Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: church

1. North East View of Grantham Church, Lincolnshire

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7 inches (13 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. "Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright... Where willowy Camus lingers with delight!..." (Design 97)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Author Writing (Design 105)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. "Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say..." (Design 113)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness, and to me..." (Design 107)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. "At the chapel-door stand sentry... (Design 31)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Design for a Church. Elevation of West Front

Creator:: attributed to Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, crean laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches (44.5 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. 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

9. Lorch on the Rhine

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: between 1790 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 21 3/8 inches (19.4 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Konigstein

Creator:: Charles Gore, 1729–1807
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches (26.4 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/4 × 23 1/2 inches (26 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 16 3/8 inches (30.6 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Secundini Monument at Ighel in the Duchy of Luxembourg

Creator:: William Pars, 1742–1782
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink with gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/16 x 20 inches (33.5 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with gouache on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 1/8 inches (38.7 x 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex: View

Creator:: James Lambert of Lewes, 1725–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor within triple-ruled and wash border on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 5/8 x 25 1/4 inches (47.3 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Monument of Thomas Fiennes

Creator:: James Lambert of Lewes, 1725–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor within triple-ruled pen and wash border on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/4 × 18 1/4 inches (64.1 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Landscape with Lake and Figures on a Rocky Road

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, brown ink, gray ink, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 14 1/2 inches (22.9 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Brighton Town and Church

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 × 18 13/16 inches (30 × 47.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Thames Ditton, Surrey: Design for Gothic Church

Creator:: Sir Robert Taylor, 1714–1788
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches (30.2 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Views in the Levant: A Ruined Byzantine Church

Creator:: Willey Reveley, 1760–1799
Date:: ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 5/16 inches (23.5 × 33.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Design for a Church: Elevation of the West Front

Creator:: James Paine, 1717–1789
Date:: ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 9 3/8 inches (25.1 × 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Almshouses in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Wells

Creator:: Michael "Angelo" Rooker, 1746–1801
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gray and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 inches (22.5 x 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Writtle Church, Essex

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 5/8 inches (18.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Chapel Church, Surrey

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and scraping over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 inches (31.1 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Elopement

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray and black ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 8 inches (27.5 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. View through the South East Window of the Crypt beneath St Stephen's, Westminster

Creator:: George Johann Scharf, 1788–1860
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, gray watercolor and pen and black ink on Smooth, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 × 10 7/8 inches (33 × 27.6 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. Chapel of St. Michael's Mount

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 16 1/2in. (26 x 41.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul Mellon in memory of Dudley Snelgrove

29. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

Creator:: Thomas Hearne, 1744–1817
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Putney Church and Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 9 1/4 x 12 inches (23.5 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Hampton Court Church

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/16 x 12 7/8in. (26.2 x 32.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Northwest View of Castle Church, Hexham, Northumberland

Creator:: Attributed to Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 1/8 inches (16.8 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Jedburgh Abbey from the South East

Creator:: Thomas Girtin, 1775–1802
Date:: 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches (39.4 x 55.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. 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

35. St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, after the fire

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804
Date:: 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 5/8 inches (8.9 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Elgin Cathedral, Moray

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

37. The River Stour, St. Mildred's Church and the Castle of Canterbury

Creator:: Jonathan Skelton, active 1754, died 1758
Date:: 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 21 7/8in. (21 x 55.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Country Lane with Gypsies Resting

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1760 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite and black chalk; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream prepared wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Travellers on Horseback Approaching a Village with a Spire

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1765 and 1770
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over black chalk and gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid down on (laminated wove paper) card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches (21.9 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Landscape with a Ruined Norman Church

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1733–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 19 1/8 inches (33.3 x 48.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Funchal, Madeira: A Square with a Church

Creator:: Samuel Davis, 1760–1819
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 x 16 7/8 inches (32.7 x 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. North East View of Grantham Church, Lincolnshire

2. "Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright... Where willowy Camus lingers with delight!..." (Design 97)

3. The Author Writing (Design 105)

4. "Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say..." (Design 113)

5. The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness, and to me..." (Design 107)

6. "At the chapel-door stand sentry... (Design 31)

7. Design for a Church. Elevation of West Front

8. The Ruins of Leiston Abbey

9. Lorch on the Rhine

10. Konigstein

11. Harbledown, a Village near Canterbury

12. Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum

13. The Secundini Monument at Ighel in the Duchy of Luxembourg

14. Traveling Potter Outside a Cottage

15. Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex: View

16. The Monument of Thomas Fiennes

17. Landscape with Lake and Figures on a Rocky Road

18. Brighton Town and Church

19. Thames Ditton, Surrey: Design for Gothic Church

20. Views in the Levant: A Ruined Byzantine Church

21. Design for a Church: Elevation of the West Front

22. Almshouses in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Wells

23. Writtle Church, Essex

24. Chapel Church, Surrey

25. The Elopement

26. View through the South East Window of the Crypt beneath St Stephen's, Westminster

27. Projected Design for Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire

28. Chapel of St. Michael's Mount

29. A View on the Island of Antigua: the English Barracks and Saint John's Church Seen from the Hospital

30. Putney Church and Bridge

31. Hampton Court Church

32. Northwest View of Castle Church, Hexham, Northumberland

33. Jedburgh Abbey from the South East

34. Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshire

35. St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, after the fire

36. Elgin Cathedral, Moray

37. The River Stour, St. Mildred's Church and the Castle of Canterbury

38. Country Lane with Gypsies Resting

39. Travellers on Horseback Approaching a Village with a Spire

40. Landscape with a Ruined Norman Church

41. Funchal, Madeira: A Square with a Church