Genre: cityscape / Associated Places: England / Subject Terms: ships

1. Plymouth

Creator:: Hendrik Danckerts, ca. 1625–1680
Date:: 1673
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 × 68 inches (101.6 × 172.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 43 5/8 x 56 x 3 inches (110.8 x 142.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Rochester Cathedral and Castle

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on artist's board
Dimensions:: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (14 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856
Date:: ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on artist's board
Dimensions:: 5 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches (14.3 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Launching at Deptford

Creator:: John Cleveley the elder, ca. 1712–1777
Date:: ca. 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 × 72 1/8 inches (106 × 183.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. A View of the Tower of London, Supposed on his Majesty's Birthday

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1771
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 3/4 x 76 inches (101 x 193 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches (55.2 x 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

Creator:: Nicholas Condy, 1793–1857
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.9 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. London Bridge, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 6 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (16.2 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. St. Mawes, Cornwall

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (14.3 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Margate

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (15.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Weymouth

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1811
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 8 5/8in. (14.6 x 21.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Weymouth: with figures, shipping and view of (?) the Custon House

Creator:: John Henderson, 1764–1843
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches (14 × 14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. St. Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriar's Bridge

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches (22.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Greenwich, London in the Distance

Creator:: F. Norice, 19th century
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, white gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (15.9 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Rochester, Kent: from the North

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 5/16 x 23 inches (44 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Harbor Scene, Bristol

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Salted paper print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 8 inches (15.9 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

19. Near Regents Square, Brighton

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

20. The Custom House, London

Creator:: Henry Edridge, 1769–1821
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 3/4 inches (12.7 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. A View of His Majesty's Dock Yard at Portsmouth, in the County of Hampshire, on the British Channel

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Tilbury

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 6 15/16 inches (8.3 × 17.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

23. Sherness

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

24. Dry Dock, Southampton

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on medium, smooth, cream antique laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 11/16 × 6 7/8 inches (6.8 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943

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. A Thames Wharf with Westminster Bridge in the Distance

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 35 3/4 inches (36.8 x 90.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of John Baskett

27. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 1

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 18 3/4 inches (27.6 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

28. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: after 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 21 7/8 inches (38.6 x 55.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

29. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: after 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 22 1/16 inches (38.3 x 56.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

30. London

Creator:: John Greig, active 1803–1853
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Portsmouth Dockyard

Creator:: Robert Charles Goff, 1837–1922
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/16 x 10 1/16 inches (18.5 x 25.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

32. West India Docks

Creator:: Print made by John Bluck, active 1791–1831
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (24 x 32 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Chauncey Brewster Tinker

33. West Cowes, Isle of Wight

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown and gray wash and pen brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches (14.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Miss Elizabeth Manwaring

34. Ramsgate Harbour, Kent

Creator:: John Monro, 1801–1880
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 1/8 inches (15.4 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. London from Blackheath

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 15 7/8in. (23.8 x 40.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Fire in H.M. Dockyard at Devonport on the Morning of the 27th of September 1840

Creator:: Print made by William Clerk, ? 19th c.
Date:: after 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 18 3/4 inches (38.6 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 18 9/16 inches (31.1 x 47.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Fairburn's Plan of the Proposed Wet-Docks and Cut, from New Gravel Lane to Blackwall

Creator:: Print made by John Fairburn, active 19th century
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 16 inches (26.3 × 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. The Penitentiary and Distant View of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Charles Heath, 1785–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (10.8 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Plymouth

2. Rochester

3. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

4. Rochester Cathedral and Castle

5. Westminster Bridge

6. Launching at Deptford

7. A View of the Tower of London, Supposed on his Majesty's Birthday

8. The Port of London

9. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

10. London Bridge, with St. Paul's Cathedral in the distance

11. St. Mawes, Cornwall

12. Margate

13. Weymouth

14. Weymouth: with figures, shipping and view of (?) the Custon House

15. St. Paul's Cathedral and Blackfriar's Bridge

16. Greenwich, London in the Distance

17. Rochester, Kent: from the North

18. Harbor Scene, Bristol

19. Near Regents Square, Brighton

20. The Custom House, London

21. A View of His Majesty's Dock Yard at Portsmouth, in the County of Hampshire, on the British Channel

22. Tilbury

23. Sherness

24. Dry Dock, Southampton

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

26. A Thames Wharf with Westminster Bridge in the Distance

27. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 1

28. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

29. The Breaking Up of the Agamemnon, no. 2

30. London

31. Portsmouth Dockyard

32. West India Docks

33. West Cowes, Isle of Wight

34. Ramsgate Harbour, Kent

35. London from Blackheath

36. The Fire in H.M. Dockyard at Devonport on the Morning of the 27th of September 1840

37. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

38. Fairburn's Plan of the Proposed Wet-Docks and Cut, from New Gravel Lane to Blackwall

39. The Penitentiary and Distant View of Westminster Bridge