On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: sporting art / Subject Terms: water

1. Landscape with a Hunting Party

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor with pen and red-brown and gray ink over graphite with pen and gray ink and wash line on border on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches (14.9 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

2. Holy Island and Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: Capt. Francis Grose, 1731–1791, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 3/16 inches (10.6 × 15.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This Bridge Will A-Bridge My Sport'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 1/2 inches (16.4 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. "Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'

"Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite with red chalk and white gouache on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 5/16 inches (16.5 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British
Date:: between 1805 and 1810
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 9 3/16 inches (14.4 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Snipe Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (26.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Anglers Packing Up

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 13 inches (10.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Bottom Fishing Near Totten Mill

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 12 7/8 inches (10.8 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Sporting Parson: "He Then Goes in For Baptism"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 11/16 inches (27.1 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Steeplechasing: Three Riders Taking a Brook, Spectators on Right

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 11/16 inches (26.5 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 × 14 5/8 inches (26.8 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. View at Chelsea of the Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge

Creator:: Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 15/16 × 16 5/8 inches (27.8 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. "Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 1/4 inches (16.7 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Patience in a Punt

Creator:: Henry William Bunbury, 1750–1811, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 12 1/2 inches (20.5 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Faceing a Brook Verifying the Old Adage, Look Before You Leap'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 7/8 inches (20.5 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Insult to Injury

Creator:: George Denholm Armour, 1864–1949, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, and pen, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 10 13/16 inches (38.1 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Fly Fishing

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 x 10 9/16 inches (10.8 x 26.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Punt Fishing in the Thames

Creator:: Robert Pollard, 1755–1838, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite, with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/16 x 13 1/16 inches (10.6 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. On the Thames

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910, British
Date:: 1859
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/16 inches (30.7 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

21. On the Thames

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910, British
Date:: 1859
Medium:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. Landscape with a Hunting Party

2. Holy Island and Castle, Northumberland

3. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This Bridge Will A-Bridge My Sport'

4. "Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'

5. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

6. The Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge

7. Snipe Shooting

8. Anglers Packing Up

9. Bottom Fishing Near Totten Mill

10. The Sporting Parson: "He Then Goes in For Baptism"

11. Steeplechasing: Three Riders Taking a Brook, Spectators on Right

12. Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate

13. View at Chelsea of the Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge

14. "Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

15. Patience in a Punt

16. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Faceing a Brook Verifying the Old Adage, Look Before You Leap'

17. Insult to Injury

18. Fly Fishing

19. Punt Fishing in the Thames

20. On the Thames

21. On the Thames