Dorset Gallery

West Dorset

21 pictures: 8 in colour, 13 in black and white

In colour

A solid stone chapel standing alone on a grassy hilltop, with fields and the sea in the distance.
St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury Photochrom, 1890s Library of Congress
A long thatched barn among cattle in a field, with the green country rolling away behind.
The Abbey, Abbotsbury Photochrom, 1890s Library of Congress
A storm over Lyme Regis, with a boat heeling in the waves, men hauling a rope on the shore by a horse, and the town pale beyond the harbour wall.
Lyme Regis J. M. W. Turner, about 1834 Cincinnati Art Museum
A soft watercolour of the cliffs above Lyme Regis running down to a calm sea.
Lyme Regis Thomas Girtin, about 1797 Yale Center for British Art
The long tithe barn and old buildings of Abbotsbury under a blue and white sky, with cattle and people in the lane.
The Tithe Barn at Abbotsbury Thomas Girtin, about 1795 Yale Center for British Art
A lane between steep wooded banks leading to the great gabled barn at Abbotsbury.
The Abbey Barn, Abbotsbury John William Upham, 1802 Yale Center for British Art
Rounded green hills folding down to a stream, with a cart and horses on the road below.
View near Bridport Thomas Rowlandson, 1819 to 1822 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grey cliffs and a headland running along a quiet beach, with two figures on a rock by the water.
The Beach at Charmouth John Baverstock Knight Yale Center for British Art

In black and white

Engravings, etchings, drawings and early photographs.

An engraving of waves rolling onto the beach at Lyme Regis, with fishermen in the surf and the cliffs beyond.
Lyme Regis W. B. Cooke after J. M. W. Turner, 1814 Yale Center for British Art
An engraving of a ship in a rough sea off tall cliffs, with a sailing boat close by.
Bridport W. B. Cooke after J. M. W. Turner, 1820 Yale Center for British Art
A loose lithograph of a crowd gathered at a fair in a street.
The Fair, Lyme Regis James McNeill Whistler, 1895 Cleveland Museum of Art
A light lithograph of a street of tall houses, with people walking and a dog in the road.
Sunday, Lyme Regis James McNeill Whistler, 1895 National Gallery of Art, Washington
A lithograph of children standing in a shop doorway with windows beside it.
The Little Doorway, Lyme Regis James McNeill Whistler, 1895 National Gallery of Art, Washington
A lithograph of a tall narrow house with bay windows and a figure on the steps at its door.
The Little Steps, Lyme Regis James McNeill Whistler, 1895 to 1896 National Gallery of Art, Washington
A brown wash drawing of a squall coming in over the sea, with a figure on the beach and dark cliffs.
Lyme Regis, a Squall Thomas Sully Yale Center for British Art
A photograph of a wide town street with shop awnings and a few people.
Bridport Photograph, 1898 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A photograph of a stone church with a square tower, gravestones in the churchyard in front.
St Mary's Church, Bridport Photograph, 1898 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A photograph down the nave of a church between tall stone columns to the east window.
Inside St Mary's, Bridport Photograph, 1898 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A photograph of the harbour and beach at West Bay, with the cliffs running away to the east.
West Bay Photograph, 1898 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A grey wash drawing of the old abbey buildings and barn at Abbotsbury beside a lane.
Abbotsbury Abbey James Moore, 1791 Yale Center for British Art
A pencil drawing of the stone chapel on its hilltop, with its buttresses and small turret.
St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury James Moore, 1791 Yale Center for British Art