Materials & Techniques: wove paper / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Subject Terms: moonlight

1. Cornfield and Church by Moonlight

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: early 1830s
Materials & Techniques:: Brush and black ink on very thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 7 1/4 inches (15.2 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Moonlit Scene with a Winding River

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: ca. 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Black and brown wash, gouache, and gum on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches (26.7 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 3/16 inches (22.8 x 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 3/8 inches (27.6 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with black ink or oil paint, gray watercolor or gouache, and pale brown watercolor, gouache or chalk on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 14 7/16 inches (27.6 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches (26.3 x 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 inches (15.3 x 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 5/16 inches (27.3 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

9. Rispah: 2nd Book of Samuel, Chap. 21

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1812
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 16 3/8 inches (27.3 × 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Nocturnal View of Mountainous Landscape with River

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, sponging and scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 5/8 inches (16.5 × 14.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Moon-Light

Creator:: Print made by John Browne, 1741–1801
Date:: ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/16 x 17 1/16 inches (33.2 x 43.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869
Date:: 1839
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (10.8 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Moonlight River Scene

Creator:: Newton Limbird Smith Fielding, 1799–1856
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (16.8 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Quarterdeck by Moonlight - When Homeward Bound

Creator:: I. H. Gascoigne, active 1830s–1840s
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and watercolor with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (23.5 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Rescue of Lot

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Mount: 3 7/8 x 5 15/16 inches (9.8 x 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Moonlit Landscape with a Ruined Castle

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: between 1820 and 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, brown wash, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 5/8 inches (17.8 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Moonlit Scene of Castle and Ships

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen and black ink, brown ink, graphite, gouache and gum arabic on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 5 13/16 inches (11.1 × 14.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Music by Moonlight

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: 1782 or 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches (28.9 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Moonlight over the Sea, Broadstairs

Creator:: Attributed to George Richmond, 1809–1896
Date:: 1843
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 9/16 inches (16.2 × 24.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Moonlight Landscape

Creator:: David Cox, 1783–1859
Date:: between 1850 and 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk on moderately thick, rough, gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 17 1/4 inches (27 x 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Moonlit Lake

Creator:: attributed to Samuel Jackson, 1794–1869
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite, with scraping out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (24.1 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Scarborough Harbour, Yorkshire - Moonlight

Creator:: Henry Barlow Carter, 1804–1868
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium moderately textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (24.4 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Moonlit Coastal Scene

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and white gouache on medium, smooth, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/16 × 4 3/4 inches (8.7 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Moonlight

Creator:: Welby Sherman, active 1827
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and ink and watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (6.4 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Mauritius - Moonlight, with Charcoal Burners Fire in the Black River Gorge

Creator:: William John Chamberlayne, 1821–1910
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (26.7 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Landscape by Moonlight

Creator:: imitator of John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (13.3 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Stoke Poges

Creator:: Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938
Date:: 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; 2nd state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 1/8 inches (16.5 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

28. An Elopement by Moonlight

Creator:: Charles B. Newhouse, fl. c.1820–1836
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, red ink, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 14 7/16 inches (24.6 × 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to thick card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper, mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Stoke Poges

Creator:: Print made by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, 1876–1938
Date:: 1918
Materials & Techniques:: Etching; 6th state on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (21.6 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

32. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving; 1st state on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 6 7/8 inches (29.5 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Nightingale (tail piece)

Creator:: Print made by Alfred W. Cooper, active 1850–1901
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 7 5/16 inches (17.8 x 18.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Moonlight on the River near Bruges

Creator:: Attributed to John Berney Crome, 1794–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 13 1/8 inches (22.9 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Passing of 1880

Creator:: Thomas Danby, 1818–1886
Date:: ca. 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache and scraping out on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 19in. (31.4 x 48.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Moonlight Scene on the Rhine

Creator:: Henry Bright, 1810–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, gouache, black chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper mounted on wood panel
Dimensions:: Sheet: 31 3/4 × 42 inches (80.6 × 106.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Mackerel Sky by Moonlight

Creator:: William Lionel Wyllie, 1851–1931
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (25.7 x 15.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lois Severini and Enrique Foster Gittes, Yale BA 1961

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1. Cornfield and Church by Moonlight

2. A Moonlit Scene with a Winding River

3. The Rising Moon

4. The Rising Moon

5. The Rising Moon

6. The Rising Moon

7. The Rising Moon

8. The Rising Moon

9. Rispah: 2nd Book of Samuel, Chap. 21

10. Nocturnal View of Mountainous Landscape with River

11. Moon-Light

12. Moonlight

13. Moonlight River Scene

14. Quarterdeck by Moonlight - When Homeward Bound

15. The Rescue of Lot

16. Moonlit Landscape with a Ruined Castle

17. Moonlit Scene of Castle and Ships

18. Music by Moonlight

19. Moonlight over the Sea, Broadstairs

20. Moonlight Landscape

21. The Moonlit Lake

22. Scarborough Harbour, Yorkshire - Moonlight

23. Moonlit Coastal Scene

24. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Moonlight

25. Mauritius - Moonlight, with Charcoal Burners Fire in the Black River Gorge

26. Landscape by Moonlight

27. Stoke Poges

28. An Elopement by Moonlight

29. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

30. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath

31. Stoke Poges

32. St. Herbert's Chapel

33. The Nightingale (tail piece)

34. Moonlight on the River near Bruges

35. The Passing of 1880

36. Moonlight Scene on the Rhine

37. Mackerel Sky by Moonlight