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1. The Mall

The Mall
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
between 1740 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 47 1/4 inches (74.9 x 120 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view

2. Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1740s
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 3/4 × 21 5/8 inches (75.6 × 54.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Greg Hedberg
On View:
Not on view

3. A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family

A Family Being Served with Tea, possibly the Carter family
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
42 x 55 inches (106.7 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view

4. Restoration Procession of Charles II at Cheapside

Restoration Procession of Charles II at Cheapside
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
mid-18th century
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view

5. Kidbrooke Park, Kent

Kidbrooke Park, Kent
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 45 1/4 inches (76.2 x 114.9 cm)
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:
Not on view

6. A View of the Sienne

A View of the Sienne
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
between 1740 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Creighton Gilbert, Yale MA (HON.) 1981

7. Dr. Johnson's Entertainment at a Highland Change

Dr. Johnson's Entertainment at a Highland Change
Creator:
James Roberts the Elder, 1725–1799
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 x 5 1/2in. (22.9 x 14cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert

8. A Plan of Part of the Ancient City of Westminster, from College Street to Whitehall, and from the Thames to St. James's Park, in which are laid down all the New Streets that have been built & other alterations made since the building of Westminster Bridge

A Plan of Part of the Ancient City of Westminster, from College Street to Whitehall, and from the Thames to St. James's Park, in which are laid down all the New Streets that have been built & other alterations made since the building of Westminster Bridge
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
printed 1740, drawn ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving marked with pen and black ink, blue wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 15/16 × 28 3/4 inches (53.2 × 73 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. James Douglas, Fourth Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland

James Douglas, Fourth Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland
Creator:
Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving; Proof before letters with engraver's name and date only
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 15/16 inches (47 × 30.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. George Saville, Marquess of Hallifax

George Saville, Marquess of Hallifax
Creator:
Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 15/16 inches (47 × 30.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. A Perspective View of Tower Hill and The Plae of Execution of the Lords Klmarnack and Balmerinc on Monday 18 August 1740

A Perspective View of Tower Hill and The Plae of Execution of the Lords Klmarnack and Balmerinc on Monday 18 August 1740
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Hand colored engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. View of Dulwich College

View of Dulwich College
Creator:
Taylor, active 1790
Date:
undated
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Card printed at the Frost Fair

Card printed at the Frost Fair
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Letterpress, engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Card printed at the Frost Fair

Card printed at the Frost Fair
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Letterpress, engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Gentleman in Blue Coat

Gentleman in Blue Coat
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Enamel on ivory
Dimensions:
Image: 1 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches (4.8 x 3.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ann and Kenneth Rapoport

16. Frost-Fair. General View

Frost-Fair. General View
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
1740
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Landscape with Animals beneath a rugged cliff

No cover image available
Creator:
Attributed to Henry Roberts, ca. 1710–1790
Date:
ca. 1745
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 5/8 x 5 3/4in. (11.7 x 14.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Dry drug jar.

Dry drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high x 15 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

19. Wet drug jar.

Wet drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 17 cm high (including handle) x 14 cm in diameter (17 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

20. Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.

Indenture placing John Dikes into the service of John Morris, joiner.
Date:
1740 October 6
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Wet drug jar.

Wet drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 20 cm high (including handle) x 14 cm in diameter (20 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

22. Dry drug jar.

Dry drug jar.
Date:
circa 1750
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high x 15 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

23. The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
iv, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

24. Atlas minor, or, A new and curious set of sixty two maps : in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth : with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed and laid down agreeable to modern history / by Herman Moll ...

Atlas minor, or, A new and curious set of sixty two maps : in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth : with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed and laid down agreeable to modern history / by Herman Moll ...
Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
[174-?]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([1], 62 leaves) : 62 maps ; 25 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. [Wallpaper fragment with classical frieze].

No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1760?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet of wallpaper : chiaroscuro ; 46 x 75 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The anatomy of the human body / by W. Cheselden ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Cheselden, William, 1688–1752
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[10], 336 p., [1], [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A new and exact map of America laid down from the latest observations and discoveries.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bowles, John, 1701–1779
Date:
[approximately 1740?]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 56 x 70 cm, on sheet 62 x 104 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. An act to restrain and prevent the excessive increase of horse races, and for amending an act made in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
[2] p., p. 407-412 ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A mapp of the kingdom of Ireland : newly corrected & improv'd by actual observations : divided into its provinces, counties, & baronies, and supply'd with many market towns & other places of note omitted in former mapps ... : together with plans of the citys and fortified towns / as allso a short description of the kingdom by Henry Pratt ; to this map is added a large index of the measur'd distances of ev'ry town from Dublin, of the burroughs, barracks, and post towns with many other improuements and emendations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Grierson, George, -1753
Date:
1740]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets ; 240 x 186 cm., on sheets 66 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The use of the globes, or, The general doctrine of the sphere : explaining and demonstrating the most natural propositions relating to astronomy, geography and dialing : to which is added A synopsis of the doctrine of eclipses ... / by Thomas Wright

No cover image available
Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1711–1786
Date:
MDCCXL [1740]
Physical Description:
iv, 162, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Seven conferences held in the King of France's cabinet of paintings, between Mr. Le Brun, Mr. Bourdon, Mr. de Champagne, Mr. Perrault, &c. on some of the most celebrated pictures of Raphael, Titian, Paulo Veronese, Poussin, &c. in which the method of forming a judgment on paintings, is laid down with the greatest elegance and perspicuity. Translated from the French of Felibien. With a curious preface.

No cover image available
Creator:
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
2 p.., [iii]-lxii, 170, [2] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. World described.

No cover image available
Creator:
Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1740-1745
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The history of the belles lettres, and of the arts and sciences, from their origin, down to this present time. Translated from the French of M. Juvenal de Carlencas. With a complete alphabetical index.

No cover image available
Creator:
Carlenças, Félix de Juvenel de, 1679–1760
Date:
1740
Physical Description:
xiv, 309, [24] p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A description of nine historical prints : representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family / selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:
1740]
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts