Genre: genre subject / Associated Places: London / Subject Terms: river

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. 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

3. Frost on the Thames

Creator:: Samuel Collings, active 1784–1795
Date:: 1788 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 3/16 × 48 3/16 inches (76.7 × 122.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. 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

5. 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

6. Arches of Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, ca. 1702–1772
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

7. The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/2 x 49 1/4 inches (87.6 x 125.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. 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 with chine collé on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
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

9. Battersea Reach

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 13/16 inches (18.4 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

10. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (20 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

11. Battersea Reach

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (16.8 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

12. Battersea Reach

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 x 10 3/8 inches (19.2 x 26.3 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

13. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 15/16 x 13 7/8 inches (20.1 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

14. Battersea Reach

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (19 x 26.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Bequest of Thomas W. Farnam, B.A. 1899

15. 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

16. 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

17. View of Old Somerset House from the Thames

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 28 7/8 inches (41.3 x 73.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. 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

19. 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

20. Kew Bridge

Creator:: Victor A. Prout, active 1835–1877
Date:: 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Albumen print from wet collodion negative on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (11.4 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro

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

2. The City from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

3. Frost on the Thames

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

5. Westminster from Near the Terrace of Somerset House

6. Arches of Westminster Bridge

7. The Paper Buildings, Inner Temple, London

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

9. Battersea Reach

10. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

11. Battersea Reach

12. Battersea Reach

13. Whistler's House at Old Chelsea

14. Battersea Reach

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

16. View of Old London Bridge

17. View of Old Somerset House from the Thames

18. Chiswick

19. Black Lion Wharf

20. Kew Bridge