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An English Two-Decker Lying Hove to, with Other Ships and Vessels in a Fresh Breeze
Creator:
Dominic Serres, 1722–1793
Date:
1770
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
16 x 25 inches (40.6 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Shipping in a Choppy Sea
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
1753
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
55 x 45 1/2 inches (139.7 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Westminster from Lambeth, with the Ceremonial Barge of the Ironmongers' Company
Creator:
Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:
ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
31 1/4 x 59 1/4 inches (79.4 x 150.5 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
English Ships Running before a Gale
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
before 1759
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Landscape with cottage and church
Creator:
Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:
between 1771 and 1772
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas with some black chalk
Dimensions:
16 1/4 x 19 7/16 inches (41.3 x 49.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
A Cutter in a Strong Breeze
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on copper
Dimensions:
7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
An English Flagship Under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze
Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (36.8 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia
Creator:
Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764
Date:
ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
Gentlemen Fishing
Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on slate
Dimensions:
12 1/8 x 17 inches (30.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 21, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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

12. Evening

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
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
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
A Strong Gale or Squall
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
Fresh Gale
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
A Ship in Distress. Design'd to represent the loss of the Victory by a violent Storm near the Race of Alderney in the Year 1744. Sr. John Balchen the Admiral, & upwards of 1000 Men were on board & unhappily perish'd in the Waves
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
Storm, Representing that Violent one, which drove his Majesty King George I into Rye
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

19. Shipwrack

Shipwrack
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
Bathing Machine on the Common, near Southsea Castle
Creator:
John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Date:
1788
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches (12.1 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An English Frigate and Other Shipping in the Solent off Calshot Castle
Creator:
John Cleveley the younger, 1747–1786
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 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
The Val d'Aosta, Piedmont
Creator:
John Warwick Smith, 1749–1831
Date:
1784
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 3/8 x 28 inches (49.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hermes Leading Persephone out of the Underworld
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/8 × 17 inches (35.9 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Deane Keller, B.A. 1923
Drawing for the Frontispiece of Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"
Creator:
Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, 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, Gift of Lowell Libson
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

26. Hebe

Hebe
Creator:
Print made by Johann Jacobé, 1733–1797
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 28 × 21 1/4 inches (71.1 × 54 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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
Bath: The North Parade
Creator:
Print made by John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, hand colored with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 14 13/16 inches (27.5 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Strong Gale or Squall
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: 12 1/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.8 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Shipwreck

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
Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked
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 1/8 x 16 15/16 inches (28.2 x 43 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer
Ships in Distress
Creator:
Richard Bernard Godfrey, 1728–op.1794
Date:
1796
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 1/8 x 16 11/16 inches (30.8 x 42.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection