Materials & Techniques: painting (technique) / Subject Terms: cliffs

1. Staffa, Fingal's Cave

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1831 to 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 47 3/4 inches (90.8 x 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. The Avon Gorge

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: between 1816 and 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 × 9 3/4 inches (33 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Coastal Scene with Cliffs

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Date:: ca. 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 5 × 9 5/8 inches (12.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1803–6
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 3/8 x 39 1/2 inches (67 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Zagori, Greece

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 1/2 x 10 inches (39.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
On View:: Not on view

6. Landscape with Goatherd

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: ca. 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (26.7 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
On View:: Not on view

7. Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikétes

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. Portrait of a Man

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: between 1758 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 22 3/8 inches (64.1 × 56.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. A View of Cheddar Gorge

Creator:: George Vincent, 1796–1832
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Cicero's Villa and the Gulf of Pozzuoli

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: 1773 to 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 × 21 1/4 inches (43.2 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. A Bridge Over the River Wye

Creator:: John Taylor of Bath, 1735–1806
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 13 inches (25.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Landscape with Distant Mountains

Creator:: Adriaen van Diest, 1655–1704
Date:: ca. 1698
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 1/8 × 32 inches (84.1 × 81.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. The Harbour of Pulo Condere

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (19.7 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

Creator:: Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (43.8 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Lake Albano

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1790 to 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches (36.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: between 1795 and 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (56.5 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. An Italian Town

Creator:: Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956
Date:: ca. 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Inlaid intarsia panel
Dimensions:: 38 x 31 inches (96.5 x 78.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

20. Shipping off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (69.9 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. Coast with Cliffs and Boats

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: early 19th century
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper
Dimensions:: 4 7/8 x 8 inches (12.4 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. Dover

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1746 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 x 21 1/2 inches (43.2 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. On the Nile

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880
Date:: 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (36.2 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. An Imaginary Landscape with a Wagon and a Distant View of a Town

Creator:: Thomas Smith of Derby, ca. 1720–1767
Date:: ca. 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 4 7/8 x 7 3/16 inches (12.4 x 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower

Creator:: John Brett, 1831–1902
Date:: 1887
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 30 inches (38.1 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

27. Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset

Creator:: John Brett, 1831–1902
Date:: 1884
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 × 48 inches (61 × 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation
On View:: Not on view

28. Sketch for 'Gordale Scar'

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: between 1812 and 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 7 × 9 1/8 inches (17.8 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. Shipping in the English Channel

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. The Bard

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh

Creator:: Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840
Date:: between 1820 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 × 54 inches (91.4 × 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. Pwll Cwn

Creator:: John Brett, 1831–1902
Date:: 1882
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 7 x 14 inches (17.8 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
On View:: Not on view

34. Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Wooded Hilly Landscape

Creator:: Abraham Pether, 1756–1812
Date:: 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches (62.9 x 72.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

37. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: 1769
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 x 55 inches (104.1 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. Staffa, Fingal's Cave

2. The Avon Gorge

3. Coastal Scene with Cliffs

4. The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions

5. Zagori, Greece

6. Landscape with Goatherd

7. Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikétes

8. Portrait of a Man

9. A View of Cheddar Gorge

10. Cicero's Villa and the Gulf of Pozzuoli

11. A Bridge Over the River Wye

12. Landscape with Distant Mountains

13. The Harbour of Pulo Condere

14. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

15. Lake Albano

16. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

17. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

18. Dovedale

19. An Italian Town

20. Shipping off Dover

21. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

22. Coast with Cliffs and Boats

23. Dover

24. On the Nile

25. An Imaginary Landscape with a Wagon and a Distant View of a Town

26. The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower

27. Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset

28. Sketch for 'Gordale Scar'

29. Shipping in the English Channel

30. The Bard

31. Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh

32. A View of Matavai Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]

33. Pwll Cwn

34. Gulliver Taking His Final Leave of the Land of the Houyhnhnms

35. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

36. Wooded Hilly Landscape

37. Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms