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1. The Pastorals of Virgil, London, 1821

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: 17 wood engravings reprinted from the original blocks
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 5: Colinet: 'My piteous plight in yonder naked tree,/ which bears the thunder-scar too plain, I see:'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 7: Thenot: 'Nor fox, nor wolf, nor rot among our sheep:/ from these good shepherd's care his flock may keep/ against ill luck,'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 13: Thenot: 'for him our yearly wakes and feasts we hold,/ and choose the fairest firstlings from the fold;'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 14: Thenot: 'This night thy care with me forget, and fold/ thy flock with mine, to ward th' injurious cold.'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 15: Thenot: 'New milk, and clouted cream, mild cheese and curd,/ with some remaining fruit of last year's hoard,/ shall be our ev'ning fare.'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 12: Colinet: 'In vain, O Colinet, thy pipe, so shrill,/ charms every vale, and gladdens every hill:'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Each creature, Thenot, to his task is born

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 3: Thenot: 'Yet though with years my body downward tend,/ as trees beneath their fruit in autumn bend,'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 4: Colinet: 'Thine ewes will wander; and their heedless lambs,/ in loud complaints, require their absent dams.'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Or blasting winds o'er blossom'd hedge-rows pass

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 8: Colinet: 'Ah silly I! more silly than my sheep,/ which on thy flow'ry banks I wont to keep.'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 9: Colinet: 'A fond desire strange lands and swains to know./ Ah me! that ever I should covet wo.'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 10: Thenot: 'A rolling stone is ever bare of moss;/ and, to their cost, green years old proverbs cross.'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. My sheep quite spent through travel and ill fare

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. And now behold the sun's departing ray

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 17: Thenot: '

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:: Wood engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Pavilion at Brighton, The Marine Palace of His Majesty George the IVth

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Colored aquatint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 13 3/4in. (28.6 x 34.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Study for a willow tree branch

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Kirstall Abbey, near Leeds Yorkshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. House beside a river dam (?)

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Study of a tree top

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 41 1/2in. (25.4 x 105.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. View of a City Street with Houses and a Church

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Alter in the Chapel of St. Blase at Westminster Abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

26. Preston Church

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Scene of woman walking down lane towards house, in Ashcoombe, Devonshire

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Three figures set between a tree and a small house, with boats on the sea in the distance

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Two women standing in gateway at Salisbury

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. View from Putney Bridge, of several figures in sailboats on a river

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Landscape with trees set at base of low hills

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Study of the Ruins of Brambletye House, Sussex

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Study of a ruined abbey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and black chalk
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 14 1/2in. (25.4 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Samuel Johnson

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8in. (28.6 x 20.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Herman W. Liebert

38. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 4. View near Epsom

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 21 1/2in. (45.1 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Set of eight, printed wrappers, two sheets of text: 'Drawings from Original pictures of Philip Reinangle Esq. by an Amateur.

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 21 1/2in. (35.6 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 1. View of the Warren, Epsom

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 21 1/2in. (45.1 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 2. View of Epsom Race Course

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 21 1/2in. (45.1 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 3. View of Lord Arden's, Epsom

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 17 3/4 x 21 1/2in. (45.1 x 54.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Sheerness & the Isle of Sheppey, with the Junction of the Thames & Medway from the Nore

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Fisher, 1806–1851
Date:: between 1821 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving, with graphite and white chalk; touched engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 1/8 inches (29.5 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

46. Maternal Affection (Volume of 102 lithographs)

Creator:: Print made by William Sharp, active 1819–ca. 1837
Date:: between 1821 and 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4in. (41.9 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Mr. George L. Green

47. Dogs of the Dalmatian Breed - from an original picture in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester Baronet &, &

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 9/16 x 20in. (37 x 50.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The Interior of the Fives Court with Randall and Turner Sparring

Creator:: Charles Turner, 1774–1857
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/8 x 27 3/8in. (53.7 x 69.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur ; embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson &c.

Date:: 1821-1822
Physical Description:: 56 pt. in 33 pt.. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Tibet, and India beyond the Ganges : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, religion, amusements, &c. of the nations inhabiting those countries.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xi, 352 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The history of the coronation of Punch, and the humours of his wife Judy ...

Creator:: Marks, John Lewis
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 27 p. fold. col. front. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The history and antiquities of the metropolitical church of Canterbury; illustrated by a series of engravings, views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of that edifice: with biographical anecdotes of the archbishops, etc. By John Britton ...

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1821 [i. e. 1821-1823]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., ii, [5]-110, [4] p. XXVI plates (incl. plans) 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, with a winter residence at Philadelphia : solely to ascertain the actual prospects of the emigrating agriculturist, mechanic, and commercial speculator / by Adlard Welby, Esq., South Rauceby, Lincolnshire.

Creator:: Welby, Adlard
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xii, 224 pages, [14] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [4], 2, 2, [100] p., [51] leaves of plates col. ill.; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806 : par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale, Alexandre Ier, Empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadriedjeda et la Neva / commandés par M. de Krusenstern, traduit de l'aveu et avec des additions de l'auteur ; la traduction revué par M. J.-B-B. Eyriès.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The tour of Doctor Prosody, in search of the antique and picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney, and Shetland isles; illustrated by twenty humorous plates ...

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., 251 p. col. plates 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Lithographic impressions of sketches from nature.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1821
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Scenery of the river Dart : being a series of thirty-five views representing the most interesting features in its course, from its source in the wildest & most uncultivated parts of Dartmoor, to its mouth in the English Channel : executed to form as nearly as possible facsimilies of the drawings, and therefore calculated not only to interest the admirers of nature, and those unacquainted with the country, but also to form a set of studies for the learners of landscape drawing / drawn and engraved by F.C. Lewis, engraver to H.R.H. Prince Leopold and H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte.

Creator:: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves, 35 leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A catalogue of the select and reserved collection of very capital and valuable pictures, of Mr. Woodburn, Senior, retiring to the country, removed from his house at Knightsbridge : comprising a few grand specimens of the most celebrated Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch Masters ... : among them are particularly valuable, Christ and His Disciples at Emmaus, by Titian " The return of the Holy Family out of Egypt, by Vandyck : The Virgin and Child by Corregio ... : some singularly rare and curious portraits, among which are : Leonardo Da Vinci, painted by himself ... : Cardinal Borgia, by G. Romano : ... portrait of Endymion Porter, page of honor to Charles I, by Dobson : and others by Giorgione, Tintoretto, Luini, Parmegiano, Schidone, Baroccio, Carracci, Domenichino, N. Poussin, Holbein, Rubens, V. Dyck, Snyders, Rembrandt, Bol, Brauwer, Waterloo, Sir J. Reynolds, Barret, Morland, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, the 12th day of May, 1821, at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Designs for vases and foliage, composed from the antique / by Robert Adam ... ; engraved by Pastorini.

Creator:: Adam, Robert, 1728–1792
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : all ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The book of English trades, and library of the visual arts. With seventy engravings.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [vii]-viii, 374 p. front., plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

Creator:: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790–1855
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [8], xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The Forbidden City : pure silk and long-scroll painting.

Creator:: Liu, Hongkuan, 1938–
Date:: [2015?]
Physical Description:: 1 printed scroll : silk ; 26 x 305 cm, rolled to 26 x 6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The Shrewsbury visitor's pocket companion; or, Salopian guide and directory: containing the history and description of the town, from its foundation, by the Britons, to the present time: an alphabetical list of the inhabitants ... Embellished by copper-plates. By T. Minshull ...

Creator:: Minshull, T
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 92 p. front., plates, maps (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London : with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources / by John Bayley, Esq., F.S.A. of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of His Majesty's Sub-Commissioners on the Public Records ; in two parts ; Part I[-II].

Creator:: Bayley, John, -1869
Date:: 1821-1825
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Real life in Ireland, or, The day and night scenes, rovings, rambles, and sprees, bulls, blunders, bodderation and blarney of Brian Boru and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty : exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, &c. in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland : embellished with humorous coloured engravings, from original designs by the most eminent artists / by a real Paddy.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 18 pt. (vii, [1], 296 p., [19] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Classical excursion from Rome to Arpino / by Charles Kelsall.

Creator:: Kelsall, Charles
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 107 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

Creator:: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The history and topography of the county of Kent, : with biographical sketches, &c. &c., and a neat map of the county.

Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: 90 p., [1] leaf of folded plates : map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Turkey : being a description of the manners, customs, dresses and other peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of the Turkish empire : to which is prefixed a sketch of the history of the Turks / translated from the French of A.L. Castellan ... by Frederic Schoberl ...

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The history of King Richard the Third / by Sir Thomas More.

Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 241 p. : ports. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome, during the year 1819 / by Maria Graham.

Creator:: Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: vii, 306 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Series of views of the public buildings and bridges in London and its environs / from drawings taken on the spot by R. Havell, Jun.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, 1793–1878
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The new Cambridge guide, or, A view of the university, town, and county of Cambridge : containing correct and comprehensive descriptions of the public buildings, colleges, churches, curiosities ..., a concise account of the different orders, degrees, ceremonies, and offices in the university ...

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [4], xx, 121, [3] p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Letters from Switzerland and France : written during a residence of between two and three years in different parts of those countries.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 104 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

Creator:: Sauvan, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 177 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany / by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A.

Creator:: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Le Don Quichotte romantique, ou Voyage du docteur Syntaxe, à la recherche du pittoresque et du romantique; poëme en XX chants, traduit librement de l'anglais, et orné de 26 gravures. Par M. Gandais.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: viii, 146 p. front., 24 plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. An account of a new process in painting. In two parts. Part I. Containing remarks on its general correspondence with the peculiarities of the Venetian school. Part II. Supplementary details, explanatory of the process: with miscellaneous observations on the arts of the sixteenth century.

Creator:: Cleaver, Miss
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xi, 174 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em.

Creator:: Book'em, Roger
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 51 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Chronology of the sovereigns of England.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2, 17 discs : engravings ; prints 42 mm in diameter, in bronze caze 48 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Madras [graphic].

Creator:: Havell, Robert, -1832
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 1 print on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint : sheets end-to-end 13 x 285 cm, rolled (in wooden drum) to 13 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Bury St. Edmunds / illustrated in twelve etchings by J.G. Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Jacob George, 1790–1864
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Illyria and Dalmatia : containing a description of the manners, customs, habits, dress, and other peculiarities characteristic of their inhabitants, and those of the adjacent countries : illustrated with thirty-two coloured engravings ...

Date:: [1821?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Travels in Egypt during 1818 and 1819 / by Edward de Montule.

Creator:: Montulé, Édouard de
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: iv, 116 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Don Juan : a correct copy from the original edition.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2, [5]-140, 161-215, [12] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The figures of a supplement to the British birds.

Creator:: Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 38 plates. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Wonderful characters : comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation / collected from the most authentic sources by Henry Wilson ...

Creator:: Wilson, Henry, -1810
Date:: 1821-1822
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Studies of cattle from nature / by H. Walter.

Creator:: Walter, Henry, 1786–1849
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 30 cm, in folder 30 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Views in Italy : during a journey in the years 1815 and 1816 / by Herman Friedländer.

Creator:: Friedländer, Ludwig Hermann, 1790–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 124 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The seats of the nobility and gentry in England and Scotland : being a collection of the most interesting and picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists, with descriptions of each view.

Creator:: Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:: [between 1821 and 1830]
Physical Description:: [170] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The Coronation. A correct description of the forms and ceremonies to be observed at the ensuing coronation; together with a concise account of the procession, and other interesting proceedings that took place in the former magnificent festival; from which, and upon the same scale, the present preparations are formed ...

Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: 24 p. 3 fold. col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Recollections of a classical tour through various parts of Greece, Turkey, and Italy : made in the years 1818 & 1819 / by Peter Edmund Laurent. Illustrated with coloured plates.

Creator:: Laurent, Peter Edmund
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 317, [5] p., [5] leaves of plates : col. ill., facsims. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Don Juan / by Alfred Thornton, Esq ; with fifteen coloured engravings.

Creator:: Thornton, Alfred, active 1820
Date:: MDCCXXI-[MDCCXXII] [1821-1822]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars : written during a four years' residence among that people / by Mary Holderness.

Creator:: Holderness, Mary
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 168 p., [3] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A description of the picture Belshazzar's feast, painted by Mr. Martin, lately exhibited at the British institution, and now at No. 343, Strand, the first door on the left in Catherine street.

Creator:: Martin, John, 1789–1854
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., [1] leaf of double plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The Caledonian muse : a chronological selection of Scotish poetry from the earliest times / edited by the late Joseph Ritson ... ; with vignettes engraved by Heath, after the designs of Stothard.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: iv, 158, 131*-158*, 159-232 p. : ill., port. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A narrative of travels in northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19, and 20 : accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan, and of the course of the Niger : with a chart of the routes, and a variety of coloured plates, illustrative of the costumes of the several natives of northern Africa / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; companion of the late Mr. Ritchie.

Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xii, 383, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. [Sketches of rural life]

Creator:: Dighton, Denis, 1792–1827
Physical Description:: 15 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The Pastorals of Virgil, London, 1821

2. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 5: Colinet: 'My piteous plight in yonder naked tree,/ which bears the thunder-scar too plain, I see:'

3. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 7: Thenot: 'Nor fox, nor wolf, nor rot among our sheep:/ from these good shepherd's care his flock may keep/ against ill luck,'

4. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 13: Thenot: 'for him our yearly wakes and feasts we hold,/ and choose the fairest firstlings from the fold;'

5. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 14: Thenot: 'This night thy care with me forget, and fold/ thy flock with mine, to ward th' injurious cold.'

6. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 15: Thenot: 'New milk, and clouted cream, mild cheese and curd,/ with some remaining fruit of last year's hoard,/ shall be our ev'ning fare.'

7. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

8. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 12: Colinet: 'In vain, O Colinet, thy pipe, so shrill,/ charms every vale, and gladdens every hill:'

9. Each creature, Thenot, to his task is born

10. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 3: Thenot: 'Yet though with years my body downward tend,/ as trees beneath their fruit in autumn bend,'

11. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 4: Colinet: 'Thine ewes will wander; and their heedless lambs,/ in loud complaints, require their absent dams.'

12. Or blasting winds o'er blossom'd hedge-rows pass

13. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 8: Colinet: 'Ah silly I! more silly than my sheep,/ which on thy flow'ry banks I wont to keep.'

14. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 9: Colinet: 'A fond desire strange lands and swains to know./ Ah me! that ever I should covet wo.'

15. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 10: Thenot: 'A rolling stone is ever bare of moss;/ and, to their cost, green years old proverbs cross.'

16. My sheep quite spent through travel and ill fare

17. And now behold the sun's departing ray

18. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 17: Thenot: '

19. The Pavilion at Brighton, The Marine Palace of His Majesty George the IVth

20. Study for a willow tree branch

21. Kirstall Abbey, near Leeds Yorkshire

22. House beside a river dam (?)

23. Study of a tree top

24. View of a City Street with Houses and a Church

25. Alter in the Chapel of St. Blase at Westminster Abbey

26. Preston Church

27. Scene of woman walking down lane towards house, in Ashcoombe, Devonshire

28. Three figures set between a tree and a small house, with boats on the sea in the distance

29. Two women standing in gateway at Salisbury

30. View from Putney Bridge, of several figures in sailboats on a river

31. Landscape with trees set at base of low hills

32. Study of the Ruins of Brambletye House, Sussex

33. Study of a ruined abbey

34. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

35. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

36. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

37. Samuel Johnson

38. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 4. View near Epsom

39. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

40. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

41. Set of eight, printed wrappers, two sheets of text: 'Drawings from Original pictures of Philip Reinangle Esq. by an Amateur.

42. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 1. View of the Warren, Epsom

43. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 2. View of Epsom Race Course

44. Racing [set of four]: Coursing. Plate 3. View of Lord Arden's, Epsom

45. Sheerness & the Isle of Sheppey, with the Junction of the Thames & Medway from the Nore

46. Maternal Affection (Volume of 102 lithographs)

47. Dogs of the Dalmatian Breed - from an original picture in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester Baronet &, &

48. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

49. The Interior of the Fives Court with Randall and Turner Sparring

51. Tibet, and India beyond the Ganges : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, religion, amusements, &c. of the nations inhabiting those countries.

52. The history of the coronation of Punch, and the humours of his wife Judy ...

53. The history and antiquities of the metropolitical church of Canterbury; illustrated by a series of engravings, views, elevations, plans, and details of the architecture of that edifice: with biographical anecdotes of the archbishops, etc. By John Britton ...

54. A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois, with a winter residence at Philadelphia : solely to ascertain the actual prospects of the emigrating agriculturist, mechanic, and commercial speculator / by Adlard Welby, Esq., South Rauceby, Lincolnshire.

55. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

57. The tour of Doctor Prosody, in search of the antique and picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney, and Shetland isles; illustrated by twenty humorous plates ...

58. Lithographic impressions of sketches from nature.

61. Designs for vases and foliage, composed from the antique / by Robert Adam ... ; engraved by Pastorini.

62. The book of English trades, and library of the visual arts. With seventy engravings.

63. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry : with an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations.

64. The Forbidden City : pure silk and long-scroll painting.

65. The Shrewsbury visitor's pocket companion; or, Salopian guide and directory: containing the history and description of the town, from its foundation, by the Britons, to the present time: an alphabetical list of the inhabitants ... Embellished by copper-plates. By T. Minshull ...

68. Classical excursion from Rome to Arpino / by Charles Kelsall.

70. The history and topography of the county of Kent, : with biographical sketches, &c. &c., and a neat map of the county.

71. Turkey : being a description of the manners, customs, dresses and other peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of the Turkish empire : to which is prefixed a sketch of the history of the Turks / translated from the French of A.L. Castellan ... by Frederic Schoberl ...

72. The history of King Richard the Third / by Sir Thomas More.

73. Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome, during the year 1819 / by Maria Graham.

74. Series of views of the public buildings and bridges in London and its environs / from drawings taken on the spot by R. Havell, Jun.

76. Letters from Switzerland and France : written during a residence of between two and three years in different parts of those countries.

77. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

78. A bibliographical antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany / by the Rev. Tho. Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A.

79. Le Don Quichotte romantique, ou Voyage du docteur Syntaxe, à la recherche du pittoresque et du romantique; poëme en XX chants, traduit librement de l'anglais, et orné de 26 gravures. Par M. Gandais.

80. An account of a new process in painting. In two parts. Part I. Containing remarks on its general correspondence with the peculiarities of the Venetian school. Part II. Supplementary details, explanatory of the process: with miscellaneous observations on the arts of the sixteenth century.

81. Paris and Dover, or, To and fro, a picturesque excursion : being a bird's-eye notion of a few 'Men and things' / by Roger Book'em.