Period: 19th century / Genre: landscape / Subject Terms: waves (natural events)

1. Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1833 and 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 5/8 x 47 9/16 inches (90.5 x 120.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. Sunset at Sea after a Storm

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on pressed card
Dimensions:: 4 1/2 x 7 inches (11.4 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1840 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 25 inches (44.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Off the Nore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1840 and 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. The Rock of Salvation

Creator:: Samuel Colman, 1780–1845
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches (61.3 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

6. Beach Scene

Creator:: Philip Wilson Steer, 1860–1942
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (21 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

7. Madras, or Fort St. George, in the Bay of Bengal -- A Squall Passing Off

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 42 inches (68.6 x 106.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Study of Waves

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray and brown washes with white gouache over graphite on thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 7/8 inches (14.8 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Page from a Cornish Sketchbook: Cornwall 30

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and graphite on medium, smooth, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 7 inches (10.6 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Lake of Thun, Switzerland

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink Engraver's proof (a) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 inches (20 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Coast of Yorkshire

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 17 1/8 inches (28.9 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Abu Seer

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 6 5/16 inches (8.6 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

13. Coast Scene with Figures

Creator:: Robert Brandard, 1805–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 12 5/8 inches (15.2 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. A Stiff Breeze

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and gouache, with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 12 inches (18.4 × 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Beach at Culbone, Somerset

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches (8.5 x 15.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A Tropical Coast, Sunset

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1840 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and brown ink over graphite with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (15.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Harbor

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 9 1/4in. (14.6 x 23.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Folkestone

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black and white chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (12.1 x 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Walenstadt, from Weesen, Switzerland

Creator:: William Callow, 1812–1908
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink, graphite, gouache and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 9/16 x 25 7/16 inches (44.6 x 64.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Clovelly, North Devon

Creator:: William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite with scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 29 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches (74.3 x 113 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Harbour Scene with Town

Creator:: Print made by Charles Golding Constable, 1821–1879
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 x 7 3/8 inches (13.8 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor Giles Constable

22. Harbour Scene with Town

Creator:: Print made by Charles Golding Constable, 1821–1879
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 8 11/16 inches (15 x 22 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Professor Giles Constable

23. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; open etching on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 × 11 inches (42.5 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Fingal's Cave Staffa

Creator:: Print made by William Forrest, 1802–1889
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Royal Crescent, County Hospital, St. George's Chapel, Kemp Town

Creator:: Print made by Day & Co., 1824–1913
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with hand coloring on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 20 15/16 inches (35.5 x 53.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Shipping off Staffa

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, gray ink, black ink, gouache, gum, and graphite, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 3/8 inches (31.1 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Warren near Exmouth, Devon: Steep Cliffs Rising at Right, Sea and Rocky Shore at Left

Creator:: John White Abbott, 1763–1851
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen and gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (18.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Lizard Light-House Cornwall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (16.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Southwold Suffolk

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (16.5 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Rope Bridge, near the Light House, Holyhead

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and scraping out on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (16.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. View of the Entrance to Fishguard, from Goodwych Sands

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (16.2 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Lands-end, Cornwall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and scraping on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (16.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Near Combmartin, on the Coast of North Devon

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (16.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Entrance to Portreath, Cornwall

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (16.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Coast Scene

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Folds

36. Landscape with Man on Beach

Creator:: Attributed to William Collins, 1788–1847
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/8 × 2 7/8 inches (6.7 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Hell Bay, Bryher, Scilly

Creator:: Francis Frith & Co., 1859–1971
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Platinum print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 3/8 inches (19.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

38. Lydstep, Pembrokeshire

Creator:: Francis Frith & Co., 1859–1971
Date:: 1890
Materials & Techniques:: Platinum print on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 3/8 inches (19.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

39. A Salmon River, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1884
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 11/16 x 11 1/8 inches (19.5 x 28.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stanley J. Halle, Yale BA 1912, in memory of His Parents Jacques S. and Hattie S. Halle, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

40. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving; early engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (34.9 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Fingal's Cave, Staffa - from XLVII 'Scott's Poetical Works'

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 6 7/8 inches (25.4 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Penzance, Cornwall

Creator:: Print made by James C. Allen, active 1821–1831
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Plate: 5 11/16 x 9 inches (14.5 x 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, second state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (36.8 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Bending Pillars at Staffa (from Smith's Geography)

Creator:: Alfred William Warren, active 1791–1809
Date:: 1810
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Northumberland

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Comte, 1760–1851
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (15.5 x 24.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

2. Sunset at Sea after a Storm

3. Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore

4. Off the Nore

5. The Rock of Salvation

6. Beach Scene

7. Madras, or Fort St. George, in the Bay of Bengal -- A Squall Passing Off

8. Study of Waves

9. A Page from a Cornish Sketchbook: Cornwall 30

10. Lake of Thun, Switzerland

11. Coast of Yorkshire

12. Abu Seer

13. Coast Scene with Figures

14. A Stiff Breeze

15. The Beach at Culbone, Somerset

16. A Tropical Coast, Sunset

17. Harbor

18. Folkestone

19. Walenstadt, from Weesen, Switzerland

20. Clovelly, North Devon

21. Harbour Scene with Town

22. Harbour Scene with Town

23. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

24. Fingal's Cave Staffa

25. Royal Crescent, County Hospital, St. George's Chapel, Kemp Town

26. Shipping off Staffa

27. The Warren near Exmouth, Devon: Steep Cliffs Rising at Right, Sea and Rocky Shore at Left

28. The Lizard Light-House Cornwall

29. Southwold Suffolk

30. The Rope Bridge, near the Light House, Holyhead

31. View of the Entrance to Fishguard, from Goodwych Sands

32. The Lands-end, Cornwall

33. Near Combmartin, on the Coast of North Devon

34. The Entrance to Portreath, Cornwall

35. Coast Scene

36. Landscape with Man on Beach

37. Hell Bay, Bryher, Scilly

38. Lydstep, Pembrokeshire

39. A Salmon River, no. 2

40. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

41. Fingal's Cave, Staffa - from XLVII 'Scott's Poetical Works'

42. Penzance, Cornwall

43. Fingal's Cave, Staffa

44. The Bending Pillars at Staffa (from Smith's Geography)

45. Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Northumberland