Materials & Techniques: watercolor / Creator Gender: male / Subject Terms: sailors

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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

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1. Folkestone Harbour and Coast to Dover

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

3. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire

4. Ships on a Stormy Sea

5. View at Caernarvon, Wales

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

7. Sailors Raising a Boom

8. In the Channel

9. Shipping off the Isle of Wight

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

11. A Ship's Boat

12. 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.

13. The Sailor's Return

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

15. The Cape of Good Hope

16. The Landing of Columbus

17. Shipwrecked Sailors

18. A View at Blackwall

19. The Dying Sailor

20. The Launching of a Ship

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

22. A Sailor and His Family