Period: 19th century / Genre: military art / Work Type: watercolor

1. Shot from a Gun

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 1/4 inches (17.5 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Coastal Scene with Troops Embarking

Creator:: George Bryant Campion, 1796–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, black chalk, and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 × 29 inches (45.7 × 73.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Camp at Chobham, 1853 with Officers and Sentry

Creator:: George Bryant Campion, 1796–1870
Date:: 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, black chalk, gum arabic, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 21 1/2 inches (35.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Soliders in Costume of the Middle Ages around a Blazing Idol

Creator:: William West of Clifton near Bristol, 1801–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 5/16 inches (22.9 × 31.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Single Brig with Union Jack and Three Figures

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 1/16 × 16 13/16 inches (30.6 × 42.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

6. The Revolutionaire: Single Corvette

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 7/8 × 16 7/8 inches (37.8 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

7. Siege at Badajoz

Creator:: Henry Aston Barker, 1774–1856
Date:: ca. 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and red ink, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (37.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Revolutionaire Oct 7 1821

Creator:: Joseph Cartwright, c.1789–1829
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 15 1/16 × 17 inches (38.3 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

9. The 48th Regiment with Casemate, Gibraltar

Creator:: George Lothian Hall, 1825–1888
Date:: 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and graphite with scratching out on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 inches (15.9 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Studies of a Suit of Armor

Creator:: Edward Burne-Jones, 1833–1898
Date:: 1875
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (42.5 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Military of the Peninsular War

Creator:: Sir Robert Ker Porter, 1777–1842
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 14 5/8 inches (44.1 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A French Dragoon

Creator:: Sir Robert Ker Porter, 1777–1842
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 14 1/2 inches (44.1 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. A British Officer of the Staff and an Officer of Hussars

Creator:: Sir Robert Ker Porter, 1777–1842
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 14 5/8 inches (44.1 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. An Uralsky Cossack

Creator:: Sir Robert Ker Porter, 1777–1842
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 1/4 × 14 5/8 inches (43.8 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Troops Returning to the Camp at Chobham

Creator:: George Bryant Campion, 1796–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (24.1 × 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Grand Field Day at Chobham Camp

Creator:: George Bryant Campion, 1796–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (24.1 × 69.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. 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

18. Action at Kowloon

Creator:: Lt. Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, 1815–1880
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 1/8 × 11 7/8 inches (25.7 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Back View of a Soldier

Creator:: Edmund Thomas Parris, 1793–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 5/16 × 1 11/16 inches (8.4 × 4.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Fall of a City

Creator:: Attributed to John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (5.4 x 7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Study for Napoleon Bonaparte

Creator:: Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786–1846
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 6 1/16 inches (18.7 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Graves of the Officers in the Fort on Cathcart's Hill

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 13 3/4 inches (20.6 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Interior of Fort Nicholas, Sebastopol, Crimea

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (26 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Governor-General's and Commander-in-Chief's Camp at Jalandhar, 1 Febuary 1860

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: ca. 1860
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (25.1 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Avenue and Entrance to St. James Barracks

Creator:: Michel Jean Cazabon, 1813–1888
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray ink, black wash, gray wash, graphite, ang gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 inches (18.1 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Two Turkish Cavalrymen

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 × 11 1/2 inches (21.4 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. A Soldier's Knapsack: Two Studies, Side and Front View

Creator:: Michael Angelo Hayes, 1811–1880
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite, white gouache, gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 13/16 inches (13.3 × 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Two Shakos of the Dublin Militia: One Green, One Red

Creator:: Michael Angelo Hayes, 1811–1880
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 4 1/2 inches (19.7 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Band of the 23rd Fusiliers

Creator:: Michael Angelo Hayes, 1811–1880
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, blue ink, and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 5/16 inches (16.4 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The London Scottish Volunteer Regiment at Wimbledon Common Rifle Ranges with the Soldiers under canvas

Creator:: Charles Claude Pyne, 1802–1878
Date:: 1872
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 10 5/16 inches (11.7 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Cavalrymen Mounting Near a Fort

Creator:: Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, 1846–1933
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 12 3/16 inches (19.7 × 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. A Rifleman at Musketry Practice

Creator:: John Augustus Atkinson, 1775–1831
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 1/8 inches (11.4 × 7.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Royal Review at Windsor - Queen Victoria and Khedive Ismail Pashe of Egypt, June 26th, 1868

Creator:: George Bryant Campion, 1796–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and black chalk on thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/16 × 29 7/8 inches (51 × 75.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Highland Regiment in Camp

Creator:: John Leech, 1817–1864
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/8 × 8 7/8 inches (41 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Sketch for the Scene of a Battle

Creator:: George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 7/8 x 8 inches (20 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

36. State Carriage Horses, Berlin (Horse with detail of harness)

Creator:: George Housman Thomas, 1824–1868
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 inches (18.4 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of three Australian sisters - Gwendoline Ewens, Jean Parkin, and Joyce Wilson

37. Mounted soldiers with wagon, circa. Crimean war period

Creator:: George Housman Thomas, 1824–1868
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 1/2 inches (25.4 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of three Australian sisters - Gwendoline Ewens, Jean Parkin, and Joyce Wilson

38. Soldier in uniform

Creator:: George Housman Thomas, 1824–1868
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and white gouache on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 inches (16.5 × 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of three Australian sisters - Gwendoline Ewens, Jean Parkin, and Joyce Wilson

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1. Shot from a Gun

2. Coastal Scene with Troops Embarking

3. Camp at Chobham, 1853 with Officers and Sentry

4. Soliders in Costume of the Middle Ages around a Blazing Idol

5. Single Brig with Union Jack and Three Figures

6. The Revolutionaire: Single Corvette

7. Siege at Badajoz

8. Revolutionaire Oct 7 1821

9. The 48th Regiment with Casemate, Gibraltar

10. Studies of a Suit of Armor

11. Military of the Peninsular War

12. A French Dragoon

13. A British Officer of the Staff and an Officer of Hussars

14. An Uralsky Cossack

15. Troops Returning to the Camp at Chobham

16. Grand Field Day at Chobham Camp

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

18. Action at Kowloon

19. Back View of a Soldier

20. Fall of a City

21. Study for Napoleon Bonaparte

22. Graves of the Officers in the Fort on Cathcart's Hill

23. Interior of Fort Nicholas, Sebastopol, Crimea

24. The Governor-General's and Commander-in-Chief's Camp at Jalandhar, 1 Febuary 1860

25. Avenue and Entrance to St. James Barracks

26. Two Turkish Cavalrymen

27. A Soldier's Knapsack: Two Studies, Side and Front View

28. Two Shakos of the Dublin Militia: One Green, One Red

29. The Band of the 23rd Fusiliers

30. The London Scottish Volunteer Regiment at Wimbledon Common Rifle Ranges with the Soldiers under canvas

31. Cavalrymen Mounting Near a Fort

32. A Rifleman at Musketry Practice

33. Royal Review at Windsor - Queen Victoria and Khedive Ismail Pashe of Egypt, June 26th, 1868

34. Highland Regiment in Camp

35. Sketch for the Scene of a Battle

36. State Carriage Horses, Berlin (Horse with detail of harness)

37. Mounted soldiers with wagon, circa. Crimean war period

38. Soldier in uniform