Date: 1756 / Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. The Mandrake: A Charm

Creator:: Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: exhibited RA 1785
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 29 1/2 inches (63.5 × 74.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Charles Pinfold

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: between 1756 and 1759
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (36.8 x 62.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. The Invasion, Plate I: France

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 15in. (29.2 x 38.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Invasion, Plate II: England

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 x 14 3/4in. (29.2 x 37.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Invasion, Plate 1: France

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 × 15 3/8 inches (32.4 × 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

7. The Invasion, Plate 2: England

Creator:: Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 15 1/4 inches (32.1 × 38.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art,Gift of Suzanne and William H. Speaker

8. Night

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches (39.7 x 53.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Caricature of George Bubb Dodington and Sir Thomas Robinson

Creator:: Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (35.9 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

Creator:: Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/2 x 12 inches (49.5 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Near Plymouth with the Ordinance Wharfe...

Creator:: Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Color engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A Town Seen From the Banks of a River

Creator:: John Alexander Gresse, 1741–1794
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and black ink, graphite on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper on backing sheet
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 11 1/16 inches (11.1 × 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Britannia in Distress

Creator:: Anthony Walker, 1726–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (32.1 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Design for Interior of a Mosque

Creator:: Sir William Chambers, 1723–1796
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper, with additional sheet affixed to verso
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 x 12 inches (18.7 x 30.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Port Mahon

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: between 1756 and 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash, watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 × 9 7/8 inches (20.3 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Design for a Coin: Chambre du Commerce de Picarde; First Draft

Creator:: Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699–1773
Date:: ca. 1761
Materials & Techniques:: Pen in black and gray ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink, border lines
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 x 7 3/4 inches (27.9 x 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Raising of Lazarus

Creator:: John Holland, born 1734
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 8 x 5 9/16in. (20.3 x 14.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Excise Office

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1756
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

25. The Portraiture of White-Nose

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
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

26. The Portraiture of Bald Charlotte

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
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

27. The Portraiture of Bay Bolton

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
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

28. The Portraiture of the Fine Chesnut Arabian

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
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

29. The Portraiture of Babraham

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
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

30. The Portraiture of the Cullen Arabian

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
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

31. Ceiling Design

Creator:: Nicholas Thomas Dall, op.1748–, d.1777
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray wash; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 15 13/16 inches (33.6 x 40.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Portrait of Rembrandt, Detail of Self-Portrait with Saskia

Creator:: Print made by John Hinde, active 1735–1744
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching
Dimensions:: Plate: 4 1/8 x 3/8in. (10.5 x 0.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Walbrook Ward and Dowgate Ward

Creator:: Benjamin Cole, 1697–1783
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

34. Catherine Chambers

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/4 x 8 7/8in. (32.4 x 22.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Mary Duchess of Ancaster

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Bishopsgate Ward Within and Without, According to a New Survey

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Cole, 1697–1783
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

37. Billingsgate Ward and Bridge Ward Within

Creator:: Benjamin Cole, 1697–1783
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art

38. The Foundling Hospital, London

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Hand colored engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Sleepy Maid

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 1/4 inches (36.5 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Lady Elizabeth Montagu

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/16 × 9 7/16 inches (33.8 × 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans

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 1/8 × 4 inches (18.1 × 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. A View from Durdham-Down near Bristol looking down the Avon

Creator:: Print made by Jean B. C. Chatelain, 1710–1771
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

43. Four Figures on a Sheet

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 13 9/16 inches (20.6 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection

44. George Stubbs

Creator:: Pierre-Etienne Falconet, 1741–1791
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 6 inches (21 × 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Thomas Ashton D.D.

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 1/4 inches (37.5 × 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Mary Duchess of Ancaster

Creator:: Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 15/16 × 9 inches (32.9 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Catherine Chambers (née Moore)

Creator:: James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 11/16 inches (34 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Designs for Blackfriars Bridge

Creator:: Benjamin Cole, 1697–1783
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 17 1/4in. (36.8 x 43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, near Plymouth

Creator:: Print made by Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1710–1777
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 22 1/16 × 28 13/16 inches (56 × 73.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Merchant Taylors' School and St. Paul's School

Creator:: Print made by Benjamin Cole, 1697–1783
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 9/16 × 9 5/8 inches (39.5 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Head of a Lion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches (21.7 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. A Donkey

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 5/16 inches (21.7 x 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Racing [set of twelve]: 1. Childers 2. Babraham 3. White-Nose 4. Fine Chesnut Arabian 5. Old Partner 6. Sedbury 7. Dormouse 8. Cullen Arabian 9. Lamprey 10. Bay Bolton 11. Bald Charlotte 12. Crab

Creator:: Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint (with an ornamental border with a coat of arms at top center) 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

54. Boy Spinning Top

Creator:: Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 inches (33.3 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

55. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 54 x 46 cm., on sheet 75 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

Creator:: Bardwell, Thomas, 1704–1767
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-v, 64 p. VI plates. 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Pantograph.

Creator:: Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:: between 1756 and 1778
Physical Description:: 1 pantograph : brass ; 11 x 58 x 7 cm (folded), in box 14 x 60 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. An exact survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin : in which is express'd the ground plot of publick buildings, dwelling-houses, ware-houses, stables, courts, yards, &c. : published according to act of Parliament in four sheets, price one guinea / by John Rocque ... = Plan general de la ville & faubourg de Dublin : dans lequel les maisons, magazins, ecuries, ruelles, courts, &c. / sont exprime par Jean Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([1], [10] leaves : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done : the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

Creator:: T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:: August 21, 1756
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. An essay on the present state of our publick roads : shewing the absolute necessity of a total prohibition of the use of narrow wheels on all carriages drawn by one horse lengthways. And the benefit that will accrue thereby to farmers and carriers, to trade and manufactures, as well as ease, pleasure and safety to travellers.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: [4], 33, [1] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

Creator:: Maitland, William, 1693?-1757
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 1410 p.) : ill., map, plans, coats of arms ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Catalogue of the entire and valuable library of Martin Folkes, Esq. President of the Royal Society, and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, lately deceased : which will be sold by auction by Samuel Baker, at his house in York-Street, Covent Garden : to begin on Monday, February 2, 1756, and to continue for forty days successively (Sundays excepted).

Creator:: Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711–1778
Date:: [1756]
Physical Description:: 4 unnumbered pages, 156 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

Creator:: Lacombe de Prézel, Honoré, 1725–
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 307, [4] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Caminologie, ou, Traite des cheminees : contenant desobservations sur les differences causes qui font fumer les cheminees : avec des moyens pour corriger ce defaut ...

Creator:: Hébrard, Pierre, 1718–1759
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: xlviii, 187, [5] p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The present state of the arts in England / by M. Rouquet ...

Creator:: Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: [4], 124 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

Date:: 1756-1817
Physical Description:: 144 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The practice of perspective / from the original Italian of Lorenzo Sirigatti : with the figures engraved by Isaac Ware, Esq.

Creator:: Sirigatti, Lorenzo
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: [2], 5-8 pages, 43 [i.e. 50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. L'art d'imprimer les tableaux. Traité d'après les écrits, les opérations & les instructions verbales, de J. C. Le Blon.

Creator:: Gautier de Montdorge, Antoine, 1701–1768
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: xi, vi, [2], [xiii]-xxv, [26]-180, [4] p. 3 fold pl. (1 col.) 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The worrs [i.e. works] of the Marchioness de Lambert ... Carefully translated from the French.

Creator:: Lambert, Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de, 1647–1733
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 338 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

Creator:: Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Date:: [1756?]
Physical Description:: iv, [3]-259, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales : commencing at London, and continued to the farthest parts of the kingdom, with the several branches leading out of them, and a description of the several towns that stand thereon : divided into four parts, viz. western, northern, eastern, and southern : to which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain : also some general rules to know the original of the names of places in England, a list of mitred abbots, and an alphabetical list of fairs regulated according to the new style.

Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: [8], 168, lxiv p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof : with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche, Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work / written in French by Monsieur le comte d'Espie, Knight of the Military Order of St. Lewis, and translated by L. Dutens.

Creator:: Espié, Félix François, comte d', 1708–1792
Date:: [1756]
Physical Description:: 62 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

Creator:: Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: xvi, [2], 272, [8] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The Mandrake: A Charm

2. Charles Pinfold

3. A Smack Under Sail in a Light Breeze in a River

4. The Invasion, Plate I: France

5. The Invasion, Plate II: England

6. The Invasion, Plate 1: France

7. The Invasion, Plate 2: England

8. Night

9. Caricature of George Bubb Dodington and Sir Thomas Robinson

10. Study for the Portrait of William Guise

11. Near Plymouth with the Ordinance Wharfe...

12. A Town Seen From the Banks of a River

13. Britannia in Distress

14. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

15. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

16. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

17. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

18. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Design for Interior of a Mosque

19. Port Mahon

20. Design for a Coin: Chambre du Commerce de Picarde; First Draft

21. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

22. Collection of Prints by Notable Dilettanti

23. The Raising of Lazarus

24. The Excise Office

25. The Portraiture of White-Nose

26. The Portraiture of Bald Charlotte

27. The Portraiture of Bay Bolton

28. The Portraiture of the Fine Chesnut Arabian

29. The Portraiture of Babraham

30. The Portraiture of the Cullen Arabian

31. Ceiling Design

32. Portrait of Rembrandt, Detail of Self-Portrait with Saskia

33. Walbrook Ward and Dowgate Ward

34. Catherine Chambers

35. Mary Duchess of Ancaster

36. Bishopsgate Ward Within and Without, According to a New Survey

37. Billingsgate Ward and Bridge Ward Within

38. The Foundling Hospital, London

39. Sleepy Maid

40. Lady Elizabeth Montagu

41. Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans

42. A View from Durdham-Down near Bristol looking down the Avon

43. Four Figures on a Sheet

44. George Stubbs

45. Thomas Ashton D.D.

46. Mary Duchess of Ancaster

47. Catherine Chambers (née Moore)

48. Designs for Blackfriars Bridge

49. Geometrical Plan of his Majesty's Dockyard, near Plymouth

50. Merchant Taylors' School and St. Paul's School

51. Head of a Lion

52. A Donkey

53. Racing [set of twelve]: 1. Childers 2. Babraham 3. White-Nose 4. Fine Chesnut Arabian 5. Old Partner 6. Sedbury 7. Dormouse 8. Cullen Arabian 9. Lamprey 10. Bay Bolton 11. Bald Charlotte 12. Crab

54. Boy Spinning Top

55. A plan of the harbour and town of Toulon, and places adjacent : the place where the confederate fleet landed and the batteries they erected anno 1707 : likewise the additional buildings & improvement of the King's Harbour by inlarging & making it more capacious &c. to this present year 1756.

56. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

57. Pantograph.

60. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

62. The history of London : from its foundation to the present time ... including the several parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, and Surry, within the bill of mortality ... / by William Maitland ...

64. Dictionnaire iconologique, ou, Introduction à la connoissance des peintures, sculptures, médailles, estampes, &c. : avec des description tirées des poétes anciens & modernes / par M.D.P.

65. Caminologie, ou, Traite des cheminees : contenant desobservations sur les differences causes qui font fumer les cheminees : avec des moyens pour corriger ce defaut ...

66. The present state of the arts in England / by M. Rouquet ...

67. The Critical review, or, Annals of literature.

68. The practice of perspective / from the original Italian of Lorenzo Sirigatti : with the figures engraved by Isaac Ware, Esq.

70. L'art d'imprimer les tableaux. Traité d'après les écrits, les opérations & les instructions verbales, de J. C. Le Blon.

71. The worrs [i.e. works] of the Marchioness de Lambert ... Carefully translated from the French.

72. Miscellanies, or, Essays literary, political, and moral / by the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift.

75. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.