Genre: architectural subject / Associated Places: Europe / Subject Terms: abbey

1. St. Mary's Abbey, York

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Tintern Abbey

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches (26.4 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Ruins of Leiston Abbey

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 9 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches (24.8 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Westminster from Lambeth

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 7 1/4 inches (13.7 × 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Graville

Creator:: Print made by Robert Brandard, 1805–1862
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on moderately tick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Abbazia, Venice

Creator:: Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1900
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 9 3/4 inches (35.9 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

7. Montivilliers

Creator:: Sir David Young Cameron, 1865–1945
Date:: 1903
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (23.5 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

8. Abbey Church at St. Albans

Creator:: Sir George Howland Beaumont seventh Baronet, 1753–1827
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 5/8 inches (17.1 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 × 20 5/8 inches (37.1 × 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
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: 9 1/8 × 12 5/8 inches (23.2 × 32.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Netley Abbey

Creator:: Patrick Nasmyth, 1787–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 x 10 13/16in. (17.9 x 27.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Gateway to Battle Abbey

Creator:: Henry Morton, ca. 1807–1825
Date:: after 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 11 7/16 inches (20.8 × 29.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Askeaton Abbey near Limerick, Ireland on the River Deel

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 7 1/4 inches (13.2 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Kirkstall Abbey from the N.W.

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 3/4 inches (16.8 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 5 inches (34.9 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen

Creator:: imitator of Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (21 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. 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

18. Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite and pen and black ink on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (16.8 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. 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

21. Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 5/8 inches (26.7 x 39.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Waltham Abbey, Essex

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 8 3/8 inches (13.7 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. St. Alban's Abbey

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 3/8 inches (26.4 × 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. St. Alban's Abbey

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 inches (25.1 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Clock Tower, St. Alban's Abbey

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (26.4 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. St. Alban's Abbey

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 13 5/8 inches (22.9 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Projected Design for Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire

Creator:: James Wyatt, 1746–1813
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 28 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 2 inches (72.4 x 110.5 x 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Graville

Creator:: Print made by Robert Brandard, 1805–1862
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 16 inches (27.9 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Interior View of Rufford Hall, Lancashire, belonging to Sir Thomas Hesketh Bart.

Creator:: John Buckler FSA, 1770–1851
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 inches (50.2 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Graville

Creator:: Print made by Robert Brandard, 1805–1862
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 7/8 inches (28.9 × 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Tithe Barn at Abbotsbury with the Abbey on the hill...

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (10.5 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Westminster

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 7/8 inches (12.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 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

34. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (24.8 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (14.6 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Melrose Abbey, Scotland

Creator:: James Moore, 1762–1799
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 inches (18.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Sawley Abbey

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1873
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/4 inches (31 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

38. Transept of Melrose Abbey, 1778 Near Old Melrose on the River Tweed, Roxburgh

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 13 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (34.6 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Abbey St-Amand, Rouen

Creator:: Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 inches (19.1 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Newstead Abbey, The Seat of the Late Lord Byron

Creator:: Louis Haghe, 1806–1885
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 15/16 inches (22.9 x 32.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Newbattle Abbey, Scotland

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on smooth, medium, white laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 7/8 inches (22.9 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. St. Mary's Abbey, York

2. Tintern Abbey

3. The Ruins of Leiston Abbey

4. Westminster from Lambeth

5. Graville

6. The Abbazia, Venice

7. Montivilliers

8. Abbey Church at St. Albans

9. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

10. Ambulatory, Westminster Abbey

11. Netley Abbey

12. Gateway to Battle Abbey

13. Askeaton Abbey near Limerick, Ireland on the River Deel

14. Kirkstall Abbey from the N.W.

15. Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

16. Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen

17. The Keep, Porchester Castle

18. Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire

19. Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire

20. Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire

21. Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire

22. Waltham Abbey, Essex

23. St. Alban's Abbey

24. St. Alban's Abbey

25. Clock Tower, St. Alban's Abbey

26. St. Alban's Abbey

27. Projected Design for Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire

28. Graville

29. Interior View of Rufford Hall, Lancashire, belonging to Sir Thomas Hesketh Bart.

30. Graville

31. The Tithe Barn at Abbotsbury with the Abbey on the hill...

32. Westminster

33. West Front of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

34. Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire

35. Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

36. Melrose Abbey, Scotland

37. Sawley Abbey

38. Transept of Melrose Abbey, 1778 Near Old Melrose on the River Tweed, Roxburgh

39. Abbey St-Amand, Rouen

40. Newstead Abbey, The Seat of the Late Lord Byron

41. Newbattle Abbey, Scotland