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

1. Ruins of Richbro' Castle, Isle of Thanet

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches (24.4 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Gundulf's Tower, Rochester Cathedral, Kent

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 7 1/4 inches (25.4 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Leiston Abbey, Suffolk

Creator:: Isaac Johnson, 1754–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 11/16 x 8 11/16in. (17 x 22.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Raglan Castle

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 17 7/8 inches (28.3 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Linlithgow Palace

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 7 3/16 inches (13.1 x 18.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Brougham Castle

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, wash, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 13 1/4 inches (22.2 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Maxstoke Priory, Warwickshire

Creator:: John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 9 1/8 inches (14.9 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. View at Harrow: with farm-worker, cart and ruined barn

Creator:: Amelia Long, 1762–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 7/8 inches (15.6 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Romantic Composition

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 15 1/2 inches (20.3 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. Inside View of Tintern Abbey looking from the Nave to the East Window

Creator:: Thomas Sunderland, 1744–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 10 5/8 inches (38.1 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Landscape in Wales with Mountains, Lake, Castle and Two Figures in the Foreground

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 18 1/4 inches (17.8 × 46.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Maxstoke Priory

Creator:: Heneage Finch fourth Earl of Aylesford, 1751–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 13 3/4 inches (36.6 x 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Malmesbury Abbey

Creator:: attributed to Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 12 1/2 inches (15.6 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Dudley Castle

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink and wash over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 x 16 13/16 inches (14.8 x 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Keep, Porchester Castle

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (14 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 9 inches (14.9 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Knaresborough Castle

Creator:: William Alexander, 1767–1816
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 9 5/8 inches (34.3 × 24.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. A Castle Tower, Caernarvon Castle

Creator:: imitator of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 7 3/4 inches (27.9 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. West Front of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: imitator of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches (21.3 x 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk

Creator:: follower of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Caister Castle, Norfolk

Creator:: follower of John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (26.4 x 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire

Creator:: Rev. William Gilpin, 1724–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and orange wash over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper prepared with orange wash, mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with wash line border
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 3/4 x 17 13/16 inches (37.4 x 45.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Furness Abbey

Creator:: George Heriot, 1766–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, black wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 × 19 5/8 inches (33.5 × 49.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

25. Penvensay Castle

Creator:: Rev. William Warren Porter, 1776–1804
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, 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, Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W Gift of Edward Porter Street, Jr., Yale BE 1945W

26. Pont Newydd near Dolgelly

Creator:: Amos Green, 1735–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 15 3/8in. (24.8 x 39.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Tarbert Castle

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 17 1/4 inches (30.5 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Stonehenge

Creator:: Peter DeWint, 1784–1849
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 12 1/2 inches (20.6 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Renée and Geoffrey Hartman, Yale PhD 1953

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1. Ruins of Richbro' Castle, Isle of Thanet

2. Gundulf's Tower, Rochester Cathedral, Kent

3. Leiston Abbey, Suffolk

4. Raglan Castle

5. Linlithgow Palace

6. Brougham Castle

7. Maxstoke Priory, Warwickshire

8. View at Harrow: with farm-worker, cart and ruined barn

9. Romantic Composition

10. Beach Scene

11. Inside View of Tintern Abbey looking from the Nave to the East Window

12. Landscape in Wales with Mountains, Lake, Castle and Two Figures in the Foreground

13. Maxstoke Priory

14. Malmesbury Abbey

15. Dudley Castle

16. The Keep, Porchester Castle

17. Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire

18. Knaresborough Castle

19. A Castle Tower, Caernarvon Castle

20. West Front of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

21. Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk

22. Caister Castle, Norfolk

23. Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire

24. Furness Abbey

25. Penvensay Castle

26. Pont Newydd near Dolgelly

27. Tarbert Castle

28. Stonehenge