Medium: oil paint / Associated Places: United Kingdom / Subject Terms: ships

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

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1833 and 1834
Medium:: 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

2. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

Creator:: Ben Nicholson, 1894–1982, British
Date:: 1947
Medium:: Oil and pencil on board
Dimensions:: 7 5/8 x 9 inches (19.4 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Purchased with funds from Neil Phillips, Yale LLB 1951, and Ivan Phillips, Yale BA 1956, in memory of their parents, The Hon. Lazarus Phillips and Rosalie Phillips

3. Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Date:: ca. 1820
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 x 20 inches (33 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: ca. 1806
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 3/8 x 39 1/2 inches (67 x 100.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

Creator:: Isaac Sailmaker, ca. 1633–1721, Dutch, active in Britain (from the 1640s)
Date:: between 1707 and 1708
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 53 inches (106.7 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Low Lighthouse, North Shields

Creator:: Robert Salmon, 1775–ca.1845, British
Date:: 1828
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 16 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches (41.9 x 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Shipping off Dover

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: 1738
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 53 inches (67.3 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Plymouth

Creator:: Hendrik Danckerts, ca. 1625–1680, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1664)
Date:: 1673
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 × 68 inches (101.6 × 172.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Rochester

Creator:: Edward Dayes, 1763–1804, British
Date:: 1799
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 7/8 x 12 13/16 inches (25.1 x 32.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

Creator:: Thomas Creswick, 1811–1869, British
Date:: ca. 1838
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 6 3/4 inches (22.9 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768, Venetian, active in Britain (1746–55)
Date:: 1747
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: Frame: 43 5/8 x 56 x 3 inches (110.8 x 142.2 x 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

Creator:: Peter Monamy, 1681–1749, British
Date:: ca. 1703
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/4 x 54 inches (61.6 x 137.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Rochester Cathedral and Castle

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856, British
Date:: ca. 1825
Medium:: Oil on artist's board
Dimensions:: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (14 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Frederick Nash, 1782–1856, British
Date:: ca. 1825
Medium:: Oil on artist's board
Dimensions:: 5 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches (14.3 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig

Creator:: William Clark, 1803–1883, British
Date:: 1836
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Creator:: Francis Holman, 1760–1790, British
Date:: ca. 1775
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 x 57 inches (76.2 x 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837, British
Date:: 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 33 3/8 × 57 inches (84.8 × 144.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Launching at Deptford

Creator:: John Cleveley the elder, ca. 1712–1777, British
Date:: ca. 1757
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 41 3/4 × 72 1/8 inches (106 × 183.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Shipping in the English Channel

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: ca. 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

Creator:: Edward William Cooke, 1811–1880, British
Date:: 1845
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 35 1/2 inches (69.9 × 90.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Port of London

Creator:: Thomas Luny, 1759–1837, British
Date:: 1798
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 3/4 x 33 7/8 inches (55.2 x 86 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Heaving up His Majesty's Frigate 'Diana' at Blackburn's Yard, near Plymouth

Creator:: John Rogers, active 1812–1813, British
Date:: 1813
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 × 49 5/8 inches (58.4 × 126 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Brighton

Creator:: William Henry Stothard Scott, 1783–1850, British
Date:: 1817
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 5/16 x 28 3/16 inches (54.1 x 71.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

Creator:: Thomas Mellish, ca.1748–1782, British
Date:: between 1761 and 1766
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/8 x 22 1/2 inches (46 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

Creator:: Nicholas Condy, 1793–1857, British
Date:: ca. 1835
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/16 x 24 1/8 inches (45.9 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

Creator:: Jan Griffier the Elder, ca. 1645–1718, Dutch, active in Britain (from ca. 1672)
Date:: Between 1700-1710
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches (45.1 x 83.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Hussars Embarking at Deptford

Creator:: William Anderson, 1757–1837, British
Date:: 1793
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
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. 1947 (Mousehole, Cornwall)

3. Harwich: The Low Lighthouse and Beacon Hill

4. The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions

5. Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness

6. The Low Lighthouse, North Shields

7. Shipping off Dover

8. Plymouth

9. Rochester

10. St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall

11. Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

12. The Opening of the First Eddystone Lighthouse in 1698

13. Rochester Cathedral and Castle

14. Westminster Bridge

15. The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig

16. The Frigate 'Surprise' at Anchor off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

17. A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

18. Launching at Deptford

19. Shipping in the English Channel

20. Off the Needles, Isle of Wight

21. The Port of London

22. Heaving up His Majesty's Frigate 'Diana' at Blackburn's Yard, near Plymouth

23. Brighton

24. Shipping in the Thames Estuary

25. The Victualling Office, Plymouth

26. A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats

27. Hussars Embarking at Deptford