Period: 18th century-19th century / Associated Places: United Kingdom / Subject Terms: marine art

1. Figures on Margate Beach

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (14 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. On the Thames

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches (34 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Old Tower, Leith

Creator:: Print made by John Clerk of Eldin, 1728–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with pen and brown ink and gray wash on moderately thick, textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 1/8 inches (6.4 × 10.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. The Needles, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Frederick Calvert, ca. 1785–ca. 1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 8 1/8in. (13 x 20.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Ryde, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Frederick Calvert, ca. 1785–ca. 1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (13.3 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Culver Cliff, Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Frederick Calvert, ca. 1785–ca. 1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 x 8in. (12.7 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Beach Scene

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 inches (19.7 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. A. Marlow Lock; B. Figures on a Barge, Possibly a Sketch Relating to This Drawing of Marlow Lock

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 4 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (12.1 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Carnarvon Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (15.9 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Hulks at Plymouth

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (26 × 38.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Westminster Bridge and the Royal Barge (The Royal Barge and Westminster)

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (10.5 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. View of Sheerness

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 12 inches (16.2 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Torquay

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and gray ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 inches (10.6 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Men of War Lying off Sheerness

Creator:: John Harris, 1770–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 21 1/4 inches (41.3 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Beach at Charmouth

Creator:: John Baverstock Knight, 1785–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 7/8 inches (31.8 × 50.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Fisherman's Quarters, Robin Hood's Bay

Creator:: Joseph Powell, 1780–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 11 1/4 inches (20.3 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Bathing Houses at Margate

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 7/8 inches (19.7 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery

18. View of Portsmouth Harbor with Shipping, Showing Buildings on Shore

Creator:: George Bulteel Fisher, 1764–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink, and blue wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 13 7/8 inches (21.9 × 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Bolt Head, West North West (one of five drawings on one mount)

Creator:: John Thomas Serres, 1759–1825
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (7.9 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Needles from Alum Bay

Creator:: George Barret Jr., 1767–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 12 inches (14 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Island of Portland

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 4 3/8 inches (7.6 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Mill on the Tavy

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 5/8 inches (29.5 × 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The City and St. Paul's from the South Bank

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (11.7 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Staithes, Yorkshire

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 12 7/16in. (23.2 x 31.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 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

26. On the Wye

Creator:: Rev. William Warren Porter, 1776–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (23.2 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W

27. A View at Blackwall

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 5/8 x 10 inches (19.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

Creator:: Attributed to Luke Clennell, 1781–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Ships of the Line off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Atkins, active 1787–1808
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 5/8 inches (11.7 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Blockade Station, Rye

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (16.5 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. A Thames Barge

Creator:: James Stark, 1794–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 6 1/16 inches (8.6 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Dover

Creator:: James Stark, 1794–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 1/8 inches (17.1 × 25.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Shipbuilding on the Yorkshire Coast

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (24.1 x 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

Creator:: George Cuitt, 1743–1818
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and scratching out on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 16 13/16 inches (33.3 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Barmouth Estuary with Cader Idris, North Wales

Creator:: attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 12 inches (15.9 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Fishing Vessel off Yarmouth

Creator:: circle of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Black and red and white chalk on medium moderately textured gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 inches (15.6 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Shipping on the Medway, Kent

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown ink, and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 13 3/4 inches (18.1 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Figures on Margate Beach

2. On the Thames

3. Old Tower, Leith

4. The Needles, Isle of Wight

5. Ryde, Isle of Wight

6. Culver Cliff, Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight

7. Beach Scene

8. A. Marlow Lock; B. Figures on a Barge, Possibly a Sketch Relating to This Drawing of Marlow Lock

9. Carnarvon Castle

10. Hulks at Plymouth

11. Westminster Bridge and the Royal Barge (The Royal Barge and Westminster)

12. View of Sheerness

13. Torquay

14. Men of War Lying off Sheerness

15. The Beach at Charmouth

16. Fisherman's Quarters, Robin Hood's Bay

17. Bathing Houses at Margate

18. View of Portsmouth Harbor with Shipping, Showing Buildings on Shore

19. The Bolt Head, West North West (one of five drawings on one mount)

20. The Needles from Alum Bay

21. The Island of Portland

22. Mill on the Tavy

23. The City and St. Paul's from the South Bank

24. Staithes, Yorkshire

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

26. On the Wye

27. A View at Blackwall

28. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

29. Ships of the Line off Dover

30. The Blockade Station, Rye

31. A Thames Barge

32. Dover

33. Shipbuilding on the Yorkshire Coast

34. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

35. Barmouth Estuary with Cader Idris, North Wales

36. Fishing Vessel off Yarmouth

37. Shipping on the Medway, Kent