Date: 1755 / Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

101. Syon House, London

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (21 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

102. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 10 3/4 inches (20.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

103. Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (21 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

104. Stanwich Park, Yorkshire

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (21 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

105. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Portfolio:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

106. Bridge at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 3/4 inches (20.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

107. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

108. At Sheerness

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

109. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

110. A View of the Treasury and Canal in St. James's Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

111. The City of Worcester

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on laid paper
Dimensions:: Plate: 5 1/8 x 8 1/4in. (13 x 21cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

112. A Lady with a Fan

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 4 1/16 inches (21 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

113. Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

Creator:: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk, graphite, black chalk, and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (19.1 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

114. Reclining Female Figure in an Italian Landscape

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches (22.2 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

115. Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

Creator:: Thomas Sandby, 1721–1798
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (39.4 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

116. Allegorical Female Figure: holding a flaming torch

Creator:: John Bacon, 1740–1799
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 3 inches (17.8 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

117. Old Walton Bridge seen from the Middlesex Shore

Creator:: Canaletto, 1697–1768
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 x 26 3/4 inches (28.9 x 67.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

118. Louis François Roubiliac

Creator:: Attributed to Francis Xavier Vispré, active 1730–1790
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel on moderately textured, wove paper, mounted to canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (62.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

119. Falls near Terni

Creator:: Jacob More, 1740–1793
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and ink over graphite on slightly textured, medium, whtie wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 × 28 9/16 inches (52.1 × 72.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

120. Stream and Wooden Bridge

Creator:: attributed to Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: between 1755 and 1757
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, watercolor, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/16 x 9 1/8 inches (15.7 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

121. Elizabeth DeQuincey, nee Penson

Creator:: Follower of Thomas Hazlehurst, active 1740–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (5.7 x 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

122. Brother of Thomas De Quincey

Creator:: follower of Thomas Hazlehurst, active 1740–1821
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:: Image: 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 inches (6 x 4.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

123. Italianate Landscape with Travellers no. 2

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 21 inches (36.8 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

124. Design for Wall Paper

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 3/4 inches (17.8 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

125. Studies of Groups of Heads

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (28.6 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

126. Portrait of James Tuffs

Creator:: attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (22.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

127. Three Soldiers in Armour Sitting on Stone Blocks

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches (17.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

128. Studies of Academics

Creator:: John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (29.5 x 19.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

129. A Perspective View of Workshop Mannor, a Seat of the Duke of Norfolk's

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 1/2 inches (20 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

130. None

Creator:: Print made by Jacobus Houbraken, 1698–1780
Date:: between 1755 and 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

131. A Perspective View of the Palace of the King of Prussia

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

132. Childers, the Fleetest Horse that Ever Run at Newmarket

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

133. The Portrature of Sedbury

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

134. The Portraiture of the Famous Horse Old Partner

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

135. The Portraiture of Dormouse

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

136. The Portraiture of Lamprey

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

137. The Portraiture of Crab, Late the Property of the Right Honorable Earl of Portmore

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (29.5 x 34.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

138. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

139. Advertisement for Rich Arkwright Peruke Maker Hair Cutter &c in Bolton, Lancashire

Creator:: Print made by W. Barlow, active ca. 1760
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet:
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection

140. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

141. Edward Mason

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: between 1755 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, sightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 13 3/8 × 10 1/4 × 13/16 inches (34 × 26 × 2.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

142. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

143. The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire: Elevations and Details of a Gateway

Creator:: Sir William Chambers, 1723–1796
Date:: ca. 1760-1764
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown ink, and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

144. A Jew

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and pen and black ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper on contemporary mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 5 7/8 inches (31.4 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

145. Old Lady with Basket of flowers

Creator:: Edward Edwards, 1738–1806
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gray wash, pen, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 1/2 inches (26.4 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

146. Study of Two Willows

Creator:: Alexander Cozens, 1717–1786
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Brushed black ink, brushed brown ink, yellowish-brown ground and varnish on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 x 6 3/8 inches (10.2 x 16.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

147. Study of a Cow

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: between 1755 and 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 x 7 1/4 inches (14.3 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

148. A Woman Seated

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (32.4 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

149. Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane

Creator:: Thomas Gainsborough, 1727–1788
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, laid onto contemporary (wash-line) mount
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 3/8 inches (27 x 34 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

150. Mrs. Irwin

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 5/16 inches (33.7 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

151. Lady Charlotte Johnstone

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 10 11/16 inches (38.1 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

152. Charles Lucas M.D.

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 5/16 inches (34 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

153. Henrietta Catherine Cholmley (née Croft)

Creator:: James Watson, 1740–1790
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 5/16 inches (39.1 × 28.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

154. Horse

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Nine portraits in graphite of horses mounted on pages; pen and ink and gray wash drawings of cattle and horses in landscapes on inside of covers; and pen and ink and gray wash drawing of cattle and horses in landscape mounted on loose sheet.
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4in. (14 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

155. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

156. A View of the Treasury and Canal in St. Jame's Park

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

157. Book of horse portraits

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Nine portraits in graphite of horses mounted on pages; pen and ink and gray wash drawings of cattle and horses in landscapes on inside of covers; and pen and ink and gray wash drawing of cattle and horses in landscape mounted on loose sheet.
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4in. (14 x 19.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe

158. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

Creator:: Jean Baptiste Pillement, 1727–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 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

159. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

Creator:: Jean Baptiste Pillement, 1727–1808
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 7/8 inches (28.9 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

160. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

161. A Man Leaning on a Staff

Creator:: Thomas Frye, 1710–1762
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on moderately textured laid paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 22 7/8 × 18 1/4 × 2 inches (58.1 × 46.4 × 5.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

162. The Recruiting Serjeant

Creator:: Engraved by John Goldar, 1729–1795
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving on wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 3/4 x 21 1/4in. (42.5 x 54cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

163. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

164. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

165. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

166. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

167. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

168. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

169. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

170. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 3/8in. (19.1 x 28.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

171. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

Creator:: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. front., plates, diagrs. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.

Creator:: Pillement, Jean, 1728–1808
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise, John Evelyn ...

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Letters concerning taste ...

Creator:: Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723–1769
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 7 p.., 143 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. A scenographic plan of the city of the kings : otherwise called Lima, the capital of the kingdoms of Peru ... as it was before the late earthquakes.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 37 x 53 cm., on sheet 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Considérations sur les révolutions des arts ...

Creator:: Méhégan, Guillaume-Alexandre de, 1721–1766
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 282, 24, 18, [4] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys. &c. contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : with the contiguous buildings / engraved by John Pine ... from an actual survey by John Rocque, and printed on twenty-four sheets of imperial paper, with references for finding the said places ; adapted likewise to a contracted copy of the above mentioned plan, printed on eight sheets of paper ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi [i.e. vii], [1], 46, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated with their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. : 42 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. An Act to explain and amend a clause in an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the better preservation of the game, in relation to the selling or offering to sale any game.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [2], 335-336 p. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent. Ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes.

Creator:: Janneck, Franz Christoph
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 368, [14] p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Resolutions of the Select Society.

Creator:: Select Society
Date:: 1755]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 10 p.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. Polymetis, or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists : being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another ... / by the Revd. Mr. Spence.

Creator:: Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: vi, 361, [1] p., : port., ill., XLI pl. (part fold.) ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. L'état des arts, en Angleterre.

Creator:: Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 211 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. The life of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. By William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: M.DCC.LV
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 197, [5] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu, Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli : per cognomina authorum dispositus.

Creator:: Smith, Joseph, 1674–1770
Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [8], xliii, [1], DXIX [i.e. DXVII], [1], CCCXLVIII [i.e. CCCLII], [4] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:: xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. A descriptive poem, addressed to two ladies, at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven. To which are added, some thoughts on building and planting, to Sir James Lowther, of Lowther-Hall, Bart. By John Dalton, D. D.

Creator:: Dalton, John, 1709–1763
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: viii, 35 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. Dictionnaire portatif des beaux-arts, ou Abregé de ce qui concerne l'architecture, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la poésie & la musique; avec la définition de ces arts, l'explication des termes & des choses qui leur appartiennent ... Par M. Lacombe.

Creator:: Lacombe, Jacques, 1724–1811
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 p.., vi, 758, [2] p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters, ... &c : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmons.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [1], ii, [8], 187, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. A map of the British and French dominions in North America [cartographic material] : with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements, humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Halifax, and the other Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations / by their Lordships most obliged and very humble servant, Jno. Mitchell ; Tho. Kitchin, sculp.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: Febry 13th, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map : engraving ; 136 x 195 cm, on sheets 77 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. Syon House, London

102. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

103. Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland

104. Stanwich Park, Yorkshire

105. Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

106. Bridge at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland

107. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

108. At Sheerness

109. At Chatham with Village of Brompton adjacent

110. A View of the Treasury and Canal in St. James's Park

111. The City of Worcester

112. A Lady with a Fan

113. Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

114. Reclining Female Figure in an Italian Landscape

115. Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

116. Allegorical Female Figure: holding a flaming torch

117. Old Walton Bridge seen from the Middlesex Shore

118. Louis François Roubiliac

119. Falls near Terni

120. Stream and Wooden Bridge

121. Elizabeth DeQuincey, nee Penson

122. Brother of Thomas De Quincey

123. Italianate Landscape with Travellers no. 2

124. Design for Wall Paper

125. Studies of Groups of Heads

126. Portrait of James Tuffs

127. Three Soldiers in Armour Sitting on Stone Blocks

128. Studies of Academics

129. A Perspective View of Workshop Mannor, a Seat of the Duke of Norfolk's

130. None

131. A Perspective View of the Palace of the King of Prussia

132. Childers, the Fleetest Horse that Ever Run at Newmarket

133. The Portrature of Sedbury

134. The Portraiture of the Famous Horse Old Partner

135. The Portraiture of Dormouse

136. The Portraiture of Lamprey

137. The Portraiture of Crab, Late the Property of the Right Honorable Earl of Portmore

138. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

139. Advertisement for Rich Arkwright Peruke Maker Hair Cutter &c in Bolton, Lancashire

140. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

141. Edward Mason

142. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

143. The Hoo, Kimpton, Hertfordshire: Elevations and Details of a Gateway

144. A Jew

145. Old Lady with Basket of flowers

146. Study of Two Willows

147. Study of a Cow

148. A Woman Seated

149. Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane

150. Mrs. Irwin

151. Lady Charlotte Johnstone

152. Charles Lucas M.D.

153. Henrietta Catherine Cholmley (née Croft)

154. Horse

155. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

156. A View of the Treasury and Canal in St. Jame's Park

157. Book of horse portraits

158. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

159. Castleton Caves, Peak District, Derbyshire

160. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

161. A Man Leaning on a Staff

162. The Recruiting Serjeant

163. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

164. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

165. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

166. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

167. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

168. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

169. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

170. [One of a ] Set of 12 engravings

171. Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...

173. A new book of Chinese designs / by Pillement.

175. Letters concerning taste ...

176. A scenographic plan of the city of the kings : otherwise called Lima, the capital of the kingdoms of Peru ... as it was before the late earthquakes.