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A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1675
Physical Description:
[8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The characters of the passions / done after the originalls of Monsr. Le Brun.
Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
[1], 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre : divisez en trois parties ... : ouvrage enrichi de plus de quatre-cens planches gravées en taille-douce / par Allain Manesson Mallet ...
Creator:
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Date:
1696
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., plans ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new map of the English empire in America : viz Virginia, New York, Maryland, New Jarsey, Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, Newfoundland, New France &c. / by Rob. Morden. ; J. Harris sculp.
Creator:
Morden, Robert, approximately 1650–1703
Date:
[ca. 1695]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving ; 51 x 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Seller, John, active 1658–1698
Date:
[1685]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([4], 112 [i.e. 110 p.], [53] leaves of plates : 51 maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Aesop's Fables : with his life, in English, French and Latin : newly translated : illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures : to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life / by Francis Barlow.
Date:
1687
Physical Description:
[6], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [3] pages, [2], 31 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wet drug jar.
Date:
circa 1660
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 21 cm high (including handle) x 17 cm in diameter (22 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
London before the fire in 1666 = Plan de Londres tel quil etoi avant l'incendie de 1666 / gravé par Hollar.
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:
[1666?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 14 x 24 cm., on sheet 37 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Obiections against the vse of the bovv vvith the pike: and the answers thereunto.
Creator:
Neade, William
Date:
[approximately 1630]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Marchionatus Brandenburgicus / authore Olao Iohannis Gotho, Gustavi Mag. R.S. Cosmographo.
Creator:
Gothus, Olaus Joannis, 1600–1644
Date:
[ca. 1681]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[The Popish Plot]
Date:
[1679?]
Physical Description:
52 cards : ill. ; 90 x 54 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Americae pars meridionalis.
Creator:
Jansson, Jan, 1588–1664
Date:
[between 1641 and 1680]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 45 x 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Gerardi de Lairesse, Leodiensis pictoris, Opus elegantissimum.
Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
[ca. 1690?]
Physical Description:
[56] double leaves of plates : all ill. ; 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Chart of the Thames estuary with a view of the English fleet burning in the Medway] [cartographic material].
Creator:
Allard, Hugo, approximately 1628–1691
Date:
1667
Physical Description:
1 map ; 34 x 45 cm, on sheet 45 x 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A large and accurate map of the city of London : ichnographically describing all the streets, lanes, alleys, courts, yards, churches, halls, and houses, &c. / actually surveyed and delineated by John Ogilby ...
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1677]
Physical Description:
1 map : 160 x 255 cm. on 20 sheets 40 x 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novi Belgii Novaeque, Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula : multis in locis emendata / per Nicolaum Visscher.
Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618–1679
Date:
[ca. 1684]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 46.1 x 55.9 cm, on sheet 52.4 x 62.9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within [the] kingdome of England / divided and described by Iohn Speed.
Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
[1612]
Physical Description:
[14], 146 [that is 280], [10] pages : illustrations (woodcuts), 67 maps (metal cuts) ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere dv roy tres-chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne : enrichie de planches / par le sr. de la Serre ...
Creator:
La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600–1665
Date:
1639
Physical Description:
72 p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded) : port., ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
America [cartographic material].
Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[ca. 1686]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand colored ; 56.5 x 95 cm, on sheet 63.5 x 102 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman / By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
[1622]
Physical Description:
[14], 124, 129-162, 161-172, [1], 170-211, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dry drug jar.
Date:
between 1665 and 1680
Physical Description:
1 jar : white delftware ; 21 cm high x 14 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer
The therd booke of flowers fruits beastes birds and flies exactly drawne. With additions by Iohn Dunstall.
Date:
1661
Physical Description:
20 plates. 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thuringia landgraviatus / auct. Adolario Erichio Anderslebiano.
Creator:
Erich, Adolar, 1559–1634
Date:
[1650?]
Physical Description:
1 map; 40 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding and hazzled ground
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British Louis XIV style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
last 3rd quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
3rd quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later gilding over original oil and water gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, painted deep red-brown over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 54 3/4 × 45 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (139.1 × 116.2 × 7 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
Dutch, Louis XIV style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding and punched ground
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
German (?), Baroque frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, parcel gilt and painted black, original oil, water gilding and sanded frieze
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Auricular frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, water gilding over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
last third of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 60 1/2 × 51 1/2 inches (153.7 × 130.8 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood and compo, later gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 33 1/8 × 43 3/8 × 2 1/8 inches (84.1 × 110.2 × 5.4 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque moulding frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, sucessive later oil gildings over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, oil gilt
Dimensions:
Frame: 32 1/4 × 36 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (81.9 × 92.7 × 7 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Cushion Moulding frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later gilding over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Wood, parcel gilt and ebonised
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
Netherlandish (?), Northern Renaissance frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Wood, mouldings with later re-paint; frieze painted black with oil gilt scrolling foliage at corners and centres
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, original lacquered silverleaf with hazzled engraving
Dimensions:
Frame: 36 × 29 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (91.4 × 74.6 × 6.4 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
last third of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilded over original silverleaf
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
French, Louis XIII frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later patinated water gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 22 1/2 × 29 3/8 × 1 3/4 inches (57.2 × 74.6 × 4.4 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
late 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil and water gilding over original
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding and over original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 49 × 59 × 3 1/2 inches (124.5 × 149.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
late 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original oil and water gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
French, Louis XIV frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
late 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil and water gilding over original gilding and sanded frieze
Dimensions:
Frame: 30 1/4 × 24 × 3 7/8 inches (76.8 × 61 × 9.8 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British 'Lely' style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
last third of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 44 1/4 × 55 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (112.4 × 141.6 × 7 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
French, Louis XIII frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, tortoiseshell; later oil gilding over original gilding and gesso re-cutting
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, regilded over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
late 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil and water gilding over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original oil and water gilding and hazzled ground
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding and over original oil and water gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 48 × 58 × 3 inches (121.9 × 147.3 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Louis XIII style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, sucessive later oil gildings over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
French, Louis XIII frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
late 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood; canvas inlay; partially regilded over original water gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
French, Louis XIII frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd and 3rd quarters of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, partially regilded over original water gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 36 1/2 × 47 × 3 inches (92.7 × 119.4 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 32 3/4 × 37 1/2 inches (83.2 × 95.3 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque 'Raffle leaf' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
last third of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later patinated oil gilding over original water gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 50 3/4 × 58 1/2 × 3 inches (128.9 × 148.6 × 7.6 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, original lacquered silverleaf, partially restored
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
French, Louis XIV frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
2nd half of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood; canvas, original water gilding and sanded frieze
Dimensions:
Frame: 21 5/8 × 18 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (54.9 × 47.6 × 5.4 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
last third of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, original lacquered silverleaf, partially restored
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British 'Lely' frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later gilding over original gilding
Dimensions:
Frame: 72 × 62 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (182.9 × 158.8 × 8.3 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Louis XIII frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved pine, later oil gilding over original oil and water gilding; hazzled ground
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Baroque frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
3rd quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original gilding and sanded frieze
Dimensions:
Frame: 30 × 26 × 2 3/8 inches (76.2 × 66 × 6 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
British, Louis XIV style frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
4th quarter of 17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, later oil gilding over original oil and water gilding and sanded frieze
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
Dutch, Cabinetmaker's frame
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
mid-17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Ebony veneers, pine, original patina
Dimensions:
Frame: 21 × 17 3/8 × 2 5/8 inches (53.3 × 44.1 × 6.7 cm)
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art
No cover image available
Creator:
unknown framemaker
Date:
17th century
Materials & Techniques:
Carved wood, painted black with parcel gilt and corner-&-center stylized foliate cartouches
Collection:
Frames
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art