Genre: marine art / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: shipwreck

1. Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: exhibited 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 5/8 x 47 9/16 inches (90.5 x 120.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: On view at YUAG

2. Shipwreck

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/2 x 16 inches (31.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1747 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast

Creator:: Thomas Buttersworth, 1768–1842
Date:: ca. 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches (59.1 x 89.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1740
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (24.4 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. The Wreck of the Dutton, An East Indiaman

Creator:: Samuel Prout, 1783–1852
Date:: ca. 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 14 3/8 x 19 inches (36.5 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rutgers Barclay, Yale BA 1957
On View:: Not on view

7. Scarborough: Shipwreck at the Foot of the Castle Cliff

Creator:: Francis Nicholson, 1753–1844
Date:: ca. 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 13/16 x 16 1/2in. (30 x 41.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Wreck and the Merchant Vessel, St. George, at Deal, Kent

Creator:: John Samuel Hayward, 1778–1822
Date:: 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 × 6 5/8 inches (13.3 × 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 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

10. Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

Creator:: Print made by George Cruikshank, 1792–1878
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (21.6 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 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

12. Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked

Creator:: Print made by Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 16 15/16 inches (28.2 x 43 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection; Gift of Theodore Sizer

13. Night and a Ship on Fire

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 15/16 x 21 7/16 inches (37.9 x 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. A Ship in Distress

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 7/8 x 21 13/16 inches (37.8 x 55.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Shipwreck

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 15 7/8 inches (30.2 × 40.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

Creator:: John William Edy, 1760–1820
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 18 11/16 inches (35.9 × 47.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Date:: 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and stipple engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 3/4 × 25 1/2 inches (52.7 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. The Boscawen and Sheerness Privateers

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1753
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid on mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 20 9/16 inches (37.1 x 52.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Night

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (39.7 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Study for a composition: The Wreck of an East Indiaman

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly 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

21. Calais Sands

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches (34 x 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Wrecked Ship in a Stormy Sea

Creator:: François Louis Thomas Francia, 1772–1839
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown ink and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 7 1/8 inches (10.2 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Prospero and Miranda

Creator:: Mary Hoare, 1744–1820
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:: Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Hulk aground on beach

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 10 1/2 inches (16.2 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Wreckers -- Coast of Northumberland, with a Steam-Boat Assisting a Ship off Shore

2. Shipwreck

3. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

4. Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast

5. A Two-Decker on Fire at Night off a Fort

6. The Wreck of the Dutton, An East Indiaman

7. Scarborough: Shipwreck at the Foot of the Castle Cliff

8. Wreck and the Merchant Vessel, St. George, at Deal, Kent

9. 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,....

10. Frontispiece: The Progress of a Midshipman

11. Shipwrecked Sailors

12. Scene of a Storm, with a Vessel Wrecked

13. Night and a Ship on Fire

14. A Ship in Distress

15. Shipwreck

16. View of His Majesty's Ship Boyne of 98 Guns, on Fire by Accident at Spithead, May 1, 1795

17. Portraits Painted from Life, Representing Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782

18. The Boscawen and Sheerness Privateers

19. Night

20. Study for a composition: The Wreck of an East Indiaman

21. Calais Sands

22. Wrecked Ship in a Stormy Sea

23. Prospero and Miranda

24. Hulk aground on beach