Genre: cityscape / Associated Places: Greater London / Subject Terms: genre subject

1. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: 1829 to 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 39 inches (61 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. St. Paul's Cathedral

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 24 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (62.9 × 73 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1684
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Fruit Stall, King's Cross

Creator:: Charles Ginner, 1878–1952
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 3/4 x 22 inches (65.4 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
On View:: Not on view

5. London from Greenwich Hill

Creator:: Henry Dawson, 1811–1878
Date:: 1869 to 1870
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 72 x 107 1/2 inches (182.9 x 273.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Scene in a London Street

Creator:: John Collet, ca. 1725–1780
Date:: 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 37 1/2 x 49 inches (95.3 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 3/4 × 47 3/4 inches (108.6 × 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

Creator:: Joseph Nickolls, active 1713–ca. 1755
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 50 1/4 inches (88.9 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Northumberland House, London

Creator:: Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771
Date:: ca. 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Whitehall

Creator:: William Marlow, 1740–1813
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 28 × 35 7/8 inches (71.1 × 91.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 21 × 34 1/2 inches (53.3 × 87.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (38.7 x 71.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Covent Garden

Creator:: Pieter Angillis, 1685–1734
Date:: ca. 1726
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 18 13/16 x 24 13/16 inches (47.8 x 63 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Evening with a Procession of Choir Boys Walking Towards Westminster Abbey

Creator:: Albert Goodwin, 1845–1932
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink and scratching out over graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 x 14 3/4in. (25.6 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Buckingham Palace from St. James's Park

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 21 13/16 inches (37.9 x 55.4 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

16. Westminster Abbey, Hospital &c.

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with tint on thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 11/16 inches (37.8 x 55.1 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

17. St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph with tint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches (55 x 37.8 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

18. The Church of St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, with the Monument in the Background

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite with gouache and arabic gum on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 11/16 x 10 5/8 inches (34.8 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Battersea Bridge

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 19 1/2 inches (30.4 × 49.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. View of Old London Bridge

Creator:: William Henry Hunt, 1790–1864
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 21 1/8 inches (33.7 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Chiswick

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 21 5/8 inches (24.4 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequeathed by Weyland Wells Williams, Yale BA 1910, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

22. Covent Garden Market

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1795 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and brown ink, and graphite, with pen and gray line and gray wash on border; verso: watercolor blots and pen and ink lines on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 9/16 inches (15.7 x 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Black Lion Wharf

Creator:: Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thin, slightly textured, beige China paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 14 inches (23.1 × 35.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

24. Queen Square, London

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/16 x 23 1/2 inches (43.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A Prospect of St. James's Park

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A North West View of the Tower of London

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

27. Crowded Improvised Air Raid Shelter in Liverpool Street Tube Tunnel

Creator:: Bill Brandt, 1904–1983
Date:: 1940
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, gloss photographic paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, white card
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 x 15 15/16 inches (50.8 x 40.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

28. People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, circa 1939

Creator:: Bill Brandt, 1904–1983
Date:: ca. 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, gloss photographic paper mounted on thick, slightly textured, white card
Dimensions:: Mount: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Parnassus Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

29. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

Creator:: Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/4 × 16 1/2 inches (28.6 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. View of Queen Square

Creator:: Engraved by Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 7/16 inches (49.5 × 62.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. 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

33. St. Martin's Church

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1731 and 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 3/4 inches (49 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The South Sea House

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1720 and 1728
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/16 x 19 3/4 inches (36.7 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The West Prospect of the Church and Steeple of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1720 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 11/16 x 14 7/16 inches (44.9 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Admiralty Office

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bowles, ca. 1712–died 1753
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 19 3/4 inches (35.5 x 50.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Smithfield

Creator:: Print made by Stanley Anderson, 1884–1966
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Drypoint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 x 14 5/8 inches (32.9 x 37.1 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

38. An Autumn Afternoon on Hampstead Heath

Creator:: Print made by John Copley, 1875–1950
Date:: 1939
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint with gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 x 12 1/2 inches (41.8 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Part of Waterloo Bridge with the Shot Tower, &c.

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 11 13/16 inches (44.5 x 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Green Park

Creator:: Charles Heath, 1785–1848
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 x 12 1/8 inches (25 x 30.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Half-size Sketch for The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (“Whitehall Stairs, June 18, 1817”)

2. St. Paul's Cathedral

3. Frost Fair on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the distance

4. The Fruit Stall, King's Cross

5. London from Greenwich Hill

6. Scene in a London Street

7. Arches of Westminster Bridge

8. Charing Cross, with the Statue of King Charles I and Northumberland House

9. Northumberland House, London

10. Whitehall

11. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

12. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

13. Covent Garden

14. Evening with a Procession of Choir Boys Walking Towards Westminster Abbey

15. Buckingham Palace from St. James's Park

16. Westminster Abbey, Hospital &c.

17. St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill

18. The Church of St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, with the Monument in the Background

19. Battersea Bridge

20. View of Old London Bridge

21. Chiswick

22. Covent Garden Market

23. Black Lion Wharf

24. Queen Square, London

25. A Prospect of St. James's Park

26. A North West View of the Tower of London

27. Crowded Improvised Air Raid Shelter in Liverpool Street Tube Tunnel

28. People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, circa 1939

29. The Church of St. Mary Le Bow in Cheapside London

30. The Inside View of the Royal Exchange at London

31. View of Queen Square

32. A View of Erith, Looking Up the Thames

33. St. Martin's Church

34. The South Sea House

35. The West Prospect of the Church and Steeple of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside

36. The Admiralty Office

37. Smithfield

38. An Autumn Afternoon on Hampstead Heath

39. Part of Waterloo Bridge with the Shot Tower, &c.

40. Green Park