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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, 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

5. 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

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, 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

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. Study of a Clouded Moonlit Sky

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (11.1 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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 laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 x 16 7/16 inches (32 x 41.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. St. Herbert's Chapel

Creator:: Print made by Henry Le Keux, 1787–1868
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: 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

29. 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

30. 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

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. 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

33. The Monmouth of 64 Guns, taking the Foudroyant a French Man of War of 84 Guns on the 28th of Feb. 1758 in the Mediterranean,....

Creator:: Print made by Peter P. Benazech, 1767–1794
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching with hand colored ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 21 1/16 inches (37.1 x 53.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Night

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving and etching, hand colored on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 5/8 inches (32.7 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (30.2 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. 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

37. Italian Lake Scene

Creator:: Richard Cooper the Elder, 1701–1764
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 13 3/4 inches (20.3 x 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. St. Paul's Cathedral in the Moonlight

Creator:: Bill Brandt, 1904–1983
Date:: 1944, printed 1955-60
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on medium, semi-gloss photographic paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 7/8 inches (23.5 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

39. A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Soft-ground etching, aquatint, black chalk, white chalk, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 12 3/4 inches (25.5 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. 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

41. Moonlight

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 3/8 inches (37.5 x 54.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. The Right Reverend George Huntingford, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/16 × 14 1/4 inches (51.3 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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11. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Moonlight

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15. Nocturnal View of Mountainous Landscape with River

16. Landscape by Moonlight

17. Moonlight over the Sea, Broadstairs

18. Moonlight Landscape

19. Moonlight River Scene

20. Quarterdeck by Moonlight - When Homeward Bound

21. The Rescue of Lot

22. Moonlit Landscape with a Ruined Castle

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

24. The Moonlit Lake

25. Music by Moonlight

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28. St. Herbert's Chapel

29. The Nightingale (tail piece)

30. Moon-Light

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33. The Monmouth of 64 Guns, taking the Foudroyant a French Man of War of 84 Guns on the 28th of Feb. 1758 in the Mediterranean,....

34. Night

35. Moonlight

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

37. Italian Lake Scene

38. St. Paul's Cathedral in the Moonlight

39. A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool

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

41. Moonlight

42. An Elopement by Moonlight

43. The Passing of 1880

44. Moonlight on the River near Bruges

45. Moonlight Scene on the Rhine

46. The Right Reverend George Huntingford, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

47. Mackerel Sky by Moonlight