Period: 19th century / Creator: Varley, John, 1778–1842 - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Westminster Abbey from Tothill Fields

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 1/4 x 10 inches (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A View along the Thames towards Chelsea Old Church

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 8 × 11 1/2 inches (20.3 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 37 and 38

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1819
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 inches (15.6 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Keith C., Yale BA 1968, and Mildred B. Marshall

4. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/8 inches (29.2 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Welsh Coast

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches (10.5 x 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Chepstow Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 25 1/4 inches (30.5 x 64.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Boat Building

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1806
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum and scraping out over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/16 x 21 9/16 inches (34.2 x 54.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Thames at Windsor

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches (16.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Elizabeth S. Tower

9. Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 15/16 x 5 15/16 inches (10 x 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Landscape in Wales with Castle, Lake, and Rocky Foreground

Creator:: pupil of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 18 1/4 inches (17.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Castle on Holy Island

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 17 7/8 inches (14 x 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Harlech Castle and Twgwyn Ferry

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 1/8 x 21 1/4 inches (41 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Saint Peter's Church, Hereford, from Butcher's Row

Creator:: follower of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches (40 x 57.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Under the Ouse Bridge, Bathing

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: between 1803 and 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 21 3/8 inches (41.9 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (14.3 x 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, varnish and scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (11.1 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Vauxhall Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 14 7/8 inches (28.9 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 9/16 x 20 1/16 inches (29.4 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Classic Composition

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 9/16 inches (15.4 x 11.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. London from the South West

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 10 3/4 inches (15.6 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 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

22. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gum, white gouache, graphite and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 14 inches (19.4 x 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, mounted on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches (27.6 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Mountainous Landscape with Lake

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white ground and varnish on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (22.2 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Battersea Bridge

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 19 1/2 inches (30.4 × 49.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. The Bridge

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 x 14 7/8 inches (43.2 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Ships on a River with Buildings in the Distance

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on medium, rough, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 7/16 x 9 7/16 inches (29.1 x 23.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Trees on a Knoll by a Stream

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 5 9/16 inches (9.5 x 14.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. An Arch at Holy Island, Northumberland

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (29.2 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 3/4 x 26 1/8 inches (50.2 x 66.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 6 5/8 inches (21.8 x 16.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. John Sell Cotman

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (18.7 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

33. The Plains of Marathon

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite with scratching out on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 x 10 5/16 inches (17.3 x 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. A practical treatise on perspective. Adapted for the study of those who draw from nature, by which the usual errors may be avoided.

Creator:: Varley, John, 1778–1842
Date:: 1815.]
Physical Description:: 3 leaves, l leaf of plates : ill. ; 35 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

Creator:: Varley, John, 1778–1842
Date:: 1818]
Physical Description:: [2] double plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Westminster Abbey from Tothill Fields

2. A View along the Thames towards Chelsea Old Church

3. Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 37 and 38

4. The Thames Near the Penitentiary, Millbank, London

5. The Welsh Coast

6. Chepstow Castle

7. Boat Building

8. The Thames at Windsor

9. Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds

10. Landscape in Wales with Castle, Lake, and Rocky Foreground

11. Castle on Holy Island

12. Harlech Castle and Twgwyn Ferry

13. Saint Peter's Church, Hereford, from Butcher's Row

14. Under the Ouse Bridge, Bathing

15. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

16. Llyn Dinas, North Wales

17. Vauxhall Bridge

18. View of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, from Under the Bridge

19. Classic Composition

20. London from the South West

21. Chiswick

22. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

23. Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

24. Mountainous Landscape with Lake

25. Battersea Bridge

26. The Bridge

27. Ships on a River with Buildings in the Distance

28. Trees on a Knoll by a Stream

29. An Arch at Holy Island, Northumberland

30. Llanberis Lake, with Castle Dolbadern

31. Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding

32. John Sell Cotman

33. The Plains of Marathon

34. A practical treatise on perspective. Adapted for the study of those who draw from nature, by which the usual errors may be avoided.

35. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.