Creator Gender: unknown / Period: 18th century / Creator: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793

1. The City of Breslau

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 × 16 1/2 inches (27.9 × 41.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Prodigal Son Taking Leave

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 x 7in. (13 x 17.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960

3. The Wife's Fortune Told

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4in. (24.8 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. The Aelian Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, with part of the City of Rome

Creator:: Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Church of Santa Maria della Rotonda at Rome; It was the famous Pantheon of the Antients erected 30 years before the birth of our Saviour

Creator:: Carington Bowles, 1724–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 11 1/2 × 16 3/4 inches (29.2 × 42.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Husband's Fortune Told

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 10 x 13 7/8in. (25.4 x 35.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

7. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (47 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

8. Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1779
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 inches (41.6 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Jockey and Jenny

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (47 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox Heath

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (35.9 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. The Lover's Disguise

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (36.2 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. Deny It If You Can - Nine Taylors Makes a Man

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1774
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 inches (41.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

13. The Feathered Fair, Feeding the Feathered Fowl

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1783
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 18 1/2 × 11 5/8 inches (47 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Doctor Blowbladder Discovering the Perpetual Motion

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1772
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 11 1/4 inches (44.1 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. French Privateers, Cruising in the English Channel

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (41.3 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. Welladay! Is This my Son Tom!

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 11 3/8 inches (44.1 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

17. Ha! Ha! Hah! - I've Got the Chink!

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (37.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. The Modern Beau in Distress

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: between 1770 and 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 7/8 inches (37.5 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. A True Town Picture; or an Old Hag of Drury Presenting a Chicken to his Lordship

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 11 1/4 inches (44.1 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. The Double Attack, or French Politeness not a Match for English Assurance

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1770s
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/8 × 11 1/4 inches (44.1 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [177-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Bowles's universal display of the naval flags of all nations in the world = Bowles son vue universelle des pavillons marine dans touts les parties du monde.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1783]
Physical Description:: [41] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 48 x 94 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Bowles's art of painting in water-colours : exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. : together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons : explained in a full and familiar manner : with particular directions for preparing the colours agreeable to the practice of the most eminent masters / by the author of Bowles's artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: [i]-iv, [5-7], 8-80 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1779]
Physical Description:: [1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The Art of painting in water colours: exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. Together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons: explained in a full and familiar manner. With particular directions for preparing the colours, agreeably to the practice of the most eminent masters. By the author of The Artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 68 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Carington Bowles's New and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans : curious and entertaining engraved and mezzotint prints, single or in sets, writing books ...

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1784]
Physical Description:: 198 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The City of Breslau

2. The Prodigal Son Taking Leave

3. The Wife's Fortune Told

4. The Aelian Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo, with part of the City of Rome

5. The Church of Santa Maria della Rotonda at Rome; It was the famous Pantheon of the Antients erected 30 years before the birth of our Saviour

6. The Husband's Fortune Told

7. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger

8. Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine

9. Jockey and Jenny

10. Lady Gorget raising Recruits for Cox Heath

11. The Lover's Disguise

12. Deny It If You Can - Nine Taylors Makes a Man

13. The Feathered Fair, Feeding the Feathered Fowl

14. Doctor Blowbladder Discovering the Perpetual Motion

15. French Privateers, Cruising in the English Channel

16. Welladay! Is This my Son Tom!

17. Ha! Ha! Hah! - I've Got the Chink!

18. The Modern Beau in Distress

19. A True Town Picture; or an Old Hag of Drury Presenting a Chicken to his Lordship

20. The Double Attack, or French Politeness not a Match for English Assurance

23. Bowles's universal display of the naval flags of all nations in the world = Bowles son vue universelle des pavillons marine dans touts les parties du monde.

24. Bowles's New pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1790.

26. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

28. Carington Bowles's New and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans : curious and entertaining engraved and mezzotint prints, single or in sets, writing books ...