Skip to splash images
Yale Center for British Art Home Page
<< YCBA Home
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
<< YCBA Home
Welcome to YCBA Collections Online
The museum is closed for building conservation. We regret that we are unable to accept orders for new collections photography until January 2025.
    Search Options:
Search in
Simple Search
All Fields
Title
Creator
Subject Terms
Call Number
Search Provenance
Fielded
search for
Search
YCBA Collections Search
Toggle facets
Refine your search
Collection
Prints and Drawings
3
Paintings and Sculpture
2
Creator
Cozens, John Robert, 1752–1797
1
Farington, Joseph, 1747–1821
1
Luny, Thomas, 1759–1837
1
Swinburne, Edward, 1765–1847
1
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
1
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
1
Date
1814
39
1867
37
1767
36
1774
20
1745
11
1775
8
1818
7
1800
6
1808
6
1764
5
1780
[remove]
5
1784
5
1790
5
1804
5
1809
5
1810
5
1820
5
1821
5
1822
5
1866
5
1765
4
1769
4
1772
4
1782
4
1785
4
1793
4
1799
4
1813
4
1825
4
1835
4
1845
4
1880
4
1781
3
1786
3
1788
3
1792
3
1797
3
1803
3
1815
3
1817
3
1827
3
1833
3
1920
3
1674
2
1739
2
1746
2
1753
2
1755
2
1762
2
1768
2
1771
2
1773
2
1778
2
1795
2
1802
2
1805
2
1812
2
1826
2
1832
2
1836
2
1837
2
1838
2
1840
2
1842
2
1860
2
1865
2
1881
2
1882
2
1887
2
1890
2
1923
2
1631
1
1693
1
1700
1
1715
1
1729
1
1738
1
1743
1
1744
1
1749
1
1750
1
1751
1
1756
1
1758
1
1759
1
1770
1
1776
1
1779
1
1783
1
1791
1
1798
1
1807
1
1811
1
1816
1
1823
1
1824
1
1831
1
1834
1
1839
1
1843
1
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
3
Not on view
2
Image Use
Free to Use
5
Image Available
Available
5
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
3
Paintings
2
Creator Gender
male
5
Period
18th century
4
18th century-19th century
1
Materials & Techniques
graphite
2
laid paper
2
painting (technique)
2
watercolor
2
black ink
1
canvas
1
oil paint
1
scraping out
1
wove paper
1
Height [cm]
Height [cm] range begin
–
Height [cm] range end
Current results range from
16
to
85
Width [cm]
Width [cm] range begin
–
Width [cm] range end
Current results range from
19
to
145
Work Type
drawing
2
painting
2
watercolor
1
Genre
landscape
3
architectural subject
1
marine art
1
Subject Terms
cliffs
[remove]
5
landscape
3
trees
3
architectural subject
2
marine art
2
river
2
sea
2
ships
2
beach
1
boat
1
boats
1
breeze
1
castle
1
cliff
1
clouds
1
cutter (sailing vessel)
1
flags
1
full-rigged ships
1
grotto
1
hills
1
more
Subject Terms
»
Associated Places
England
2
United Kingdom
2
Campagna
1
Derbyshire
1
Derwent
1
Dover
1
Dover castle
1
Europe
1
Italy
1
Kent
1
Matlock
1
Nemi, Lago di
1
South Foreland
1
Exhibition History
The Art of Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-09-17 - 1980-11-16)
2
Alexander and J. R. Cozens (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987-01-30 - 1987-03-29)
1
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)
1
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)
1
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)
1
Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
1
English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
1
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
1
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
1
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
1
Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Britain, 1990-02-07 - 1990-04-22)
1
Joseph Wright of Derby (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990-09-06 - 1990-12-02)
1
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
1
Travelling. J.M.W. Turner in Search of the Sublime and Picturesque (LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, 2019-11-08 - 2020-01-26)
1
William Beckford, 1760-1844 (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2001-09-15 - 2002-05-15)
1
William Beckford, 1760-1844 (The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 2001-09-15 - 2002-05-15)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
4
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
1
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Date
1780
Remove constraint Date: 1780
Subject Terms
cliffs
Remove constraint Subject Terms: cliffs
1
-
5
of
5
Sort by collection
collection
relevance
artist (A-Z)
date
title (A-Z)
Number of results to display per page
100 per page
100
per page
50
per page
15
per page
View results as:
List
Masonry
Search Results
1
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment
between 1780 and 1785
Not on view
2
Thomas Luny, 1759–1837
A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland
1780
Not on view
3
Edward Swinburne, 1765–1847
Dustanborough Castle
undated
4
Joseph Farington, 1747–1821
Palace on a Cliff Above a River
1780-1789 (?)
5
John Robert Cozens, 1752–1797
On the Lake of Nemi
between 1780 and 1783