Docks and Cut, from New Gravel Lane to Blackwall

Creator:: Print made by John Fairburn, active 19th century
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 16 inches (26.3 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Pile Driving on the Banks of the Thames

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/8 x 26 1/8 inches (49.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Lorch on the Rhine

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: between 1790 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 21 3/8 inches (19.4 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Konigstein

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches (26.4 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. West Cowes, Isle of Wight

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash and pen brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches (14.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Miss Elizabeth Manwaring

35. 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

36. Conway Castle

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 7/8 x 25 3/8 inches (47.9 x 64.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. View from Ashton Meadows, Bristol

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink; verso: graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid 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

38. Eastbourne from Lord G.: Cavendish's Seat in the Park

Creator:: John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 1/2 inches (13.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Hulks in the Medway

Creator:: Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 12 1/4 inches (15.2 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. 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

41. A Naval Squadron Lying at Spithead

Creator:: Francis Swaine, 1730–1782
Date:: between 1745 and 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 21 inches (35.6 x 53.3 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

42. Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth, Devon

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 12 13/16 inches (19.4 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

Creator:: Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (29.2 x 41.9 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

44. Embarkation at Southampton, June 20th 1794

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown, gray, and red-brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 9/16 x 14 inches (16.7 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (14 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Deptford Dockyard, Kent

Creator:: John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (14 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Fano on the Adriatic

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: between 1782 and 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (16.5 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Genoa

Creator:: John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:: between 1782 and 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (13 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

2. Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor

3. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

4. Rochester

5. Hussars Embarking at Deptford

6. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

7. The Port of London

8. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre

9. Shipping off Dover

10. The Battle of La Hogue

11. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

12. Shipping in the English Channel

13. The Hurries: Coal Boats Loading, Whitehaven

14. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

15. The Wreck of the Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

16. The Return of the Fleet to Great Yarmouth in 1797

17. A Ship in Distress

18. From Sir W. Hamilton's Villa, Portici, August 12

19. Salerno, September 18

20. Sirolo

21. Monaco

22. Castello di Portofino

23. Monaco

24. The Coast Towards Amalfi from Vietri, September 19

25. Baia, Italy

26. A Perspective View of the Town and Fortifications of Malta

27. The City of Lisbon as before the dreadful Earthquake of November 1st 1755;...

28. A Perspective View of Venice

29. A Perspective View of the City of Naples

30. Fairburn's Plan of the Proposed Wet-Docks and Cut, from New Gravel Lane to Blackwall

31. Pile Driving on the Banks of the Thames

32. Lorch on the Rhine

33. Konigstein

34. West Cowes, Isle of Wight

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

36. Conway Castle

37. View from Ashton Meadows, Bristol

38. Eastbourne from Lord G.: Cavendish's Seat in the Park

39. Hulks in the Medway

40. Rochester, Kent: from the North

41. A Naval Squadron Lying at Spithead

42. Kingswear Seen from Dartmouth, Devon

43. An Admiralty Yacht Running Inshore at Tenby

44. Embarkation at Southampton, June 20th 1794

45. Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

46. Deptford Dockyard, Kent

47. Fano on the Adriatic

48. Genoa