Period: 18th century - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

16601. Maidstone, Kent

Creator:: William Jefferys, 1730–ca. 1805
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 18 1/4 inches (20.3 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16602. Two Girls in a Landscape, One Riding a Lamb

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1707–1779
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (31.8 × 29.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16603. The Road from Santa Maria de Monte to Naples

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 10 3/4 inches (20.3 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16604. Study of Rocks, near Pencerrig, Wales

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1796
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 inches (15.9 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16605. Villa Medici, Rome

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil over graphite on moderately thick, rough, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 x 21 1/8 inches (33 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16606. The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (27.3 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16607. Tivoli

Creator:: Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Date:: ca. 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with gum on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 1/4 inches (27.6 x 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16608. The Seat of Stafford Briscoe

Creator:: Samuel Lewis, ca. 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/8 × 18 13/16 inches (32.7 × 47.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16609. Design for a Country House

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on smooth, thick, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 25 5/8 inches (21.9 × 65.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16610. Design for a Country House

Creator:: James Lewis, 1751–1820
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor on smooth, thick, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 25 3/4 inches (20.3 × 65.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16611. Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 5 7/8 inches (18.1 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16612. Seamstresses, St. Kitts, Caribbean

Creator:: William Hay, active 1776–1797
Date:: 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (16.8 × 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16613. Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 11 7/8 inches (18.4 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16614. Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Design for Ceiling and Wall Decoration

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: between 1728 and 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black and brown ink, brown and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/8 x 12 1/2 inches (38.4 x 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16615. Entrance Screen at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Elevation and Plan

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, brown wash, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 3/4 inches (27 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16616. The Cascade at Chiswick House, Middlesex: Elevation and Plan

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: between 1720 and 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 5/8 inches (36.2 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16617. Octagonal Temple at Shotover Park, Oxfordshire: Plan, Section and Elevation

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches (28.6 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16618. Townsend's Building at Rousham, Oxfordshire: Elevation and Plan

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1738
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and brown wash within single-ruled pencil border on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 9 11/16 inches (34.3 x 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16619. The Treasury, Whitehall, London: Alternate Elevations of the Facade

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 17 1/4 inches (21.6 × 43.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16620. King's Mews, Charing Cross, London: Section

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: 1731
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches (25.1 x 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16621. Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Elevation and Section of Chimney Piece in the Hall

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1733
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink, and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (29.2 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16622. Design for an Unidentified Gothic Structure

Creator:: attributed to William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, pen and black ink with brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 x 8 1/8in. (35.6 x 20.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16623. Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park

Creator:: William Kent, ca.1686–1748
Date:: ca. 1735
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (16.8 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16624. Head of a Man

Creator:: Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1646–1723
Date:: 1732
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk, and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 1/8in. (42.9 x 28.3cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16625. Unidentified Sitter

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache and oil paint on vellum
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 7 7/8 inches (23.8 × 20 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16626. Portrait of John Locke, The Philosopher

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1704
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and white chalk on medium, moderately textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (30.8 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16627. Unidentified Sitter

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 1/2 inches (31.4 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16628. Mrs. James Paine, Newman Street

Creator:: Ozias Humphry, 1742–1810
Date:: 1781
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, creawm wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 7 inches (20.6 × 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16629. Portrait of a Divine

Creator:: Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1739–1808
Date:: after 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Pastel, black chalk, white chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 inches (26.7 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16630. The Acacia Tree - Figures in a Park

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/16 × 18 3/8 inches (35.7 × 46.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16631. Landscape Set in an Oval (Mountain Landscape Through an Oval Window)

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: ca. 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 18 1/2 × 23 1/2 inches (47 × 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16632. Timber Wain on a Rough Road (one of a pair)

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted to canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 29 7/8 × 39 inches (75.9 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16633. Park Scene with Deer, Cattle, and a Group of Figures

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and gray ground on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 × 23 5/8 inches (42.9 × 60 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16634. Landscape with Trees and Sheep (Park Landscape with Sheep)

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 17 3/4 × 23 3/4 inches (45.1 × 60.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16635. Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street, from the New Road, St. Mary Le Bone

Creator:: Print made by George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 6 11/16 inches (12.2 × 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16636. View in a Park

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on stretched canvas
Dimensions:: Sheet: 30 × 39 inches (76.2 × 99.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16637. Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street, from the New Road, St. Mary le Bone

Creator:: Print made by George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 1/4 inches (12 × 15.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16638. John Flaxman

Creator:: Ozias Humphry, 1742–1810
Date:: 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, brown laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 12 9/16 × 13 11/16 inches (31.9 × 34.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16639. Head of a Man with Stubble Beard, Facing Right

Creator:: Giles Hussey, 1710–1788
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 2 7/8 inches (9.5 × 7.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16640. Portrait of the Pugilist Johnson

Creator:: William Lock II, 1767–1847
Date:: 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 1/2 inches (26 × 19.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16641. Design for the Parterre at Hampton Court

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: early 18th century
Materials & Techniques:: Gray ink with watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 19 15/16 inches (16 × 50.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16642. Mary, Queen of Scots, Embarking

Creator:: William Lock II, 1767–1847
Date:: between 1785 and 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 3/4 inches (30.8 x 45.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16643. Charts Edge, Kent

Creator:: Frederick Mackenzie, 1788–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and gouache on smooth, moderately thick, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 × 6 7/8 inches (11 × 17.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16644. Plan of the Back Gatas Lying in the Parish of Kirkcudbright

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, beige wove paper backed with cloth
Dimensions:: Sheet: 28 5/16 × 37 3/8 inches (71.9 × 94.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16645. A Woman Seated on Stones

Creator:: Print made by Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: 1780
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink; second state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 8 1/8 inches (17.8 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16646. Design for a Fan

Creator:: Angelica Kauffmann, 1741–1807
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and gold over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 21 inches (17.1 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16647. The Rotunda and Gardens, Ranelagh

Creator:: John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Date:: ca. 1744
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 x 16 11/16in. (25.4 x 42.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16648. Apollo and Daphne

Creator:: Master of the Giants, active 1779
Date:: between 1770 and 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink with gray washes and graphite; verso: pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/8 x 21 inches (35.9 x 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16649. The Mansion House

Creator:: John Maurer, active 1713–1761
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/16 x 15 1/4in. (23 x 38.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16650. View in Wales

Creator:: attributed to Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (39.4 x 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Wilmarth Lewis, Yale BA 1918, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16651. Broad Street, Oxford

Creator:: John Malchair, 1730–1812
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, charcoal and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 17 7/8 inches (30.5 × 45.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16652. Study of the Artist's Mother Sewing

Creator:: Ozias Humphry, 1742–1810
Date:: ca. 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 4 1/2 inches (15.2 × 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16653. Le Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines : levées et gravées par ordre exprés du roy pour l'usage de ses armées de mer ... / reveu & mis en ordre par les sieurs Pene, Cassini & autres.

Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: 1 atlas : ill., charts ; 65 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16654. Dissertations moral and critical. On memory and imagination. On dreaming. The theory of language. On fable and romance. On the attachments of kindred. Illustrations on sublimity. By James Beattie ...

Creator:: Beattie, James, 1735–1803
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: x, [6], 655 p. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16655. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

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

16656. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16657. A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1785-1786
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16658. The copper plate magazine, or, Monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts.

Date:: 1774-1778
Physical Description:: [258] p., [126] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16659. England and Wales : drawn from the most accurate surveys, containing all the cities, boroughs, market towns & villages : in which are included all the improvements and observations both astronomical and topographical which have been made by members of the Royal Society & others, down to the present time : the whole corrected & improv'd / by John Rocque ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [circa 1768]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 115 x 194 cm., sheets 67 x 106 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16660. The importance of the British plantations in America to this kingdom : with the state of their trade, and methods for improving it; as also a description of the several colonies there.

Creator:: Hall, Fayrer
Date:: MDCCXXXI [1731]
Physical Description:: [6], 114 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16661. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

Creator:: Adair, James, ca. 1709–1783
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16662. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

Creator:: Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:: MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:: [16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16663. Compendio dell'arte militare del p[r]en[ci]pe Raimondo Montecuccoli tenente gen[er]ale dell'armi dell' augustiss:mo Imp:re Leopoldo.

Creator:: Montecuccoli, Raimondo, Prince, 1609–1680
Date:: 1754?
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([123] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16664. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: [2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16665. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of pictures, enamellings, miniatures, and oriental stones, of Mr. Christian Frederick Zincke, of Covent Garden, enamel painter : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house (late Mr. Cock's) in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden : (on Friday and Saturday the 3d and 4th of February 1748-9 : the said collection will be exhibited to publick view at the place of sale aforesaid, on Wednesday the first of February, and every day after till the time of sale, which will begin each day at half an hour after eleven precisely : catalogues of which may be had gratis at Mr. Zincke's aforesaid, and at Mr. Langford's in the Great Piazza.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1748]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16666. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

Creator:: Martin, Benjamin, 1705–1782
Date:: [between 1775 and 1780?]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16667. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16668. Wallis's tour through England and Wales, a new geographical pastime.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 sheet 50 x 68 cm. fold. to 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16669. The history of the city and county of Norwich. : From the earliest accounts to the present time.

Date:: M.DCC.LXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: [4], 647, [5] p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16670. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 118 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16671. Noticia de la California, y de su conquista temporal : y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Sacada de la historia manvscrita, formada en Mexico año de 1739 / por Miguèl Venegas, de la Compañia de Jesus ...

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 3 v. : maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16672. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: viii, xxiv p., 272 columns, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16673. Stowe : a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple : Viscount and Baron Cobham : one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and knight of the most noble order of the garter : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building with perspective views of the same.

Creator:: Seeley, B. (Benton)
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 44 pages, [20] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

16674. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

Creator:: Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:: January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:: [172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16675. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

Creator:: Sketchley, William
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16676. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

Creator:: Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: vi, [6], 116 p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16677. Neueroffnete schule der zeichnungskunst.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1745
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16678. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16679. Collection of designs for Worcester porcelain, ca. 1770-ca. 1880

Creator:: Taylor, Henry, 1825–1888
Date:: ca. 1770-ca. 1880
Physical Description:: 2 linear feet (9 volumes)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16680. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1706
Physical Description:: 480 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16681. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

Creator:: Moore, James, 1762–1799
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 1 pt. ([6], 12 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16682. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16683. Catalogue of door ornaments.

Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16684. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

Creator:: Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16685. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:: MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16686. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

Creator:: Hipwell, John
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16687. [All the bubbles]

Date:: [1720]
Physical Description:: 52 playing cards : illustrations ; each card 9.7 x 6.4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16688. The polite arts, or, A dissertation on poetry, painting, musick, architecture, and eloquence.

Date:: MDCCXLIX [1749]
Physical Description:: xii, 160 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16689. Les delices des chateaux royaux, or, A pocket companion to the royal palaces of Windsor, Kensington, Kew, and Hampton Court : containing an account of their buildings, gardens, paintings, monuments and curiosities : with the institution and ceremonies of the order of the Garter : also a concise description of the towns, villages, and villas within XIV miles of Windsor : to which are added short sketches of the lives of the most eminent painters ...

Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [6], 90, [2], 44, [2], 26, 32 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16690. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk : the seat of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: 143 pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

16691. 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

16692. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

Creator:: Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16693. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16694. An account, Lady Logie at Linhouse to John Boyn, shoemaker in Tarbuckie.

Creator:: Boyn, John
Date:: 1774, February 16-1778, February 19
Physical Description:: 1 item (2 p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16695. Account book.

Creator:: Clayton, William, Sir, 1762–1834
Date:: 1784 January 1-December 31
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16696. [Landscape views].

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching ; 17 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16697. [Album of cut paper work].

Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: 1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16698. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16699. Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish household furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein ... By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker.

Creator:: Cauty, William, fl. 1757–1780
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xvi, 110 p., 1 leaf. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16700. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

Creator:: Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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16601. Maidstone, Kent

16602. Two Girls in a Landscape, One Riding a Lamb

16603. The Road from Santa Maria de Monte to Naples

16604. Study of Rocks, near Pencerrig, Wales

16605. Villa Medici, Rome

16606. The Claudian Aqueduct and Colosseum

16607. Tivoli

16608. The Seat of Stafford Briscoe

16609. Design for a Country House

16610. Design for a Country House

16611. Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia

16612. Seamstresses, St. Kitts, Caribbean

16613. Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park

16614. Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Design for Ceiling and Wall Decoration

16615. Entrance Screen at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Elevation and Plan

16616. The Cascade at Chiswick House, Middlesex: Elevation and Plan

16617. Octagonal Temple at Shotover Park, Oxfordshire: Plan, Section and Elevation

16618. Townsend's Building at Rousham, Oxfordshire: Elevation and Plan

16619. The Treasury, Whitehall, London: Alternate Elevations of the Facade

16620. King's Mews, Charing Cross, London: Section

16621. Stowe House, Buckinghamshire: Elevation and Section of Chimney Piece in the Hall

16622. Design for an Unidentified Gothic Structure

16623. Design for a Pavilion in a Deer Park

16624. Head of a Man

16625. Unidentified Sitter

16626. Portrait of John Locke, The Philosopher

16627. Unidentified Sitter

16628. Mrs. James Paine, Newman Street

16629. Portrait of a Divine

16630. The Acacia Tree - Figures in a Park

16631. Landscape Set in an Oval (Mountain Landscape Through an Oval Window)

16632. Timber Wain on a Rough Road (one of a pair)

16633. Park Scene with Deer, Cattle, and a Group of Figures

16634. Landscape with Trees and Sheep (Park Landscape with Sheep)

16635. Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street, from the New Road, St. Mary Le Bone

16636. View in a Park

16637. Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street, from the New Road, St. Mary le Bone

16638. John Flaxman

16639. Head of a Man with Stubble Beard, Facing Right

16640. Portrait of the Pugilist Johnson

16641. Design for the Parterre at Hampton Court

16642. Mary, Queen of Scots, Embarking

16643. Charts Edge, Kent

16644. Plan of the Back Gatas Lying in the Parish of Kirkcudbright

16645. A Woman Seated on Stones

16646. Design for a Fan

16647. The Rotunda and Gardens, Ranelagh

16648. Apollo and Daphne

16649. The Mansion House

16650. View in Wales

16651. Broad Street, Oxford

16652. Study of the Artist's Mother Sewing

16653. Le Neptune françois, ou, Atlas nouveau des cartes marines : levées et gravées par ordre exprés du roy pour l'usage de ses armées de mer ... / reveu & mis en ordre par les sieurs Pene, Cassini & autres.

16654. Dissertations moral and critical. On memory and imagination. On dreaming. The theory of language. On fable and romance. On the attachments of kindred. Illustrations on sublimity. By James Beattie ...

16658. The copper plate magazine, or, Monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts.

16660. The importance of the British plantations in America to this kingdom : with the state of their trade, and methods for improving it; as also a description of the several colonies there.

16663. Compendio dell'arte militare del p[r]en[ci]pe Raimondo Montecuccoli tenente gen[er]ale dell'armi dell' augustiss:mo Imp:re Leopoldo.

16664. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

16666. An appendix to the New art of surveying : containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original / by B. Martin.

16668. Wallis's tour through England and Wales, a new geographical pastime.

16669. The history of the city and county of Norwich. : From the earliest accounts to the present time.

16670. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

16671. Noticia de la California, y de su conquista temporal : y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. Sacada de la historia manvscrita, formada en Mexico año de 1739 / por Miguèl Venegas, de la Compañia de Jesus ...

16672. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

16674. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

16675. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

16676. An essay towards the history of Leverpool / drawn up from papers left by the late Mr. George Perry, and from other materials since collected, by William Enfield. With views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour, and a map of the environs.

16677. Neueroffnete schule der zeichnungskunst.

16678. A catalogue of pictures painted by J. Wright, of Derby : and exhibited at Mr. Robins's Rooms, (late Langford's) No. 9, under the Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

16679. Collection of designs for Worcester porcelain, ca. 1770-ca. 1880

16680. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

16681. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

16683. Catalogue of door ornaments.

16684. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

16686. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.