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1. Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 17 7/8in. (28.9 x 45.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Sailing Ships and Small Boats in Rough Sea off the Coast

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (13.3 × 10.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Wreck of the Apollo Frigate, 1803

Creator:: William H. Overend, 1851–1898
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, white gouache, and pen and black ink on very thick, smooth, cream wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 × 10 3/8 inches (35.6 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

4. Ship Study

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 x 8 3/8 inches (45.7 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Ships on a Stormy Sea

Creator:: Samuel Owen, 1768–1857
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (14 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 1/16 inches (16.5 × 25.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Sailors Raising a Boom

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (13.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Figures in Boats

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Hayman, 1707/8–1776
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 10 7/8 inches (14 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Sailors on Board H.M.S. Royal William

Creator:: George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819
Date:: ca. 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (28.6 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Sailors Carousing and Frying Watches

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 3/8 inches (30.2 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. View at Caernarvon, Wales

Creator:: William Payne, active 1850s
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 1/2 inches (17.3 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Shipping off the Isle of Wight

Creator:: Alfred Gomersal Vickers, 1810–1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 13 1/16 inches (19.1 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Sebastopol, Sketched From The Deck of H. M. S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 20 5/8 inches (33 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Untitled [frigates, possibly after a battle]

Creator:: unknown artist
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection

15. Evening, or Sun setting

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18in. (31.8 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. July 1st: She [Sat] Beneath an Awning (Vol. 2, p. 50) July 2nd: Here Sussex is My Hand (Vol. 2, p. 85)

Creator:: Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash with pen and black ink on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (9.5 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Very Fresh Fish

Creator:: Print made by Alfred Henry Forrester, 1804–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 13/16 x 13 inches (45.2 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A View of Westminster Bridge from Lambeth. 1. Westminster Abby. 2. St. Margaret's Church. 3. Westminster Hall. 4. St. Martin's Church

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

19. Night & a Ship on fire

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
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

20. The taking of the Princessa a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740 by His Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent, and Oxford

Creator:: Nathaniel Parr, active 1742–1751
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18in. (31.8 x 45.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The taking of the St. Joseph a Spanish Carracca Ship, Sept. 23 1739, by the Chester and Canterbury Men of War, this Prize was Valued at upwards of 150,000 pounds.

The taking of the St. Joseph a Spanish Carracca Ship, Sept. 23 1739, by the Chester and Canterbury Men of War, this Prize was Valued at upwards of 150,000 pounds.

Creator:: Print made by Remi Parr, 1743–after 1750
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 18 1/16 inches (31.8 × 45.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Fishery of Great Britain in its three different Branches vizt. Herring, Cod, and Whale Fishing

Creator:: Print made by Elisha Kirkall, ca. 1682–1742
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

23. The Dying Sailor

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 13/16 inches (27.5 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Shipwrecked Sailors

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and black and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 x 9 3/16 inches (16.7 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A View at Blackwall

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink, and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 5/8 x 10 inches (19.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Launching of a Ship

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted on thick, rough, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 15 1/2 inches (25.4 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John and Carmen Dugdale

27. The Sailor's Return

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and brown, red-brown, and gray ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 6 15/16 inches (22.1 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Crossing the Line Ceremony on Board the Ship, "Vestal"

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (18.1 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Cape of Good Hope

Creator:: Print made by Gerard van der Gucht, 1696–1776
Date:: 1736
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 5/16 × 26 inches (49 × 66 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Part of the Crew of H.M.S. Guardian

Creator:: Robert Dodd, 1748–1816
Date:: ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 x 24 3/4in. (47 x 62.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. In the Channel

Creator:: Augustus William Reeve, active 1831–1888
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 8 7/8 inches (16.2 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. A Ship's Boat

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (15.9 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Mouth of the Thames, Isle of Sheppey in Distance

Creator:: Print made by Sir Frank Short, 1857–1945
Date:: 1891
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
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

34. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and red brown and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 18 1/4 inches (20.5 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Allen Evarts Foster, B.A. 1906

35. The Landing of Columbus

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 6 1/4 × 8 1/2 inches (15.9 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift

36. Death of Captain Alexander Hood

Creator:: Print made by Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/8 × 26 1/2 inches (56.2 × 67.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Do Your Duty to our Boys

Creator:: Sir Frank William Brangwyn, 1867–1956
Date:: 1914
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on linen
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 3/8 x 29 3/4 inches (46.7 x 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

38. A Sailor and His Family

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, graphite, and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 4 1/2 inches (14.3 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Caricature of a Sailor (One of a Set of Three)

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: ca. 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium smooth bright white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.8 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Sebastopol from the sea, sketched from the deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

Creator:: Thomas Picken, 1815–1870
Date:: 1855
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. A Hero of Our Century

Creator:: Lionel Percy Smythe, 1839–1918
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (23.5 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen

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1. Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover

2. Sailing Ships and Small Boats in Rough Sea off the Coast

3. The Wreck of the Apollo Frigate, 1803

4. Ship Study

5. Ships on a Stormy Sea

6. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire

7. Sailors Raising a Boom

8. Figures in Boats

9. Sailors on Board H.M.S. Royal William

10. Sailors Carousing and Frying Watches

11. View at Caernarvon, Wales

12. Shipping off the Isle of Wight

13. Sebastopol, Sketched From The Deck of H. M. S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

14. Untitled [frigates, possibly after a battle]

15. Evening, or Sun setting

16. July 1st: She [Sat] Beneath an Awning (Vol. 2, p. 50) July 2nd: Here Sussex is My Hand (Vol. 2, p. 85)

17. Very Fresh Fish

18. A View of Westminster Bridge from Lambeth. 1. Westminster Abby. 2. St. Margaret's Church. 3. Westminster Hall. 4. St. Martin's Church

19. Night & a Ship on fire

20. The taking of the Princessa a Spanish Man of War, April 8, 1740 by His Majesties Ships the Lenox, Kent, and Oxford

21. The taking of the St. Joseph a Spanish Carracca Ship, Sept. 23 1739, by the Chester and Canterbury Men of War, this Prize was Valued at upwards of 150,000 pounds.

22. The Fishery of Great Britain in its three different Branches vizt. Herring, Cod, and Whale Fishing

23. The Dying Sailor

24. Shipwrecked Sailors

25. A View at Blackwall

26. The Launching of a Ship

27. The Sailor's Return

28. Crossing the Line Ceremony on Board the Ship, "Vestal"

29. The Cape of Good Hope

30. Part of the Crew of H.M.S. Guardian

31. In the Channel

32. A Ship's Boat

33. The Mouth of the Thames, Isle of Sheppey in Distance

34. Men-of-War and Sailing Boats Near a Shore

35. The Landing of Columbus

36. Death of Captain Alexander Hood

37. Do Your Duty to our Boys

38. A Sailor and His Family

39. Caricature of a Sailor (One of a Set of Three)

40. Sebastopol from the sea, sketched from the deck of H.M.S. Sidon, Feb. 1855

41. A Hero of Our Century