Medium: painting (technique) / Subject Terms: waves (natural events)

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. Staffa, Fingal's Cave

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: 1831 to 1832
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 3/4 x 47 3/4 inches (90.8 x 121.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Shipwreck

Creator:: Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:: ca. 1850
Medium:: 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

4. Sunset at Sea after a Storm

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Danby, 1793–1861, Irish
Date:: ca. 1824
Medium:: Oil on pressed card
Dimensions:: 4 1/2 x 7 inches (11.4 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1840 and 1845
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/2 x 25 inches (44.5 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 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

7. Off the Nore

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1840 and 1845
Medium:: Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Port Ruysdael

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Date:: between 1826 and 1827
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 1/4 x 48 1/4 inches (92.1 x 122.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797, British
Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 × 72 inches (127 × 182.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Channel Coast

Creator:: Ruskin Spear, 1911–1990, British
Date:: ca. 1975
Medium:: Oil on masonite board
Dimensions:: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

11. Seascape

Creator:: George Grosvenor Thomas, 1856–1923, Australian
Date:: between 1890 and 1895
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz

12. The Rock of Salvation

Creator:: Samuel Colman, 1780–1845, British
Date:: 1837
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches (61.3 x 74.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. Beach Scene

Creator:: Philip Wilson Steer, 1860–1942, British
Date:: 1891
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (21 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. An English Two-Decker Lying Hove to, with Other Ships and Vessels in a Fresh Breeze

Creator:: Dominic Serres, 1722–1793, French, active in Britain (from the 1750s)
Date:: 1770
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 16 x 25 inches (40.6 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. A Thames Barge running downwind off Tilbury Fort

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867, British
Date:: 1853
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 36 1/4 inches (61 x 92.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Fishing Smack and Other Vessels in a Strong Breeze

Creator:: Joseph Stannard, 1797–1830, British
Date:: 1830
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 3/4 x 17 inches (32.4 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Harbour of Pulo Condere

Creator:: John Webber, 1752–1793, British
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (19.7 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1780 to 1781
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Forecast

Creator:: John Tunnard, 1900–1971, British
Date:: 1945
Medium:: Oil on gesso-prepared board
Dimensions:: 24 x 22 3/4 inches (61 x 57.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

20. View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: between 1743 and 1744
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

Creator:: Samuel Scott, 1701/2–1772, British
Date:: 1753
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 55 x 45 1/2 inches (139.7 x 115.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Thread

Creator:: Peter Nadin, born 1954, British
Date:: 1993
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 × 70 inches (228.6 × 177.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Given by the Friends of British Art at Yale

23. An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze

Creator:: Francis Swaine, 1730–1782, British
Date:: undated, exhibited between 1762 and 1782
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 x 13 3/8 inches (25.4 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

Creator:: Thomas Whitcombe, 1763–after 1824, British
Date:: 1788
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/4 × 24 1/4 inches (43.8 × 61.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. English Ships Running before a Gale

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: before 1759
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Red Earth

Creator:: Renos Loizou, 1948–2013, Cypriot
Date:: 1986
Medium:: Oil on handmade paper
Dimensions:: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Libra Foundation, from the family of Nicholas and Susan Pritzker

27. An English Ship at Sea Running In a Gale

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: ca. 1700
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

28. Port on a Stormy Day

Creator:: George Chambers, 1803–1840, British
Date:: 1835
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Dutch Shipping off the Low Countries

Creator:: Adam Silo, ca. 1674–1772, Dutch
Date:: 18th century
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 x 12 3/4 inches (22.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

30. The Deluge

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854, British
Date:: 1834
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 66 1/4 x 101 3/4 inches (168.3 x 258.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Wave

Creator:: C. R. W. Nevinson, 1889–1946, British
Date:: 1917
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Cutter Close Hauled in a Fresh Breeze, with Other Shipping

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 42 x 66 inches (106.7 x 167.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: between 1747 and 1750
Medium:: 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

34. Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast

Creator:: Thomas Buttersworth, 1768–1842, British
Date:: ca. 1810
Medium:: 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

35. English Warships Heeling in the Breeze Offshore

Creator:: Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: between 1673 and 1707
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 28 inches (45.7 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

36. A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam

Creator:: Clarkson Stanfield, 1793–1867, British
Date:: 1856
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 31 x 48 inches (78.7 x 121.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

37. Madras, or Fort St. George, in the Bay of Bengal -- A Squall Passing Off

Creator:: William Daniell, 1769–1837, British
Date:: 1833
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 42 inches (68.6 x 106.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. A Lugger Driving Ashore in a Gale

Creator:: William Joy, 1803–1867, British
Date:: ca. 1830
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (47 x 66.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. 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

40. Men of War in a Stiff Breeze

Creator:: Jan Theunisz Blankerhoff, 1628–1669, Dutch
Date:: mid-17th century
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

41. English Royal Yachts at Sea in a Strong Breeze, in Company with a Ship Flying the Royal Standard

Creator:: Studio of Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1633–1707, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1672)
Date:: ca. 1689
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 1/2 x 28 inches (54.6 x 71.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The U Collection. In appreciation of Choh Shiu and Man Foo U, loving parents, and Dorothea and Frank Cockett, dear friends

42. Donkeys and Figures on a Beach

Creator:: Julius Caesar Ibbetson, 1759–1817, British
Date:: ca. 1815
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (23.5 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. A Cutter in a Strong Breeze

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: ca. 1750
Medium:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Capture of the "Marquis d'Antin" and the "Louis Erasme"

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Date:: between 1745 and 1755
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 13 x 19 inches (33 x 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Sailing Ships

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886, British
Date:: 1861
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 3/4 x 21 inches (19.7 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782, British, active in Italy (1750–56)
Date:: 1760
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 58 x 74 inches (147.3 x 188 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. Staffa, Fingal's Cave

3. Shipwreck

4. Sunset at Sea after a Storm

5. Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore

6. The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, in Three Positions

7. Off the Nore

8. Port Ruysdael

9. Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks

10. Channel Coast

11. Seascape

12. The Rock of Salvation

13. Beach Scene

14. An English Two-Decker Lying Hove to, with Other Ships and Vessels in a Fresh Breeze

15. A Thames Barge running downwind off Tilbury Fort

16. Fishing Smack and Other Vessels in a Strong Breeze

17. The Harbour of Pulo Condere

18. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

19. Forecast

20. View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge

21. Shipping in a Choppy Sea

22. Thread

23. An English Sloop and a Frigate in a Light Breeze

24. A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

25. English Ships Running before a Gale

26. Red Earth

27. An English Ship at Sea Running In a Gale

28. Port on a Stormy Day

29. Dutch Shipping off the Low Countries

30. The Deluge

31. The Wave

32. Cutter Close Hauled in a Fresh Breeze, with Other Shipping

33. Ship wrecked on a rocky coast

34. Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast

35. English Warships Heeling in the Breeze Offshore

36. A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam

37. Madras, or Fort St. George, in the Bay of Bengal -- A Squall Passing Off

38. A Lugger Driving Ashore in a Gale

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

40. Men of War in a Stiff Breeze

41. English Royal Yachts at Sea in a Strong Breeze, in Company with a Ship Flying the Royal Standard

42. Donkeys and Figures on a Beach

43. A Cutter in a Strong Breeze

44. The Capture of the "Marquis d'Antin" and the "Louis Erasme"

45. Sailing Ships

46. The Destruction of the Children of Niobe