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The Blinding of Elymas
Creator:
Sir James Thornhill, 1675–1734
Date:
between 1709 and 1717
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk and gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (20.6 x 14.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sion House
Creator:
Samuel Wale, 1721–1786
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches (8.9 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An Underground Shrine with Two Figures Kneeling before a Pieta
Creator:
Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches (16.5 x 14.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The River Avon: with Passing Vessels
Creator:
Nicholas Pocock, 1740–1821
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/8 × 22 1/8 inches (41.6 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Design for Court of Edinburgh University
Creator:
Robert Morrison, active ca. 1791
Date:
1779
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, with pen in black ink, gray ink, and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 22 3/4 inches (43.2 x 57.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
A London Riot
Creator:
Charles Reuben Ryley, 1752–1798
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink and wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 13/16 × 12 inches (12.2 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
The Claudian Aquaduct, Rome
Creator:
Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 18 1/2 inches (32.1 x 47 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Ambleside

Ambleside
Creator:
Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on medium slightly textured cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (23.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Modern Bridge at Narni
Creator:
Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (21 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wooded Landscape with Figures outside a Cottage Door
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1775 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash with pen and gray ink, heightened with white on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (23.8 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wooded Landscape with Figures, Donkeys and Cottage
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
ca. 1767
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and pen with brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches (18.7 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Open Landscape with Horsemen and Covered Cart
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1780 and 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Gray and black wash, with traces of black and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 inches (27.3 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Coastal Scene with Figures and Boats
Creator:
imitator of Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, black ink, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 7/8 x 14 1/4 inches (27.6 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Kennington Common
Creator:
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with gray ink and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (33.7 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Georgian Mansion, front and side elevations
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 30 13/16 inches (40 x 78.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The 'Royal' Coach Outside the White Lion Inn
Creator:
William Evans of Bristol, 1809–1858
Date:
ca. 1845
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 13 1/16 × 17 3/8 inches (33.2 × 44.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Grange at the Head of Keswick Lake
Creator:
Francis Towne, 1740–1816
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches (9.5 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Haymaking

Haymaking
Creator:
Heinrich W. Schweickhardt, 1746–1797
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, gray ink, and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 12 9/16 inches (17.8 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Glasgow Cathedral
Creator:
Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:
between 1794 and 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen in brown and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 9/16 inches (21.9 x 16.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Two-Decker Running up the Estuary with Figures on the Beach in the Foreground
Creator:
William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 15 3/4 inches (29.8 × 40 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
Near Chiavenna in the Grisons
Creator:
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
ca. 1779
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, black ink, graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches (42.5 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Classical Landscape with Two Figures on Horseback at Right
Creator:
Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:
between 1745 and 1748
Materials & Techniques:
Brown and gray wash with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, prepared with yellow wash
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (13.7 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Two Men Walking in a Landscape
Creator:
Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite, brown wash, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 16 3/8 inches (27.8 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe
Three Figures in a Landscape
Creator:
Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:
1766
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash, graphite, pen and black ink and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 × 17 7/16 inches (30.5 × 44.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

27. The Tank

The Tank
Creator:
Robert Mabon, died 1798
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper joined to cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 13 7/8 inches (8.3 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
North Parade, Bath
Creator:
Humphry Repton, 1752–1818
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/16 x 15 1/4in. (25.9 x 38.7cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View at Valmontone. November 1790
Creator:
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 1758–1838
Date:
1790
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, pen and brown ink, and brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 x 22 5/16 inches (41.3 x 56.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection