Period: 19th century / Work Type: drawing / Subject Terms: sunset

1. Sunset over a River Landscape

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: early 1840s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches (31.2 x 44.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Lonely Tower

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and gum arabic on London board: a high-quality pasteboard sheet made of Whatman's finest drawing paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 x 27 7/8 inches (51.4 x 70.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Tintern Abbey at Sunset

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and varnish over graphite with scratching out on heavy card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 x 27 3/4 inches (33.3 x 70.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Sunset

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: ca. 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, gum, and graphite on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 15 1/4 inches (27 x 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Tours, Looking Backward

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1826 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (12.4 x 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Sunset along the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 15/16 x 8 1/2 inches (7.5 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Sunset along the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (7.3 x 17.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. Opposite Melaghara, 5:20 PM

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches (5.9 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

9. Golosoneh, 5:10 p.m., January 3, 1867 (58)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 7 inches (7.6 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

10. Sunset

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (7.1 x 19.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

11. Near Edfu

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 7/16 x 6 1/16 inches (6.2 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

12. Shelaal, 5:30 am, 29 January 1867 (264)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 × 10 5/8 inches (7.6 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

13. Near Mesghouneh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 5/16 x 12 3/16 inches (3.3 x 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

14. Below Ekhmim

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 x 7 1/16 inches (6.4 x 17.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

15. Jerusalem, Chapter 4. "The Spectres of Albions Twelve Sons..." (Plate 78)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Evening Sky on the Coast

Creator:: James Holland, 1799–1870
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 3/4 inches (10.8 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Zattere, Sunset

Creator:: James Holland, 1799–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 7 7/8 inches (15.2 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Hero and Leander

Creator:: William Hamilton, 1751–1801
Date:: 1801
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, gouache, and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 inches (42.2 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. View near Auckland: Evening-Trees and Ferns

Creator:: Lt. Gen. Charles Emilius Gold, 1803?–1871
Date:: ca. 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 5/8 inches (19.7 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A Tropical Coast, Sunset

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1840 and 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and brown ink over graphite with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches (15.5 x 23.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Lima

Creator:: Godfrey Thomas Vigne, 1801–1863
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 inches (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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. Evening

Creator:: Cornelius Varley, 1781–1873
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and varnish on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (29.8 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. St. Paul's from Southwark by Sunset

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 23 1/4 × 35 1/4 inches (59.1 × 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. Figure Seated by a Stream at Sunset

Creator:: John Le Capelain, 1812–1848
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 x 8in. (24.8 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Isle of Wight and Kent Sketchbook

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 5 1/4 inches (13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

27. Sailboats on the Nile

Creator:: John William Burgon, 1813 –1888
Date:: between 1861 and 1862
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches (14 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection

28. Landscape

Creator:: David Charles Read, 1790–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 7 1/8 inches (11.1 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

29. Stormy Sunset, Legh Park, Wiltshire

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches (14.6 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Murder of Banquo

Creator:: George Fennell Robson, 1788–1833
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 10 1/2 inches (18.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Allahabad, from the Right Bank of the Jumna

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1865
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches (37.1 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Fountain in the Gardens, Paris: Evening

Creator:: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1803–1874
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (14.3 x 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. 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

34. Sunset Sky

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (7.9 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Marine Pier, Brighton - Sunset

Creator:: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, 1787–1855
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen, red ink, graphite, and gum on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 inches (16.5 × 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Ganges

Creator:: William Simpson, 1823–1899
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/2 x 20 5/8 inches (36.8 x 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Sky Study, No. 8

Creator:: Attributed to Thomas Lindsay, 1793–1861
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (6.4 × 13.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Tynemouth Pier - Lighting the Lamps at Sundown

Creator:: Alfred William Hunt, 1830–1896
Date:: 1868
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, gum, and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (37.1 x 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. Coast Scene

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 5/8 inches (17.4 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Folds

40. Sunset Landscape with Windmill

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (10.8 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Temple by the Lake

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: between 1803 and 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown and black ink over pencil on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 2 3/8 × 6 7/8 inches (6 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Ruins of a Temple, Sunset

Creator:: George Chinnery, 1774–1852
Date:: between 1803 and 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 7/8 inches (12.7 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Clouds at Sunset

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on thick, rough, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (9.8 x 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Seacoast, Sunset with Harlech Castle

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 8 3/8 inches (7.6 x 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Mountainous Landscape with Clouds

Creator:: Joshua Cristall, 1768–1847
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, light blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 15 inches (25.7 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Crossing Lancaster Sands

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: mid-1830s
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 5/16 × 20 1/16 inches (36.4 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Erne River, Ireland

Creator:: Edward Thompson Davis, 1833–1867
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (12.1 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. The Shepherd - Evening

Creator:: Francis Oliver Finch, 1802–1862
Date:: 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gum, with scraping on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 12 3/4 inches (20.3 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Sunset over a River Landscape

2. The Lonely Tower

3. Tintern Abbey at Sunset

4. Sunset

5. Tours, Looking Backward

6. Sunset along the Nile

7. Sunset along the Nile

8. Opposite Melaghara, 5:20 PM

9. Golosoneh, 5:10 p.m., January 3, 1867 (58)

10. Sunset

11. Near Edfu

12. Shelaal, 5:30 am, 29 January 1867 (264)

13. Near Mesghouneh

14. Below Ekhmim

15. Jerusalem, Chapter 4. "The Spectres of Albions Twelve Sons..." (Plate 78)

16. Evening Sky on the Coast

17. The Zattere, Sunset

18. Hero and Leander

19. View near Auckland: Evening-Trees and Ferns

20. A Tropical Coast, Sunset

21. Lima

22. Romantic Landscape with Distant Mountains

23. Evening

24. St. Paul's from Southwark by Sunset

25. Figure Seated by a Stream at Sunset

26. Isle of Wight and Kent Sketchbook

27. Sailboats on the Nile

28. Landscape

29. Stormy Sunset, Legh Park, Wiltshire

30. The Murder of Banquo

31. Allahabad, from the Right Bank of the Jumna

32. Fountain in the Gardens, Paris: Evening

33. Landscape with Figures and Distant Castle

34. Sunset Sky

35. Marine Pier, Brighton - Sunset

36. The Ganges

37. Sky Study, No. 8

38. Tynemouth Pier - Lighting the Lamps at Sundown

39. Coast Scene

40. Sunset Landscape with Windmill

41. Temple by the Lake

42. Ruins of a Temple, Sunset

43. Clouds at Sunset

44. Seacoast, Sunset with Harlech Castle

45. Mountainous Landscape with Clouds

46. Crossing Lancaster Sands

47. Erne River, Ireland

48. The Shepherd - Evening